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Learn how to bleed and dress the carp, you can release the cat fish, no regulation says you have to keep them.

I'm not really a fish lover and most seem to be about the same, so, always wonder at others' thoughts on taste. To my taste most people preparing fish try to cover the taste of the fish with bread and spices. With enough spicy bread and strong tasting oil most fish will taste about the same, to me, like fried bread. Canned salmon and sardines being exceptions.

Are channel cat and blue cat normally good to eat? was that just an odd happening?

Define "water course"? The article I read a few months ago didn't talk about steams and as far I am aware one state's Constitution does not apply to another state? How would SCOTUS upholding NM Constitution apply to MO or MT? would it void our Constitutions? Since it's a Constitutional matter I don't think it matters outside NM? Or does our MO Constitutional amendment on cannabis make the stuff legal in all states?

I think refusing to hear a case is a little different than taking a side with anglers. State Supreme Court interpreted their Constitution and SCOTUS just looked away. There enough vagaries in that interpretation that the law suits aren't over. The next thing will be can the public hike for miles down a dry gully to access water. The strictest reading of the case seems to say yes they can and landowners would not be able to prevent it.

coons?

Flagging would excite the Peta types and all such sets would be destroyed and traps stolen. It's worse some places than others and the antis stealing traps is what brought about the no tampering laws. A trapper shouldn't set in a high use area, though, or near a house and it is illegal to set traps in trails and paths used by people. Most state owned land requires a special use permit with sometimes more restrictions than the Code, I'm guessing that if the game-warden you spoke to didn't get excited, that he knew the trapper and may have already examined the set prior to you being there. Marking with flagging like you suggest would also insure the target animals never got caught. If I have properly concealed my trap from a coyote, you should never find it unless it is tripped, coyotes and fox are wary of new things in their living space. Flagging is sometimes used to visually attract bobcats and your pal may have been targeting them. Trapping season is publicized, it's no secret that traps will be set during that season. Hunters should learn to deal with traps, anyhow, because even if the season is closed or the area hunted is closed to trapping there will be poachers that violate the laws.

Have always been free as a landowner, but the turkeys left a long time ago.

Traps have to have a tag with conservation number on it, and I imagine that one did, likely rolled up tight around a chain link where it would be lost, because under the law only the trap owner or an MDC Agent can handle the trap. The agent probably should have taken your name though. The same law to trot lines the tag, is for the Agent's use only; if some idiot pulls up your trotline to find the tag, the idiot is tampering, a violation. There is no requirement for visibility. Your dog was at fault, just like it would be in any other off leash instance. Free roaming dogs are a costly nuisance to a trapper or a farmer. And dog owners always say "my dog doesn't do that." Every time they check you, me or another person for permits they are preventing poaching, or "theft of wildlife", and that means there will be fish and game next year. It is unfortunate that such checks are the only way of identifying thieves, it would be wonderful if all criminals had Hi-Vis tattoos that could be read with a scanner from a distance, then the rest of us wouldn't have to carry any I.D. I don't know what it means, but in 60 years of hunting, trapping and fishing, I can count on my fingers the number of times I've been checked by game-wardens. I have seen them catch poachers on the water more times than I've been checked. It's crazy to watch one wade right into and across the creek in dress shoes, uniform and all.

In what way would you think a game warden could make you feel safer?

I don't think law enforcement was ever meant to beneficial. It is generally punitive.

I have put hen and nesting material with eggs into a nest sized cardboard box to move her and kept it on it's side covered loosely for a few hours til she settles. They generally like a closed in private area with no threats, so usually settle down quickly. I just leave them in that box with one flap closing the bottom of the opening. Moving the hen at night might make it easier. As to when to make the move, I'd do within the first two weeks of setting and she might be more apt to stay set if given privacy sooner. I've actually never had great luck at keeping the laying breeds on a nest, lots did well for 15-17 days and then just walked away. Banties and game hens make better mothers, but you have what you have and the internet says speckled sussex are good mothers too. Look up "backyardchickens.com", it's a forum community like this for hobby chicken people and has some really good information on most things chicken. I just know what I can remember on a given day, some days not too much.

You'll have better luck at chick survival if you move mama to a isolated pen that the other birds can't get too, left free the hen would hide her nest and not introduce the chicks to the flock until they are big enough to survive the "Pecking Order" initiation. I put setting hens into the feed room from before hatching until the chicks are flying and then give her and them day time outdoor access. If there are two other adult chickens in the same pen as newly hatched chicks, the mother hen won't be able to defend the babies and they often get pecked fatally or chased to exhaustion, in my experience.

Good fly, does it have a pattern name? or are you up for a tutorial? shucks, even a materials list .... never mind; after I think about 30 fish is a lot of work.

I still have to buy trout permit, trapping permit, migratory bird permit?

They are in the same Order https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroptera as are mantidflies, alderflies, snakeflies, spongeflies, antlions and owlflies. Different venation in the wings different mouth parts and so on are used to determine family and species.

It has always seemed to me that if I'm taking bass, goggle eye, green sunfish, various minnows and crappie that I should occasionally find a cat fish or carp, since they eat a lot of the same grub, but I never have. I have caught bullhead on the fly though, by accident once and then I targeted them a few times.

What sort of fly, and what kind of structure?

I should study bluegill on the fly, I've caught very few of them in the creeks when catching bass. And I don't think I've ever taken a catfish on fly either, but trout are an easier target and my car never gets towed in the park. It hasn't been towed on the creek yet either but the signs are there and I've seen other cars hauled off. When we still had lots of access, 20-70 years ago, I'd have rather been after smallmouth, goggle-eye and the occasional crappie than to practice on trout. Somehow I usually manage to find a stretch of water for myself on the ~3 miles in RRSP on the days I fish and the access is always easy, a greater concern each year. Most Park anglers get stacked up on the pools where they can see 10,000 trout and skip over the stretches that only hold numbers that one would find on a wilderness stream. I only need ~150' to "be by myself" since I'm not a distance caster. Honing skills doesn't necessarily mean getting better, it can mean just staying in shape and maintaining rather than losing skills.

I wonder if they can prosecute using a boast as evidence?

Just what wrench said. If I'm not keeping fish anyway what does the hatchery taste matter? I often slack the line after a couple of jumps so that the barbless hook falls out and I don't have to handle the fish. The park is as good as a mountain top in Idaho to practice fly presentation and line control. And having fished wild mountain tops in Idaho as kid those trout were easier than the park trout, only fewer numbers made them seem harder.

I've never fished an opening day in my life, but when I was in R.I., I used to go to the nearby trout lake on the opener just to watch and drink coffee with a few other fly only guys; always entertaining and I've seen six fish limits of trout caught on salt water lures with surf casting rods. I knew a few fisheries people there and asked why they bothered to close the season for only 30 days when almost everything was frozen any way; his answer was surprising to me at the time, it was solely a money deal, he said they had determined that thousands of people would buy annual permits just to fish on opening day and that they lost all that revenue in the years when the kept the season open.

Was in Joplin Globe 2017

I've had housecats kill chickens. And bobcats will kill both chickens and housecats.

I find fewer after a mild winter, i think. When we hit that magic night time temperature the weeds grow faster than the morels if they have already had 4-6 weeks head start. There may be just as many morels, but I don't find them.