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Forgive me if I'm wrong, but last time I checked, tolerance was still considered a virtue.

Na, they only shoot you when you don't have a weapon.

Releasing one fat slab is a good start, but why stop there? Throw one of those annoying bass (that shouldn't be hanging around with your crappie anyway) in the cooler instead. Keep the bass filets separate, and make sure your mother-in-law gets them at the fish fry. Win. An extra shot at ~2K crappie fry. Win. A bass that probably had a taste for crappie is out of the picture. Win. Your MiL will think twice before she rains on your parade in the future.

For the right-here, right-now 'small picture', there might be something that could be done to at least temporarily slow the human influenced gravel infill that's plaguing you. A Google scholar search for "accelerated erosion" will give you plenty of resources. JD touched on the big picture aspect above. Erosion has shaped the surface of the Ozark region ever since it emerged from a receding ocean as a series of flat-topped plateaus. If you were to draw imaginary lines connecting the highest peaks that remain today, you'll notice there's a whole lot of empty space in and below all points between. When you realize that every bit of what's missing there has all washed down the river, it kind of puts that extra 6" of gravel from the spring flood into perspective.

Silly wabbit, you're supposed to cook it before you eat it. Or at least dry it and smoke it. Wait... what... your CSA isn't the Colorado Sativa Alliance? ...never mind.

It's a bit unusual for late May, but the bigger fish are seeming to like suspending in timber now, at least for the time of day you fish.

You probably hung out with Ralph some then. Good man.

It's been awhile, but you used to be able to catch bream there as big as most Norwood bass. Way better eating too.

Had lunch with a friend today that services the big boats on Beaver. He was telling me about a 38' Formula on Beaver with twin 700HP MCMs that was rated for 120MPH lightly loaded. That's just too much for a lake that only allows 15-20 seconds of visibility at that speed at the best, and 5 seconds at the worst. Absolutely. The current BC sheriff is a decent guy, but we had a real dickweed in the 80s & 90s. Dude had his deputies put a drowning victim back in the water (in front of the man's family) so he could be filmed pulling the body from the water himself, even though he had no part in the actual recovery effort. The "sheriff boat" rammed my little boat twice in "routine" checks, I moved to TR and never looked back.

True that. Having personally hatched and fed out over 100K of them I learned that and a few other things. Like they won't grow a whit on (much cheaper) grain-based catfish feed. Gotta buy that $$ 50% fish meal based Silver Cup. Hatchery reared, pellet fed trout will eat anything you throw in the water that remotely resembles a feed pellet. I laid down a nice smooth bank of chat around my fishing pond for the customers' pleasure without a thought to the natural instinct of a child to throw rocks in the water. Big Mistake. Try telling a beaming kid that just caught his first fish he can't throw rocks in the water. Only later when I cleaned their fish in front of them and a gut full of gravel spilled into the sink did the parents understand. Since I charged by the pound, I had to weigh back the gravel and deduct it from the price. Big pain in the butt for me, and an even bigger pain in the butt for the trout that ate it and lived. Another thing I learned was the amazingly long time they could go without feed. A friend that had a similar operation in Missouri had a bad medical bout that kept him from buying feed for a bit over two months. His pond fish had some scuds and crawdads to get by on, but the raceway fish had absolutely nothing for that time. They got really skinny, but came right back with a regular feed regimen. I had a few customers that used their own canned corn for bait. The trout couldn't digest the whole kernels any better than I can. I had zero fish die from it. I suppose if you had some penned up and fed them nothing but canned corn for 6-8 months that they'd starve to death. Anecdotally, the very best bait for fresh-from the-hatchery slicks is trout feed pellets. Buy a quarters worth from the gumball machine at a hatchery Breifly dunk the handful under water for a moment, then spread them out on a dry surface. In 10-15 minutes they'll be soft enough to stick one on a #6 hook. Set a bobber to put the bait in their face and have at it.

"Mayo Clinic urologist I.P. Freely"... Good one!

One day 'bout a year ago I slung a handful of them out into the woods behind my house, in frustration after super-gluing the fingers of my left hand together. I was out there the other day, messing around waiting for my 'shroom-hunting buddy to arrive, and heard some rustling in the dead leaves. I kicked aside the detritus, and lo and behold, there were dozens of the wiggly little buggers emerging from the topsoil. They weren't all PBJ like the parents either, but nearly every color of the rainbow. Genedic diversity? Next up. Neds under big, red & white, plastic bobbers.

Several automatic chargers have a large capacitor in the output circuit that will discharge on initial contact back to the battery, but don't spark again with repeated tries, and won't discharge the battery when off. Sounds like yours was sucking it down though.

"I have $250,000"... What a coincidence! I have a bridge over the Buffalo! Call Me!

More from a historical perspective than present tense, but Rogues or the like on shallow rocks at twilight should be good right now. Gotta be nearly invisible though, or you'll spook them out of the shallows without even knowing it.

Cue Buck Owens' "Act Naturally"; 'They're Gonna Put Me In The Movies...'

It was always rumored that ol' Rita could remove the chrome, it stands to reason she could do rust too... eight-six-seven-five-three-oh-ni-ee-yi-ine

'take a pretty good flathead to eat that one.

I dunno. looks like this little gal has it figured out... ...kinda makes you go "hmmmmm"...

I prescribe acupuncture with straightened barbless Gammies. Seriously though, hope you get better soon.

I've found a lot of stuff, but nowhere near as much as I've lost. Just the rogues left in trees would be a fine vacation. :-(

I was gonna say that. (Maybe I did).

The false reds I've eaten were easily the best mushrooms I've ever had. Sliced like a thick garden 'mater, breaded and deep fried. Get a really big one, and a single slice is like eatin' a freakin' sandwich. Great platform for experimenting with hot sauce. Disclaimer; I ate false morels for years simply because people I knew did. Nobody ever told me they could be bad, they were just a bonus to morel hunting. Now that I've learned better (???) I'm not sure I'd ever eat 'em again. Probably move 'em to the same category as motorcycles and fast women... worth the ride if you survive.

Everything I've read says no. Guess I shouldn't have eaten all the ones I did before reading up. They're (IMO) better tasting than morels with a lot more "on the plate" yield than too. Found 18lbs in one spot once and served them with a fish fry to over a dozen friends... no problems for anyone. Ate lots more other times too.

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