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You can candle them at 7 days and again at 14 days but that only tells you that the egg is growing, if you eggs start out dead they will stay dead. Break some eggs on a plate and check the fertility. The whitish spot should look like a disk if not fertile and should look like a ring or bull's eye if fertile. I hatched quite a number of eggs in a still air incubator over the years and never once measured humidity and the temperature can vary from like 96F-103F and the eggs still hatch, just a bit slower or faster than 21 days. I doubt very much that either is your problem. Blastoderm is what you are looking for either do a search or see this for illustration https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/how-to-tell-a-fertile-vs-infertile-egg-pictures.16008/

Have had hearing aids going on eight years now, my second set, and knowing how mine work, I'd not recommend the cheap amplifiers at all. Go for something custom tuned for you hearing loss, which might be a set of frequencies or several sets of frequencies with frequencies in between that you can hear very well. All the OTC "hearing aids" that I have seen amplify all the noise equally. Not pleasant, I had used one of those a few years before I got real hearing aids and stopped after a few days, when I got real hearing aids it was so much better. My new ones are Blue Toothed to my cell phone which is a bunch better than the first set, and can be Blue Toothed to TV if I wanted.

hatcheries have vent looking specialists that can sex several hundred birds per hour with ~98% accuracy within an hour or two of hatching. And there are a number of breeds or breed crossings that have sex linked color patterns, that will allow you to note the sex for days after hatching, for example; a barred hen crossed with a red rooster will produce barred male chicks and black female chicks.

Not yet in 2023, did a couple times last year. I doubt that much has changed since you were there, still small water and still bashful fish.

Mountain Home Ar store is TSC. list here I'm guessing that the stores that are still using the Orscheln name are TSC and the stores bought by others have changed the signs or will soon. I hadn't noticed it but my son said the one nearest me had a new name, but the store nearest him which is retained by TSC is still doing business as Orscheln.

Just did a quick little research, apparently Tractor Supply bought the Orscheln company but the FTC makes them divest most of the stores before approval of the deal under antitrust laws. Of the 167 Orschein locations Tractor Supply will keep 81, Buchheit will get 12 and Bomgaars will get 73, plus Bomgaars will buy the Moberly Mo distribution center. My local store will become Bomgaars.

Sorry to hear that. Orschein suited me better than TS

If they had silent electric motors the noise level would still be there, those fans are running just below the speed of sound and whacking a lot of air. So, because I can't keep up with all the new slang, what does LIB mean?

the low water bridge? There used to be some big browns in the hole just below the broken dam, said to have weighed 11-16# depending on who was guessing. I heard that they were old brood stock and also that they had been stocked for a kids contest or something of that sort, memory is getting fuzzy. They were there suddenly and stayed about three years that I was aware of.

"Zone 3" I'm familiar with, the live bait section of the Park, although I haven't fished it much in the past several years because it seems not to have many fish of any kind. It used to run from the broken dam down stream to the Park boundary which is not quite to the CA IIRC. Recently expanded up stream above the dam by two or three pools/holes, making Zone 2 that much smaller. I don't think Zone 3 gets daily stockings below the broken dam and the stocking places are quickly hit by bait and kill anglers. The area below the park in the CA and below is on five stockings per year I'm told, at all the county roads, even though the last time I checked all that land was posted. And yeah down below the park by the CA I did see stone rollers and chub, the water feels several degrees warmer that far down, but I'm told the trout survive all the way to the lake. I've never fished below the county road by Munsey Cemetery and that was ~15-20 years ago. I have in the past most often fished Zone 2 as the fly only area, but since they dredged that into canal, I've fished the CCC Lodge area more the last couple years for ease of access.

I very rarely fish RRSP during the C&R because of the weekend restrictions. Mid week is most often when I fish. But the couple dozen times I was over there in C&R I thought the crowds were worse than on summer weekdays, unless the weather was severe. It always made me grin when guys would say that they only fish there during C&R because they didn't like the crowds. "Pool Three" is new to me after fishing the place for years, are you counting down steam from the hatchery bridge or starting with the pool above that bridge?

Names never kept me from eating or selling livestock. Just a way to keep track which one is needing to be fed or is ready to eat.

An old broken dam within the park, but I fished the river a few miles, down to the county, road a good number of times back when we were younger and only encountered the same three species.

True of all the Parks? I have fished RRSP a few hundred times and never have seen or caught a sunfish, rock bass or bass. I have caught sculpin and have seen suckers, and I've wondered at the absence of the sunfish, now you have me wondering if I just didn't look close enough?

@top_dollaris it true that by removing the water spots with detergent that paint is also being removed?

many years ago, a son brought his serious girlfriend up from Florida to meet the parents and while they were here for a few days the girl wanted to help with all the chores having never seen farm animals before, so as we slopping the two feeder pigs that I had at the time she inquired what their names were and I without thinking gave them names on the spot- "This one is Bacon and that one is Ham" I said. So time goes by, holidays come and the two of them are back again. In the middle of breakfast the girl asks "Can we go feed Bacon and Ham?" It took a moment for me to catch up, then I held up my fork saying "This is Bacon, Ham is for dinner." Poor gal was astonished that we actually ate the animals we raised. She did not become a daughter in law, but I'm not sure there was any connection. No one grows their own meat here any more and I don't think we even have a butcher in the county now.

I like to feed whole corn, whole milo, and whole oats. They can find their own meat. Any brand pellets or crumbles are made up of trash, garbage, floor sweepings and added flavorings. If you are going to feed the same stuff that egg factories do you might as well by factory eggs, cheaper.

I bet it'd pay for itself pretty quick in the right hands.

I once had a bird that looked like a hen and sat on the nest until beginning of her third year when it grew spurs and shiny hackles. I usually had 20-30 birds back then and several would be roosters.

That's a good way to fish them. The Hornberg used to be my best hopper pattern. I never like either of those patterns as streamers. As to old flies, I posted a picture here of some tiny stillwater flies that I last used in 1984 that are still in one of my boxes. I have deer hair mouse and a purple snaky thing with big eyes that I bought near Cotter Ar. in 1986 because the clerk at the fly shop said they were Dave Whitlock's, neither of them have been used a half dozen times, but the mouse is getting ratty from age.

@aarchdale@coresleep.comwhat did you do that failed? Did you use both loop ends to snell knot? did you use the shrink tube over the knot?

@Al Agneware any of those Mt. streams timbered enough that they have shade? My memory of the Yellowstone area is ugly desert with no canopy at all, but time has made the memories unreliable and beauty/ugly are subjective.

https://www.outdoorlife.com/trout-fishing-driftless-area-midwest/ There are a lot of trout destinations back East and out West and any one or any dozen of them would be fun for me, but if you like being away from the crowds, you should consider that real "trout destinations" are just famous place because millions of people fish there every season. Personally I'd like to fish Pa & NY more, but I'd also like to explore Wi. From your location though, there may be easier to reach and less crowded, perhaps more challenging water in the Driftless. It's an area I've only read about.

At least taking all line and backing off and reversing it, but I suspect the drag will also need reversing. I'm not familiar with that reel, but most disk drag reels seem to need the "one way clutch bearing" flipped over to change drag direction, it's usually fairly easy. The info that I saw in a quick search of it indicates yours is the 5-6 weight version and @fishinwrench's is the 7-8wt version so maybe he can tell about the drag change need.

I always think of scuds with mud and vegetation. Ponds more than fast flowing water. But, that's an impression, it's been years since I read about them. They seem to common in tailwaters.