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Fix the settling problem. In general though of the 3-4000 doors I installed, Sliders had lots fewer problems than French doors. Mostly because sliders have built in slop of about 3/4" and swinging doors have about an 1/8". Smaller tolerance binds sooner. On the other hand sliders are almost impossible to secure, if that's a concern.

I check some of these almost daily and you can compare current reading with historic and mean flows to see just how blown out the crick is today. https://waterdata.usgs.gov/mo/nwis/rt

I don't know about there but down here the ground is super saturated and any measurable rain will cause the hills to leak. 2" in the last rain caused runoff equivalent to what 6-7" might in spring/summer. Still have wet weather springs running full tilt days later.

Baby brother has had cancer 25+ years, full chemo 9 times and I guess at least that many surgeries, so you can't be sure it's going to kill you right off. That said, at some point in anyone's life, bad habits have reduced potential to harm.

I'd look at two things, nearby affordable lodging and multiple easy accesses allowing relatively short floats. I've been mighty cold in March. Especially when wet. It seems to me that March is when all my streams go through the annual flood of the Century cycle, so you might want other nearby entertainment. There may be a reason that most reports are summertime reports.

I have no idea what that is. I asked about a base because a base of thread gives friction and a slightly uneven non-slick surface so that materials tied in over it can be bound between the layers of thread, I have seen new tyers try to tie over a bare slick hook shank, resulting in materials moving. Any of those should catch a fish, although the olive color would be one I would chose. Carry on.

Are you laying down a good thread base prior to tying in the feathers? ... and are they pulling out or breaking off? some marabou is more fragile than it should be.

If you have a chemist friend he can tell you what the stuff is pretty quick I bet. It seems unlikely to me that an entire plant is set up just manufacture a few hundred tubes of paste wax, but I've always been a bit of a skeptic. They do say the Wonder Cloth is "mildly abrasive".

yeah, I remember catching trout in Idaho on dough balls and on bare hooks fished with willer limbs, now all them pork eaters have them trained to only get caught on $1100 fly rods with size #36 hooks Making it harder does two things, It justifies buying extravagant toys and it allows the fisher person to exercise his ego inflation genes. If I was better at fishing I might try catching a carp.

Doesn't the bass pro shop there have a fly fishing department too?

lead deforms easily with any impact, paint doesn't= result chipped heads I think powder coating stands up better, but I also think it is for the customer not the fish; I think movement, noise and silhouette are the triggers and any color is secondary to contrast.

That Sunray description sounds like Albolene or Coconut oil... I've used that to clean with also What ever you put on either needs to dry hard like RainX or weather strip spray or it needs to be rubbed off with paper towel or coffee filter so that it doesn't gab a bunch of new dirt, The little "Cleaning Pads" that one line company or two have supplied actually made my lines nice for an hour or two but resulted in dirtier lines after a few hours because they left a dirt grabbing film. Made me wonder if they wanted to wear my line out with cleaning so that I would buy another. Well thinking about this I remember years ago running my line over a bar of Ivory soap to clean it while camped, and I think the wax? glycerin? in the soap made that line cast better for a while, but it could be just getting the dirt off made it better.

Website still up and they have casting lessons and knot tying lessons- http://plateauflyshop.com/pfs-services/ I like a 7wt as a general purpose rod. I don't like really long rods, so ~100"-111" and I tend to want a more moderate action- hence suggest the help of professional instructors in evaluating what will work best for you. Like buying shoes we don't all fit in the same size or mold.

other things I've seen recommended= Rain-X windshield dressing - Mucilin green label is a silicon paste line dressing; hair conditioner containing silicone-- I've used Albolene smeared on and wiped/polished off with paper towels basic dish soap/H2O 50-50 to clean will do as much good as anything, i use a couple 20 year old lines

303 Aerospace Protectant ? I don't think it's 3M but it's supposed to be good PVC line coating should respond to any thing that is used on other PVC things like seat covers, what?

Those subsidies keep the food available at low cost to the consumer, but without them the farmers could likely increase profit with decreased production. Hungry people will pay whatever it takes for a loaf of bread. I will agree that currently most farms are subsidy dependent. I guess that makes wildlife in many places subsidy dependent.

No frills, but fit me well and look almost like new after 2 or 3 years, https://www.academy.com/shop/pdp/magellan-outdoors™-mens-canvas-wading-boots They live in the trunk and walk the bank as much as wade.

Hostilities are what keep governments in business.

SC blanks are available from their factory in Mexico; https://rodgeeks.com/pages/about-us the Carbon 2 is the SC II and the Carbon 4 is the SC IV the US made SC V is sold from there after painting, I think

Often you can knock on a door and prevent confrontation. i wouldn't want to get shot over a gravel bar the way that guy did a few years ago.

