Johnsfolly

Like @quillback did not read the whole article due to not subscribing. I would have liked that they used a whitetail deer photo instead of a roe buck from Europe, but who would have noticed🙄. I have not seen the same denisities of deer out in Missouri as there used to be in PA and NJ. Would often see browse lines where there was little to no vegetation below 5 ft as far as you could see in the PA forests. Would often see a dead deer every 1/2 mile for long stretches of highway. Often more than a hundred deer in 10 or 15 acre farm plots. PA took a hard line and really dropped their deer numbers by opening up doe harvest and issuing crop damage permits. It was to the point that most public land hunters complained that there were no longer any deer. However like the article points out that a lot of deer just moved to the suburbs where there are limited or no opportunites due to societal norms to harvest those deer. Food banks always need quality protein.

JF #96 Sheepshead minnow, Cyprinodon variegatus Been trying to use thin (1.5 to 2 mm wide) squid strips on a tango hook that I can trim easily once on the hook. The sheepshead just showed a total disdain for the squid. Switched to a small piece of sandworm and hard to keep them off the hook🤔. (swapped photo with the edited version)

JF #95 Lifer Eastern Blacknose Dace, Rhinichthys atratulus

I hear them calling your name... FiiisssshhhhhnnnnDaaavvveee!!!!! 🤣 @FishnDave

JF #94 River chub, Nocomis micropogon (Updated with edited photo)

That's one of the great things about traveling is that you can do it again and see different places and have new experiences 🙂.

Pallot's show were good but Jose had great shows.

Congrats buddy! Second or third largest darter in the state behind logperch and possibly Niangua daters. As you know can be pretty tightlipped.

The owner was the head chef and he had to have been in his late 60's. Definitely was family run. They also own the asian market in the same complex.

That is a great idea. Have the tournaments be required to have a certain number of processers or else they can't have the tournament.

I don't know Mitch.

That's true but the photo that you posted at the top of this thread was not gar nor even close to 1000 fish.

I used to use that dish and their fried dumplings as a gauge of how good of a restaurant it was going to be. I'm dying to find just a really good chinese restaurant out this way. I'm sure if I headed into Baltimore or around DC that there are some, just don't like to deal with that traffic and tolls. PF Changs in Annapolis is probably the best and that is just standard chain restaurant food. ABC Cuisine restaurant out in Columbia - was the most authentic and served absolutely delicious food. It was sold after a burglar died in the kitchen a few years ago. It became a Korean place and now even that has closed 😒. So we can't even go back there when we are in MO.

Haven't had one spool me completely, but a couple of close calls lately where I was close to the mono backing. Never saw either of those fish since the hook pulled on the one and the other cut off. Was using 15 and 20# at the time. Now those rods have 30 and 50# braid.

Water flows would likely be more consistent and conducive for trout spawns.

Better hide those Pick-A-Nick baskets🤣

@Foghorn Sounds like a great way to spend the holiday. Congrats on finding the fish and the pattern for what they wanted to eat!

Looks like a winner. Now I just need that griddle AND everything else 😅.

Not an inaccurate statement 😅

I have processed fresh road kill deer in the past and would likely do it again. So I would definitely call the MDC to see about collecting the meat from a cow elk if I knew it was fresh.

I agree Marty. We all live in a watershed and this is a great tool to demonstrate that fact. I was looking more on how this could be tied to explanations of fish species distributions and why I can't fish for buffalo or yellow bass in any river that flows east of the Applachian mountains. Or how west slope cutthroat are isolated from other subspecies.

Very cool site Marty! thanks for sharing. I had one travel over 3380 km.

I would think that potential for growing man boobs due to soy would be a skinny dipping stopper and that was the reason 🤣 Willing to share recipe for your bleu cheese dressing?