ColdWaterFshr

Oneshot, these are getting quite popular, and I understand that the new administration is giving large tax breaks and cash incentives, especially on trade-ins of older gas-guzzling pick-ups. Don't resist your future, embrace it!

I've hiked that trail several times. Its got to be one of the most popular hikes in the St. Louis region. On weekends there are always 50+ cars parked there and overflowing out onto the highway. Doesn't strike me as being a great place to hunt unless you wander WAY off the trail. This hunter sounds like an idiot for not seeing clearly what he was shooting at.

What did you get, old man? Troy-Bilt? John Deere? Cub Cadet?

My condolences.

For my cedar deck, I use TWP 101. Not sure how well it would soak in to pressure treated wood. And I definitely wouldn't spray it on. Have to make contact with a brush or a roller. Sprayers waste a lot too if you don't know what you're doing. https://www.twpstain.com/twp-101-cedartone

C'mon, thats funny. The "quintessential Upper East Side Witness". 🤣 She looks fabulous! And gives a full account of what she saw. A lot of stuff!

What is going on? 🤣🤣 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/michele-herbert-rudy-giuliani-neighbor_n_608a002fe4b0462027034689

You had me skeptical at "a study done long ago". Tom Mann gulp bait study?? 🤣

I would agree with that. Individual fish and not necessarily their whole genus. There are "impulsive" fish, if under the right conditions, are more inclined to be susceptible to whatever we throw at them than maybe their step-cousins of the same species. But I also think, without stating the obvious, that it is very easy to recognize a generalized scale of susceptibility between species under a whole range of conditions. I've had baits barely touch the water and consumed in that instance - pure impulse. Smart, educated fish, but foolish for that moment in time. I'm sure they saw it flying in the air well before it hit water. Genetically programmed to react quickly. Same fish, under slightly different conditions . . . I don't know . . . .less cloud cover, more cloud cover, a temp swing 1 or 2 degrees moving up or down, maybe not as dumb? Its an endless mix of variables and that is what keeps me fascinated

Me too. I think someone on here recommended. Good stuff.

Fazeek!!!🤣

Furthermore, I'm going to say that it was ONESHOT, in the camo-wallpapered MAN CAVE, and the weapon was the TROPHY.🤣

Its massive. Look, . . . . they don't just give out trophies like that as door prizes. Here we have as fine a specimen of a trophy as I have ever seen. Gilded in spotless, non-tarnishing gold enamel that probably was developed as a um, a spin-off of the space shuttle program, and then we have 3-tiers, with each level delicately appointed in finely cut marble. And at the impossibly high very tip-top, . . . . . a trophy of a man holding a trophy. A trophy so large it is nearly as tall as the fireplace mantle, and yet too tall to even take its rightful place ON the fireplace mantle. This is a trophy's trophy. Tell me I'm wrong.

I'd like to see the other trophies, too. And the certificates.

Gotta love those "last cast" of the day fish. Anyone else have those conversations with themselves? One more cast to this pool, or one more cast for the day? 8 casts later, you're still muttering the same nonsense. 🤣

Sorry to hear, Oneshot. A doctor would tell you it is difficult, and pointless to try and quantify these things, i.e. - cancer was responsible for 57% and Covid was responsible for 43%. Thats why they have this fancy term, "co-morbidity". Could've been more than just those 2 things, too.

I did a quick 3-day, 2-night trip about 10 years ago. Loved it. Smallmouth and pike fishing was phenomenal, though we didn't catch any monsters. Best advice I could give you is get in shape. Those portages are not easy. And along those lines, go with an outfitter that will provide you with kevlar boats. We had royalex boats, but you would be surprised how big a difference that 15-20 lbs difference can be on a long portage. Bugs weren't too bad for us in July. I do recall a 1-2 hour period in the morning and in the evening when the bugs could be particularly bloodthirsty. So yes, bring the deet.

I thought Oneshot said he spent some time in Vietnam or Korea. Did he squeeze that in between shifts at Butternut bread?

Looking forward to pouring some of this down me gullet this weekend. Nice job on the artwork, @Al Agnew

NFL has a problem with this BS commercials crap. The super bowl has long lost its appeal to me as far as that. The commercials? I'm so used to tuning them out, why do I even want to see a good one? Its a commercial. No thanks. Speed up the game. Boring. I guess it all started with Mean Joe Green and Coke.

Somewhere, deep in the midst of all those sentence fragments and incomplete thoughts, . . . . . there is a point, trying so hard to get out, like an imaginary subterranean railroad, trying to reach the surface and break through the crust. Anyone have any idea what that point is? 🤣🤣🤣

A few clever Missouri lawmakers have super-secret 1-triple A priority and got it a couple weeks ago.

My younger brother, who lives in Springfield and is Phase 1A since he lives in supported living, is FINALLY getting the vaccine tomorrow.

In partial fairness to Ketchup as the topic starter, and I say "partial" underscore . . . . . he raised this exact topic over in the Politics Forum, where he received a proper thrashing from yours truly, with my firm conviction that this should no longer be a political football. And so I double dog dared him to take his garbage from the Politics forum and to test for support here on the more open waters of the General Chat forum, where he might get more than just partisan-type rhetoric. And so he did. So there you have it. 11 pages and he still got properly thrashed, notwithstanding a few head-in-sand supporters, and the usual piffle-fire-rock-strafing from Ernest T (Wrench). 🤣 My apologies.