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I think if you inserted a couple of lit M80s in the holes before you toss it out your results would improve.

Choot 'em! (not while in the boat of course) If that's too drastic, you can have the gills and heart out in less than 5 seconds. Bleed out before icing is a good thing. Finish them at your leisure at home.

Bunch of danged city slickers... :-) spilt (not split) = spilled squeezins == corn squeezins == moonshine translates to; "Sure it was water and not spilled moonshine?" Mo' better?

Wow, that's a small net.

Gizzard shad.

You guys are breakin' my heart. ...my achey, breaky heart

Sure it was water and not spilt squeezins? :-)

There's water dripping from my roof right now. Real. liquid. water. The day was noticeably longer. If I close my eyes I can hear spring frogs (or maybe it's my tinnitus).

As mentioned, the COE has a procedure for making changes in public or private involvement thru the Real Estate Instruments chapter of the SMP. In short; "Real estate instruments refer to leases, licenses or other legal grants issued for commercial or individual activities, which are not covered under Shoreline Use Permits. These activities involve construction of structures, including, but not limited to, masonry walkways, boat launch ramps and parking areas, roads, water lines and power lines. A written request must be submitted to the Project Office, who will make a recommendation to the district office. Each request for a license will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Assistance in preparing applications for real estate instruments is available at the Project Office." It appears if one had a well-thought out plan and presented it in person to the Project Office, they are obligated to help you get it done.

Looks like it breaks Wednesday. 10 straight days of well above freezing.

Like build a pyramid?

I've been trying really hard to think of something good to say about the weather, and there it is. Haven't tripped over a 'dillo in the driveway since November.

From that website; "We derive our weather forecasts from a secret formula that was devised by the founder of this Almanac, Robert B. Thomas, in 1792.. Notes about that formula are locked in a black box in our offices in Dublin, New Hampshire."

Thank you!

Too true! I heard the surface acreage increases every year at a steady rate due to shoreline erosion!

I wouldn't kick either one off the plate for eatin' crackers. My memory says perch are better, but the only time I had some I was so freakin' starved a carp would have been welcome. Maybe not a fair assessment. Better send me some.

That's where the Magic came from. I heard of record class fish that the angler couldn't claim. Best was right below Remmel, 50-something.

Oh, but they do (or at least did). I sold hundreds of pounds of 8-10s, live hauled each winter & spring. Didn't ask what they were for, I wasn't required to. "Magic Bait" was occasionally muttered. Added. I gathered that those slicks weren't nearly as effective on Beaver as they were in lakes that net-penned trout thru the winter like Bull, Gore, & Quachita. In OK, it's legal as long as you're not over limit or have a receipt of purchase.

I don't know any weekend warriors that drive to Grove, just the guides. Beaver's not the easiest place to catch gizzards, but it ain't the worst either. There have been very few times I couldn't get enough for myself in a lot less time than a round trip to Grove. Sometimes I was pretty thrown out, but that's how you learn. I fall in the weekend warrior class, so every hour chasing bait is an hour not fished. Over time I've developed several spots near various ramps that are pretty consistent. My spots are mostly early twilight producers, so I fish the night bite to coincide with when I can get bait. Mornings are a different story if you can't be out there a lot. You'll still be throwin' when the boils begin. That sucks. That's also why they make big redfins and woodchoppers. None of the old original guides drove for bait. That's just come on in the last 15-20 years with the new guys. When you need a tankful at 6AM on a scheduled date though, you do what you gotta do. The locals could learn some tricks from the Quachita guides, many of whom maintain live storage facilities supplied by a dedicated bait boat and crew. When they pull out at 4AM, the bait tank's full of shad that's already done their post-capture slime-shed/pee/poop/nitrogen thing and are conditioned and calm. They usually make 2 runs a week to the Arkansas River, about the same distance for them as it is for us.

Congrats! There's only one thing to remember when dealing with the natives... ...nobody cares how they did things 'back up north'. :-)

The money's an easy trace, if you write a check it goes to the folks at MorphoTrustUSA; http://www.morphotrust.com/ An unspecified, but presumably sizable slice of a TWIC fee is designated for the FBI for "performing a fingerprint-based criminal history records information (CHRI) check". They subsequently farm out the job to Morpho.

Never got to fish with him, but had some quality visiting times, both staying at his cabins and fishing by his dock and shoreline. He was one of a kind, gracious and engaging to a fault. He lived to fish, and in that regard he lived pretty well. Salute, my friend, you'll be missed.

Here, kitty kitty... :-)

I read it, and it doesn't support your position at all. It merely says that sea level pressure might be the cause of lowered marine plankton biomass observed in a given year of study. It also says the observed reduction could have been due to increased sardine predation too. Purely speculative with no supporting evidence. It doesn't look like this horse is getting up, but I'll whack it one more time just in case... Keep in mind that pressure increases with depth (0.43psi/ft). If an increase in pressure at a given depth (caused by a storm front) caused plankton to "lose bouyancy" or otherwise drop down in the water column, the new location would be under even greater pressure. Following your theory, this increase in pressure would force the helpless little critters even deeper, compounding into an ultimate result of being stuck to the bottom until a low pressure air mass moved thru. It just doesn't work that way. Zooplankton make diurnal vertical movements every day, and each movement encounters far greater pressure changes than any storm front causes. Don't feel bad though, thanks to the ease of copy/paste and common disregard for due diligence, your theory is pretty popular on the web.

Could you post a link please?