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You're welcome Walcrabass, glad you're enjoying it. There's all kinds of interesting stuff there. Like the slow year Joe Machens Ford had with only $1.7M of state sales. Think I'll keep my day job though, the equivalent job for the state of Mo. only pays about 60%.

The second site (MAP) is pretty easy to use. Don't worry about clicking the wrong thing, it won't break. Lots of trivia there, like the annual salaries for Dept of Corrections employees is more than 6 times Conservation. In looking around for your Colorado info I came across a pertinent news article; http://www.denverpost.com/outdoors/ci_24593944/call-colorado-hunting-boycott-misses-mark Whoa... $38M in NR licenses a year... Colorado's trends seem to mirror Missouri's in that increased NR fees were followed by increased NR usage. To me that says the market is bearing it just fine. Bottom line, there are some activities that only an increasing few can afford. You can add a Colorado elk hunt to that list (at least for me).

(in my best slingblade impression) I like the way that boy talks, mmmmmhhmm.

As awhunter previously pointed out to you in another thread, the info you seek is readily available; http://sos.mo.gov/BlueBook/2013-2014/10_Personnel.pdf#conservation See pages 53-65 for MDoC employees. Sorry, but it's in alphabetical order. The data is comma delimited though, so you should be able to easily import it to a spreadsheet and sort it any way you want. If you want I can do that for you for the price of a rick of seasoned firewood (oops, better make it a cord since I live in AR). Alternatively, you can go to the Missouri Accountability Portal (MAP); http://mapyourtaxes.mo.gov/MAP/Employees/ Select 'search by agency', then 'conservation'. You then have the option to sort the list by salary instead of name. You can also view expenditures on vehicles etc on the same site. That's just for Missouri, but I'm sure you can find similar sites for other states if you really wanted to. Enjoy!

Absolutely!!!

From MDoC 2012 report; Couple of obvious trends, the ratio of resident to nonresident is steadily shifting in one direction, and significant increases in nonresident permit costs accompany an increase in nonresident usage. I don't think that points to a cause and effect scenario, rather just that it isn't enough to discourage any nonresidents. Interesting that while NR permit numbers showed a modest increase from 8 to 13%, NR permit revenue jumped from 12 to 35%. Looks like Missourians are taking the most advantage of the MO/AR Border Lakes permits at 95 to 5. That's saved me a lot of $ for sure.

We're even now, I had to Google that one. Now that I did, I want some! I'll have to pass the viennas though, I've seen 'em made. Got to hand it to marketing though, it's gotta be more profitable to call it Wing Flavor and sell it for people than as meat byproduct for their pets.

Can that data drive a 3D printer?

Awesome screenshots!

That stretch has always interested me. What's the clarity gradient nearing the Mo.? Pretty clear all the way? Gradual change?

We all know what happens when our line gets twisted, when allowed to, it untwists. Like a coil spring, part of the energy expended in twisting it is stored and released as untwisting. There's work being done, but it's such a seemingly small force that no one has yet tried to capture it. What if... http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/fishing-line-could-form-ultra-strong-robotic-muscles-future-180949846/

A couple years ago, Mo. HB1700 attempted to remove sex offender registry requirements for certain non-contact offenses such as indecent exposure. Since the bill fluttered and died, one can assume that (getting caught) peeing on a tree in Missouri can still destroy your life as you knew it.

^^^Post of the month^^^

Imagine the flathead you could catch on that puppy.

I haven't caught anything since I was fishin' where you just came from.

Awesome! Those cold water kittys will make some fine chow.

Yeah, but I decided later I had too much to drink that night, so the memory was suspect. Good to hear I was saner than I thought. :-)

That's a winner. These guys describe 'em pretty well; http://www.catfish1.com/forums/showthread.php?139728-SUPER-CATFISH-WORM-WERE-DO-WE-GET-THEM "stank is worse than stink"...! ROFL So we have green worms, river worms, rodeo worms, gumbo worms, sewer worms, a few others, plus the illustriolus stankin jim. You'd think they were Bigfoot or something, no one seems to know what they really are.

Oh man, even fewer hits for "rodeo worms"... gotta wonder the story behind that one! Were they good for you too?

Could be. The river bottom soil was certainly gumbo.

Yeah, that was it. Somebody did a good job on the morel statue.

There used to be a place up around Carthage on 71 that (claimed to) grow them indoors. There was always a huge pile of wood chips outside when they were open. Their website offered only a bottled morel cooking oil, no fresh or frozen morels. Like the spore kits I saw advertised, I always wondered how legit it really was.

As a youngster fishing the Grand River in NC Mo., we used to dig green river worms for bait. We called them that because they were light green and you only found them in riverbanks. The Grand cuts thru fertile farming ground and is lined by steep soil banks. If you could find a layer of rotting leaves buried in the bank, there they were. About halfway in size between a red wiggler and a nightcrawler, and covered in a strong-smelling slime that you couldn't wash off your hands for a couple days. The best way to describe the smell here is just to say it wasn't anything you wanted your girlfriend to get a whiff of on you, but when you thought no one was around, you might get caught smelling your fingers... When you could get them, they were the fish-catchingest bait I've ever found by an order of magnitude. Every kind of fish in the river ate them with gusto. One seldom sat more than a minute, and I don't think I ever had to take one off a hook. I've searched the web, and only found a few references on a couple catfish forums. I assume they probably have another name. They are somewhat similar in appearance to what are called milk worms, but those lack the extreme slime and smell. Has anyone here ever encountered them?

I knew an old couple back home that did that too. They even let me pick their yard when I was a kid. I've always wondered about those kits, please let us know your experience.

Shad spine. Thankfully, their digestive process handles bones too. Pooping skeletons would really suck. Oh yeah, nice fish! Too cold for me yet, but I can smell it. (aside: this is the first time in my life I ever considered my own {lack of} photogenic interest...) There once was a time when 15-20s were considered mehs, and 25 was the average. Anymore, those are righteous fish.