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Some Guilty Pleasure Movies Johnny Dangerously - Its an 88 magnum! It shots through schools! You fargin icehole! Die Hard - another Christmas classic. The Quiet Man - could have gone on my first list Vacation - I actually read the story in National Lampoon magazine before ever seeing the movie. Wildcats, Foul Play, Bird on a Wire, or any other Goldie Hawn movie. Paint your Wagon Fletch - Just bill it to the Underhills. Are you a cop? As far as you know! Men in Black movies Back to the Future Planet of the Apes - Heston version. Get your hands off of me you filthy animal! Finding Nemo - Its a fish movie and my daughter said I had to put this on the list The Old Man and the Sea - such a sad fishing story. Angel and the Bad Man - unsung John Wayne movie

Thanks for rejuvenating this thread. I know that I will have many more than five, but will focus on movies that impacted me or I'm willing to watch over and over. Psycho - still a suspensful movie Night of the living dead - original filmed in Pittsburgh PA. Had Chilly Willy as the reporter and still one of the most ironic endings. Jaws - everytime I would spearfish or go for lobsters in CT after seeing that movie, I thought that I would see a leg or arm under the rocks. The fugitive - I love Tommy Lee (except for Under Siege). I actually have two copies of this DVR and my family pick on me relentlessly about it. A Christmas Story - You'll shoot your eye out! The Outlaw Josey Wales - I'm glad you stopped me. I could have killed her! Love Chief George. Ok some more: Its a mad mad mad mad world - my family and I quote lines from this movie all of the time. Caddyshack - You should gett a bowl of soup with this hat. Dr Strangelove - I'm feeding you Jack. The Pink Panther - Peter Sellers at his best. Blazing Saddles - We almost lost a $400 handcart. The Shining - All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Scatman gets the axe. So much for for Hong Kong Fooey. Mr Roberts - A great Henry Fonda movie Mistah! The Caine Mutiny - Jose Ferrer punching Fred MacMurray was an awesome scene. Arsenic and Old Lace - They have more than you Johnny. The Godfather and II - nothing more to say. Alien - excruciating to watch John Hurt's chest explode. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - gotta love Nurse Ratchet Young Frankenstein - There there wolf! Little Big Man - A little known Dustin Hoffman classic also has Chief George American Werewolf in London - Everytime I'm in the London tubes I expect to see the werewolf at the base of the escalator. The Producers - The fuhrer now he was a painter. He could paint this entire flat in one afternoon. Two coats. The McClintocks - No whiskey. We go now. The Incredibles - The Dash likes! Some Like it Hot - Jack Lemon carried this movie. Its a Wonderful Life - what can you say about this classic? Stripes - Army training Sir!

Congrats on getting in as a finalist. There is some tough competition amongst the final photos. I really liked the one trout photo, but did not vote for it because it seemed like an Orvis ad. Good luck.

My wife made this dish. It was described as creamy tuscan garlic chicken on the recipe she found online. Really tasty dish. Had chicken, roasted red pepper, parmesan, crushed garlic, chicken broth, and cream served over pasta.

Thanks Marty. Any ideas on that clump of brown ones?

Like I said it was a great day and I owe it to Jamie. His boat, baits, rods, and experience made this trip successful.

