Johnsfolly

I have never tried marrow, but have watched enough Meateater episodes to want to try it sometime on crispy bread. Looks good with beef or wild game bones. Now I just need to get some femurs !

I'll give that a DANG!

Thanks for posting this information. I was thinking about Norm M the other day and was wondering how he was doing with his treatments. We will keep him in our thoughts.

Great job on a nice night of bows and a white! Got to love catching a trout that hardly fits in your net☺! That was a real nice PB rainbow! My plans changed this weekend and I won't be out at Taney tonight. So seeing fish like yours ratchets that yearning to net a nice trout to a much higher level.

Sounds like a great couple of hours fishing! Congrats on catching a few rainbows!

That doesn't even look like a real fish. More like an over stuffed sausage with gills and fins !

Well we culled two of our older layers this morning. I skinned the one and into the pot, The other I plucked and kept the skin. I split it in half and roasted for about 20 minutes at 425 deg to get some crispy skin. Then it went into the stock pot and covered with water. Also added cut onions, carrots, garlic, black pepper corns. and a little worchestershire sauce and cooked the stock on medium. Still cooking.

Looking good Mitch. Definitely need to wipe a little drool from my lips !

We enjoy trout. I don't keep any brown trout but stocker rainbows are a diffferent story. The trout parks and urban trout programs fit the bill if we want fresh fish and no crappie/bluegill are biting☺.

I'm very interested in getting one for small game becuase I have heard about how fun they are to shoot - pretty good evidence throughout this thread. Also to save what is left of my hearing☺ while still enjoying the bounty of small game around us. Also likely to thin the bushytails in our yard without distirbing the neighbors ☺.

I would advocate that you should fish it at least once. Then again I would advocate fishing all of the trout parks as well as the wild trout streams to appreciate these different places and the fish that can be caught there.

Good Luck buddy. Can't wait to hear about the hunt and see the photos! I appreciate the tip and remember where and when to fish. However, ever changing plans may nix any Taney trip. I hope to get it worked out this afternoon. If still around home for the weekend, will either try to get back out for another turkey or stick it out in a tree with the bow.

Great job on your predator control! As BH said most if not all critters need to be managed. Getting it with a bow makes that even more special.

Phil Great fish! For many of us that is a trout of a lifetime. Congrats!

Thank you sir. Still haven't picked up the bow for hunting, yet! Hope that you are still on those bucks that you had on camera. I had a friend show me a 200+" non-typical that he had on his cameras several days during shooting light that he will be going after this weekend. Just put some perspective on that last mushroom photo, look at the barbed wire in this photo

We have had times when feral cats were a problem around our house. I was cage trapping them. Over an 18 month period I caught 22 cats, 13 raccoons, and 9 opossums. Of those cats only caught 2 neighbor cats and 3 domestic cats (would meow when approached). The rest were nasty snarling ferals. That was 4to5 yrs ago. Now we are seeing an increase in cats around our neighborhood. Started trapping again and have been catching mostly raccoons.

Ham - Glad to see that you got to have a decent trip with your daughter and dad! Great photos of some nice crappie! I would have loved to have seen another photo of a spotted sunfish, would have been my second (after the one you sent me from a previous trip ).

I emphasize with the drive, a little less from Columbia. Working to get that Friday off to make the trip tolerable. I know that the time with the OAF folks is worth the trip.

BH - I would try bobcat. I have heard several guys talk about how mountain lion meat is good to eat. Would try that to if given a chance.

In Missouri the limit is six !

Got out again on Sunday to hunt for squirrels and fall mushrooms. I was also hopeful that I might bump into some turkeys. I have hunted them on this national forest land many times in the spring, but hardly see them in the fall. Just in case I did bump some turkeys I brought ammo and my turkey choke. It was one of those great cool autumn days and I was excited to be out in the forest. I got into a woodlot that I had found lots of oyster mushrooms in the past. No luck on this trip. I did get the attention of a barker / squealer while looking for oysters or any edible mushrooms. As I set up on that vocal squirrel, another began barking close behind me and I dropped that one. Most squirrels that get that vocal usually get shot. I got another squealer not long after shooting the first squirrel. MoCarp had mentioned selling squirrels tails, these are close to prime condition. I hiked and hunted for a couple more hours. I did find a fresh giant puffball, but did not harvest it since I was heading deeper into the woods. Placed the shotshell next to the mushroom to provide scale of the size of this puffball. I passed a hiker on the trail and he must have picked it because it was not there when I headed back home. I made sure to visit an oak tree that I found a large hen of the woods mushroom last year. Nothing was there this year not even evidence that one had come up earlier this fall. I shot a couple more squirrels. Bumped a big deer. No turkeys seen nor heard during my time out. Still had a great and productive day. Not all mushrooms are for eating. Some should just be admired.

Good luck! I have never shot a turkey with my bow. You using the crossbow? I'm headed SW this weekend to try to catch some new species. I hope to get to Taney one evening/night.

That was funny and disturbing☺.

The water flow rate is dependent upon the amount (volume) of water as well as the width of the channel that the water is flowing through. A thousand cubic feet of water travelling through a 20 foot wide channel will travel faster than that same volume of water travelling through a 40 foot wide channel. It is possible that even 1/2 mile downstream the river widens such that the flow rate drops 400 cfs. I'm not familiar with those sections of river. So this is just a possible reason for the differences that you see between those two values.

When I lived near the ocean, did a lot of spearfishing and mostly while free diving (without a SCUBA tank). Imagine slowly swimming or drifting along the surface looking over the structure, then diving down and hunting in a 3D setting. You are fixed upon your quarry and concerned that you may not be able to get close enough for a shot before your lungs start to ache for a breath of fresh air. In some areas like those that I fished in North Carolina or Florida, you never know what you may get close to while spearfishing. Could be snapper, blackfish, triggerfish, spadefish, sheepshead, cobia, etc. All are exciting and most are good meals once you get them in your catch bag. I never spearfished in blue water and would love to give that a try as well. If you get into the sport, keep us posted on your trophies.