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@ness I'll get back to this. More ideas and guidelines than recipes. The starter is different from day to day and number of people to be fed changes and so on, my "recipes" tend to be fluid. However, if you want sourdough recipes the King Author Flour website is a good place to look. Out the door now.

I'd disagree with that, the Cabelas may have had more fly tying and fly fishing gear than the store has now but there has never been a time that I could find an employee that knew anything about the merchandise. It is a clothing store that sells guns. It was before the merger too. I had Cabela gift cards that after two years and 40-50 visits, I used in the online catalog store to buy stuff that I didn't need, just to burn the cards. I do still still walk through it about once a month just in case they ever change. The only BPS I've been impressed with was the Memphis store before they moved to the pyramid.

I always stirred it in. I kept a culture going for years and started new ones from wild yeast several times, too. I found that I'd rather start fresh if the stuff had set a long time. I mainly did pancakes and occasionally biscuits. Only rarely put in the time to make real bread. I don't think I've made any since the kids all left home, so it's been a while. For pancakes I kept the mix batter thin all the time and kept it ready for daily use.

That'd be nice; if every trout released in the parks got a refund value against the tag and permit cost.

As best I recall the crustaceans blamed for that awful orange color were scuds, little things absorb the carotene from the stuff they eat (zooplankton?) and the trout eat so many scuds that they concentrate the pigments. Waters where scuds make up the majority of the trout's diet will produce highly colored meat, and I imagine the palewhite factory fish change color faster in such waters.

Commercial rearing facilities use feed containing carotenoid pigments (canthaxanthin or astaxanthin) for the purpose of giving restaurant trout some color and taste. Takes about three months when the fish are actively growing. About six months in cold water, The color in natural conditions is caused by eating crustaceans. They also add fats to produce oilier fish for smoking. I looked up a bunch of this stuff a couple years ago, but didn't keep links to the sources.

I think trout will be trout, always seeking food and oxygen. I fished a lot of mill ponds and kettle ponds for trout back east, mostly fall winter and spring also, as they often became too warm by summer. There in ponds (up to ~400A is pond there) that have good inflow and out flow the trout tend to stay in the current or current edges, the inflow often has better oxidation so some fish congregate there and the out flow or dam area is like the tail of a pool, the current concentrates the food both vertically and horizontally, so trout hang out there. In the ponds that feed from marsh or from the bottom the trout concentrated over the silt beds that produced constant midge hatches with some again around the out flow.

With sorting through all those lures and deciding what to use, do you have time to fish?

I live near Little Sugar Creek, so it's the one I watch, 4"+ and the creek went from 264 cfs Mar 23 at 6:30pm gauge 3.7' to 14600 cfs Mar 24 at 8:45am gauge 17.6' overnight ( we are currently flooded in by dry ditches running full) RR shows a peak of 5210cfs at 8:30pm Mar 23 but is already back down to 2530cfs at 12:40pm Mar 24 so the rain must have stopped there sooner and as usual it will be fishable sooner than most other streams.

Coons often move in groups and a hollow den tree may have a dozen of them stacked up during the winter. Being in groups may provide some protection from other predators. When setting foothold traps I'd always set at least three traps at a site for any predator, six per location for coyotes. The roadkill groups most likely got it as a group. But if you pay attention, those kill sites are always kill sites, indicating a trail crosses the road there, so you may see animals that were killed at different times in almost the same place.

Brim is the part of a hat that keeps the sun off your ears.

Bream are a species of minnow that only lives in Europe.

To prevent them becoming "mutts" like your fish. Call them species, strains, races, whatevers; the differences in populations of different watersheds may be significant in ways other than endogamy. At the very least it makes bigger numbers on a "life list" possible, more importantly one or more of the differences may be key to species survival in some habitats and becoming invasive in others.

Not familiar with the term so did a web search. That looks a lot like what many people call fly fishing, a jig under a suspension device. Maybe the key to what one catches is jig size and depth?

Grandpa said "any plant out of place is a weed". And that applies to fish as, "any fish stocked anywhere is an invasive." Even if the species may have been in a place historically, the hatchery version won't be the same stock. Any introduction of animal or plant to any environment will affect that environment negatively.

The problem is racking the pump. The recoil will be much more than you expect, the trigger guard may bruise your fingers and your wrist will hurt. If you are shooting one handed the butt being clamped into your armpit/rib-cage, for support and control, will make it hard to hold on an elevated target or to track a target. Don't use magnum shells. Wrench is probably right on this.

What I read about wipers recrossing with whites is that the hybrids have reduced fertility as compared to the whites, so if the males involved where half hybrids and half whites the fry would still have a better chance of being pure than of being a recross, but it's still more "mutts" than we need. I'd have to guess the number of hybrid males is far less than that of pure whites at any spawning situation though. It would make some kid a great thesis theme to determine percentages of recrosses in the population though and examine DNA to see how those genes are being recombined.

oughta be a Federal law against stocking of fish or wildlife, and I say Federal because this is an area where the states have already proven they are incompetent. Should also prohibit selling animals as pets that can be released accidentally into the wild when the owner gets tired of them. If you want a pet fish or tiger, get a stuffed one. Wanna, catch a non-native fish, pack up and go where they live. If the bass can't reproduce fast enough to support 10000 tournaments, stop the tournaments, put those games on a VR app and let the competition take place by phone. Wrench it's too late now to ever breed the hybrid completely out of those whiter-wipers, like the pears and mimosas they are here to stay. with each generation they may become less hybrid like, or the striper genes may become more dominate, but they won't ever be pure again.

But the stupidest thing is that you can still buy those pear trees legally and keep planting them. The trees MDC and others were planting 50 years ago were sterile and probably would have died out by now if all the sterile stock had been from the same source, but, different suppliers used different strains and if you had one variety of non-seeding tree but your neighbor had a different variety they were able to cross pollinate and create monster hybrids. Something that no one foresaw. Another invasive tree that is so common now that most don't know it isn't native is Mimosa, they are a little less visible because in the summer when they bloom other trees hide them by being leaved. I suspect that the Callery pear has already become so naturalized that any effort to eradicate them is wasted. I rode up to Clinton with our son for the fly tying show last week and there were a couple of places where it looked like a 1/4 section had been sown with the trees, almost solid white. They are thick all along the interstate between Ar. and Joplin. And I have Sericea taking over most all the cleared land thanks to MODOT planting the ROWs way back when. I don't think anything eats it and nothing seems to get rid of it.

I think lessees have just about all the legal rights of owners when it comes to posting or allowing access. They darn well should act they own it.

Yes it says "Hare". Hares and rabbits are kinda like horses and zebras. Exactly alike but totally different.

Might have been "spiking" them. I think it's SOP to stab tuna in the brain with something to kill them. Some then bleed them and ream out the spinal cord to relax all the muscles and prevent whatever it is that makes fish taste bad when they are stressed. This group does it with one stab And this group stabs enough time to kill a platoon-

No idea, why is that?

I rarely enter RRSP earlier than about 10AM, and even when we camped there I never did the dawn combat, so my perspective of the Parks may be skewed.

A hare is not a rabbit, rabbits aren't mentioned. As far as I can find there were no rabbits in that part of the world.