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Yep. fish are way dumber than we give them credit for.

No, I was in BV. I did keep James at the Mill (and others) supplied with fresh trout though.

+1 100% Given people's natural dislike of rules, I had very few when I ran the Trout Farm. One of them was "No corn". (Soft canned corn was just as bad as field corn). I eventually had to add "No throwing rocks in the water" too, much to the chagrin of all the perfectly normal little kids. Fed trout will eat anything hear the size of a food pellet... quickly, before another fish can get it. To them there's no difference between a handful of chat peppering the suface and a handful of feed. To their digestive tract, it's another story. The solution was to keep food handy, and the kids would rather feed daddy's quarters into a gumball machine for it than use the bags I offered for free. It was also the best bait by far, 95% of the tons of trout I sold were caught on trout feed (much to the chagrin of the fly-flinging grampas). SEC Crawdads. :-)

Hah! I spent the rest of the evening mentally rehearsing a GodFather scene, where the "fish owner" came out to the dock for brunch, only to find Old Whiskers head on a pike. Got enough satisfaction just thinking about it I didn't need to really do it. :-)

Used to be several that did just that. I heard all about it one evening from one such gal... got quite an earful about them being "her" fish, and if I caught "Ol Whiskers" I'd better be ready to meet my maker and such.

Here's a bit of trivia to add to the "I didn't really need to know that" file, trout can't digest whole kernel corn any better than we can.

The only restriction in the '13 regs for chumming is specifically for trout. It most certainly works, especially when planned so that current from generation takes the scent by a bunch of cats playin' cards or shootin' pool. If you're midlake, you don't consider the tiny current from generation to have much influence, but it certainly does.

GIMP's a good one, as is XnView (also free). If you're used to Photoshop though, I'd suggest Photoshop Elements, same interface with a few less bells & whistles for a lot less $ ($80 at Sams). I've used Elements for years and haven't yet needed to do something it couldn't handle.

Thanks for the report! Enjoy the break. I have the 10th & 11th off, intend to drown some worms 'round there if nothing else comes up. Arkansas River catfish might win the coin toss though, just depends on the water & weather.

Cool! I'll be havin' one of them. Thank you!

Jerry, perhaps it's time to question the motives of whomever keeps sending you down these dead end gopher holes in search of wild geese. They're using you man. Respectfully, Bxxxx "Fish" xxxxn

It's Windows Media Player vid, you just need to "allow" the WMP ActiveX control in your "addon" settings. Thanks Quill, I didn't even know I had a channel 843 till I tried it!

Excellent anti-rant! You could write for Colbert. Would love to share a beverage (or five) with you sometime.

UofA geology classes take feild trips to that bluff every year. They used to visit the bluff/cave/spring at the trout farm, but the current owner/resident probably quelled that. I accompanied a few of their excusions into that cave and wonderland cave (which are connected). I also explored Devils Hole and Hidden Cave, the latter being a small, but beautiful display of soda straws, and only accessable by a 100 ft rope thru a tiny sinkhole opening... straight down. Due to the danger and delicacy, I won't be revealing the access in hopes that it stays hidden. The sedimentary limestone is full of marine fossils as you noted, but for some reason I never got too interested in them. Perhaps I was spoiled as a child, growing up in an area of glacial moraines in NC Mo, where I found an abundance of agates and petrified wood, all scooped up from somewhere up north and deposited by the melt in my backyard.

Good stuff, thanks Al! I found that readability is directly proportional to your curiousity level. Adding a few new words to one's vocabulary can go a long ways in that respect. My own experience with a stack of college thesis' led to return trips to chase bibliography references, which led to even more trips. Quill There's some interesting examples no further than the highway here. The first road cut north of DQ displays the 3 geologic members I noted above, and the BV fault is partly exposed in the eroded vertical shears on the west side at the Co 40 light. Some things I find of interest; The White, Buffalo, and Kings rivers, and War Eagle Creek all begin within a few miles of each other on the same slope in the Boston Mtns, then spread out to cover NW AR, only to rejoin into a single body. Despite the high relief, the Ozark mountains aren't really mountains at all (in the geologic sense), and would be more appropriately called the Ozark Hollers. Conversely, the Quachitas are real mountains, their formation being far more violent and complex. The stuff we consider solid rock directly under the skimpy soils here is anything but (see karst, caves, springs).

