tjm

You're an old guy ain't you?

Someone has (or did the last time I was there) has pretty big display of refurbished cast in the Antiqueishmall - Antique Flea Market in Neosho, I didn't examine any of it closely, as we have that we will ever need.

yet you buy import goods. Independence is dependent on being totally self sufficient. That can't happen if we depend on imports for our daily needs, or for our industries to operate.

The old folks never considered tools or pans as heirlooms, and of course you are right in that the risk of damage is there in the way they used them. Key being that they used them rather than restore and preserve them.

Since the Soviet Union dissolved there are no Third World Countries. Now I might believe you if you said we are a generation or two away from no longer being a country. We are fast becoming a member state of the world and giving up our identity as an independent nation. And that is no more on the Biden voters than it is on anyone who uses import goods. Global trade will inevitably lead to global laws and result in global government. "Peace on Earth"

I would buy one that is about 75-100 years old. My mother's skillets weigh less than the ones I bought 50 years ago and the ones my wife buys now for gifts to grandkids weigh twice as much, this means it takes more heat and much longer to get smoking hot. Having used cast cook wear since about 1958 and having experimented with various "curing"/"seasoning" regimens, I'd say most any method of seasoning can work, but just cooking in them works about as well. I prefer real lard for seasoning . I tell my kids not to ever use detergent when washing the skillets up. Scouring in cold water will leave the cooked in "seasoning" in place. To clean the built up off the outside of the skillets after years of use the old timers in my family simply put the pan into the a bed of red hot coals for a few hours and let the coals with the skillet embedded cool slowly. Stuff looked like fresh cast. Take a look at https://campfiresandcastiron.com/american-made-cast-iron-cookware-brands-made-in-the-usa/ One thing most modern skillets don't have that all the ones I grew up with did have is lids. I think the only thing cooked without a lid was fried eggs and white gravy. A heavy snug fitting lid kinda turns a "fry pan" into a "pressure cooker".

I think I've used lip balm, maybe not that brand, to float flies sometime in the past. As I recall it's made of petrolatum (Vaseline) and wool-fat (lanolin ) with maybe some wax. For sure you could use it as a lubricant, but creek water works for knots.

Bucket biologists don't want credit for stocking invasive fish or for releasing hogs to go wild, they just want a secret fishin hole and wild hogs to hunt.

Oh there are a lot staff that work in offices in Jeff City that just do office work, it's necessary to keep track of all the Inclusion and Diversity programs. And all the sport fish stockings. Administration is important in any organization. It probably took 8-900 accountants working with ten digit adding machines and another 2-300 auditors. 50 programmers to set up the system and 200 data entry people to key in the results the accountants came up with. But we gots them Walleye and we gots them trout. Next thing you know they'll figure out a way to stock quail in my county. Or better yet ruff grouse.

Natural expansion of range isn't invasive, it's natural expansion due to our ability to change the climate. Them spots in the pits walked there in a bucket, it's called stocking. The feds did it with carp and the state does it with trout walleye etc.

MDC budget stuff Report of '22 http://www.mafwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/mo_rpt22.pdf Report '23 http://www.mafwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/mo_rpt23.pdf Proposed '24 https://oa.mo.gov/sites/default/files/FY_2024_HB_6_MDC.pdf Sara is retiring in the summer and her replacement might spend more to do less?

I was thinking primarily of the Blackstone that was full of all the waste from a hundred plating factories and various other industries housed in 100 year old facilities, had a perpetual glossy film on it and caused a new SA fly line to crack in less than a dozen outings. And in five years became semi-clean and in about 12 years could support stocked trout and continued to improve after that. But I could also include Little Sugar Creek and it 's recuperation after sewage improvements in a couple of cities that drain into it. What was the major pollution in the James?

See this thread for all the planing etc https://forums.ozarkanglers.com/topic/77696-taneyfest-january-262728/#comments

Yes something could be done, but you are right that it won't be. Simply stopping the input of most pollutants will let a river clean itself over time, I've seen it happen.

