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Most heat tapes have a black button, this is placed against the pipe. the tape is ran along the length of the pipe. when the temp drops enough the the black button that is the thermostat kicks the heat on. I had an outside facet freeze up two years in a row. I found the problem the wife had put a pile of old clothing ont he floor over the pipe. This insulated the heat from the floor. Once I removed the pile way back in the corner of her closet. the pipe thawed and was fine even in the -15F temps we had this year.

117 lbs, While I have a really screwed up spine, the wife and I can take the motor off and put it on.

http://www.change.org/petitions/stop-budget-cuts-that-end-federal-funding-for-fish-hatcheries-2 Here from Obamas own website. http://www.fws.gov/norfork/ http://recovery.doi.gov/press/bureaus/us-fish-and-wildlife-service/greers-ferry-national-fish-hatchery/

If you will dig deep into the library of congress you will find. Zero Native trout in the Ozarks. Zero!!! All are stocked period. Now also while you are digging you will find a study showing that the COE knew the cold waters would kill most of the native fish and the other fact the lakes flooded the best fields along them. Part of the reason for stocking trout was to supply jobs lost due to the lakes flooding. Smallmouth cannot grow well in the colder waters or we would be catching huge smallmouth these days after all it has been how many years????? Most of the smallies you catch are stunted smallie below Bull Shoals until you reach the mouth of Buffalo river and then still a lot of small dumpy smallies! They are not coming back, you must get down below Locust Grove AR on the White River to find cool water fish like smallies. Economics play a huge roll here. this program if stocking trout returns $94.00 for every ($1.00)dollar put into the hatchery. I pay taxes in the form of Pittman/Roberston (hunting/firearms etc. Dingel/Johnson Acts You pay them too and they simply want to put our money elsewhere!!! http://www.fws.gov/laws/lawsdigest/fasport.html http://www.fws.gov/southeast/federalaid/pittmanrobertson.html I was also told that the guide assoc, pays for many of the eggs that get hatched. Dont knowif its fact but thats what a couple of the guides have told me.

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12 billion dollar increase in funding to the USDW, but they want to cut funding. Oh crap wait this one project makes money. 1 dollar in 94 and change out.

We pay for the hatchery and other USF&W services with taxes. the one thing that make money fromt he Fed. money is the hatcheries. Baxter Bulletin. A press release published on Valentine's Day from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says the service wants to stop funding to the Norfork and Greers Ferry national fish hatcheries and a few other hatcheries like them, then pass that cost on to the agencies that built the dams that created the need for the hatcheries. Jim Gaston, a leader in the promotion of tourism to Arkansas for nearly half a century, told The Bulletin Monday there is no federal legislation that assures funding for the stocker-trout production from the Norfork National Fish Hatchery and other hatcheries like it that replace native fish species displaced by dams. Mitigation-of-species agreements between states and the federal government aren't worth much in the absence of legislation to fund the hatcheries, Gaston said. Without a law that clearly defines and enables funding for the hatcheries, the issue will continue to be bantered about by bureaucrats that head agencies like the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, he said. "Our first order of business is to solve the present crisis," Gaston said, "and then to come up with something so we don't have to go through this every few years." Budget When President Obama rolled out his 2012 budget earlier this month, it included $1.7 billion for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, a net increase of $47.9 million compared to the Fiscal Year 2010 budget. But the line item from federal fish hatcheries buried in the budget shows plans to cut the hatcheries budget from $54.37 million spent in the operation of 70 fish hatcheries in 2010 to $42.76 million, or 21.3 percent, for 2012. Nine hatcheries in the 70 that operate under the FWS umbrella — including the Norfork and Greers Ferry national fish hatcheries — were built pursuant to mitigation-of-species agreements between the agencies that built the dams and the states they're in. FWS plans to cut $6.3 million from the funding of the those hatcheries. "The service has been working to recover costs from the federal agencies that built and operate these water infrastructure projects, and will continue ongoing reimbursement discussions with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Tennessee Valley Authority, Central Utah Project Completion Act, and the Bonneville Power Administration," the FWS said in its Valentine's Day press release. Gaston said news that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers already had been persuaded by FWS to contribute $3.8 million to the operation of a the nine-dam group in 2011 and to pledge a similar amount in 2012 was a surprise to him. It's illustrative, Gaston said, of how bureaucracies work. Gaston said the behavior, indeed, represents a funding crisis to the hatcheries because of current fiscal problems with the federal government that gives momentum to almost any kind of budget-cutting proposals by bureaucracies or government executives, despite facts for or against cuts. The facts Here are some facts from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's current fact sheet about the Norfork National Fish Hatchery: "Norfork National Fish Hatchery has a significant economic impact. For every dollar spent by the hatchery, $94.98 is generated in economic output. The total economic output for trout production at the hatchery (2010 dollars) is $90,400,000." Gaston said facts mean little in Washington, D.C., and the present crisis is not altogether unlike a funding crisis in 1995 when a past director of the FWS decreed that service's mission was not to nurture sport fishing in America and proposed deep cuts to the hatchery program. "I went to Washington in 1995 armed with a report containing the facts. I was very proud of my report," Gaston said. "Our Sen. (Dale) Bumpers introduced me to (the late) Sen. Robert Byrd. He read my report, and we had lunch together. He told me something that will always be with me. "Sen. Byrd said: 'Facts mean just a little bit here in Washington.' " Gaston said the peddling of hatchery responsibilities back and forth between agencies are outcomes of "Washington heavyweights" making deals for pet projects at the highest levels of FWS. Voices heard "People who think the facts are going to win this one are just wrong. We don't know whose behind this," Gaston said. The people of Arkansas and the nation who love the rivers and trout fishing and want adequate funding for the hatchery in 2012 and thereafter must organize and make their voices heard, Gaston said. "The people are really going to have to turn up the pressure on them (FWS). We have to bring it to a level that it's not worth the trouble," Gaston said. At a meeting of Arkansas Game and Fish Commission department heads last week that included Gaston and others vested in the trout fishing in Arkansas, a number of remedies were discussed for the hatchery crisis including an offer from the state to buy the Norfork hatchery, according to a report by the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. Proffered "a more salient point" was "the federal government's responsibility to maintain the hatcheries, which supply year-round trout fisheries to mitigate the loss of the native fisheries that existed in the White and Little Red rivers before the Bull Shoals, Norfork and Greers Ferry dams were built. "Closing those hatcheries would exacerbate the dams' negative environmental impact and would essentially constitute a breach of contract. In short, the feds might be obligated to keep the hatcheries running," veteran Democrat-Gazette outdoors writer Bryan Hendricks wrote. Gaston said viable, hard-funding options exist. On Monday, he was mindful that bills for construction of the dams had been retired by proceeds from the sale of electricity produced by the dams. The quasi-governmental Southwest Power Administration is the seller of that electricity. "An amount added to the cost of electricity per kilowatt hour on the electricity that comes from dams is an option that comes to my mind," Gaston said. "Southwestern probably wouldn't like it. I don't blame them. I wouldn't either." fwallis@baxterbulletin.com

