tjm

Used Battery Outfitters since they first opened (20 years?) in Rogers and Joplin, never a bad battery. I don't use boat batteries tho. so can't speak to that.

Do you see fish above the park? I always enjoy it more if I fish where there are fish.

I doubt the tourney anglers move all the bass also, there will be a few that are hard to catch that will stay in place.

That would depend on the lake, how many boats in a tourney and how many tourneys per week/month/year - and how quick the angler catches the big fish (does he transport and cull one or twenty)- if a hundred boats a week catch move and cull three fish and transport three keepers to weigh you have moved 600 fish. With the numbers of tourneys I'm reading about, it looks like potentially several thousand fish a week are relocated at minimum. And I have read where these anglers want the states to stock more fish to compensate for fish lost to this behavior.

Is it true that some ding dongs in weighed tourneys have filled fish with lead shot to make them heavier? Contests attract cheaters, always have and always will, the only way to prevent cheating in contests is to not have contests.

What if all tourneys were paddle/oar craft + CPR ? Would fishing get better over time or would they get over populated and stunted?

I don't know why today's anglers can't just do like they did back when I was a kid and let the best story teller win. Lit lantern and all.

So the wake boats and ocean cruisers will have plenty of water during the summer. Recreation interest rules. Lower all the lake conservation levels by 40' or so and there might be a hope of flood control/prevention, as is the only thing they do is delay the start and extend the duration of the down stream flooding.

I reckon they should keep should the pool low enough that it could take 16" rain at any time, if it's a flood control dam it should never ever pass on more than average water down stream. Flood control is a myth, propaganda used to get people to authorize public owned power supplies. Those dams were never meant for anything except hydro electric subsidy.

https://fllog.wordpress.com/category/flat-creek/ https://rivers.moherp.org/river/?18 https://www.americanwhitewater.org/content/River/detail/id/5106/ other rivers https://www.missouricanoe.org/rivers.html map https://www.missouricanoe.org/statemap.html mile by mile https://www.missouricanoe.org/map.html

Go for it. When you git old, you be glad.

They are saying that the COE did manage the flooding for many years by lowering the pool in winter at a time when the flooding didn't hurt the crops, but, changed that policy so that now the flooding is in spring ruining crops or preventing working the fields. Framers have a pretty good case looks like but USACE has very deep pockets. Think settlement and ongoing compensation, while the farmer changes use of land to pasture/hay rather than tilled crops.

As soon as they put generators in those dams they were no longer about flood control.

http://missouritrout.com/timsflyshop/report.html

I heard they were hauling fish in from other hatcheries all winter to stock the three streams here that they normally cover, I think rumor may be myth. I haven't seen any fish (or water) in raceways at RR since early fall, they might have disposed of some six months ago. well I haven't been over there for about a month, I'll ask a bio when I see one. Crazy if they haul fish from here to BSSP and then haul fish from Taney to Neosho, but anything is possible I guess. Yes they stocked the RR and Capps and Hickory every month according to info I got, and according to what I was told once a week or so in the Park during C&R to keep the numbers up.

Really? are you talking new hatched fry? 'cause it's been months and months since they had fish in the raceways... wonder why they would haul them all the way up there instead of the local rivers, hmm

I guess that is basically what Al said. Clean washed gravel bars are obviously below the high water mark. Mo water law is case law and as such not definite until it goes before a court. The county prosecutor can decide what cases will be prosecuted and what won't, years ago one prosecutor here said the driftwood line was the mark and a later one said we had to be in the water. This might explain it to some extent; https://styronblog.com/law/harry-styrons-missouri-stream-law/

how much methane is produced by decomposing plastic? what percentage of our trash will even decompose at all? I recall reading about a land fill excavation that found 50 or 70 year old hot dogs mostly intact.

Incinerating refuse to power steam turbines seems a good idea, but I haven't heard much about that lately?

I'm not familiar with that, do you have reference or link? Most of the state is what Al said. If that stream is different, I'm curious why.

While wearing clothes made of petroleum as well. Having hauled themselves and the plastic boats there with oil/gas burning vehicles. Mankind really has perfected hypocrisy.

I'd not call releasing such a fish as "releasing unharmed". But I also object to culling and to hauling before release, so my opinion is just that.

nah she lost, the algore started this way before the average person ever heard of the don. so not sure he has any bearing on the argument, did anyone really believe in the wall? That's like believing in her innocence, but at this point what difference does it make? Think maybe with zillions of new humans breathing we don't increase the CO2 just by that? what, almost five times as many humans as a hundred years ago? and over half the worlds forests gone?

Next cold spell we have take a look at the out side temperatures in every city and large town and compare it with the temperature a few miles away; it is fairly obvious that where humans live they heat up the atmosphere, it really doesn't make any difference if they use total electric or propane, they contribute to the global warming. The global population has grown at geometric rates over the last century and the percentage of the population that can afford to heat the atmosphere has grown hugely as well. There is zero doubt that man has changed the earth's atmosphere and will continue to do so in the future. The thing is almost all the money and effort put into a solution for this is and has been spent on making certain people richer with very little increase in knowledge or betterment of technology. The suggestion of making everyone responsible for their own electric source is a fine one that will get no traction because the people want to be government dependents. Wrench, most scientists are working for some entity with an agenda, and any study has a protocol that lays out what it will prove and only examines the factors that are known to indicate the truth of the intended proof. To get a semi accurate result teams made up of individuals from opposing camps would have to work side by side in the same room using the same materials and methods. All science is flawed, always has been, that doesn't mean that it is worse than ignorance as a basis of setting goals.

does it ever make sense to clip a fish's tail?