I can never get two passes of leader through the hook eye. But that second pass through the hook eye will make most knots more secure.

Over my lifetime, I have had more failures with the Clinch knot than any other knot that I have ever used, stopped using it for years and only in the past year in discussions like this discovered that my fail rate is because I cut the tag off. It seems a few knots are like that, they need some tag end to prevent slippage and capsize. I still won't use it. I use a simple double overhand knot more than any other for all my fishing needs.

Is there a single invasive species anywhere in the world that humans did not stock?

Nope. In the SDJam knot the tag runs through the bottom loop, in the Eugene/Pitzen it does not.

"Shark" might be a internet name for an old knot that already has several names. Until you posted that name here I'd never heard of a "shark knot" and knots have been a minor hobby of mine since ~1960. Because any knot weakens the line, the failure should always be at the knot unless the line is abraded. In a fly leader with several join knots and a terminal knot, the fail is normally at the terminal knot because the steel is harder than the line and slick enough to allow some degree of slippage. Wear and stress of line caused by minute slippage between knot and hook eye suggests that retying after every fish could save lures. There are no fail proof knots, under enough strain all knots will fail even if tied in wire rope. The Pitzen/16-20/Eugene is a good knot though, and using heavier terminal line/tippet will help reduce knot failures. A slightly different knot and many say better than Pitzen is the San Diego Jam Knothttps://www.netknots.com/fishing_knots/san-diego-jam-knot The "forever in the water" and "never degrade" characteristics of fluorocarbon balanced ageist negligible, if any gain, over nylon keep me from using it. The knot failure rate in fluoro is to me cause for hope, if enough people lose enough lures, maybe they stop polluting the universe with it. Use of fluoro is among other things is why I said in another thread that sport anglers are never conservationists. Even nylon can stay in the water up to a few hundred years, but fluoro is intact for several thousand years. But until it's banned carry on using it if you can.

I would guess that LOZ is more likely human waste, Grand lake would share that because in both instances it looks like septic systems were built on rock ledges within yards of the pool.

Isn't that a farming area ? Nothing survives modern agriculture. Any chemical applied to the fields or to the seeds ends up in the closest body of water killing insects, amphibians, mammals and fish as it migrates. MDC should be doing chemical analysis on those fish to determine how Roundup affects their growth.

I did not know they had guides on Mark Twain Lake and I had not heard of that 154 Marine boat company. I'm not a biologist, so there's two things, like I said, they just used her to get people to watch, once the commercial for boats and guides is over the other content doesn't matter. The crappie studies have been ongoing for 30 years as she stated and most of that info has become public knowledge over that time, so yeah you were probably aware of it. What you might not have been aware of, I wasn't, is that in Mark Twain the 2019 year class of crappie is flourishing. I did get a little upset with talk about filling the freezer, which we really are not allowed to .

triblive.com To me the video isn't really about MDC so much as a way to sell boats and guide service, they just used that lady to draw an audience.

What a factory Fenwick cork seat looked like in '71 about the time of your rod

They and most others sold blanks alone or as kits. But they didn't make the thread, and probably it came from Gudebrod, I've read that Brown, Chestnut and Gudebrod 396 were very close matches. You could also buy the woven thread tape used in the diamond butt wraps. The grip and reel seat on this rod are probably homegrown, or at least I haven't seen one just like that and the rings seem narrow to me. And if they give you trouble or you have any concern about them slipping off just grab a couple of rubber O rings and work them onto the reel foot outboard of the metal rings to keep them in place. At one time all the Fenwick blanks were yellow so that they couldn't be mistaken for factory rods and could come cut for ferrules or one piece, and at one time they supplied factory spigots for the yellow blanks. All before I started fly fishing in the late '70s, so I just know of them from reading and internet posts. Fenwick made a zillion of everything they made though working two and three shifts, I've read. Thousands of rods per week.