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It is very likely the same one. It would certainly would get my daughter's attention. She loves turtles, especially box turtles and her pet tortoise . Here's one that my daughter hasn't seen yet an eastern box turtle at the house in Maryland. I've seen this guy a few times while cutting the lawn.

Nick P - Welcome to the party. Now I would not advocate putting a new lake. I guess that I am a bunny hugger (though I do love a good rabbit stew ) since I think that there has been far greater harm to the river fish when you put in another dam. Oftentimes those systems never recover. Sorry Nick, but I would rather not see the river walleye and smallmouth be replaced by largemouth in a new lake system.

Saw a group of five otters one year in Little Piney above Lane Springs and several slides down below Newberg. I have seen several in the creeks and strip pit lakes around Columbia over the years. I have always worried about wading near them. I didn't like when they would disappear and I no longer could see them. Didn't want any surprises. I was not keeping any fish when I saw otters. Many years ago I have had lots of problems with turtles eating fish from my stringers. We would fish this one river and tie off the stringers then head further upstream only to come back to a bunch of heads !

I haven't seen otters or snakes. Like Flysmallie, it has been more of a Feb destination for me, which explains the lack of snakes. I have seen a few mink on those trips.

Congrats RPS! those are some healthy looking walleye and a mess of mono. Thanks for taking that mess home.

That is a beast! Congrats on a pig of a largemouth!

Looks Good RPS!

I'm packing for our move to Maryland. Did fish with my daughter for an hour or so this morning.

Bo Tell her Congratulations! Some nice bass there! You just have to remind her that a good guide is putting her those fish.

I went to a local stream in Columbia last Sunday and saw a madtom swimming in a pool in the early afternoon. I also saw a couple of blackstripe topminnows which is a species that Livie had not caught yet this year. She was not willing to go out with me, so I went back there that evening on my own and saw that fish again but could not get it interested in a bait. Another hole just above this one held several. I saw one that looked like a small bullhead. I dimmed my light and dropped the bait. It turned and bit, but I only lifted the fish out of the water on the hook set and it dropped off. I pulled two others out of the water, but I knew that those were slender madtoms. I did end up beaching this slender madtom (it dropped off over the bank). This morning I convince Livie to go back to this creek to try to catch a few more new species for her goal. The first target were the blackstripe topminnows using the #26 tanago hooks and tiny worm piece. I saw three the brush on the opposite bank. Just about two to three further than Livie could reach with the rod. She was able to tap the water surface with the sinker and got one interested. It readily hit the bait once it was close enough to see it. Bagged a blackstripe topminnow! Just Seven more fish to her Goal! She took her rod with a #18 hook with a small piece of chartreuse plastic and went after some larger species while I looked for a topminnow to catch (I hadn't caught one yet this year either). Livie caught a common shiner. Six more to her Goal! While she was getting this photo, I caught a small central stoneroller my second of the year. These can be one of the most skittish fish to try to catch. There were several in a school near Livie that were feeding and she was able to get a few interested before she landed her own central stoneroller - a new life list species for her. Just FIVE more to GO! We both caught s few sunfish, Livie longears and I caught a green. Western mosquitofish were readily caught and we both caught a few more blackstripe topminnows. All within an hour and a half.

They are called poor man's tarpon. Hit the bait hard, pull hard, and often jump. I only fished twice for them. Caught a few the first trip and 20 the next evening. Fished with 15 of my closest friends 😌that second evening. Fish would get caught up and down the line. A great time.

congrats on finding a workable setup. Nice Fish!

Sounds like a good day regardless. Congrats on some nice fish! I love it when fish fight over your bait!

Congrats! Those are some great fish especially those browns! You had a great system to catch quality fish.

You're right there were none !

I will not be home for my wife's Bday this year. so tonight was the Bday dinner. I picked up a pound and a half of 16-20 count wild caught gulf shrimp. Livie peeled the shrimp while I cut green, yellow, red peppers, onion, broccoli, minced garlic and ginger. Once the shrimp were peeled and rinsed, I dusted the shrimp with flour/Chinese five spice. I heated some canola oil and fried the shrimp to get a crisp coating but not fully cooked. I added oil to a different pan and started cooking the broccoli, then added the onion. Once translucent, added garlic and ginger then the pepper strips. Once cooked added the shrimp back into the vegetables. Once heated added Iron Chef General Tso's sauce to the mix. Served over brown basmati rice.

Six!

450 people die each year in the US by falling out of bed. Over 800 people die in the US in bicycle accidents 4500 people die while walking across the street. 150 people die each year by being hit by coconuts. 2 million people die each year due to contracting malaria or other blood borne diseases carried by mosquitoes. Where would you put efforts into prevention?

Great video! Beautiful fish! Congrats on a great trip even with the two flat tires! I love brown trout but really preferred seeing those native cutthroats. Maybe because @BilletHead has been sending me cutthroat photos while he has been out in Colarado.

I typically don't bake them but this sounds to good not to try.

Has anyone seen @Flysmallie? Maybe he made a trip up to the M River😁.

