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The polygraph probably won't be allowed in Court as evidence and I'd be surprised if they don't have to restore his winnings. From all that I've read those things are less accurate than Almanac weather predictions.

That's what I thought, on the rebuild, but I have zero experience or knowledge of boat engines. Don't people ever look at and test the old plugs before just tossing them?

Can you rebuild that, or is gone?

I see all those tournaments the same, just a way to sell gear and boats, if they were really about fishing, there would be no electronics nor high speed boats. I think cheating is to be expected to some extent in any contest for money. Give the winner a T shirt and the cheating will diminish.

You better get a set of braces to go with that belt. My experience is that belts are just for looks and do nothing to keep your fanny covered.

That is how you avoid the paperwork after the fact. Delegation.

I don't know if it's a "rule" but I think that I've done better with streamers in my creeks in evenings, 30 minutes before sundown to about midnight at this time of year. I kinda like to make a big commotion with them too, plop them down with a splash and disturb some water on the retrieve. I usually fish them near the top too, but my experience is kinda limited to these Neosho bass. Back east, in the ponds with mostly bucktails, I'd wade out and cast parallel to the bank right at the edge of the weed beds and use a fast strip retrieve in any low light condition, there it was LMB and chain pickerel.

It has been a hodge podge of genetics since the first hatchery trout were produced at the Baird Station Hatchery on the McCloud River in the 1880s, those pioneers of trout stocking had no idea that it mattered if you mixed subspecies, coastals with redbands and goldens were all just trout to them. They did a lot of mixing and by 1900 had shipped mixed genetics all over the world. It's also said that the rainbow genes in any given group might be expressed in multitudes of ways depending on environment. More important is that many fish change color as the water and food supply changes throughout the year and any one of those dead trout would have a totally different appearance by next January.

Sign shouldn't be necessary. It should be a given, ingrained in children, that marksmanship is important.

Isn't it that way everywhere on the water? I don't spend as much time on the creeks as I used to, but on average over the past 30-40 years I've seen an agent about once every 2-3 years. But then some of those sighting were two or three times in the same week making the until the next sighting even longer. We are mostly on the "honor system" and of course poachers don't honor that.

You can probably delete your posts, one at a time, but I doubt there is a way to extract your stuff from quotes. Once quoted it is part of the other guy's post. I've noticed on other forums that when a mod banned someone and deleted the posts that the quotes stayed in place.

Our holy hocks are leafless but still blooming and She says "don't shoot the deer"

One kind of fish. On trout I just snap the throat latch, break the neck and finger rip the gills out; but if the trout (or any fish) aren't bled out promptly they build up chemicals (lactic acid?) from stress that cause bad flavors in the meat. The longer the "fight and the longer on a stringer or in a basket the worse the fish will taste. Actually true of all animals I guess, we used to stick the hogs with a long knife so they bled bled out and in killing chickens bleeding is important, hence decapitation. It helps fish taste taste better if you get them iced as soon as they are bled.

I used to grow my own tobacco, it's no harder than growing tomatoes and them same giant worms have to be picked off the plants.. curing it can be a problem if it's a wet fall.

farmers market tomatoes here are usually a month earlier than home grown, because they come from the south, someplace in Ar., the river valley maybe. Sold out of an old pickup, by a guy in bibs, they look authentic.

I eat about one store bought tomato per year when She buys some, and every time I am astonished at poor tasting it is and wonder that people even buy them. As to having any ripe, I had two small ones last day of June, some unfamiliar hybrid that FFA kids grew, but it was really mid May when I set them out so those were a surprise, not only that they ripened early but how small they were, just larger than cherry tomatoes. Also had two banana peppers that day. Stays this hot and dry though and those may be the only ones I get.

Oil is the best tick deterrent that I've found. Kerosene, or diesel ect. soaked rags around boots, or oil legs arms ect. with baby oil or sun oil, mineral oil like going to the beach. But if you want ticks dead use permethrin on your clothes and put those tubes of permethrin soaked cotton out for the mice to use in their nests. Mice and ground nesting birds are where most ticks live out the first phase of their lives. (seed ticks/larvae) So many deer, rabbits, ground hogs ect. in my yard that nothing will keep the place tick free, but permethrin spray works best there too. (well almost as good as the lindane fruit tree spray that we used to get)

Super glue, being very thin and runny, usually requires a perfect fit between the parts, the hot melt "ferrule cement" https://www.amazon.com/Bohning-1309-Ferr-L-Tite/dp/B0009TUDRW can fill the void of a tip that is a bit larger than the rod as often is the case. I read once that the hot melt craft glue could be used but haven't tried it. The ferrule cement stick from 50 years ago still works.

Millions of them have been heated off and on. The thing to watch is to only heat the metal tube and to keep rotateting the tube in the flame so that it heats evenly. Many tackle shops will do it for you while you watch if you buy the new tiptop from them. I use the same hot melt glue stick that archers use to attach points on arrows. https://mudhole.com/blogs/tips-tricks/6-simple-steps-to-replace-a-tip-top https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYSSiH3HUjU

I think there are images of both wrench's "fly" boats in this thread https://forums.ozarkanglers.com/topic/77074-flyfishing-rig-build/#comments

looks like three ramps within Leadmine CA https://mdc.mo.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/8024map.pdf

As long as they stay hidden I won't step on them, and the sprays/bombs that I've seen used in the past didn't seem to bother those hidden spiders either. I think they have to squashed one by one.

I think that when you find several dead females it simply means that they have died of age after placing all their eggs, next generation will hatch soon. I've seen brown spiders in mass die off like that and there has always been more after some time.

So, on reading this I did a web search or three, starting with whether males and females look alike and possible reasons for die off ect. and one of the notable things I found is that most "widows" do not kill their mates. (the species that does is in S. America) but that it is common for the newly hatched spiders to eat their siblings as they hatch. Neat, huh? Also it is said that these spiders sometimes trap and kill snakes, that's something I never expected.

I don't think numbers or size of fish have changed greatly in my area since ~1958 when I first recall paying attention to the fish others caught. It's very possible that the percentages by species has changed. I believe that far fewer fish are taken out of the creeks than in my childhood, but that doesn't mean there are more fish in the creeks, any creek has a limited carrying capacity. I do think the fishing is less appealing now than even 20 years ago, due to reduced access and hundreds of kayaks.