Hey I resemble that remark! Yes you can do glass in the back yard at 35F!!!

CC is really seldom floatable below Flippin. If its Crooked Creek that you want to float There is a lot better places to do that.

I fish to get away from the crap. Nice peaceful then ring a ding a ling. someones phone!!!

I saw a flock of Snows, Rosses and Blues on the ground feeding 15 mile SE of Harrison AR. Saw two more flocks low and slow.

Also never hold a bass like this, it can pull the aorta and weaken it. In a large older fish the fish already has had a heart attack and this will finish it off in a couple days. http://www.dnr.state.md.us/fisheries/art2001/jasonhaney061901lmb.jpg

They said 20 years ago that Nursing field would be flooded. It has not happened yet and a good nurse RN can always find a job! I know one very very well, she has travel nursed and made some serious money and always able to get a job at her hometown hospital when she is not traveling. On the other hand it takes a special giving type of person to be a nurse!

It runs underground they say. There is so little water below 101 bridge its a heck of a drag!!!. If the water is up and running the brush will beat you to death. If the weather is warm its a snakeheaven!!! Someday the rest of CC will be the same way with the lack of gravel mining.

Use small white jigs or the smallest white road runner you can find, fish slow and the head of the holes, slow and deep will catch fish.

Gary has it right, small road runner deep and slow in the front on the hole!

Most places I fish the cellphone is worthless "Verizon" almost worthless sitting here at the house!!

Norforkis no units are running is not well boat-able. Some shoals you can hardly drag a boat over.

You better watch the weather other wise you will have a hell of a drag from the lower access to just above White river. Crooked creek sinks into the huge amounts of gravel in that stretch. There are times when there is enough water to float it, but the brush will beat the hell out of you! Strainers some yakers and canoe guys call them.

Endangered or not you can still protect yourself and your livestock and family. Anyone have some cat hounds? Maybe they will allow hounds on bear in Mark Twain?

No snow at 3:30 and now we are at 13 inches. Wife was told yesterday that they would be in school Friday and Saturday. Somehow I think the People in charge are wrong really wrong! Still snowing hard here at 10:30AM

A fellow from Harrison last Name Dickey caught a 44 inch 45lb striper fishing out of Lead hill Feb 6 2011. Jiggin a small spoon for white bass and yellow perch.

A singer had a hit song years back. Constant cravings, she was vegan and like women. so yep she probably did have constant cravings. Tell the vegan this. My food craps on your food!

I have been looking for a really detailed map. Just keep getting a generic type of map that does not really show the shoals and the land marks. Anybody know of one?

http://www.bullshoals.com/map/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bull_Shoals_Lake http://www.swl.usace.army.mil/parks/bullshoals/ Dam to dam as the crow flies I was told 80 miles the wiki site confirms that. If you followed the river channel, I was told 127 miles.