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Not all chemo is the same, so the chemo you get is probably a result of some of that ongoing research that you have read about. Sometimes it's just a crappy way to die and then again, baby brother is 68 now and pretty active -still cuts fire wood to sell, he's been in treatment for ~20+ years and had (I think) 11 rounds of chemo over that time. Much of that time he was skiing, snowboarding, guiding elk hunts, rowing drift boats and doing stunts in movies out west. He tells me "you just never know, it's an adventure".

They say they are closing for good, maybe they don't know??

Year round residents now, I believe. More blacks than turkeys now, they've been increasing for most of the past twenty years. Interesting to me; on a dead pile in winter the crows find it first, the turkey vultures run them off then the black vultures run them off and then if we happen to have a flight of bald eagles around they take over, they have a pecking order. The black vultures seem to maintain a flock of maybe fifty birds that stay in and around RRSP, they were constantly on the cleaning station until the Park took it down, they scavenge picnic tables and vacant camps, will come within twenty feet of a angler sometimes and will extract guts and skins from the water where people dress fish.

Some of the fish seem to stay in there long enough to grow bigger and take on color, but the stockings vary in size too, early this past summer it seemed like all the fish were small except in the C&R stretch, recently most fish I've caught in Z2 were good sized. What surprises me is how you got pictures with out crowds of people in them, even Wednesdays when I usually go over have been crowded all summer and fall. I missed this week because of weather, guess others did too. The vultures are getting very bold and will become problem eventually. I've been thinking the social distance sign should feature a vulture rather than an eagle.

Thing is the average angler can't tell the difference between the two and I've heard suckers called carp a thousand times over the years by guys on the creeks. If we take conservation at all seriously then we must own that each species is important as any other species and provide protection for all species, as it it stands the conservation department is caught up in money and popularity and has very little actual direction towards true conservation or preservation. Science is only applied when and if it serves the agenda.

Rare fish. I once had a hole with a gal about like that, that I caught multiple times over a few years. (Or I assumed it was the same fish because of the unusual size and the small size of the hole) I don't know how you get pictures like that, good job there.

My Firefox also shows it unsecure. Have no idea when it became that way.

Coffee cups many times, one rode 30+ miles on the front bumper and it wasn't until I took a sip of cold coffee that I realized what I done. One rode 3 hours on top a station wagon. Half a dozen thermoses. A tackle box rode a several miles on top of a sedan. Hundreds, maybe thousands of other times that I've forgotten at the moment.

fifty to a hundred kayaks a day will do that, but I see MDOT closing places that we used to park and access creeks.

Closed in winter.

Neat sign. I'd bait the hogs, when I was kid everybody ran hogs semi-wild in the woods and a few gallons of corn always got them home. Of course right now they likely have plenty of mast to feed on. It'd still be the best option to put them in an easy ambush spot on a regular basis. Woven wire with a barbed wire running right on the ground and another about 4" up plus two or three barbs along the top will keep most hogs in or out, ime, but that barbed wire in the dirt is a necessity.

I may be a little more adventurous than wrench, I go into two outside counties briefly to visit Joplin and Fayetteville, doctors ya know. Actually I've been on farms much of my life but soy hasn't been part of them. Oneshot's stories remind me a lot of my baby brother, so he might be kinfolks, never know.

Uncle used to catch them in the Elk on frayed rope. He and his pals competed for big fish, they used heavier rods than the guy in the video and cast from the bank. He liked 3/4" rope about a foot long as I recall.

That would be outside my five county area, I think.

I've never eaten soybeans so can't vouch for that, but if the seed is matured in the pod they can be eaten, the dry brown pods split easier I think. Things are so small taste is also small so brown may taste better too, I never thought about it much.

Not amazing ?? I can see how one could make an outstanding instruction film for fly casting because most of the variables can be somewhat predicted or controlled, but when it come to actually fishing a true film would show a lot more casting and fishing and untangling than catching. A film could provide good instruction on reading the water or gauging the weather from the sky maybe, but that sort of instruction usually doesn't grab a viewer's attention and hold it like faked catches.

Don't know why and have never really thought about it but all the rock bass I've caught have been in the spring months. For a month or so I catch several every trip to the creek and then no more til next year. Now that I've thought of that, I'll have to target them rather just taking what comes.

I generally see that they changed shirts or rods between the cast and the catch. That kinda points out that the thing was all staged. Like the Lee Wulff/Curt Gowdy film where they are flying in alone to some wilderness and all the time the plane is being filmed from outside and inside and the actions appear choreographed. Big beautiful brook trout sure but not a real fishin trip.

I rarely get through the first three minutes of a video. Movies are the best cure for insomnia that I've found. I have read glowing reviews by guys that are supposed to be good casters. I don't put a lot of stock in reviews though.

RIO is owned by Far Bank Enterprises, Inc. (Redington & Sage also) since 2005, before that it was an independent start up in Idaho. SA is owned by Orvis, but was a 3M company for decades. RIO first fly lines were made by Cortland, built their own plant in Idaho Falls in 1997.

But it was just a movie?

In 70 years I 'have never ever seen a film that was amazing, gosh, now I wish I had gone.

Or a chupacabra either Playing chess on a subway train during rush hour will improve your ability to concentrate.

If you concentrate on the fish all that other stuff will go unnoticed, and you don't have to worry about sunscreen either. (but if thinking about all those hazards means fewer folks on the water, there are also Chupacabras and Ozark Howlers out there)

@FishnDave you'll have to dig a bit, each watershed has dozens of species and most of the pdf are 100+ pages long, but, you can see what to expect prior to traveling, some of this data is newer than the 1971 Pflieger books.