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Something you all probably already know, but it was news to me; on another fishing forum this sun glass thing came up a while back and as it turned out a member worked in the industry, his info that I'll pass on, all polycarbonate lenses are 100% UV protective even clear ones. Now, I know that in the past some one has charged me an extra fee for UV protection on polycarbonate lenses, bet that doesn't happen again.

I like to fish for small mouth at dusk. They been wanting to keep me up til 10-11 though.

I don't have clue about lake fishing, but how does surface temperature affect fish 50' deep? I would have guessed the temperature at 50' or 21' would be the key to their activity, but I always see references to surface temps? If I were a fish and had been spending time in a lovely temperature zone and the lake changed temps, I would relocate to the depth where the new temperature was suitable, I think near the slope where the bottom gets that deep, probably all wrong though. I like creeks for their readability.

Fall is coming earlier each year, we used to start school about September 20 and now we start school the middle of August. About five weeks sooner, so every thing else has to be moved up also. Blame it on compulsory indoctrination education.

One of my earliest memories is box turtle in Grandma's garden that she said had been "partners with my grand father" and had been there 17 years. It wintered buried in the mulch pile. Think I was three. A few years later I scratched initials on one that I had as a "pet" for a couple weeks and 12 years after that found that turtle had grown about an inch in diameter and had fire scars . Don't know if they are different sub species or male and female but in Henry County some have red spots on the legs and some have yellow spots, the cousins used to get 10-15 and have races; almost every race the red ones won.

I second the Zwicky. But since this is your hunt and you are paying for it, just use what ever you want. Is your guide from MO? Might be my neighbor.

I had to research that, evidently a new since we had TV occurrence. But if the golf spectators are going to shout they have lost me as a fan, the whole attraction was the quiet hum. I can get by with a fan.

Thanks, I still know as much as I did. That's OK though because whites don't come up my crick.

I don't know this. Never in my life caught a white or a hybrid. wth is "pink out"? is that something that I've used for fifty years and it never had a name before like nedrig or shot drop?

I've heard they can fill a boat up with scat and that they tear upholstery out of boats? A nuisance trapper told me that they are quite difficult to trap around a dock like that, he had several marinas that wanted them gone, and was having a lot of trouble removing them. Vicious animals if trapped or cornered, I don't think I would encourage them at all. Great video though. Surprising amount of fish parts floating away.

Nick P , welcome. Bushbeater, a lake is never better than a river. Not ever.

Pro golf is one thing I miss about TV, some of the best after noon naps I ever had came while watching golf. Marvelous how the spectators stay quiet. Even the commentators talk soft. I had not thought of that, but you're right I've never seen a black golf ball.

no excuse, so had to fish Friday and Saturday evenings. It was hard though and I'm gonna start now looking for an excuse for next week. In my creek they start feeding about 10pm, so is dark an excuse?

Had a turtle eat several crappie on a stringer hanging from my jon boat once. Took bites from fish that it didn't eat too.

the people that turn the water on and off https://swpa.gov/generationschedules.aspx ttp://www.ozarkanglers.com/beaver-tailwater/overview/ http://forums.ozarkanglers.com/forum/59-beaver-tailwaterupper-white-river/ https://www.google.com/maps/place/Dam+Site+Park-East/@36.4394696,-93.8313486,16z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x11b3402a37682326!8m2!3d36.4252783!4d-93.8411767?hl=en-US https://www.agfc.com/en/zone-map/fishing-map/531/ I haven't been down to Beaver for a few years but it has a road that parallels the river and several trails down to the river that I used to use for wading access, just below the dam is where I fished the most simply because it was quick and easy for an after work stop. Best I recall 6-8 places to access between the dam and the end of that road past the campgrounds. We camped at Parker Bottoms (Ar.136) a few times and was an access there. This portion of the river is somewhat wadeable only when there is no generation, when the horn blows get out now. As I recall a good portion of this stretch is deep even when not generating. There is some kind of access at Spider Creek (from Ar.135?) but I never fished that far down.

Sure Alternative Methods, that season should be four months long and include 4x4 trucks as a means, but end on or before Dec 1. I want to kill coyotes without the deer guys in the way.

