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I won't be 73 til May, but remember all them silver pennies we used to make with mercury from the thermometers we accidentally broke? and chasing balls of quicksilver across the table or floor to catch it and divide it then let it rejoin? Of course I don't fish Bull Shoals for walleye but if I did, I doubt I'd stop now.

Yes and if you were a V.I.P. caught with those in your possession it would be news. We got no foreign "police actions" or domestic riots going on so the media has to create scandals.

The black eagle in the last image is often found in RRSP. Do you have grackles at Taneycomo? I've always thought fly fishing is better when grackles and swallows are working the area. Kingfishers and bank swallows are interesting with their tunnel nests, bu, I imagine there are no high banks there for them to use as nests?

I think any memo could be called a "document".

When I was in the Navy our text books were "classified" documents. "Classified" is a term that can be applied to a wide range of degrees of classification. It would not surprise me if the White House breakfast menus are "classified" as "confidential" meaning that it is not for general publication. If all these "documents" being found were of "top secret" or above classification they'd be referred to by that rather than just as classified.

Since the Fenwicks of the "60s were extremely high production/high sales rods they are always on eBay, often in near new condition. $50-150 should find a nice one. Shipping went up though so that can run as high as the rod. The shorter <8' 'glass rods are usually higher priced now than the >8'.

Every fly rod that I saw back in the '50s, as far as I recall all bamboo but one that was telescoping steel, had an automatic reel, braided line and live bait. They had a lot more reach than short casting rods of the day and were great at leading a worm or crawdad through a run or reaching over boulders in the riffles. Of course I only saw fly rods in SW Mo., eastern Or. and central Id. in other places I'm sure they used fly rods for fly fishing. Your 8 1/2' Fenwick only weighed about 3 3/4 ounces, most of that in the cork, I've fished them with 4 1/2 oz. reels,.

I left out the instructors at BSSP, Springfield, Cassville ect.

I own (by guess) <25 old 'glass fly rods and <40 old reels. I don't use the auto's very often because in my memory those were used with bait. I kinda have a collection of Medalists accumulated and a dozen or so Sal Trout spring & pawl reels. I fish 'glass 95% of the time. All my tackle is "vintage" as am I.

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and bleed the things. Even fresh from the hatchery trout will taste good enough if bleed out while still squirming. The carp that I bled were fine eating too. And I'm not a real fan of eating fish. In my opinion all fish taste better without the bread and spices, but still fall far below a boiled brisket.

Crappie are not sunfish. Although they look like they could be.

It was before Kaysinger Bluff was drowned that I lived there, only been back once since the darn was built. I learned to fish muddy water in the Osage in borrowed skiffs. Took a lot of catfish in the area of the dam, fishing from the bank, but trying to catch fish I couldn't see was strange.

I think gigging and grabbing are both the result of the clarity of the Ozark streams. In my memory no one fished for fish they couldn't see even with bait, except by trotline and those were set for fish you had seen and knew were there. Thinking about now, it's understandable that people looking at muddy water would not devise ways to sight fish, but, if you grew up with nothing but clear water and gravel bottoms, blind fishing seems silly.

ah, I forgot haddock, it should be just below salmon in my list.

Snagging is done blind, if you hook up it's by accident. Grabbing is sight fishing - you can see the fish, see the hook, see the sighter and you should hook up every time. Two men and two boys can fill a wash tub with fish in less than an hour. It was how the church and community fish fries were fed. it was what was meant by "going fishing". I recall helping catch fish to be cooked for farm sales where lunch was served. I also recall being astonished when as a high schooler just moved to Warsaw I learned about people snagging spoonbill, it seemed really stupid to cast and crank for fish you couldn't even see.

are the giggers wading or boating? I haven't seen anyone grabbing any fish anywhere since the 1980s. Those old guys all died, and around here the accesses they used are all closed.

The way we caught them when I was a kid was by "grabbing". where large treble hook was fixed several inches above a large sinker and a sighter rag attached that let the angler see where the hook was in relation to the fish, then when all lined up a lift of the pole pulled the "grab hook" into the fish. Snagging in modern terms I guess. They would let all the boys leave school when the redhorse run started and we would wade and drive the fish back and forth past the grabbers. Dad and his friend would also gig them by wading at night using either carbide miners lights or a car battery in a wash tub connected to a head light from the tractor. My job to push the tub, which also held the fish. Gigging was not a winter time thing like it is now. No gigger I knew of used a boat. They will eat worms and nymphs as oneshot described, but they can spit faster than we see if they don't like the taste of the hook.

Just think, next week or next year the computers will be driving all those semi-trucks running the roads.

Manufacturers and NHTSA always come to the conclusion that it is always pedal misapplication/user error. There have been a couple of recalls of vehicles with excessive unintended acceleration problems and none have resulted in any other finding. I know this because I had a similar experience with a Taurus and did the research. Big foot and pedals a little too close together. However if the cruise control really isn't disengaging when the brake is applied, I'd disconnect the cruise from the throttle. Brakes should be designed to overcome the engine at WOT regardless of engine size/power, I think. But I might test that in an open area with plenty of stopping room.

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flounder, salmon, sardines, fried fish (all taste like fried bread)

It depends on what brand you use Orvis large is 1250mg, Wapsi large is 880mg. Hareline large is 1g https://www.murraysflyshop.com/pages/fly-tying-weight-chart

We did not get any tests in the mail, nor have we vaccinated. Back when I was a teenager there was a lot of talk about Pork killing people, Grandpa said he knew that was a fact, that eating pork had killed Grandma's grandfather years before. I asked how they knew it was pork that killed the man, and Grandpa said ''the old man ate two pork chops for breakfast every day for years and one morning he choked to death on one''. Then he told me that the old guy was 96 when the pork killed him. Aside from air, food wrap, popcorn bags, cartons, carpets, tap water, dairy products, even mother's milk can contain PFAS.

We done been exposed to PFAS for our entire lives just by breathing and drinking water. The long time watch lists have been about mercury which we know is toxic rather than PFAS that we know might be harmful if taken in huge quantities over a long enough time. I've read these "may be harmful" warnings all my life and I've yet to a single death linked specifically to eating toxic fish. We should worry more about the estrogen in tap water. https://www.epa.gov/pfas/our-current-understanding-human-health-and-environmental-risks-pfas