snagged in outlet 3

I kind of went a different direction on my wife...

I don't boat at dinner time...

Last motorized vehicle I owned with "throttle-snap" was a 250 R 3 wheeler. Brraap! Before that a Kawasaki Tecate 250 3 wheeler. My sons Mustang GT and later he had a Subaru WRX that was pretty fun to drive. On a related note for all the golfers out there like @vernon. PSA: Stay away from Forest Park Golf Course for about a month until they get the leaves cleaned up. The place is loaded with giant sycamores.

Yep them dinner plate sized sycamore leaves got me.....,Again.

Yeah but trout taste as bad as peas. I’ll drink my dinner.😆

Trout tast like crap. Who in their right mind would risk a wildlife violation for a trout?? I’d rather be caught pilfering catfish from the grocery store.

Easy there chief. This ain’t Gravois Mill😆

I ran up the meramec a couple miles Saturday. Wind picked up heavy and it took me 5 stops to get leaves out of the jet to get back to ramp.

Even with hook and line on stockers it wouldn’t surprise me if they were “caught” and taken. I’ve fished behind many stocking trucks over the years.

Only one guy has to buy it for your group. Usually. We always have a side bet on who has to pay it. 😁

Somebody has to lead.

I go to old town St Charles every week and I've read all the milestone dates on the maps down there. Crazy!!!! Drag them upstream. And when you see the size of the boats....Simply unbelievable today.

Her latest reply. It is an assumption based on where the tags were (in the stream next to logs; these were not locations that someone cleaning fish would walk to or set up a cleaning station and leave the carcass pile - most anglers harvesting fish would have them on a stringer and take them to a convenient location to clean them - away from the stream and/or back home in their vehicle, and the tag would have gone with the fish, not remained in the stream. Also, we've been monitoring the gut piles from the park and did not find any tags there.) It is possible that a poacher could have removed the tag and tossed it on the bank immediately after catching the fish, but they'd have to cut the tag out of the fish which would take a bit of effort. Much of what we're inferring from our observations could be interpreted a few different ways, but this is allowing us to see more of what's happening than past studies. Jen

Caught momas night gown on fire😂

I saw that.

Has anyone seen this new Snapchat filter? @fishinwrench oughta love this one. https://www.instagram.com/p/B4cj9ChBNBJ/?igshid=2e5aup503n5r

Not this weekend

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I asked her about that and qualified my question by saying I don't know how the tags or telemetry work. We'll see what she says.

I replied asking about that, @ness. I'll post up any answers.

She says they find the bare tag but the fish carcass is gone which means the are not being harvested by anglers. Couldn't you catch one and pull the tag and keep the fish??? Or am I missing something??

I got a reply from Jen. Hi SIO3 - We are in the middle of tracking browns right now on the Meramec Red Ribbon section near St. James: We released the transmitter-ed fish roughly a month ago. We started with 26 browns that seemed to do well for the first week, but over the next several weeks detected 15 tags that are displaying a mortality signal. We are finding these "dead" fish in the red ribbon section (all that's left when we find it is the bare tag, the fish carcass is gone), which would indicate they are not being harvested (illegally and/or unintentionally) by anglers either in the park or in the red ribbon section. They are "staying put", but dying rather quickly. We are detecting some small movements, to the adjacent riffle/pool up or down stream as they seem to explore their surroundings and find a suitable resting/feeding stations. After recovering several "chewed on" tags, natural predation (otters, eagles) is thought to be the big source of mortality at this point, but without being able to find carcasses it is a little hard to tell if something had weakened the fish first to make them more susceptible to predation, or if the timing of the stocking when other prey (i.e. crayfish) are going dormant and/or spawning instincts are kicking in has exacerbated the effects of predation. We do have 9 browns still swimming as of last Friday. We have another round of tags that will go in fish and be released in December/January to try to shed some additional light on what the stocked fish/experience. (in addition to the tagged fish, several hundred other un-tagged browns were stocked according to usual protocols.) (If you were referring to the pilot study we did in 2017... the results were a little harder to tease apart since we used different technology which limited how well we could detect a fish. In a nutshell, we released fish in January of 2017; by the big flood in April/May most were not detected anymore. A small number went into the spring branch/park and were lost. We did detect some small movements during small rises. Those tags did not send out a "mortality" signal, and were not able to be tracked out of the water, so it limited what we could interpret when a tag was not heard anymore.)Doug - would sending updates twice a month suffice? I was thinking you could share with whomever is interested. One thing to keep in mind is that each week we seem to learn/discover some new aspect that sheds light on what's happening, so interpretation of the results could change in the next week or two... I will take the time to digest all in the info from the whole study before making adjustments to stocking and/or other management, and share a summary of the findings when it's complete. Jen

In regards to Cardiac area I think somebody posted pictures on here of a guy with smallies on a stringer and they actually caught the guy from the pictures.

Yes since it's a dry county some "private" clubs can sell booze but you have to join the club. Usually around $5.

I would think your jon would be perfect that.