tjm

well, it's a report, that means it has to do with some thing that already happened and no matter if you get a report from them or bob or george or sally it is always going to be about what is history and doesn't apply to what is today or will be tomorrow. In the case of the MDC report it is weekly , so all the information or misinformation is based on last weeks history. Between September and April the report might be 6 months old but will apply to tomorrow's fishing just as much as a week old report. It comes in my email and I rarely open it, it is probably compiled by an accountant in a basement from what ever bits of info they get fed. You want to know how the fishing will be when you go? well, it's almost always "you should have been here yesterday" or a while ago or this morning. You want to go fishing, just do it. If you're out there every day, you can be the guy that says "you should been here then". Flush the toilet to see what the barometer is and look out the winder to see if it raining and get out there.

Tale of the tails, eh? or Nice behinds.

https://mdc.mo.gov/conmag/2002/05/rock-bass-panfish-supreme

Wouldn't those be Ozark Bass? I know, I know, they are still goggle eye or black perch, but I thought the authorities renamed them a few years back?

It shouldn't need replacement, I use lines that I bought in the '80s regularly and I have a couple sinking lines that date from the '70s that still look good. I'd tie one end to a bush and stretch the line a few times and clean it while stretched; then tie on a new leader and take it fishing. Some lines I stretch before fishing on every outing, it relaxes the reel memory. Cracking would be the key to needing replacement.(fwiw, if the cracking is only at/near the end, you can cut off several feet of level line on the tips of most fly lines without really changing the way they work) " Wipe off the reel, put a single drop of oil on the axle and go fishing. " with emphasis on the single drop. (I might wash the reel in a dish soap solution to get off old grease/dirt. I have seen a lot of reels that had too much lube applied and collected dirt in the lube. )

A tree gives a focal point and if one says the fungus can be up to 50' from the focal tree, it means many other trees might be within that 50' also. I have often wondered if the whole tree business is just that leaves don't pile up around trees and the root clump is elevated allowing us to better see the things than if they were under that pile of leaves over there 20' feet away. Trees most favored seem to elevate their roots more too. I have seen pictures of mores in pine forest a long way from any of the popular host trees. Burned over areas also give better visibility?. Looking at the ground becomes ingrained after you step in enough cow piles and have enough snake scares and and morels I find are just because they grow near the ground. I go out a few times a year in my old age with the excuse of mushrooming when it's really just an excuse to get out and walk in the woods. The three hours I spent walking the dry ridge tops yesterday were with the knowledge that I would be unlikely to find morels there.

well, ness, I never found a morel in a parking lot either; may want to get that down too. But then I never really looked real hard at all the parkin lots and maybe I should.

Reminds of my childhood. Single shot .22 was only gun we owned.

I lived about ten minutes from the Palmer River in Ma for nearly fifteen years before I knew of the shad fishery, I read about it in a national fishing magazine, people form the world over were going there for shad. Shad Factory pond. Only ever made a few trips there during the run and never caught any. Did witness a couple caught and when the shout of "fish on" went up everybody got out of the water, strong running fish on a hook.

As I said I'm only a casual mushroomer, but I have never found a morel in a bottom. This part of the Ozarks in mushroom time means the bottoms are repeatedly flooded and scoured by the creeks. So, what i find are necessarily in/on the hills. My personal observations (other than they can be anywhere) are the south and west slopes are barren of soil and therefore poor places to mushroom, some ridge tops have lots of morels and I never find them there, where huckleberries grow the soil is again poor and.. 90+% of all I find and that my kids/grandkids find are on the steeper parts of east facing or north facing slopes, these are the areas that have retained some black dirt and also where the best timber grows. Small green things like mayapple or jack in the pulpet are indicators of sufficient soil and moisture for morel development. The south and west faces and the ridge tops dry awfully fast here; it rained off and on Saturday and that night plus Sunday morning must have been in the 2" neighborhood, we had runoff, yet by Monday after noon the ridges were leaf crackle dry again.

Buffing compound is abrasive, so eventually the clear coat will be worn through. I wonder if that will be noticeable after waxing and buffing the wax? I don't have a boat, so.... but I'd think a solution of detergent, bleach and water applied with a stiff brush would take a bunch of the stuff of and do no damage. To remove black algae from your roof you can use a quarter cup of TSP + a quart of bleach + a gallon of water in a pump sprayer; soak it, let set 15 minutes and rinse. I have cleaned black algae from lumber using dish detergent and bleach solution the same way. Major Warning: do not use a cleaner that contains Ammonia with Bleach ; they mix up a deadly reaction with fumes that kill.

I don't think any of the gasoline tax goes local, most anyway goes to highway construction at the FED level, and locals that sold gas in the past have said the profit was about a penny a gallon and the soda pop made more. Big chain gas station that profit likely goes to Europe. Did you all 20 buy land on the lake? is that how you are supporting the schools? How exactly do they have schools in towns that don't have lake bass? Yes, I get it. Some people are entitled to fish tournaments just because they are. And you fellers that think it's unfair just don't understand. The good Lord provided Lakes just so Boat People could hold Mine's Bigger contests. How can one argue with that? Who cares if all the Homeless Bass die, the state must provide more bass, because, well just because.

Yes, signs at Houseman designate the lower end Boundry of Beaver Lake Tailwater trout management area, I think there are also some special regs on part of that for paddlefish. Been a few years since I fished that and my memory sucks.

I never been down there, but my mama taught school at Idabel back in the '70s and from what she said I think it's pretty much just like where you live. Was it me I'd either set fish or hunt as the main goal and forget the other, when you travel, time is never enough to do even one thing.

I like that for smallish flies also.

yep, congratulations and wish you many fish in her. That's a pretty color.

That's a big state and has so many kinds of lands. I can be there in 20 minutes,but its like a million miles to the other ends. Shoot; Ok reaches from south Ar. all the way to Co. and from Mo Ozarks to NM . It has prairie, desert and mountains. Runs from 4,973 feet above sea level to the lowest point at 289 feet above sea level. Better to pick a specific place and ask about that.

Grand kids at it again after the rain and found 11. Try to show the big one. the picture worked! color me surprised.

Just the building of the lakes destroyed a lot of habitat for many critters from cricket frogs to bats. I have no doubt that moving fish or stocking fish impacts more than just the fish or the anglers. There is a story that i have forgotten, about the movement of a butterfly's wings creating effects on the far side of the Earth. All the things on Earth impact all the other things.

Walked a little yesterday and again this afternoon, way too dry even in places that I thought might be a bit moist. With rain tomorrow and Sunday, maybe some popup Monday?

About twenty years ago after the annual spring floods, I saw two guys fishing in one of those BV golf course ponds; They were there three days in row . Wondered then if the POA was stocking those ponds.

ever wonder if it's people that want an access closed doing that? I'm pretty sure some creeks get closed that way.

bondini was always my go to, yeah that company makes many brands and that is why zap-a-gap is unfamiliar to me So, maybe not enough moisture on the failed applications, and also mentioned that fresh cut or broken items don't as well as older breaks because of lack of moisture. I've seen CA mixed with baking soda as a crack filler and that might be useful to you.

I wasn't zactly sure what Zap ( used other brands but not zap) was and checked it out, the list of things it works on does not state foam and the fact that they make one for foam indicates something, I never knew they made an accelerator for CA either before .

I recall finding a few in open grassy areas but by far the most have been near squirrel trees. The other side of the sightings is they showed none in this county but I know a few sack fulls have been taken. With me it is just oh look there's a morel, never have been really a hunter of them. I was actually trying to find a definitive semi-scientific answer to the "what triggers morel growth?" question, I still don't know.