I had planned a musky trip with a couple of guys for the 3rd. We were going to fish the northern Missouri musky lake. Jamie is the experienced musky fisherman who volunteered to take out a couple of novices. It probably helped that he is one of my employees and we have been talking about musky fishing for some time. As of Thursday the weather was going to be questionable if it would be good musky weather, i.e., overcast, blowing winds, chance of rain. Seems like the weather stalled and we did get some reasonable musky weather. It was mostly cloudy with a pretty steady 10 mile per hour wind. We were on the water around 10 to 10:30 am. We saw a musky surface in a wooded cove, but never saw it again. We didn't even see any follows to our casts. So we left theupper lake and headed towards the dam. We were fishing laydown trees on the windblown bank. This wood was on a bank were there was dropoff into some deeper water. Jamie made a cast to about 2 feet from shore near some wood and his crappie colored shallow crankbait got hammered as it was heading back to the boat. We had our first musky in the net by 12:10. It was a 41.5" musky. We were ecstatic to have one boated. I had figured that we would see fish follow and possibly catch one or two. So far so good. We headed further down this wind blown shore hitting wood structure with our baits. We came around this main lake point. Jamie had on a glide bait that his uncle makes and sells around Pomme de Terre. He gets another fish again off a large tree on the protected side of this point. This one was 38.5" in length. Again this fish hit a bait that was cast up near the bank and pulled along the structure back into deeper water. Now we had two confirmed follows that resulted in two landed fish. I had on this bucktail bait, another one created by Jamie's uncle. I made a cast near another blowdown along that same bank and I saw the fish come out of the brush and blast my bait. I was able to get my first musky to the net. She was 39" in length and like the first two fish had heavy shoulders. I couldn't have been any happier at that time. This wss definitely one of my bucket list fish. It was awesome to hold a fish like this one. Now it was up to Jon to land one. He has been fishing the crappie colored crankbait and a made a cast just off that same windblown point and had a huge blowup but no fish. No matter what we threw we could not get another rise from that fish. By 1:30 we had netted three and had another serious encounter with a large fish. Jamie still kept saying that we havent gotten to his favorite productive spots yet. We fished for a couple more hours. Off of one point with some unseen brush I had one 28 to 30" fish follow my bucktail, but it didn't like my figure 8's at the boat. We got to one of Jamie's favorite spots. He had a large fish shooting out of the brush and it did not get after his bait again. However she turned onto Jon's crankbait figure 8's and got hooked at the boat. We were able to net our fourth musky of the trip. Here is Jon's 38.5" musky. Now all three of us had caught fish. The most fish that Jamie has caught on this lake was four. So now we had a couple more hours to try a get a fifth fish. On a big flat by the dam Jamie had a fish hit his shallow invader, but it got off at the boat. Fished a couple of unproductive areas and then back to the brush that Jon caught his fish. He pulled his crankbait between two cedar frees and got bit. The fish leapt completely out of the water like a tarpon and threw the bait. She looked like another 38 to 40" fish. We kept hitting many of the same spots. Just as it was getting dark, we fished a shallow point that extends way out into the lake. Jamie had on the shallow invader and got bit off of a stump. The fish got off again. Jon threw in the crappie crankbait and she hit on his figure 8's. He was able to bring her to the net and the fifth fish was in the boat. She was 41" in length. So at the end of the day, we had five follows, eight fish on, and five in the boat. this was an awesome day of fishing. I appreciate Jamie putting up with a couple of rookies and putting us on fish. I can see how folks can get addicted to fishing for musky. I'm now thinking about how can I catch a 40+" musky. Maybe next year.

On Sunday I went out for small game or a possible fall turkey with my daughter. We went to a close by national forest land. We found a small herd of cattle with at least one mature bull in the group. As we were getting ready to hunt and within a couple of minutes they were all up to the fence and gate. I'm always a little concerned about how the cattle will reapond to us heading into their field. These guys seemed pretty docile. So off we went. Squirrels were active but kept busting us and not giving us a shot. I did connect on a fox squirrel and no grays on this trip. We didn't get any help from the cattle. After about twenty minutes after I shot the fix squirrel we could hear one or more of them mooing close to where we had set up and found some possible grays. As we were watching and hoping for a shot on one of the close gray squirrels a deer went running by us. Then several of the squirrels ran off. Then we heard the cattle above us. Seems like they were circling the wood lot that we were hunting. We decided that they were going to continue to bother our hunting. We were going to call it quits and found seveal lilac colored mushrooms. Pretty excited at finding possible blewit mushrooms. They were a little old, but we picked about a dozen of the fresher ones. Only one gave us a partial spore print and the spores confirmed that these are blewits. So with the small game hunt ended, we focused on more mushrooms. I had seen a clump of mushrooms on a log in the distance and was sad to see this chicken mushroom or sulfur shelf that was probably a week past their prime. We also found several clumps of these guys, but could not id them to feel comfortable enough to harvest them. We did find a bunch of white and yellow amanita mushrooms. We did find two white mushrooms on a log that got our attention from a long distance. Turned out that they were two small lion's mane or bearded tooth mushrooms. After harvesting these two I spotted a larger one about 8 feet up a tree. Olivia quickly volunteered to climb and pick that one. We also harvested a few clumps of coral fungus as well. Not a bad evening. Still looking for some hen of the woods mushrooms or fresh chicken mushrooms. Need some more rain. As we were heading back to the car got followed again by the cattle. Not too long and they were back at the fence mooing at us. Here's a couple of parting shots.

Lately I have been buying fish related beers. Here are a few that I have enjoyed recently. I did enjoy the Old Chub scottish ale the best.

Dan That was a nice chunky bass on the Pepe plastic. I haven't had a real chance to use mine yet. Maybe today. That looked like the Spring river. I've got ti find some time to get back down to fish it woth you.

Great to see you get out with your daughter. Catching fish is just icing after having a great time on the lake.

Last night I made an asian marinade with soy sauce, hoisin sauce, rice wine vinegar, sweet chili paste, honey, minced garlic and ginger. I marinaded thin slices of top round beef for about 3 hours. I cut florets of cauliflower. Drizzled the florets with olive oil then sprinkled tumeric, powdered garlic, ginger, and S&P. Cooked on a baking sheet in 425 deg oven for 20 to 25 min until browned and tender. While the cauliflower was cooking I seared the meat on med-high heat. Only cooked them about 2 to 3 min per side. Got nice carmelization from the marinade making a bit of a glaze on the meat. Turned out pretty well. Sorry no pictures of the meal or my wife and I eating this meal.

