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How cold is that? and what makes it that cold? The SMB is native to the Great Lakes region and the Hudson Bay drainage, I'd have thought they were fairly cold hearty.

1000 years is period A river should never stay stay the same from season to season nor from year to year, if not for those spectacular floods changing the course of rivers, the Ozarks would be flat land cut by canyons, there would be no hollers nor valleys and without those we'd have no hills.

As long as there is no more trout being stocked for the bass to eat, and as long as the godly sportsmen allow it to happen. But anglers have a history of pressuring wildlife agencies into doing what the anglers want, often using the $$$ as a scientific reason. Witness stocking of black bass in lakes to support the tournament fishing industry. Actually I'd favor a bounty on both invasive fish and the removal of all dams, let the Gods manage that river. Periodic floods should be taken as beneficial thing rather than a catastrophe, it was only through periodic flood and drought that these streams developed as they are.

I don't think they have the trout to stock, when the stocking in the pay to fish Parks is reduced to 1 1/4 fish per tag sold in previous years, and some of the holes look empty. With winter coming on MDC will need all the available trout and maybe some outside purchases just to do the urban ponds. They could post a bounty on stripers, per head or per pound of dead striper. The National Park Service did have a $25 bounty on brown trout over 6" taken in the Colorado River, so there is a precedent.

The government keeps racism alive and well with it's policies that mention race or ethnicity. As long as we tolerate this from the government, we must expect it from the people.

when they flash the ECU don't they change the parameters that set those things? More narrowly define the operating conditions? If the software changes in pulse width and timing favor higher octane, wouldn't that retuning cause poorer performance with lower octanes? I'm not up to date on this sort thing, but it seems kinda like recurving a distributor advance.

that is just in the group of people they asked, which might only be 10 or 20 women and might all come from one segment of society, perhaps prison inmates. If you ask the right questions and only the right questions with only answers being "strongly agree" "agree somewhat" "disagree somewhat" you can probably find numbers to support either side of any argument and then claim those numbers as being statistically representative. From mild to worst; prevarications, lies, dam lies and Statistics

having my fingers amputated didn't affect my running The interesting part of that post is the quandary posed by playing along with the person's desire for pain by causing them pain, or knock the something out of her to teach her not to like pain. Will she learn or will she like it, and is it worth the effort/pain of doing either?

https://www.amazon.com/REV-X-Super-Tester-Flex-Ethanol/dp/B073HLSVHX test your fuel for ethanol with that ^^^^ although I've done the same thing for 40 years using a jelly jar with painters tape on it.

back when I used read the labels, and SDS sheets, every fuel additive that I studied was either kerosene, white gas, lacquer thinner or a mix of those. And the water removers were all alcohol. Of course they used different names for the stuff, like 'petroleum distillate', 'naphtha', 'ethanol' and so on. I'm not a fan of ethanol as fuel, it has about 2/3 as much 'power' as gasoline, and when mixed with gasoline won't stay mixed, but the modern engines are designed for it and don't need any thing else. Then too, whatever they are using to make the non-ethanol fuel these days neither looks nor smells like gas and it doesn't stay mixed either. I need to get rid of the 5gal cans and only buy gas one day at a time in gallon cans so when I dump the leftovers it's not such a loss.

So, are these the same units on repeat passes or are they launching new groups periodically?

Shake a couple ounces up with some water, then let settle; the alcohol will mix with the water making it look like an increased volume of water and a decreased volume of gas, takes maybe 5 minutes with any clear container. I'm not a boat guy, but what are the problems with ethanol blends that you are trying to combat? It's a pretty good solvent and most gas additives are just solvents.

People riding in the national forest got lost and hurt, after poking a hornets nest, the boss took the helicopter up to look for them rather than use the drone. His agency used this incident to prove how necessary they are for public safety so as to avoid dismantling of the unit in the face of cutbacks. the System was disrupted to justify purchase of new equipment, a work around to the cutbacks. Or maybe something else entirely.

Mine do. But for more leverage get a longer handle or put a piece of tubing on the handle to make it longer and put the hook closer to the hinge than to the nose.

Probably not the best, but for forty years or so I've gotten by with a small pair of needle nose pliers, this particular pair is about 4" long with smooth jaws. I actually searched a few hardware stores back then for just such a tool to use on the fly tying bench, I think mine were a machinist's tool and quite costly, but they have similar in the jewelry/craft tools I think. For me it's about three to five times faster with pliers than fiddling with the vise. I usually debarb as many as I intend to tie before starting to get materials out and drop them into a magnet parts bowl as they are mashed. Now you said jerks and cranks, so probably larger trebles? I'd probably find a flatnose pliers with smooth jaws since the wider jaws have more bearing on the bigger barbs. I'd overhaul those lures on the bench too rather than on the water and hit them with a hone after the barb bending. On trebles, I imagine a surgeons clamp to hold the hook shank while working on the barbs might make it go easier. I'll keep an eye on this for better solutions, just in case there is one. FWIW I'd have guessed the barbs to be needed more on lures.

Whatever works for you. I don't have the patience for either sitting in a small boat for hours or for cast and crank fishing. It's not as boring as rod and line bait fishing for carp, but it would cause me to take up knitting.

Do they lose the parr markings with age or size?

I'm not aware of any left in the streams locally but there were a few places that had trout long after the rearing experiments failed.

just thought of another question too, you mention buying eggs and S Turner talked about where the Mo hatcheries obtained eggs back in the day, and that made me wonder; does each MDC hatchery produce their own eyed eggs, or are they from one hatchery or do they buy them from an outside source?

By the 1940s they had 60 plus years of experience of manipulating rainbows. It seems to me that in the '50s-'60s there must have been some trout rearing setup at every good spring in SW Mo. and NWA, might not have been but I remember dozens of them. And most streams in the area must have had trout stockings at some time too. @bfishn how much time passes between the swimup stage and the fully scaled 3" fingerlings I catch?

Photoperiod I would guess, it's the trigger for most wildlife. I'll take a guess, or two; the reproduction is in tailwaters cooled by lake depth? the tailwater is free flowing stream with suitable shoals, structure, flow and depth ? (similar to the White below BS) It might also make some difference in how the water is released or in the height of the dam as to how cold the discharge flow is.

Rainbow spawn here in the coldest months, Turner said Dec through the first week of Feb, those already cool streams (spring fed throughout and relatively shaded) get even cooler with winter freezing and the smaller they are the colder they will get as the frigid air counteracts the ~56F groundwater. Rainbow need water temperatures 42F-52F for spawning. Ice in Dec. helps with getting those streams cool enough. And while brown trout require about the same temperatures, they are fall spawners , Sept-Dec., and our streams are still carrying summer heat a that time.

I can see that there'd be a lot of warm runoff with all the pavement in that area, it's why I'm surprised the creeks are cool enough to support any kind of trout activity. And it's rare that we get rain at or below 44F. But the entire lake and the way it's managed makes reproduction seem even less likely. If I had caught a few baby trout there, I would have assumed they were escapees from the hatchery. I had believed that even most of our springs are coming out of the ground too warm (~56F?) for successful trout spawning (although cool enough for them to grow and survive) and that only winter chilling and the late winter timing of rainbows make it possible for them to reproduce naturally in any of our streams.

lake level is controlling creek flow?

expand on that?