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Nice Quill! Seems like there's something missing from this thread, but I can't put my finger on it... When you cleaned them, were there any bass in their craws?

Right where they were before I carried a phone around. Behind the driver's license and the picture of Raquel.

There could be huge differences in available food type and quantity over just a couple weeks.

Go there all you want. Continuing to repeat that removing a fish that has already spawned multiple times erases the genetic lineage of the parent just proves you weren't paying attention in class. Rice Krispy squares, possible high heel combinations? Heydezoponroni.

What does any of that have to do with these special genes you keep preaching?

You keep saying that, but it doesn't pass muster. A fish that theoretically has "big fish genes" (an unproven theory at that) has those genes as a fingerling. By the time they become the "large fish" you speak of, they've already spawned many times, ensuring the continuation of the parent genes. Then, when they're really large and nearing their natural life expectancy, their ability to reproduce wanes, and they become worthless for extending the gene pool. Hatchery managers routinely cull out the oldest broodstock for that very reason. I'm not saying there's no good reason to release big fish... but the reason you're using is a poor one.

This bit of prose from a fellow of note gives some insight to what this day of remembrance meant about 135 years ago, before it was considered a "holiday". Sleep, comrades, sleep and rest On this Field of the Grounded Arms, Where foes no more molest, Nor sentry's shot alarms! Ye have slept on the ground before, And started to your feet At the cannon's sudden roar, Or the drum's redoubling beat. But in this camp of Death No sound your slumber breaks; Here is no fevered breath, No wound that bleeds and aches. All is repose and peace, Untrampled lies the sod; The shouts of battle cease, It is the Truce of God! Rest, comrades, rest and sleep! The thoughts of men shall be As sentinels to keep Your rest from danger free. Your silent tents of green We deck with fragrant flowers Yours has the suffering been, The memory shall be ours. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow So, the subjects were the fallen from the war that (in spite of Longfellow's promise) it seems we'd prefer to forget... the war that divided this nation to the family core. The one our great granpas either witnessed or participated in. Today's petty internet bickering and so-called partisan extremism that, on the surface, appears to be dividing us simply pales. We aren't divided... THAT was divided. Something to ponder this weekend while that pontoon load of party plows thru where you're fishing. Just smile and wave. It's not that big a deal.

You can get 18 inchers on Amazon for ~$25... I think 3 of them could be as effective as one 6 footer...

Just a misunderstanding of terms. "Ice Age" is the time period, not the location, so Ice Age artifacts can be found anywhere. You're correct about location though, none of the actual Ice Age glaciers ever extended much south of the Mo River. Some of the best glacial drift is in north Mo.

Nobody would have bought that.

Have you actually looked for that stuff, or are you just wishing someone else would do it for you? Here's a start; https://mo.water.usgs.gov/fact_sheets/fs-092-01-wilson/report.pdf https://mo.water.usgs.gov/fact_sheets/index.html If you'll search out the references listed in those documents, they will provide even more information, and the references in them even more... If you're seriously interested, there's enough freely available documented research to keep you entertained for a lifetime. Some of it you may have to visit a library for, but there's an ever-increasing repository on the web if you're willing to do the diligence to find it.

There's a Facebook page claiming he gigged it... ...off a bed. Haters...

Heck, that's suburbia... I thought you were talking about 28th & Troost or similar... I know what you're talking about though, giving the appearance of crazy got me thru some sticky situations there too. To be completely honest though, giving the appearance comes pretty naturally for me...

Sounds like you were reading open circuit voltage. You can have a stranded wire with all strands broken but one, and you'll still read the full source voltage at the load end as long as there's no load (current draw). As soon as a load is applied the volltage falls to zero or some other much lower value).

According to Websters; having, involving, or displaying special skill or knowledge derived from training or experience I know from experience that you can't catch a fish if you don't go fishing. "Look Maw, yer baby boy's an ekspurt fishurman"! Whodathunkit

It only takes one to get you. I was hiding from a thunderstorm under a concrete bridge several years back when a bolt from the blue snaked down the bridge column about 15 ft away. I felt like I'd been beaten with a club all over for a week, and I have permanent hearing damage that affects my job & sleep. I figure I was pretty lucky overall. No more tempting mother nature for me.

+1 on having PD back! I’ve not studied Stockton as much as the White River chain, but your thoughts are pretty close to mine on the subject. The existence of giant southern strain river walleyes has been debated in more than a few fisheries meetings, and has been the driver of world record dreams for many a walleye angler. I’ve spent a lot of years freezing my tail off chasing that rainbow myself. I saw one by my stern light one night that I’m sure would have been at the record mark if not way beyond. I’m not even going to say how long it was, because no one here would believe it. That fish and most of the 10+ lbers I’ve caught were from the boundary lakes (TR & BS) that are stocked by both MDC & AGFC. Up until the last ~15 years or so, AGFC strictly stocked TR & BS from Greers Ferry broodstock, the only isolated WR watershed reservoir that had never been stocked with non-native walleye. Nowdays the Charlie Craig Hatchery gathers eggs and stocks fingerlings from TR tribs too. MDC has historically stocked from multiple sources (some from northern states) in the same reservoirs. While natural recruitment here is considered poor at best, it only takes a few ‘furriners’ to muddy up the gene pool, and we’ve been stirring up that mud for more than 50 years now. Kentucky is claiming some success with southern strain walleye obtained from a relatively overlooked tributary of the Cumberland. Time will tell. Since we built dams and stocked non-native genetics decades before we had affordable methods to determine if there were genetic variances, the gene pool we have today is mostly a varied mix. I don’t believe we’ll ever really know if the legendary giant southern walleye of days gone by ever really existed or not. That doesn’t stop me from believing in them. :-)

I'm afraid I'd be really hard pressed not to invite those beautiful chubs along on a walleye trip.

I bet there's some head scratchin' over #4... :-)

Most 24V PWM trolling motors now have low voltage protection.

Way back when I ran a shop we installed Hambys keel guards. The original dealer-install-only ones are awesome and lifetime guaranteed (and pricey). I put one on my old Falcon CC and ran it up on the rocks or ramp every time I loaded out for years, even if there was a courtesy dock available. Now they have one for consumer install, but I have no experience with it. If you have a boat you plan on keeping for a long time I'd highly recommend the dealer-install version.

Yeah, but we can't have "large carnivores", (specifically, lions, tigers, & bears). But they couldn't leave it at that. The next subsection rules out any hope you might have had of keeping a monkey in the spare room; • ARK. CODE ANN. §20-19-602. Prohibited activities (a) A person shall not import, possess, sell, or breed the following primates: (1) An ape; (2) A baboon; or (3) A macaque. There's quite a story about how the monkey ban came to be. It involves a paranoid, redneck Arkansas legislator (our favorite kind), a mother-in-law, a clown, and a circus that had some monkeys. :-)

Sorry, but I have to respectfully call bull pootie on this. You can keep fish in water that's super-saturated with oxygen, even to the point their eyes actually bug out of their heads... but they don't turn red. The diet thing I can believe. Carotenoids and all that.

Yep; Wantonly leave or abandon wildlife = $175