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When leeks are older, use only the very white part and slice very thin. I also tend to peel several layers and use the interior.

How did you slice the leeks? The photo looks like you sliced with the grain.

Spaghetti alla carbonara.

Ham bone beans with smoked bratwurst.

I also have a ham bone in the slow cooker with beans and aromatics. Pictures later.

The thread has gotten quiet boys. I'll throw this down. Shrimp curry.

I re-read my post and realized it sounded very maudlin. Sorry about that. As for leaving the forum, I won't be doing that. Instead, my reports praising wake boats and describing the human condition at the lake (drunk) will merely come from a different body of water. I am hopeful that being able to fish during the week will allow me to avoid most of the problems and permit me to catch a few good fish. Besides, where else could I post food pictures?

The last two weekends have been stay off the lake weekends for me. Between bad weather and moving I may not be able to seriously fish until July - and then it will be on a different, and inferior, lake. I would have preferred a weather friendly Spring for my last season here. I am trying not to let this fact affect my attitude. Probably not as well as I should. The new location will be Skiatook Lake in Oklahoma. My pb Table Rock walleye was almost 6 pounds over the lake record. My second best was almost 4 pounds more. My pb Table Rock bass would be the second best for the lake records. The good news is that the lake is a clear water lake with rocky, steep sides (highland reservoir type). This means many of the techniques Table Rock forced me to learn will apply. I am hopeful what I have learned here will help me do well there.

Recently, when I've been able to fish, I have been using Finatic. It is not smooth but it holds up well against abrasion, does not fade, and ties a good double palomar knot well. http://www.tackletour.com/reviewfinaticbraid.html

Back in the day. Real men (rugby players) wear what they want. BTW, I am in this picture.

You have to love that.

We all forget steps from time to time.

It may be single purpose, but it does a great job of that purpose?

In a tent - paper or foil - the protein needs help as no heat/chemical action helps. Add herbs like chives and tarragon, plus heavy salt/pepper, and some heat sensitive aromatic. The secret to service is to open the pouch at the table for the eater to smell the result.

I was out of town this last weekend, and will be the next. However, tonight I can cook. I have an Italian sausage red sauce simmering. I intend to serve it over cheesy, coarse grind yellow corn grits rather than pasta. Salad with herbs on the side. I will edit later to include pictures. EDIT:

Scott, Feathers and Fins, got mad and tried to take down all his teaching posts and ceased posting. At that time he worked at Hook Line and Sinker in Rogers. I've lost track of him.

Even when I am spoon jigging the drop off at Eagle Rock, I have no problem with a bass boat on plane and moving fast. The wake is near nothing. A ski boat or a PWC may annoy, but still - not that much of a problem. A wake boat that passes within 50 yards is an tsunami, with which I cannot deal without expletives. On a side note, my, how my initial post has found legs as a wake boat thread.

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The bad manners were a few of the tournament fishermen. I was fishing up the side of a point, and a boat pulled up on the other side, maybe a cast between us, and also began fishing toward the point end. I was fishing the space between some docks and someone ran WOT past the docks, well inside the no wake buoy. Last, and most irritating, more than one boat plowed rather than idled through the no wake zone at the HI marina. As for the wake boat, it docks at HI as well. I know the folks. Pretty nice actually.That does not mean I like their boat. Here in the skinny end, there is no where to go to get away from them.

I went down to fish at noon today The normal parking and overflow parking had overflowed. Some big bass tournament. I went out anyway. Many boats here at the skinny end, and I have seen better manners at a juvenile detention facility. I caught 10 in four hours with three on a RC and 7 on a Ned. One nice spotted bass keeper. Water temp 59. Talked with Colin, the HI concessionaire, when I came in. He told me he made very little money off the fishermen. They all had gas and oil when they arrived and bought no items other than a few pizzas and beer. Oh, and the first wake boat of the year came by me three times.

I see a mixed bag. Crappie, white bass, and walleye. Great fish fry in the making!

I wanted a red sauce tonight. I found two partial boxes of pasta in the pantry. Rigatoni and rotini. What you see is mixed breed pasta with a semi Puttanesca sauce.

Two or three years ago, our high school built a green house and began an agricultural program based uponn a grant. We got lucky and the man hired as the teacher, Jason McAfee, is a winner. Nancy and I buy the produce he and the kids produce. Look at this salad!

I have said this for years: We need to spray where they breed.

Sesame noodles with poached shrimp and blanched sugar snaps and carrots. I had a little dipping sauce on the side.