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I saw a Kevlar Old Town Tripper folded around a bridge piling when some fools tried to run a flooded river once, in the late '70s, a little over a week later the rental outfit retrieved the the wreck and when it was kicked back right side out and the thwarts etc replaced, there wasn't much in the way of visible damage to the hull. I've wanted a Kevlar boat ever since, but have never gotten one and don't know if all Kevlar boats are equals, but I'd pick any MOC over plastic for solo boat.

A fruit disguised as a vegetable?

You done ate them, I reckon; and you know it takes 4-8 years for one to get eatin size. Niangua is the one I was thinkin of and I would have thought upstream of the spring flow would have been better for cats, on a map every bend appears to have a deep hole. Surprises me they aren't full of catfish.

That creek flowing past the park doesn't have catfish in it?

I guess that is a rhetorical question? Who knows why gals do anything, or don't do stuff.

no hands, no aim I reckon they don't want to sit, not knowing who sat there last.

From my days of working a full service gas station, it's not possible to keep a women's restroom clean. It takes three five times as much maintenance as the men's room.

I like Maxima 3# for trout because it's cheap for the quality, but I've caught a truck load of trout on Stren 6# back in the '70s when I used spinning gear. Personally I won't use fluorocarbon because of it's resistance to environmental decay. Many leader/tippet/higher qualty nylons have higher strength in the same diameter or smaller diameter in the same test strength. I can find no advantage that fluorocarbon has. Stroft and Damyl are two higher strength/diameter nylons. I like Rio Powerflex as my tippet. I found this interesting https://swiftflyfishing.com/blogs/news/15472069-cutting-through-the-bull-the-mono-vs-fluoro-debate I don't think visibility of the leader is as important as many people do, based on a few months of experimentation with trout in a shallow clear spring lake back east that I did long ago. But smaller diameter allows greater freedom of movement for the bait, less water resistance I guess. Limper material also allows more movement. But it's just my opinion/guesswork.

I would be using those (4# = .007" = 4X, 2# = .005" =6X) diameters in nylon with a fly rod, so I'm not sure the leader was the problem.

Any of the sunfish family are vigorous strikers and active fighters, smallmouth are just more fun in a creek because they live in the current so always seem stronger. Trout have numbers on their side, a cubic foot of water seems to hold more trout than it can any other pan size fish.

Same rule that applies to old folks, no general fishing permit but must have Trout permit on Taney or for winter fishing in the Parks. I can fish all the trout streams without the permit as long as I don't keep trout. I don't need a hunting permit, but do have to have Deer and Migratory Bird if I hunt them. I think; but I always reread the regs when in doubt, I have the Code bookmarked here https://www.sos.mo.gov/adrules/csr/current/3csr/3csr.asp

Lilliput was only one of several places Gulliver visited; I read about it in a book about sixty years ago, but no doubt someone has made a movie of the story, of course they had no light bulbs in 1700 or whenever it was imagined, so that part would be the joke writer's addendum. Like "Huckleberry Finn" the story was written for adults but became viewed as a children's story over time, which is why I first encountered the tale in third or fourth grade.Look up Jonathan Swift, he was a satirist a while back. It's OK to read about foreign lands, for educational purposes. But, G's adventures illustrate why there is no place like home. punny, eh?

Lilliputian - Gulliver's Travels tiny peoples (inside the light bulb)

It all depends. Are they invasive species? I think in general weeds are beneficial in that they provide nursery areas for many species and some protection for prey species, but ... There are some weeds that are undesirable and there are limits to how extensive the proliferation and the benefit versus detrimental effects. Pond management goals would dictate what is or isn't desirable.

I bet there would be more acceptance of mask wearing if it had been introduced as "the right thing to" or even as "the polite thing to do" rather than mandated by panicked politicians. Most folks try to be polite and I think most folks try to to do right things, but I know that most folks hate to be dictated to. And in this case there is so little evidence of good effect that the dictation rankles even more to some folks. The mask on the chin or just covering the mouth and not the nose is about 80% of all mask wearers that I see. But twice I've seen someone properly wearing a mask pull it off or to the side and then sneeze. I guess sneezing into that mask is messy. I for one would accept wearing of a mask much better if we could get effective masks to wear, N-95 N-98 etc., but by far the greatest transmission route for this kind of virus is our hands and if the gubment is serious about curtailing the thing they will mandate that any one within sight of any one else must wear gloves. This keeps others from picking their nose and then touching door knobs (unless they have really big nostrils) and it helps to keep us from touching contaminated objects then sucking our thumbs. But they have not even mentioned wearing of gloves, I think they just don't care. Then a well read fellow asked me the other day how many of the masks are imported from China and are they pre-contaminated ? gosh I don't know but now you gave me another worry. The wonderful thing about being retired during this mess is it means we don't have to be exposed for work and that we didn't lose our jobs and means of living due to shut downs. Darn sight worse for those trying to raise kids and make a living while dealing with stupid panic reactions.

