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Not absolutely sure I'll be there, cataract surgery on Monday and I don't know what the recovery time is. But since they usually do the second a week later, I think I'll be fine. It's mostly on the 50yo kid, he's driving and it's his thing, if I go I'll just be along for the ride ...

the firearm violation?

I plan to be there Saturday. I probably should attend the Learn to Fish event ...

Click the "watch on you tube" button in the bottom right corner of the embedded video and on you tube at the bottom of the video click the "CC" button to open the close captions, you can read what the actors are saying. I always do this and my hearing aids are excellent.

They are wherever the wind blows. Just thicker in some areas, it's really futile to try controlling them at this point, pretty much a waste of time and money. Same thing as trying to eradicate the Sericea lespedeza that was introduced by the government; gazillions of seeds laying dormant and waiting sprout as soon as you look away.

So far. Think about next year and the next each tree seeding hundreds more. They will replace dogwood and redbud as being the harbinger of spring in the Ozarks.

5 stockings in 12 months means there may be a couple of months or more between stockings. For as close to the park as that is the stocked fish may last a week or ten days and that means there will be a lot of fishless days in a year. They will source fish from private hatcheries to keep the park stocked. But don't you prefer suckers?

If that's outside the park, the stockings should only be 5-6 times a year, I think. That's a "White Ribbon" stream and I was told the "white Ribbon" streams that I fish are budgeted for five stockings per year. (Roaring River, Capps, Hickory ) Right at the confluence, there may be Park fish that have moved downstream that would make it seem like it's stocked more frequently. But if you want heavy stockings, they do the spring branch daily, don't they?

The angle of the line to the shank isn't changed by an appreciable amount by eye position. Try pulling a nail with a three foot crow bar and see if it makes any difference if your hand is above or below the bar, as long as the force is applied at the same length. What does help with hooking is kirbing the hooks. When that hook is flat in the closed mouth the offset point has a much better chance of catching lips, but most fly fishers don't kirb. Anyhow, you answered my question, my curiosity is over.

oh, that, I forgot that bit. Pretty sure that's a myth. IIRC, Dr. Borger disproved that in one of his books. "Designing Trout Flies" perhaps, it's been a while since I read that one. Historically, I believe the up eye was used for underwater and the down eye was used for dries and that was supposedly about orienting the fly with the tippet before the bite, with floating lines and those Turle knots that tighten on the head. I do prefer straight eye for under water presentation because that lets the fly work best with either floating line or sinking line, imo, but I've used all types of hooks including those 10XL TDE hooks that were recommended for the Carrie Stevens streamers. Anecdotally they all worked about the same. Snelled flies were historically tied on blind eye hooks, weren't they? One of these days I'm going to sit down and snell all my <#16 flies and connect them loop to loop with the tippet. But I've been planning that for a few years and have yet to do it.

What is bad about the T.U.E.?

I think she needs a fishing license but not a trout license; but if you buy her a set of scrubs and a stethoscope, you could say she's your caretaker and maybe get away with it? Permits on line you don't even have to get up from your computer

I think you need to ask your Agent. Or buy her Fishing and trout permits together they just cost $25

Might use a hammer against the hide like I do with coyotes. Grandpa's generation wouldn't butcher a hog until it got close to 500#, can't render much lard off them baby pigs. Just thinking about it I tastee them cracklins. They also believed that the meat would cure better with hide on and scraped every hog they butchered. I don't know of anyone that even has a smokehouse these days.

@Quillback I'm pretty sure that I know a beekeeper within miles of you. I've not been over there for a few years, but I've not heard of him passing either, if interested I'll check up on him and get you a phone number. I want to get some wax anyway. I used to take my own pickle jars and have him fill them with raw honey. There are also some honey producers in the Neosho area that my kids buy from. Have you looked at Allen's? they did have local honey, but it might be over priced.

Both are easy to over cook. I wouldn't use batter on either.

Seems unlikely to me that the average hunter or fisherman will carry a two sided step ladder in their rucksack, and if we carry it to the corner with a vehicle and we cross the corner with it, how do we get the vehicle over it? This decision would have more significance if the landowner were required to provide gates. Won't matter though if the feds sell off all those BLM/NFS sections.

Feb-May 1970 in San Diego NTC (Camp Nimitz?) the weather that I recall was daily smog at a predictable mid morning time and extreme after smog heat on the grinders. If there was ever a breeze I didn't notice it.

That depends on where you are, trout permits are needed to keep and transport trout, except on Taneycomo, where you need one to fish, and in the Parks during C&R. So, if in the Park, you would need a daily tag and if on Taneycomo you would need a trout permit, but on a stream you'd only need a trout permit if you are keeping the trout. In any case you would need a fishing permit or an exception.

Probably not. But he wouldn't have either.

And if you had had a heart attack? Was he CPR qualified? What if you had reacted violently with a fight reflex? Doesn't seem like behavior that an employer should encourage and seems unrelated to any "work ethic", but maybe that's just me.

Some states do specify the primary be 5th wheel, some require driver license endorsements; as far as I know Mo. doesn't, but they do have width, height and combined length limitations and braking recommendations.

It's a guberment job and work is four letter word that guberment employees shouldn't have to put up with.

Sounds like you were lucky, a guy willing to pull you out and the car still derivable. I've seen cars that were strip salvaged right beside the street in the cities where police make constant rounds. In less than 1/2 hour time as I went down a sidewalk and made a return about 1/2 hour later. Saw what looked like a drug deal behind a doughnut shop where officers were having coffee at the time. A deputy driving by a couple times a week isn't likely to deter criminal activity at a place deemed to be "public". I bet you could find instances of drug labs and pot growth on private land that were tended by kayak or canoe if you searched a bit. Your anecdote describes a circumstance that seems to justify elimination of the free access. And that may well be why the MODOT has closed all their land. And as far as floats go, I've seen groups of kayakers at the low water bridge that appeared to be intoxicated while floating, and a couple of times groups of "wading anglers" that were obviously not sober. I suppose that if a pair of deputies spent enough time at any low water bridge they could likely find reasons to arrest a fair number of floaters, even though the boating while intoxicated laws wouldn't apply, maybe they should. Unrestricted public access means access by criminals is encouraged. Advocating for unrestricted public access to private lands is in effect advocating for criminal use of those private lands. But if we want access to streams at bridges, we must allow that same access to all, parties, drug deals, drug producers, dumpers of stolen cars, all. If laws are broken, the complaint must be about the law that is broken, not just use of the access. And although you say underage drinking happened and I say some kayakers were intoxicated, I expect that in both cases we'd have no proof, you didn't get ID for age nor take a blood test and neither did I.

Not many bars that I'm aware of though. Not long ago that was a "Dry County" and the residents would buy trunk (or truck) loads of spirits to drink at home.