BH I will keep my eyes open. Where do you typically find Hens? Ridges, creek bottoms? I've never found any. So really don't have a plan of action other than stumbling upon them while hunting.

Marty Are you just letting us know that it is a slow day for geese? Are we going to start seeing live post updates? Posting from the kichen... Posting from the toilet... Anyways how was the hunt this morning? I'm going out this afternoon with the scattergun hoping to get into more small game or maybe a fall turkey. Still have not taken the bow out into the woods.

Oneshot Congrats on your stringer of trout. Were fishing upstream of the access? Did you get into any redhorse?

I have been really enjoying your videos. Great work! Also keep showing us how to catch those big rough fish!

I like ketchup on scrambled eggs. Yesterdays breakfast was homefrie potatoes with onion, peppers, garlic, and herbs. Put over easy Jfolly farm fresh eggs on top with a little S&P and ketchup on the side. I love the yolk running into those crisp potatoes.

Al You may be correct that there may have been some shadow bass stocked in the Niangua. I was basing my assessment from the distributions/collections data presented in "The Fishes of Missouri" reference. That's the trouble with species that folks wanted to transplant or introduce elsewhere. I didn't mention it in my report or respond to your eagle observation post, but on this trip I did see a juvenile bald eagle harass an osprey to release its catch. The fish fell to the ground and the eagle landed, but I don't think that it ever found the fish.

Ness You have to keep them in the pod.

After working for a week straight I was able to take some time off and headed down to the Niangua to try to catch a brown trout and hopefully any new species that I might have encountered. I started the day down at Barclay access and fished a variety of baits. I wanted to fish mostly active baits to trigger a predatory response in any brown trout haunting the areas that I was fishing. I have only fished that area once before with my daughter. the water at that time was muddy and we only managed a few smallmouth bass. The water on this trip was fairly clear and may have been a tad above 60 deg. The bottom was mostly gravel/small rocks in this area. So I felt that I could really bottom bump with jigs, jerkbaits, and ned rigs without hanging up too often. I caught a couple of small largemouth bass on jerkbaits and on a green pumpkin 1/8 oz ned rig. I also caught a hornyhead chub on that ned as well. Sorry no pictures of the LMB or chub. I did end up losing the green pumpkin ned on some submerged brush, which was the most common structure where I was fishing. In one of the larger pond like pools, I caught several northern rock bass on a 1/8 oz PBJ ned rig. And down stream I caught this rock bass on a 1/16 oz marabou jig. I ended landed four or five of these guys using a variety of baits. This one had the most character, so I took its photo. I felt really fortunate to be that lucky. I did catch this smallmouth on a jerkbait while fishing a seam between a deep calm section and the main current in a bend in the river. Since I had a two hour trip home and had to pick up my son after his day at school, I didn't have much more time on the river. So I headed upstream to another public access and in a fast rocky stretch I managed to catch this 11 inch brown trout on a small husky jerk Rapala. I had hoped to have had enough time to soak some worms for redhorse suckers, which I have not caught yet this year, but just didn't have the time. I didn't catch any real big fish, but enough to keep me happy as well as marking off catching a brown in the Niangua. Now I only have the Roaring river and lake Taneycomo to achieve my brown trout goal for the year.

I normally like to catch the minnows, but will have pass on this one Hopefully it wasn't a redspot chub .

Congrats! Even though you didn't get out much, you caught a variety of fish. As you know I am a sucker for multispecies catches. Thanks for posting.

Mitch I have heard of some people eating cilantro and thinking that it tastes like soap. My family and I all like cilantro. Does it taste like soap to you?

We made a Hank Shaw recipe (honest-food.net; Sichuan Rabbit with Peanuts; sorry I had trouble posting the link to the recipe) last night that was a two part preparation. We replaced the rabbit with the squirrels that I had harvested. Since there were two older ones in the mix, we cooked the squirrel for about three hours to get the meat to come easily off of the bone. So that made this into cook the squirrel on day one and then put the rest of the dish together on day 2. I also felt that the dish needed some vegetables. So I cut thin sticks of carrot, sweet peppers, and onion. Cooked that in the skillet, then added the squirrel meat to warm the meat. Then we got back on to the recipe for preparing the optional peanut and sesame topping and cooked the sauce. Served it over white rice and topped it with the sesame and chopped peanuts. My son and I liked it without any concerns. My wife and daughter liked the flavors, but thought it was a little spicy for them. (Wasn't too hard to get Olivia to take a selfie).

Just keep the eye on the prize, the buffet line after your procedure!