Wayne SW/MO

Ozark?

Probably the same problem I have. After decades of hammering them it's hard to lower the rod tip and make a soft sweep with a solid pull when you feel their head turn.

Anyone not handicapped has to give to someone that is. I would think a float with some small jigs would be a good place to start. The John Deere is popular, so is the Kapok, white or black, and I'm probably missing some.

Two words, circle hooks.

Common carp aren't invasive, they came by invitation in the 1800's. Any idea that they harm the bass fishing won't hold water because bass have increased their numbers considerably since the introduction of carp. They were stocked as a food source to supplement what was mostly a catfishery at the time. I don't have a problem with bowhunters if they have some way to utilize them, but I'm adamantly against throwing them anywhere, on the bank or in the water.

Yeah i was wondering if a septic tank was overfull and found a seam to your place? I suppose if it is the smell would give it away. How about it is something dead, groundhog or the like that died and the gas has pushed the remains to the surface? I would probably pour a cup of bleach in the hole and put a rock over it.

I had a similar experience when i was young Blazerman. We lived within rock distance of a chicken farm and there was Pilot blacksnake that was 5 or 6' long who had free run of the place. he was so used to people that you could pick him up, gently, and he wouldn't try to escape. They were very protective of him because he had two important jobs, rodents and the occasional unwanted eggs. I was in my early teens and he fascinated me, I couldn't pass him by without handling him.

Testing might not be your only concern. I would try to find out who drilled it, County might know, and find out how deep it is lined. It could test fine today and be bad next week if it isn't piped deep enough.

I tend to take what appeals to me, with or with out. Some plastics just wouldn't the same without it. Senko's with and Scoundrels without as examples.

I was always told, can't confirm, that tomatoes don't like it above 80 or below 60 at night. Supposedly they won't set the blossoms if too cool and they won't blossom if it's too hot at night. I know when I was living in Oklahoma my tomatoes would go dormant in August and after the nights cooled off they would produce into November.

I don't know about the skunk in daylight. I would make sure the dog is vaccinated and I would beach the fire out of anything that comes in contact. The coons on the other hand are generally sick, but it can be distemper for them. Once they are really sick they tend to act strange, fearless, sometimes a little unsteady, and lost.

Same here except I try to remember to throw it in some water before hand. It probably isn't necessary for fresh picked, but what you buy, especially what the wife buys, is sometimes drying out.

I've had great luck with Dodge vehicles, in spite of them often being considered temporary. Diesels are a good road to the future, they just need more research into cleaning them up, something that has lagged until lately. You can make fuel out of virtually anything green, fuel, not a supplement like ethanol.

Be very careful, they are a top carrier of rabies.

You realize that they don't carry diseases, but many of the things they eat do. They are like possums who also make meals out of bacteria laden and fly producing carrion, converting it to crap that doesn't support maggots normally.

Isn't that backwards F&F? Gizzards tend to head for open water during light and threadfins stay shallow all the time. At least that's what I've always read and been told.

We have some hibiscus that are magnets for them and even with traps they get hit pretty hard. This year, I found one a few weeks ago, but I haven't seen one since. They generally peak here about a week or two before the first blooms, but we're a week in and no sign of them.

I think that's it. They probably came out of the James at sometime in the past. I'm not sure where the TR goggle eyes came from, maybe accidentally in a stocking or maybe someone wanting to see if they would take hold, but they aren't native to the lake.

I was always told by my grandpa to pinch the suckers until the plants were 2 or 3 feet high. Some will say that suckers don't produce tomatoes, but that isn't true in my experience

Hard to tell from the condition, but the left one looks like and Ozark bass and the middle one a warmouth or goggle eye. Neither of these are what you normally find in a pond so I'm not real sure about any except maybe the Ozark. Was this pond in the White river drainage?

Immediately after. It works like a charm and the corn stays hot. I don;t remember where I got the tip, but we've been doing it this way for a few years now and it's fool proof.

I'll one up you. I do mine for 4 minutes, but that's not the tip. Cut the butt end off, stalk end, far enough up that you're in to the corn. Squeeze the ear out of the shuck and the silk will come with it.

Before they decoded to rid the lakes of brookies, Oregon stocked its mountain lakes from the air. I don't know too many details, but some was done from small planes.

It was on the Springfield news. Sounds like a cramp, something not uncommon and all to often lethal. He was apparently real active in helping some others out of the water.

Given the fact that copperheads are numerous and historically deaths are rare they are not a big danger. Obviously the state parks need to do a better job of educating people. One has to assume this guy had no idea what he was trying to pick up or that he had an allergy to them. The other fellow on the Current had been having problems pointing to the possibility of heart problems and it died of a heart attack, this one from shock, neither of which changes the need to be careful. I don't believe in killing snakes, but if you're going to pick one up you should know two things, what kind it is and that all snakes will bite. A black snake bite is somewhat painful, like a hundred needles at once. Trust me that's true. Picking one up needs to done carefully for the sake of both parties.