Here is the statement from the CDC on the occurrence of CJD. Classic CJD has been recognized since the early 1920s. The most common form of classic CJD is believed to occur sporadically, caused by the spontaneous transformation of normal prion proteins into abnormal prions. This sporadic disease occurs worldwide, including the United States, at a rate of roughly 1 to 1.5 cases per 1 million population per year, although rates of up to two cases per million are not unusual. The risk of CJD increases with age, and in persons aged over 50 years of age, the annual rate is approximately 3.4 cases per million. Whereas the majority of cases of CJD (about 85%) occur as sporadic disease, a smaller proportion of patients (5-15%) develop CJD because of inherited mutations of the prion protein gene. These inherited forms include Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker syndrome and fatal familial insomnia. CJD is different from variant or new-variant CJD - If chronic wasting disease jumped from cervids to humans it would likely be in the form of vCJD or nvCJD. That is the assumption based upon the relationship between bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and vCJD/nvCJD. Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) is a prion disease(https://www.cdc.gov/prions/index.html) that was first described in 1996 in the United Kingdom. There is now strong scientific evidence that the agent responsible for the outbreak of prion disease in cows, bovine spongiform encephalopathy(https://www.cdc.gov/prions/bse/about.html) (BSE or 'mad cow' disease), is the same agent responsible for the outbreak of vCJD in humans. There have been cases of vCJD in the US as reported by the CDC Four cases of vCJD have been reported from the United States. By convention, variant CJD cases are ascribed to the country of initial symptom onset, regardless of where the exposure occurred. There is strong evidence that suggests that two of the four cases were exposed to the BSE agent in the United Kingdom and that the third was exposed while living in Saudi Arabia. The specific overseas country where the fourth patient’s infection occurred is less clear. The first patient was born in the United Kingdom in the late 1970’s and lived there until a move to Florida in 1992. The patient had onset of symptoms in November 2001 and died in June of 2004. The patient never donated or received blood, plasma, or organs, never received human growth hormone, nor did the patient ever have major surgery other than having wisdom teeth extracted in 2001. Additionally, there was no family history of CJD. The second patient resided in Texas during 2001-2005. Symptoms began in early 2005 while the patient was in Texas. He then returned to the United Kingdom, where his illness progressed, and a diagnosis of variant CJD was made. The diagnosis was confirmed neuropathologically at the time of the patient’s death. While living in the United States, the patient had no history of hospitalization, of having invasive medical procedures, or of donation or receipt of blood and blood products. The patient almost certainly acquired the disease in the United Kingdom. He was born in the United Kingdom and lived there throughout the defined period of risk (1980-1996) for human exposure to the agent of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, commonly known as “mad cow” disease). His stay in the United States was too brief relative to what is known about the incubation period for variant CJD. The third patient was born and raised in Saudi Arabia and has lived in the United States since late 2005. The patient occasionally stayed in the United States for up to 3 months at a time since 2001 and there was a shorter visit in 1989. The patient’s onset of symptoms occurred in Spring 2006. In late November 2006, the Clinical Prion Research Team at the University of California San Francisco Memory and Aging Center confirmed the vCJD clinical diagnosis by pathologic study of adenoid and brain biopsy tissues. The patient has no history of receipt of blood, a past neurosurgical procedure, or residing in or visiting countries of Europe. Based on the patient’s history, the occurrence of a previously reported Saudi case of vCJD attributed to likely consumption of BSE-contaminated cattle products in Saudi Arabia, and the expected greater than 7 year incubation period for food-related vCJD, this U.S. case-patient was most likely infected from contaminated cattle products consumed as a child when living in Saudi Arabia (1). The patient has no history of donating blood and the public health investigation has identified no known risk of transmission to U.S. residents from this patient. The fourth patient was a US citizen born outside of the United States. The investigation by CDC and the Texas Department of State Health Services indicated that the patient’s exposure to the BSE/vCJD agent most likely occurred before he moved to the United States; the patient had resided in Kuwait, Russia and Lebanon. The completed investigation did not support the patient’s having had extended travel to European countries, including the United Kingdom, or travel to Saudi Arabia. The specific overseas country where this patient’s infection occurred is less clear than those for the 3 previously reported US cases largely because the investigation did not definitely link him to a country where other known vCJD cases likely had been infected. The patent’s illness first manifested in late 2012 and death occurred 18 months later. The vCJD diagnosis was confirmed on the basis of a biochemical analysis of a urine sample collected late in the patient’s illness and by histopathologic examination of brain tissue obtained at autopsy. So eating deer may be like Russian roulette but with a gun with well over several million empty chambers. That would be further reduced for those like myself that process our own deer and stay away from brain or spinal tissues during the meat handling.

You know that I do as well !

So he compiles stories and anecdotes. Big deal that doesn't make him a writer. Also anyone can self publish those types of books. Does he have published articles in peer reviewed scientific journals? Has ever worked where an editor forced him to fact check his work and not write opinion? Maybe he has a degree in wildlife management. Again having a degree vs actually working in that area are very different things. Maybe his agenda is to get back at those organizations for not hiring him. The fact that folks like yourself are "listening" is one of the biggest concern that I have with guys like him. If you are afraid to eat venison because of CWD then don't ever eat beef in the UK. I've seen more than one source state that 90 deaths due to nvCJD have been documented in Europe and the UK.