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The pasta is so even in thickness. You used a roller? I do. I have done her bolognese. You correct, it is easy but lengthy. And wonderful.

Smoked yesterday, served today.

Some other recent pics.

Hey people! Wake up! Even salads are fun!

Korean fried chicken bites with vegetable stir fry. Both based on New York Times recipes. The chicken was excellent! The stir fry with noodles, not so much.

It has been an interesting year for me. I have posted as if all were well. I have gone on trips to the White and posted about holidays, family, and food. Time to come clean. In the last year, I have been under anesthetic four times. At present, my doctor tells me I am cancer free, and if the rest of me worked as well as my eyes now do, I would cruise chicks. Well, not really. The beautiful wife would disapprove. I owe Dutch a rod, and have only two eyelets and a tip top left to finish this week. Then I am headed to two guide trips in May and more later this year. Not the same as living right on Tablerock, but life is good. So why this post? At this point, I am guided trip only. I have no need for a tackle box. Nor do I need the rods I have in my rod rack in the garage. My wife has not a clue what I spent to accumulate what I have (I hope). I intend to keep rods and reels for fishing the White below Bull Shoals. It tickles me to fish there with gear I made. I will keep my unicorn Ned rod. I will keep the Hughes custom painted Top Dollars I have left. The rest must go. So, who here runs a high school fishing team? Who here helps with a disabled veterans fishing program? Who here knows of a deserving fishing program that will use and be happy to accept what I have? Is their anyone you know who deserves a gift? PM me with details.

One of my favorites! I use linguine. And a bib.

Cassoulet - duck leg (confit), garlic sausage, pork, beans, duck stock, herbs and spices, time.

Plus, I am not paying slip rental, I sold my big car for a Mini plug in hybrid that averages 75 mile per gallon, I don't pay boat insurance, and I don't pay licensing fees. That alone will pay for another two day trip per year. Plus, the wife is happier. She is convinced I am too old to fish by myself.

If I still lived at Holiday Island, I would have a boat. Where I live now, it's 45 minutes to an hour to mediocre lakes and one and half to two hours to Grand or Tenkiller. In early May I have a guide booked for two days on the White River. At the end of May I have a half day booked with Phil Stone to top water fish Tablerock. I will book a third trip in the fall. At 2000 to 3000 a year, I have six or seven more years before I use up the money I received for my modest boat.

Roast chicken, dressing with scratch gravy, Brussels sprouts chiffonade.

Provided no lightning is striking, I have had good luck in the rain. The bass are in the staging and moving up time period. Several patterns might work. Slow roll a paddle tail grub in areas near spawning grounds. Same for a twin spin with trailer. Find a spawning flat with a fall off into a channel and fish a finesse jig with trailer from the flat and over the edge. As above, a Ned will work, but target pocket mouths. If you see beds, throw a neko rig and pause and jiggle frequently.

Tonight: Blasted photo will not load. It was good.

Buttermilk fried chicken, garlic smashed potatoes, and sauteed Brussels spouts chiffonade. I don't fry often and when I do, I use my wok. But, I had a yen for fried chicken, and it was not going to go away.

I chose to fish in Canada rather than go to Woodstock. I was nearly 20.

All of you, good comments and excellent opinions. The only tournaments I have ever fished were the ones where we took children with disabilities from the group homes that no longer exist, and took them fishing in our own boats. Did that 5 or 6 years before insurance problems and changing laws shut us down. I did win one year with a boatload of carp from a hole I baited myself. Not exactly sonar circumstances. Took me many cleanings to get the slime off the floor of the boat. It seems to me, based upon what I remember from fishing with my father, he always used the best tools he could afford. His first boat was a laquered canvas made by Pinion. He bought one of the first Lowrance green boxes. He hired guides in Canada. I was the beneficiary of this. Had I fished against young men of my age who fished from the bank, I would have had an advantage. I once played a high school football game against a team from a nearby small town, one created when the Tulsa race massacre caused most blacks to flee Tulsa. It was a bitter cold and rainy night in November. They, and their coach, did not have rain ponchos. Their uniforms were old and torn. We won, but it wasn't a fair fight. In both of the two paragraphs above, to say that the same rules applied does not change reality. Same boats, same electronics will show the best skill. Any other way, not so much pure ability, as it is a combination of tools and ability to use them. Just my $.02.

Last couple of evenings.

Two choices. Low and slow, then sear (usually a 500 oven) or sear and drop to lowering and slow. I have used both. Good reasons and results can suggest either. Here is my gold standard:

wonton wrappers

Hey guys! No body shaming on this forum, right?

Regarding handles, if they have been mouse chewed or disintegrated, about the only solution is paracord to fill the cleaned up gaps, epoxy, and then use the heat shrink wrap. If you must remove all the cork, pracord to make the new handle and soak it in epoxy. To clean up, I use Dawn and what I call a potato brush, but it has to be nasty before I bother.

Hard to believe, but in culinary school they taught us how to skin, prep, and cook them. As rich as they are, I bet they are fantastic smoked.

No, the one in the garage was built for niko rigs, senkos, and shaky rigs. It also works well for finesse jigs. Please try the rod and tell me what you think.