tjm

Party hard, you'll never be that young again.

Would you pay them for that kind of opportunity? My lawn s pretty big and i should charge more , but I guess I'd let some one do it if they paid me $50. 😀

Think salmon egg. Trout tend to gulp.

They say that polyploidy occurs naturally in some trout, so how would separate the naturals from the artificials for record purposes?

The ones willing to shoot their neighbor and take his stuff will be the survivors. Bug out bags as big as you can carry will get you about as far as the bus station and no one is going to live off the fat of the land, unless stealing is the fat. My guess is that in the teotwawki scene percentage wise the ones that stay in the cities will out-survive the bugger-outers. There simply are more things to steal in the cities and more people to steal from. I encourage anyone that can to start up a survival business, take the money and enjoy life. The customer base of people that believe in that sort of thing is huge and those people don't need that money anyway.

yes, and extra pay if they want you to wear a shirt or cap with their advertising on it. fwiw, I'll let you pay me to let you mow my lawn, but you have to bring your own mower and gas.

I guess the fact is they are a mutation caused by heating, shaking or pressurizing the eggs at just the right time. It's pretty freaky that we want to figure out how to do this. Never mind that we spend other peoples money doing it. All for fun, too, with no really practical application.

Did not know that. The concern was not that they would reproduce, their stuff is sterile, it was that they would disrupt the spawn by competing with fertile males, if I understood it correctly.

Do any of the browns spawn in Taney? Is it even possible? I had thought trout needed "headwaters" type streams to spawn in, but I'm no authority.

There has been enough concern over male triploids attempting to spawn and disrupting native spawns that Alaska manipulates their triploids to be all female. I recall a study of Atlantic salmon that showed both male and female triploids going through all the motions of spawn, nesting and aggression, and the males producing milt., Norway I think. I think the key thing in Mo. is we have no native trout for them to corrupt nor do our trout spawn in tail waters nor the trout parks? How can the angler tell triploids from real fish? I have read about some test that involve blood cells and microscopes. Did the agency stocking the triploids mark them in some way?

welcome, to the forum, I can't help with the lake and you might get better response in the Lake of the Ozarks forum; http://forums.ozarkanglers.com/forum/91-lake-of-the-ozarks/

My question, was how will they get people interested enough to provide all the required judges and camera operators. Payment would be required, I think. In your take on it, what motivates half the field to give up competition on any particular event (especially if travel&lodging are involved) so they could act as judges?

Take the first legal keeper five and the heaviest bag wins. It would be more about fishing and less about sponsors and speed boats though so won't ever happen. I think most of the fishing should be done before the casting starts, but, I'm not a spectator and don't care to be. I do think fishing contests do more harm than good to the fishery. I am astonished that people actually watch fishing on TV.

Some things I've read say yes and some say no, it seems that depending who the audience is the answer changes. Are they GMO or not varies with who you are selling them to. DNR employees at RRSP tell me the fish stocked there have been triploids for years, idk. Also the same people say triploids are hybrids, so, they really have no clue what they are talking about?

I've always thought that every fish should count, first three or five or fifty fish caught weighed or measured and done. Go for average or for total but no culling. Culling fish is like saying all the missed shots in a basketball game are practice shots and giving the shooter a free throw for every miss.

yeah, well I will probably just stick with fly rods and single action reels, it's all so much simpler. And mine at least have handles on them.

I've been thinking of a new spin set up for a year or two and most of the smaller reels seem to have very small spools and for the size seem to stand far up off the rod. More I've looked the more skeptical I've become. Antique auction becomes more attractive.

When you guys talk about 1000 series or 2000, 2500 etc. it sounds as though the size is the same regardless of the brand, is there a industry standard of sizes now? (The last spinning reel I bought was @1976ish.)

Question again do you believe they can see over the phone lines or that they can see through a simple cell phone call? Your guy obviously does.

ah, the social media self confessors

I fish streams mostly, but agree with wrench that sinking lines suit me best in the cupboard. 5'-9' Maxima (diy) leader on any floating line works for me, weight in the fly construction, add a split shot if needed. In addition to not being able to pick up a sunken line til nearly all is retrieved, two other aggravations are the striped in line sinks around or between my feet making the shooting of line tougher unless a stripping basket is used and the line itself can get wrapped up in any sunken rocks, logs, root wads etc by currents and if the water has any depth it can be impossible to retrieve the fly line. I never lost a line that way but have seen a couple that stayed in place for years, after someone had cut them off. I have fished full sinking fast and slow, and a sink tip fast; of these the best for me was intermediate/slow sinker used in shallow lakes for lmbass and chain pickerel, in that instance the steamers were unweighted and the slow sink rate allowed me to fish at varying water depths by counting done, takes time and patience though, and unless stripping it near the top, had the pickup and recast problem. They all live in the shed now. To get deeper faster the Teeny heads (with Teeny leaders) have the biggest following. I never got around to needing one.

our county didn't have a college, not sure there were any firemen other than volunteer- but they had 8 or 10 check stations it may have been all volunteers idk and the stores may have donated the parking lots to attract business, but the talk was that tele-check was going to save $50-$60 per year or $millions, I can't recall. Point is, Do you believe the MDC (or any alphabet company) can see over the phone lines or the computer at the library that you are checking in a doe with six legs and three antlers or six turkeys instead of one? Do You believe I should do all my telechecking after dark so they can't see the color of my coat isn't the right shade of orange? Should we all invest in tin hats?

They can tell that over the internet/phone?

First , I think tele-check is meant to allow more poaching, a don't ask don't tell sort of thing. As wrench points out no one knows what is not reported ... no ones looking in the back of trucks at gas stations anymore. Deer management probably brings in more Federal program funds than it costs and those funds would be lost if we did away with seasons and limits. I was told that if I even apply for land owner tags it brings in more dollars. Even bringing in the technology of tele-checking probably generated Federal funding. Think how much savings that is over the manning of zumpteen zillion local check stations and payment for use of the parking lots/driveways, that must have been pretty costly? Deer season is now about five months out of twelve and almost any implement is legal at some point in that time frame, it looks to me like they want more deer killed-period. I doubt even an idiot like bablemouth believes a poacher is going to kill a deer then go buy a permit and do the tele-checking from the parking lot at wally world. It is probable that agents do inquire about some checks, what else is their job? If they are off talking to a lady archer, they are giving anglers a break. That said, I don't recall ever meeting an Agent or Game Warden that I'd call intimidating, have you?

A nice attractive sign with pictures and descriptions of all the previous drownings might encourage caution? Newspaper clips and obits, witness accounts, stuff to attract and hold interest. And instill fear, the average American is too ignorant of fear, like the idiots walking out of walmart into the drive without even looking up from the text machine, they have the right of way so they have no fear of being run down. Maybe set up a basic swim class there once or twice a month during the summer in a roped area; a little education on the hazards of water. Most people only know water from the tap and bath tub. Some one who has never encountered currents and under tows probably doesn't even know such things exist. Until you have been pulled into one there is no way to comprehend the effect. It is a thing that you can know about and not know. The life jacket rack, last week we were walking around the RR hatchery and by the big spring hole/pool I noticed they have a throwable life ring on a rope station, the thing is so old that the PVC cover is split in numerous places from the sun and the rope looks rotten. I guess it has been awhile since they had an accident. Does the City inspect and maintain the life jacket rack?