I don't think it can be addressed by the legislature, unless they want to buy all the stream beds from all the various land owners. It falls to the Courts and to dedicated trespassers willing to go all the way. Wrench, I wish you luck with that but I believe you will find that mining is not commercial use in terms of navigation in fact. The Delcour decision is based on dozens of other cases dating back a century or three and any new case would have to be examined in respect to all those cases and by now probably a hundred more cases in other states that affect or interpret the old cases. And you are correct we may not want things clarified, we can still wade and I read that in some other states you can't touch the bottom at all, not even to pole a skiff.

The case law says every stream has to judged on it's own facts, so wrench's way is the correct approach to determining if you can be there or not; first you must be cited with trespass, then you must fight that charge in court and when you lose you must appeal it to a higher court until you win. And you have to do this over for each stream. Elder vs Delcour went to the Mo. Supreme Court, but a similar case was decided at Mo. Appeals Court in Dennig v. Graham. Delcour went to the fisherman and the other case went to the landowner. This is key ' "the federal streambed title test can only be decided on a case by case basis, and only after conflict occurs and the question of navigability is raised to the courts". It is also a fact that when Mo. became a state the Federal test only showed the Mississippi, Missouri and iirc, the Grande Rivers as being navigable, therefore all others are non-navigable - test over, the Feds kept the title to the other streams and transferred that title to Patent holders at later dates. (these cases were both about use of non-navigable streams that were "navigable in fact". ) FWIW, neither the DNR nor the MDC know a lot about law and both agencies have published wrong information on the subject. You can read what one Mo.Attorney General said http://ago.mo.gov/docs/default-source/opinions/1971/264_1971.pdf?sfvrsn=2 and this might help http://www.brydonlaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Water-Law-Article.pdf or this https://styronblog.com/law/harry-styrons-missouri-stream-law/

We cleaned crusted up skillets in the wood heating stoves at dull red temps or in an outside fire buried in the coals so that the cool down was slow. Dull red hot (~500-800F) removes everything that I can think of ever being in or on a skillet including scale rust and never harmed a good skillet if evenly heated and slowly cooled. Scouring with rock salt was not uncommon because it was sand like and in the premises, salt is seasoning. Finishing was always wipe it with lard in and out as soon as it cooled and cook in it. Key to getting it nonstick is never ever use detergent to wash it; heat the pan smoking hot and splash water into creating instant steam will turn the scorched stuff loose and scouring with a chore girl pad under warm running water will remove any mess. At the camp fire, hot skillet with a bit of grease throw some ashes into it and stir then add some water and bring to simmer hot and scour with sand or dirt. You just made and used lye soap to clean it. Wipe it out with a rag and rub more lard on it. Folks I grew up around, that had lived in the 1800s, would laugh themselves silly at some of the cast iron methods and "knowledge" of today. Flax oil or better known to them as linseed oil was used as harness oil and paint base, I doubt you could have forced them to eat it or put it on a pan.

I saw an article a few years ago about one of those animal societies, don't recall which, that advertised they had "rescued" so many dogs (thousands?) and in actuality their records showed that nearly all the "rescued" animals were euthanized within days. People need to be responsible for killing their own dogs and cats instead of dumping them. If every person that got tired of taking care of their pet had to kill it and dispose of the remains there would be darn few pets. Going back three or four presidents, people were abandoning horses in this area too. When the government closed the horse kill/meat plant in St Louis (area, not sure exactly where), the value of horses went from 70-80 cents a pound to zero for average grade horses, leaving only the best registered and trained horses with value. That meant that roughly 80% of horses going through the auctions were losing the commissions and yardage- you might have to pay $20-30 just to get rid of an unwanted horse that had been worth $150-200 the week before. Many horses were advertised "for free, pick up". The horse meat market traders were still buying and hauling to either Canada or Mexico kill plants, but increased cost meant they wouldn't pay much for fat horses and poor or old horses were worthless. Horses are probably the most expensive domestic animal to feed and maintain, so low value animals are a daily loss.

So, if you want to defend yourself or family you are are needing to leave the piece at home? An ol'boy up the road a piece used to say "gun? heck, I don't even carry a pocket knife ever since I got big enough to kill a man with my bare hands" and I heard an exchange once that went something like "that knife ain't long enough to kill me" followed by "I'll just stick it in you and walk around you then" ... Well the question was about a piece required for on duty work., so probably no wife, family or party involved; although the chances of an ahole seem pretty high. I have to think if carry is required by the job that use of it eventually is expected and protected.