You didn't miss it, there is none.

Until they study the released fish by tracking for a week or two after being transported many miles prior to release it's all speculation, those fish might starve over the next thirty days or die from handling a week later. Only long term tracking of actual tourney caught and hauled fish can answer questions of survivabilty.

I think every candidate for county office this year ran as repubs during the primary so the local election is a done deal. But it seems pretty stupid to vandalize campaign signs regardless who they belong to, trespass and petty theft charges should be brought if the body can be resuscitated. call 1911

I haven't seen one, but I haven't been to a city lately either.

A lot of wildlife responds well to new growth after a burn.

Chicken feet make good soup base, as much chicken flavor as the rest of the bird altogether, very yellow and rich, but they are not worth the effort in my opinion. Dad would make "neck and foot soup" when I was a kid. I imagine you've all eaten some at some time and just weren't aware. . I'm not actually a fan of chicken, I butchered so many back then that any time I eat one I can smell those scalded feathers on my hands in my mind. A smell that doesn't wash off.

I'm over 70 and have respiratory disease, and quite truthfully this panic hasn't affected the wife (she's almost 70 and a hypochondriac) and I at all like it has some folks, we have always washed our hands and avoided crowds, so other than buying the groceries online for pickup and getting prescriptions curbside and eating out less frequently it hasn't really impacted us. She did stay away from Church for three months or so, but it was videoed and made available online so she didn't miss that much. And I was forced to fish less than I would have liked by crowds on the creeks, but I got more rest. Probably the worst of it is not having the grand kids stay over and not taking any long trips to visit family in the east, but there have been other years we didn't travel. We've buried all our parents, three of my brothers and one of her sisters, a nephew each plus lots of extended family and in-laws so we are beginning to understand mortality. Not one of us is gonna get out of this world alive. Given that we are mortal and that we have zero control over that mortality, I believe we should make the most of every day. As others get tired of cowering behind useless fashion masks and begin to reopen the lines of commerce we will be cautiously adventurous as in the past. YOLO So, lets say this virus taken in full context is ten times worse than the "annual flu", it don't hold a candle to the Spanish flu or smallpox or cholera and man kind survived those. Fact is after several thousand years we developed a vaccine for smallpox that eventually eradicated it and we learned not to mix our sewage with our drinking water so things like cholera have pretty much disappeared. But this is a corona virus and we have not done so well with controlling them, the common cold is a corona virus that we have zero defense against after millions of years of fighting it, so this virus is likely here to stay and if they do eventually develop an effective vaccine for it, that may well be after my life has expired from some other cause (like those enumerated by @jdmidwest or a tick bite). If we spend the little time we have left at this point locked up in isolation, isn't that as bad as dying three days early? It becomes a question of dying a thousand deaths or only dying once. "It seems to me most strange that men should fear, seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come.” OTOH "a man's gotta know his limitations"

Guess I got the old one then. I suppose it still works or the Dr. would have brought it up at the Sept visit. Safe fun is an oxymoron, ain't it? fwiw, restaurant dining is much more enjoyable since March, I can usually hear the waiter's questions and have had conversations with Herself over diner.

Fescue kills quail, any body that knows anything about ground nesting birds should know that the youngins need bare ground to walk on. I lost my three coveys to cold rainy springs 20 odd years ago and the turkeys at the same time. Baby birds on the ground don't do well in 6-10'' of cold rain and I didn't need to go to college to know that. Sure MDC makes a lot of mistakes, for a couple of reasons, one is the people there are just people and all people make mistakes, and secondly the department is subject to political supervision and politics knows no science.

"new shingles shots" - is this new or something I got 5-6 years ago?