Johnsfolly

We are having that issue right now with many staff members that are less than 30 yrs old. We have been hit with stagnant revenues and have not had merit increases and only select promotional considerations for the last couple of years. I will imagine that if that trend continues this year we will lose an unprecedented number of older staff as well.

Congrats on your success thus far! Sounds like you are off to a great start. Pm me to let me know if you need help or advise on this quest. I have successfully fished (i.e., caught trout) all of the blue ribbon sections (as well as all of the red and whites too) some time ago, but still can help if you need.

I have received a lot of comments from staff that when I pay them more they will do more. Sorry I'm too old fashioned in that I reward those that show initiative and do more without asking to be compensated.

I blond man goes to the DOT to find a job. They have an opening for someone to paint the center lines on several rural roads. The man interviews for the painter position. During the interview the supervisor tells tha blond man that he would need to be able to meet the minimum requirement of completing two miles of road per day. The man agrees and gets the job. On his first day he completes 4 miles of roadway. His supervisor is impressed. The next day he only completes 2 miles. His supervisor is concerned about the drop in productivity but since the man is still at the daily minimum things are OK. The next day the blond man only completes one mile of road. The supervisor calls him in to find out what's going on. He says to the blond man, "You painted 4 miles your first day, then 2 miles the second, and now only 1 mile today." "What's going on with your reduced productivity?" The blond man replied "Well it's taking longer now to go back and get paint from the bucket." 🤣

@trythisonemv sounds like some fun at Taney! That's a chunky spot.

Enjoyed the video. Congrats on some nice steambred rainbows!

I felt the same way for a long time in arguing against raising the minimum wage. Presenting the argument that minimum wage was not a goal.. Also that those positions are for teens that are not living on their wages just yet. This year I have been more aware of the staff working in the fast food places in our area. The majority of them, MCDs, Hardee's, Arby's, Popeyes. KFC, Burger King, etc. are staffed (>80%) by black and Hispanic women between the ages of 25 to 40 yrs old. Chick-Fil A is staffed by more teens. Cashiers at our local grocery stores are nearly all older women as well. Those observations started me thinking about what could be done. Those women are likely to have a high school education and probably have kids.

The issue that I see with fast food joints is there really are only three levels of employees. The cooks, counter, stock folks are really all the same. Then Asst manager and then manager. So how do you structure the lower levels so that you can get a separation in duties based upon skill and seniority? That would to me be the only way that you could prevent vastly overpaying teens in their first job versus the working mom that may not be able to dedicate the time away from kids to be a manager. You can't get to a living wage simply by merit increases alone. Without fixing that system and by forcing minimum wage hikes to me the repercussions are two fold. More automation replacing staff and or price increases such that the buying power of that new wage is rapidly diminished.

Sounds like a tough day Jeff. But you got some fish caught and it was a much better day than working 😅

An elderly couple walks into McDonalds. The gentleman orders a hamburger meal. They get their meal and sit down. The man unwraps the hamburger and cuts it in half. He gives one half to his wife and keeps the other half. He picks up the fries and counts them out and evenly splits the fries between himself and his wife. The customers around them notice this process. One customer says to his wife that it must be terrible that they can only afford a single hamburger meal. The gentleman begins to eat his part of the burger and his fries. He will take a drink from the soda and then his wife will take a drink from the soda. The woman does not take a bite of any of her food. The other customer gets up and comes over to the couple and he offers to buy them another meal. The gentleman refuses saying that what they have is enough for them both and that they share everything. He then takes another bite of his burger while his wife sits without touching her meai. The customer pleads with the couple to buy them another meal. Again the couple refuses and the gentleman states again that they share everything. Finally the customer gives up. He turns to the woman and asks why she has not touched any of her food. The wife responds that they share everything and she is waiting her turn. "Your turn! What are you waiting for?!?" asks the customer. "The Teeth!" 🤣

Saw that someone has posted photos of both species on Roughfish.com. Here is a guy that was catching them this summer.

Hey Dave get ready to have to catch a couple more. There was a paper that re-established Lepomis solis and Lepomis aquilensis from the Longear sunfish complex. L. solis is found in Alabama, GA, and upper FL. L. aquilensis is found in southern AR, LA, TX, and OK. There are also two other potential species in AR and MO, OK that the authors felt need more investigation. Hopefully you can open the paper. Not sure how I feel about this, but kind of like when all I needed was a suwannee and guadeloupe bass then they added four more redeye bass species. And now the bartram, choctaw, Alabama, etc.. Just more to chase I guess. Kim_et_al_in_press splitting longear sunfish.pdf

I don't want anyone to think that I didn't enjoy helping. I really enjoyed as each of them were successful on our trips. Favorites was Ham catching that bluespotted sunfish and Livie catching her mountain redbelly dace! I would do it all over again in a heartbeat😁 And trolling Dave with the redbreast sunfish 🤣. @FishnDave you should ask how many redbreast Ham caught while trying for his pureblood pumpkinseed.

If she was willing to fish more in Missouri when they were out that way she might have completed 100 out there. If she gives me a couple of outings it shouldn't take too long to get her over the line.

She gives me some attitude at times, maybe teen angst😉. I may have to drag here if needed😅

I spent some time figuring out spots to maximize Hams opportunities. Livie is so close herself that I am still pushing her towards that first 100 as well as some targeting for building her life list.

Unfortunately most were outside ot the time windows that we had to fish together 😒. Still you made due at every spot that we did fish and had a very successful trip with well over 100 species for the year! I hope that we can do it again and get over to the western side of the state or more southern parts of MD.

Flounder are one of my favorite marine group of fish. They can be very aggressive predators. The sight of the channel flounder coming off my hook in FL still haunts me. It was great that you were able to catch one from the pier buddy. I need to catch some of those southern Flounder or halibut that you have caught before.

Great day @Daryk Campbell Sr! Would like to hear more about that pontoon boat. Maybe I missed a thread. Looks like it is working for you.

I do enjoy cooking venison but not frying it like a chicken fried steak. Not all cuts will be good cooked that way. It will just be tough and difficult to cook it well. How about just salt pepper and lost a little oil in a cast iron pan until medium rare. No extra malarkey. Is delicious to me. Again only certain cuts will work with this type of cooking. I will use venison for a lot of recipes not to cover the taste but to enjoy it even more. Actually much more a versatile meat than most folks give it credit. I have always processed my own deer.. I get rid of all the fat and silverskin that I can which will remove the gamey taste. I wrap the meat tightly in plastic wrap then butcher paper. I have pulled out "lost" pieces from the freezer that were more than a year ago and still don't have a gamey flavor.

These guys were a guarantee fish. So was catching spot but I was the only one to catch a spot 🙄

Looks like you caught a great keeper and the bass was nice as well!😉