JCreek

I suspect weekdays will become weekends on the lake. Great.

Chantarelles are good in eggs..... https://duckduckgo.com/?q=missouri+mushrooms&t=canonical&atb=v143-1&iax=images&ia=images&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fnature.mdc.mo.gov%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2Fmedia%2Fimages%2F2010%2F05%2Fchantarelle.jpg Cutting up Morels into another food is illegal in some jurisdictions. Capitol offense! Well, Should be 😀 Nothing better than a fresh Morel fried up in butter. Lard in the good old days! darn, but I'm hungry.

Never ate any Morels? Take my advice and don't. You'll fall in love and spend the rest of your life searching in vain. But, as for when, early ones are reportedly starting right now. I haven't been out yet.

Monkey Milk? Electric Chicken? Really? Have I determined why I don't seem to be a productive fisherman? What ever happened to gray jigs, minners and worms? Merry Christmas everybody!!!

Thursday 10-3: I put in too late as usual. Too many other fiddly things to do so didn't arrive until well past noon. Fellow was pulling in when I got back down from parking the truck. "I was catching bunch of bass. Had a real nice smallmouth. Then 'bout an hour ago the wind shifted and picked up then everything just shut off." Story of my fishing career. Didn't boat anything. Not even a moss. Lemme know when it picks back up.

Wow. Another venting opportunity! I wanted an Alumacraft and tiller engine so bad! Dealer kept putting me off and wouldn't get back to me with a price on what I wanted! "Wait until the boat show", he said. Well, BPS announced the price on their 40 year anniversary boat just before Christmas in 2017 so I drove down there and put down a deposit. Now I get to fight the steering wheel lining up on the trailer instead of just a quick nudge of a tiller, have to run around all over the thing to fish, bought 2 sounders, the wife hates the back casting platform. Sheesh. But it's still fishing and, truth be told, the windshield ain't all that bad a deal when underway.

Good job!

Has to be. It was coming off the water for sure. If I were a fish, I'd be on the other side of that stuff.

Made it down there today. Be better if it was open a foot or so! About as much coming through the turbine. Smelled horrible down there. Not sure why.

I knew those drum had to be good for something! Bait!

Before this all started, they had stated a plan to keep it at least a foot higher than 867 in the future. I scoffed at that! Where they gonna get the water, I recall wondering at the time. 😀

https://www.nwk.usace.army.mil/Locations/District-Lakes/Stockton-Lake/Daily-Lake-Info-2/ It updated this morning. I had deleted the link on my tablet. We're down to 10 feet above normal!

Hope he didn't fall outta the boat....

Well. According to Facebook, that happens also. Something like that may have happened near here some time ago. You didn't hear if from me. But I speak of farmers and their wives, murdered by jail breakers. Shop owner, his wife and dog chopped up with knives (that one got some mention in the news, but died quickly). A fellow lost more than his manhood recently on a back road.... More to the story than we'll ever know. Good friend of mine lost a college chum to one of these fellows we can't talk about....This was in Kansas. The guy saw a party group leaving an apartment, sneaked in the door behind the victims and confronted them when they came back in. Said he had a knife and pushed them into their bedroom - then - went to the kitchen and got one of their knives. Killed the guy and did unspeakables to his wife. Now, that sucka would die in my home in a similar situation. My only worry would be how to clean up the mess. You don't wanna carry then don't. Still more or less a free country for the time being.

We're talking about Smithville Lake north of KC, right? I grew up near there, but left before the lake was built.

You can intervene in a felony situation, but I would not do it for reasons already mentioned. I carry for when I go home - in the country and secluded. And I carry around the place. You know how many country people have been murdered in the Ozarks in the last 40 years? No you don't. They don't say much about it. I open carry to get the mail and mow. Sometimes I carry the scary black rifle up to the mail box. Stand around and look friendly until a couple of these idiots drive by and see it. I carry to the bathroom! By the way, I just carpeted the bathroom. Like it so much may run it all the way into the house.

Great! Smithville? Do the speed boats still froth the water on weekends up there? Darnedest commotion I ever witnessed.

It's not that far and I should really go to town one day and check it on the way but I'm retired and have no reason to go to town. They say the Sears store has been replaced with a hardware store. Eventually. Sure hope they have a fish hook or something besides just sandpaper. Is it summer yet?

Heat index was 114 yesterday north of the lake. Haven't heard from any neighbors today. Suspect they all died. Heat index was invented in 1978. Since I was a kid many years before that, we picked up hay bales, fished, rode bikes and played ball in 100 deg heat. Can't do that anymore because of the heat index. Darn.

OK. Granddad left early in the morning from the farm near Stockton in the Model T truck loaded with sheep headed for the livestock market in Springfield - So the story goes. It was an entire day down to Springfield stopping along the road to fix flats all the way. Back then they jacked them up, pulled the tube out from the tire and rim, cold patched them then stuck it all back together and pumped it up with a hand pump. Tire irons were as common in cars as cup holders and air conditioners are now. He got there late that evening, slept under the truck all night and was there for the sale the next morning. He was fond of saying he sold the sheep for just enough money to buy a set of tires and head back home. I don't know what year that was but the Ford was a 1916 model car that had been converted to a truck with a flat bed and 2 speed rear end. It was said these rigs topped out at about 15 MPH. No pictures of this outfit exist and that breaks my heart! Granddad traded it for a radio in the late 30's. It really is better nowadays. Isn't it?

I believe it. Remember the rubber o-rings Ford put around the lugs? 90's I think. Couldn't get the wheels off. Change for the sake of change.

This is the only entertainment I get since fishing died! Oh, and BTW... 3.81 inches of rain today just north of the lake and it's still coming down!

I just haven't been able to come up with a picture of the fitting itself. Reading up on it. Looks like a worthwhile project for any boat with portable tanks. There seems to be room under the hatch by the batteries. But my original question involved the demand valve and Bass Pro no longer listing it in their web sight. Next time I go in there will ask about that and see what is in the boats on display. Bet I can illicit a dumb look or two! Happy 4TH everyone!

Must be an OSHA deal. Whoulda thunk it! https://www.osha.gov/laws-regs/regulations/standardnumber/1910/1910.106 I'd still like to know where that vent line goes on a pontoon boat....I have room for one of those under the back casting platform.

Well. Where did I get that? Maybe just a Tracker warning label. There is a law about filling gas cans inside vehicles, but I can't find it at the moment. Common sense also prevails. Easy way to draw a spark and go boom. I've looked at the aluminum tanks for pontoon boats. They have a fitting for a vent. Where does the vent go?