Think they all are supposed to registered, but it doesn't take much to do and no bonds or insurance are required as far as I know. Subject came on another forum a year ago and some claimed they had shotgunned one, the guys that had them went into all FFA protection stuff but I didn't pay much attention. There was one or two shot down as invading personal privacy before the FFA stepped in. I haven't seen one yet, but I get where the privacy issue is and can see that a peeper could use one for that purpose. I was thinking more about the FFA requiring training or bonding of the "pilots". then..I was just thinking back to how we had jamming radar for missile guidance systems back when I was a young sailor. We could smoke a seagull at a 100 yards, but those RC systems have to be vulnerable, if some one wanted to do a bit of self defense work. Get your own RC and make it match frequency with the nuisance and just bump his commands a bit... the receiver doesn't know who is driving, maybe

They are radio controlled, so a jamming device like a garage door opener is feasible and I should guess unprovable. Thing just flew into the ground/water or took off to some far away place. No 12 gauge noise either. I think eventually people will fuss enough about privacy that FAA will have to regulate them better.

I often figure out where I am then wonder why I'm there.

Jacob, were they the grass pickerel that Johnsfolly showed or the chain pickerel he mentioned being in the 11Pt?

This has been going on for at least six months with Cabelas people disappearing/replaced and gangs of executives prowling the store and discussing the changes. Seems like six weeks or so ago they started moving displays and merchandise. All those shelf units are on wheels, the fly fishing stuff has been in a different place each of the last three times I've been in there. I think we all knew that when BP bought C's it was to dismantle it and salvage the profitable parts. Boats mainly? The obvious that never gets mentioned is C's had to be in some trouble or it would not have been sold. Even though most on this forum are outdoor sporting types, the general population is not, the market for plastic worms and waders is quite small in comparison breakfast foods and TVs. Not a big enough market to support BP & C's & Dicks & Gander Mountain all so some merge and some fail. and in the end we should have shunned all the big box stores in favor of Mom & Pop, but, we didn't. I don't buy much, anymore but in the last 20+ years 90% of the little fishing stuff I have bought has been from a guy in Cassville. I like walking around C's looking at things and bsing the sales people but, honestly, the only times I bought any thing it was on gift cards that I received and they could not be used anywhere else nor cashed in. fwiw I was told the other night that now Cabela's gift cards will work at BP and vise versa ( I was asking about the catalog-but as I understood it, it would work in the stores also.

"what difference does it make?" Too many deer and too few hunters. I was initially upset with crossbows as an archery hunting method, but with all the jazz on some compounds and considering that with the let off you can hold one cocked and aimed at an opening (Step out of such an opening into the close up of the blade and you will want to make compounds illegal) I don't see now any difference between a compound and a crossbow and an airbow. Same is kinda true with the so called "black powder" seasons" using smokeless powder subs and breech loading primers. If we want primitive only seasons we have to draw some lines on what constitutes primitive, specify for example only long bows or only self bows, perhaps include recurves because some ancient people used them, so what about takedowns? does that make a bow too modern? peep sights? Where, how, who does the line drawing? Should muzzle loading just allow smooth bore flintlocks? This starts down a long road to increasingly more complicated and obtuse regulations. $.02, start the season August 1 and end it December 1 and let folks that buy a permit use whatever means to fill the tag; include all forms of archery, all barreled weapons, slingshots, catapults and claw hammers; establishing a minimum force of impact to cause a humane dispatch, of course. (ie no claw hammers less than 22oz or with less than 18" shaft) I think precedent for hunting with a charged spear goes back a few hundred years to the whaling harpoon. As soon as the leaves start to fall and the deer go crazy from exposure and run helter-skelter looking for a place to hide they will start killing cars and trucks with no regulation on them nor do the deer buy car permits.

Story is a "plug" for his old bird house business.

Those guys in MA said that if you hooked one to shout "fish on" and every one would reel up and get out of the way, they said you'd have to follow the fish on most runs. A guy said he ran about 500' down stream and in the water to the wader tops, all his backing out and then broke off, fish story I bet. I never caught the river with more than a few fish in it, apparently they hang in brackish water for days or weeks til all the stars line up and then get their business done in just a day or two. Short river, guess less than fifteen miles from salt to spawn, but that's a guess only.

Are those RC or programmed guidance?