In summary, The measure of a man's life is not how long he lived, but how much he lived. I've had more fun than any 3 men deserve. If I croak tonight, so be it.

UofA library is chock full of 'em, but few would qualify as "readable". Terms you can Google for online stuff (of interest to BV area) are; St Joe limestone formation Boone limestone formation Chatanooga Shale formation Springfield Plateau karst

It's common for WR chain 'eyes too, and why AGFC times their collections by the calendar instead of the thermometer.

You started it... Teevee Gide hints at the new lineup; Spawn Stars - Host Chum LeeWee's Big Adventure on Lake Mead in a pirate ship parade float. American Kickers - Two intrepid Eyeweejuns on the hunt for NLA Merc' tiller parts. Mille Lacs Men - follow the hilarious antics of a dippy young dude and his even dippier dad as they circle-troll Mille Lacs on a salvage-reject pontoon in search of petrified wood. Swamp Sequel - watch the same guys land the same gator, again... and again... and again. "Choot It!" Please! Backyard Moyl - Circumcisions performed Appalacian style. Don't miss it. I mean, no... really... don't miss it. Added Storylines unavailable at press time for Counting Gars, Gold Beaver, and Most Dangerous **atch. (I left Wicked Tuna alone. I actually like that one.)

Nobody ever brought me one in that good condition! "noisy, jerky, slow, Stren"... = bearings, brushes, seals, switches... you know the drill. Since he won't stand up to paddle in those vented skivvies, didn't want him caught down the river without a trolling motor.

Oh my Erie Dearie.. :-)

Parasitic copepods, the larger microcrustacean cousins of the beneficial, pelagic zooplankton copepods. In numbers like your picture, they're of little concern. If the variety I've seen elsewhere, there should be two little trailing appendages if you look closely.

Since you had line on the shaft, you might want to make sure there's no water in the head while you're messin'. In front of the prop are 2-3 screws holding the sections together. Loosen them 2-3 full turns, then lightly tap the rear section to pull it back. If any black water comes out, you've got more problems.

Nobody's sayin' Champ, could have been Kentucky too, they used to trade stripers interstate a lot. MDC offers a different slant ( from AGFC's) in their news release (excerpt); ...Thanks to a cooperative effort that involved input from anglers in Missouri and Arkansas, area “striper” anglers will soon have increased opportunities to hook this popular catch at Bull Shoals Reservoir. Later this summer, Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) staff will produce 16,000 fingerlings and stock them on the Missouri side of this popular Ozarks reservoir, which spans portions of Arkansas and Taney and Ozark counties in the Show-Me State. This will be the inaugural event of an every-other-year stocking plan that will use fish raised at MDC hatcheries....

MDC plans to stock 16,000 in June, split betwseen Forsythe and Theodosia. AGFC news release on it; Date 05/21/2013 Description BULL SHOALS – The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission and the Missouri Department of Conservation jointly developed a proposal in 2010 to consider stocking striped bass in Bull Shoals Lake. The original proposal was to establish a trophy striped bass fishery by stocking 22,000 fingerling striped bass every other year, while maintaining other popular game fish populations. According to AGFC Chief of Fisheries Mark Oliver, the two agencies hosted a total of five public meetings in Missouri and Arkansas during 2011. Each agency also visited with numerous anglers in 2011-12. After the meetings and angler input, the AGFC decided not to pursue stocking striped bass in Bull Shoals Lake at that time. “We know that the low striped bass stocking rates outlined in the proposal would not negatively impact other popular game fish such as walleye and bass, but we did not receive an abundance of support for the proposal,” Oliver said. “Right now, anglers are experiencing some great fishing in Bull Shoals due to the high water from a few years ago. We will continue to monitor the fishery and may reconsider striped bass stockings at some point in the future,” Oliver added. Recently, MDC acquired striped bass with the intent to stock up to 16,000 fingerling striped bass in the Missouri portion of Bull Shoals Lake during 2013. The fish will be stocked without the support of the AGFC. “MDC has been a valuable partner on many cooperative Arkansas-Missouri projects, but we simply can’t agree that this stocking is the best course of action at this time based on the comments we have received from our anglers,” Oliver noted.