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I could not wear trifocals with the image jumps. I've had cataracts almost as long as I've needed glasses, I think it was about ten years after diagnosis until the doc suggested surgery and that about three years ago. There hasn't been much change over that three years either. They don't hurt and really only bother me with glare, which polarization helps, night time driving if the oncoming cars have LEDs and slightly lower degree of color vision.

The key to progressives is to move your head, rather than your eyeballs; and to wear them every waking moment. They suit me much better than bifocals when climbing ladders or creek banks because with bifocals I always misjudge the step down distance and get hurt. but that first couple weeks had me getting seasick from watching a cashier counting back money or looking at trees beside the road as I drove, simply because my eyeballs kept zipping back and forth through the varying powers. 14-15 years now, with both and I still fall down when wearing bifocals unless I think about each step.

If you don't need prescriptions for distance, these are pretty affordable and to be honest worked just as well as my prescription polarized bifocals that cost more money. Until age made me need stronger, and distance correction too. I like the amber. Available in +1.50, +2.00, +2.50 in the magnifier part. https://renegadeeyegear.com/mike-"ike"-iaconelli/ols/categories/renegade-polarized-bi-focals (scroll down) Also on Amazon and can sometimes be found at Walmart.

I've worn progressive lenses for years, with a couple of bifocals interspersed, but, the ready readers work best for me in those hard to see areas. I knew a guy years ago that that had "upside down" bifocals made for doing auto mechanic work under the hood.

Barnacles? I thought they were strictly salt water critters?

Yep, every single stream was sampled in 1874 and all those specimens are still usable. I get it.

From small streams in Co.? It's not the species identification that makes it native but the species being identified on a particular location prior to any restocking.

I don't think this is bad thing, and it might work. The damage was done when the CPW introduced the brook trout long time ago. And I don't believe that they can restore the "native" species anyway, because they never did DNA studies on what was native back in the 19th century and by the time they figured out that natives were "good" in the 21st century, they had juggled species here and there and stocked mixed or subspecies in so many places and with such poor record keeping that it is just guesswork to say that this species or that species is the true native in this stream. It might be cheaper to rotenone the streams and then stock the chosen "native" exclusively, but this is an interesting approach. Wonder if it would work with carp? or snakeheads?

Oct 1 report on Sept 27? time travel?

But was it ethanol? Butanol, isopropanol and methanol are also alcohols and my test for alcohol in gas is not ethanol specific.

Can you guys that favor ethanol free gas tell me why? I'd like to have leaded gas back, just because it stores well, but I don't have any better results with any unleaded gas over any other. At least not since the two cycle oils were improved. Do you retune those engines to match the ethanol free fuel? Oh and as to signage I don't think any of the stores that I've bought non-ethanol gas have any signs except on the pumps. And when I bought non-ethanol, it didn't seem to store any better than the E10.

It's the littering that is my biggest concern. especially the glass bottles. They will destroy waders or boots or feet. And for that the local police should be fined. If we forced every police department to pay for clean up of all trash and litter, they would have incentive to stop it.

@BilletHead I think your question was answered in the OP " Nobody is watching." If true, then it's just speculation that the shrimp were used for bait, given the beer bottles, it could have been a picnic. Sure thing to charge the perpetrators with littering, but there doesn't seem to be basis for a poaching charge. Time to fingerprint those bottles and make arrests, then questioning might put light on the out of season goose hunt.

Choked on the dough bait?

days later ...

I've seen a lot of what I thought were hybrids and I've also seen a lot of color variance in the same species in the same stretch of stream. And I've caught some species that I was pretty sure of my ID, but that aren't supposed to be here. Sunfish are sunfish. Google eye are google eye, etc.

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I just don't think the stripes are unusual or particularly aberrant, what I see as unusual is the pale "background" color; it would be hard to think of that fish as a "black perch", or really even as "green". But, I'm not much of a species ID guy and often call them all "fish". And for me to have said definitely what the fish pictured is, I would have wanted to see the fins. And most likely an ID chart. So, my post above was as much a query as not.

When I do a web search for "green sunfish" it seems to me that most of the images found include those vertical bars or stripes, although often fainter- USGS- Wikipedia- Texas Parks- Don't several of the "sunfish" species exhibit this vertical marking? bluegill? red ear? etc?

A little more looking turned up an older thread on this subject, and the good stuff from it-

I wonder why the manufacturer recommends regular if that is harmful? perhaps because it's not? I also wonder what other alcohol/ether/solvent they use instead of ethanol to concoct something that meets clean air standards and octane ratings?

Well, no. Half hitches have to be formed one at a time, although a series of half hitches will secure the thread to an extent if glued. A whip requires no glue as the binding of several overlays hold the tag securely. A good source of information on various knots- https://www.amazon.com/Ashley-Book-Knots-Clifford-W/dp/0385040253

makes it easier to see what is happening. The knot is simply tucking the end under several wraps of itself, no crossings or twists. It is the same "knot that we call a "nail knot" and the same that we use to wrap guides onto rods, also called the common whipping knot for keeping ropes ends from unraveling. We are just forming it in different ways for different uses.

Have you guys fished for them on the darkest moonless nights? Joe wasn't the only proponent of nocturnal fishing for big browns. I think that all the "mousing" articles I've read over the years were about night fishing. Does it make difference whether fishing in lake or stream? I've read about Loch fishing at night for browns and those old time wet fly fishers of the famous British rivers seem to have been diurnal.