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Those tornado sirens get "tested" so often that they become 'background noise' like the train passing or police sirens that no one hears when they are being sounded legitimately. I recall working Rogers Ar many years ago and the guy I was talking asking me "what's that?", when I stopped talking to listen I realized they were testing the horn system for zillionth time and I hadn't even heard it. The out of town guy did but didn't connect it to any danger.

Never trust the wind!!

This time of year about 60 years ago Dad and one of my brothers were about to cross one of the local "low water bridges" when they looked upstream to see a six foot wall of water coming at them and Dad just barely backed the truck up fast enough to avoid being washed away; so you can never trust the water. No government was involved in that. Water is dangerous stuff. And in another instance like that Grandpa had two cows and calf washed away in a similar high water event in the early '50s. And I've seen cars deposited miles downstream from where they were parked, and in places where you couldn't have driven them. Never trust the water. Just thinking about this makes me wonder if the government should require all wading anglers to wear PFDs, that would be the government being responsible, wouldn't it? Maybe one of those self-inflaters that automatically deploy when wet?

Not much point in the horn if your waders are already full when it goes off. Or if the bank is 20 yards farther away and the water just started rising, it should be a few minutes after horn before any change in discharge.

I was jut wondering how often the knot was passing through the guides, it seems like twice on every cast. Apparently you never coat the knot with anything to smooth that passage like UV resin or Pliobond? Does that knot work for any other application?

How long are the leaders that you guys are tying to the braid?

Not a knot that I'll ever use, but this guy doesn't make it look hard at all

So it turns out he was taking pictures when I wasn't looking- the first shows the discharge, I'm in the middle of the image; the fish is in the middle of the second image left of the rock after it tamed down.

It's outside my 5 county use area so odds are not high. When I was 10 or 15 years younger 5 hours driving had more appeal. And every day starts out different, so it'd be more of an "impulse" kinda thing.

Sold out about 40 years ago I think. I believe it's Chinese company now, I know they wouldn't honor the lifetime warranty on my old thermoses and none of the many thermoses after that sale lasted very long. Ozark Trail is likely a better value.

On the odd chance that I wake up that day feeling like driving, is this all happening at Lilley's? I don't usually plan long drives ahead of time and often find excuses to stop at a creek before I get where I started to go.

I thought the generation was controlled by SPA rather than USACE? Wouldn't it make more sense to take the Department of Energy to task?

well you'd be near the northern extent of their invasion in the state, I'd be right near where they turned the first one loose, I'm not positive but I think every stream in my five counties has some rock bass. The curious thing is that in their native waters they don't go much farther south but they do extend into Canada to the north. So by guess if only a portion the state had Northern Rock Bass it would be the northern part rather than the southwest part.

MDC doesn't give the length of the old records; but in the life history of goggle-eye MDC says "Size: Total length: to 11 inches; weight: to 1 pound; maximum about 17 inches and 2 pounds, 12 ounces." According to New York DEC a 15" rock bass would weigh about 2 lb 8 Oz and an 11" would weigh 1 lb 0 oz. ; so by inference the Mo. record must have been about 16'. Mo. record Pole and line: Goggle-eye Weight- 2 lbs. 12oz. Lake or Stream- Big Piney River Date- 06/15/1968 Angler- William J. Rod Hometown- Kirkwood, MO really long arms and the image is distorted because it was taken with a phone, his hand looks as big as his head. On Redear MDC says " Size: Total length: 8 to 10½ inches; weight: 6½ to 12 ounces; can be more than 12 inches and more than 4 pounds." From another source " The World Record Redear Sunfish was caught on Lake Havasu in Arizona by Thomas Farchione, weighing 6 pounds and 4 ounces and was 17 inches long." compare to "The biggest rock bass ever caught weighted 3 pounds. This world record was caught on the York River in Ontario, Canada by Herbert Ratner, Jr in 1998." The big surprise I got in looking this stuff up is that MDC shows goggle-eye only occurring in perhaps 20% of the state. I had assumed they were statewide. USGS shows them as Non-indigenous in all of Mo., Ok., and Ar. with the earliest record of them in the 1880s, apparently in the Elk drainage. Current records first identify them about 1960 in several watersheds.

I was told that to make them easier to hold onto to roll them in wood ashes, living in the city at the time I had no ashes but did discover that play sand worked almost as well. They don't seem to ever quit trying to get away though, even making circles around the sink after beheading and skinning them.

how far down stream can you hear the horn? and how far down do you need to hear it if wading? I came close to having water over my waders once below Beaver, but just put it down to me not hearing it.

Are those all owned by the CCP and Xi Jinping?

Covid was good news for both pharma and insurance sales, does that make it a conspiracy? Who owns Pharma? Insurance?

In this old thread it says the dog was a "cockapoo" -the entire recipe is given, the images are gone though -https://forums.ozarkanglers.com/topic/3780-peppy-scud/?do=findComment&comment=19903

never saw one with the fake rings but those chopped cork/sheet cork grips that I have seen were kinda like old particle board when they started crumbling away.

Dozens. After I found out my mother in law liked to eat them I targeted them in one particular little brook, they'll take an unweighted black or brown marabou streamer better than anything else that I tried, but I caught them on larger nymphs too.

First eel I ever caught was off a Navy pier and it wrapped half around my leg sliming a brand new pair of dungarees before I got it turned loose; now the ships laundry used powerful soap and could wash the thickest blackest wire rope grease out our uniforms but not that eel slime, well the slime appeared to wash out but over time and many washings that streak stayed "brand new blue" while the rest of the pants faded like any blue denim.

I bet any hand cleaner would work, what's on the grip is hand scum/hand grease. I haven't a lot of experience at it, I just don't seem to get my grips as dirty as some do, I've only deep cleaned grips on rods I bought used.

Some people use Magic Eraser or Soft Scrub, fine grit sandpaper or toothpaste, someone on another forum said that 409 cleaner worked for him. I wouldn't use Magic Eraser or sand paper, but that's just me. I've used Soft Scrub on a couple of old rods and it might be quickest way I've used. I didn't scrub very hard, just smeared it on and used a dripping wet cloth to wipe it off, then rinsed it well to remove residue. when mine are clean dry I put Minwax finishing wax on them, to help keep them clean.