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It's where most red fox live these days to avoid the coyotes.

I know one local guy that I'm sure doesn't tamper with his honey nor feed sugar, if he's still alive, it's been a couple years. And I'm sure most don't; but my point was that crooks are everywhere and like politicians they will tell lies when questioned and an average person wouldn't think to ask questions nor even know what to ask. Those guys in the link were fooling experts and even some of the lab tests.

I've had some local honey gifted to me that I suspect wouldn't pass lab tests, but since the second time with covid, my taste and smell are not what they used to be, so maybe I'm wrong, but, truthfully buying directly from the beekeeper doesn't really insure the honey is pure. If beekeepers are adulterating honey, then beekeepers are adulterating honey. Some crooks are local, actually all crooks are local where they live.

I used 4# nylon mono for all spin fishing for years and years, but tend more towards 8# these days for very occasional use those rods get. That said the target matters and the bait size too, where large fish are the main target heavier line is called for, imo. My choice of 4# in the past had more to do with line suppleness and casting distance for fish under three pounds with fairly small lures. 20# line would have no doubt caught just as many fish.

But the wind is forecast to be only 2-3mph, and with 30% cloud cover it could be worse. And it's to be above 40F by elevenish. Although based on the number of fish in Hickory Creek and the belief that the two creeks are stocked at the same time, I'm not sure they have even stocked since June. I'll put tackle in the car this evening, but there's no guarantee that I'll be up early enough to make that meeting. I'm usually more of an afternoon/evening/nighttime angler. If I don't get there I'll look for a detailed report on number and size of fish encountered by all.

The fish don't care about air temps and the water is never colder than 32F, even under ice.

+10F a lot in my younger days and -10-20F a number of times, as long as you wade deep the water will be warmer than the air; problem is that when its quite cold the the line and the guides ice up unless you keep the fly rod in the water while making the retrieves. I get too cold long before the trout do, and these days rarely get out below ~40F. But in streams 8# or 5# is small enough, for most stuff, I only go smaller than 5# when the flies are smaller than #18, 8# for #12 and larger. And in summer I have caught trout in still water using 20# test with bait. They see the line even as small as 1# test, but the average trout can't reason that the line is attached to the hook, just as they can't reason that the exposed hook in a fly is not part of an insect. trout brain is reported to be very small and they don't have books to explain these things to them. I've caught the same fish two or three times in an hour to believe that they learn from experience either, although it's possible that they can be conditioned over time to react negatively to certain stimuli, it doesn't happen often in my experience. What happens IMO is that smaller line is more supple meaning that the lure/fly/bait is less restrained and moves more naturally in the water.

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Hard to say, the web sources say that it's German dating from the 14th century Bavaria, perhaps a confectioner. In the US since 1683. One of them was kinda important in developing IT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._C._R._Licklider

Mountain lion and spiders don't even make the list.

how many of those cali victims were in a tree stand? How many were even aware of the lion in advance? The Kalama incident is typical of cougar. Unseen until attack is complete. I probably should have said that a seen cat doesn't seem too dangerous to my mind, the unseen cats are of course something to fear. They can gut a horse or elk with one slash of the kind foot.

Saw several lions back in the '60s in Id., when horse backing BLM and Forest lands, a couple fairly closeup. Some Dad's friends hunted them with hounds, and I don't think they ever pose much of a threat to humans. If one was threatening a human, it would be in an ambush situation and the cat would be on the human before it was seen. They can and do kill livestock, but it would be rare for that to happen where the owner would witness it. I have seen a few lions in Mo. and have heard believable stories of others. My grandfathers generation called them "panthers".

Wednesdays are fishing days.

I they let us fish week days, I'd use the parks a lot more. The system is set up for only people that have weekends off.

Pretty well naturalized by now, I picked night crawlers by the hundreds in south Idaho as kid and by the thousand years later in southern new England and have found them in the woods in the Ozarks. The internet says those "red wigglers" are "manure worms" so I guess they must be continent wide as well. All things are becoming Globalized. No longer talk of "invasive" now they are just "new to the region".

All invasives are imports, otherwise they would be natives. I read once several years ago that all earth worms in the USA are invasives, but I'm not sure that it's true.

You would think any big hospital would have a surgeon capable of hand repair, but when I put my fingers through a table saw years ago, there were no hand surgeons in all of NWA nor two hospitals in Joplin nor in Springfield, the folks at St. Johns (I guess that's Mercy now) finely located one in Tulsa, after many calls. I'd say you were danged lucky that surgeon wasn't on vacation. Strange to think such a wound gives no pain, but my cut was the same, I guess the brain shuts off the pain receptors at some level.

housing for employees that must by company policy live locally?

That copy reads almost like a bot wrote it. Yes a minimum number of posts prior to using the "Buy Sell Trade" would mean that only participating forum members post there. On other forums that privilege usually requires 25 or 50 real posts on the topic forums prior to classified ads access.

Kieth had previously built a similar trout hatchery at the spring in Cave Springs, IIRC. But in the '50s & '60s almost every spring in the region had a trout rearing setup of some sort at least once. I've thought back to how many there were of those in SWM &NWA and wondered if the governments had run some subsidy programs for them. But there were also many small creeks that got trout stockings for a while, so it may have just been a sort of fad, public fascination with the RBT that eventually wore off. I don't think that was 71 highway back then either, in Mo it was Mo.88. The US highway went west from Bentonville through Gravette and north through Noel scenic routes were the rule then. Truckers shortcutted through Bella Vista on the state roads.

@bfishn my young son enjoyed catching what I guess were a couple of your fish near White Bluff back then, late '80s? He still mentions it occasionally. Did all that gravel in the pipes come from the spring?

I meant that still had running water or that showed any signs of maintenance after installation. Of course it was an ill advised undertaking and a waste of money and effort. But Boswell's speculation was taken as fact by almost everyone that read it. And no one seemed to believe his rejection of that theory a year or so later when he actually did the science. I've always thought the key factor was taking the phosphorus out of laundry detergents, after decades of adapting to high phosphorus conditions the native algae really responded to the new low phosphorus conditions.

I don't think I ever saw one of those that worked.

Seems strange that USGS isn't funded, but when they dropped the rain gauge reporting on a nearby stream a couple years ago, I contacted someone there and he gave me the option of funding it myself or finding someone to fund it. I don't recall the $$ but I was surprised that it cost that much for maintenance on a fully automatic instrument that is already in place.

Mom used to can deer meat in a water bath and it kept for months, teaspoon of salt in a quart, just in the top after the meat was all packed in. She also made a mincemeat recipe that she canned that way. My aunt used to pressure can hundreds of trout in Idaho and that came mind is why I asked if you knew how Mo. counted possession limits on canning. Of course REA was still a work in progress back then and with no electricity frozen wasn't a consideration for them. It was salt, cold smoke or can. To me cut up wrapped and frozen is processed.