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Half the fun is having a proper English fry up for breakfast….lots of cool camping gear of kit as they say

Prebaiting doesn’t get fish “ addicted” but think match the hatch so to speak….however most events ban fishing X amount of days before a match….pegs are typically drawn it would be foolish to chum up a spot for someone else to draw….on the subject of bait boats..in events where pegs are far apart so no one can dump a load of chum to draw fish in that area out of casting range or floating / suspending chum while your offerings are unmolested on bottom, ever worse a load of tide pods of borax boilies to run fish completely out of an area….something that gets done in paylakes….conflict has happed and people have been shot…paylakes are a different animal…

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Bait boats are not allowed in some contests because they are expensive and you can chum things that run fish away from pegs…..which are drawn prebaiting does you no good if someone else gets that peg…..72 hours is at pretty Much the standard…..most “ socials “ are just that side pots for biggest fish sometimes biggest buff…..

In the paylakes of the Carolina’s they have had shootings…but those are a different animal than EuroStyle events…most have marshals to mediate disputes….most recently was an event in Connecticut I this fish to count had to be 15#. https://www.middletownpress.com/news/article/Fishers-vie-for-25K-in-CT-River-carp-tournament-17539743.php is there cheating? I’m sure but less than people who allow trailering….we use the peg system

Mike Long ” Somehow, news that the legendary Mike Long had snagged or faked most of his claims to fame never got out of Southern California. He continued to sponsor products, appear in magazines and generate large followings on social media, where he could delete any negative comments or allegations. “There was so much rumor, but he was so big,” Ellis said. “I think his reputation was bigger than all of us. Like, we would say stuff and then he would say, ‘oh, you’re just jealous haters.’”

https://www.mensjournal.com/adventure/angler-caught-cheating-at-texas-bass-fishing-tourney-faces-felony-charge/

recent New York Times quotes https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/02/us/fishing-tournament-cheating-scandal-lake-erie.html “Cheating in competitive fishing is more common than many people think, Mr. Robertson said. He listed the myriad ways people do so: They have friends deliver pre-caught fish to them; they fish in prohibited areas; they put fish in cages before the competition; they stuff them with ice, adding heft during the weigh-in that melts and leaves no evidence.” “You have to consider that in some of these tournaments, ounces can mean tens, or hundreds, of thousands of dollars,” he said. Mr. Robertson said placing weights into fish was a primitive and “sloppy” way to cheat, as seen with the suspicions of Mr. Fischer.”

https://www.wired2fish.com/viral/tournament-fishing-cheaters-convicted-with-forensic-science

https://www.newyorkupstate.com/outdoors/2019/06/dec-officer-stops-cheating-cny-bowfishermen-from-winning-tournament.html

https://www.thedailybeast.com/pro-fishing-roiled-by-wild-walleye-bass-cheating-scandal

30 day notice required https://gf.nd.gov/news/6075

Blackberries in rows….build brush piles….kill off preds including feral house cats, rats/ mice…..hawks/owls are hell on rabbits and quail…over grown RR right always had the best quail hunting for me….prairie grass planted in rows….still a few prairie chickens around mindenmines area….been a few years but state was buying booming grounds there years ago….

Doesn’t work on Asian carp….just commons/koi….LMB virus jumped from another species…..bio controls can have unintended consequences….ask Australians

Mercury Marine unveiled the industry’s first-ever V10 outboard with the official launch of its all-new 5.7L 350 and 400-hp Verado outboard engines at a special media gathering this morning. Consistent with the award-winning Verado brand, the new V10 engines will be marketed as the quietest and smoothest in their class, running 45 percent quieter than a leading competitor at cruise. Full story here: https://www.speedboat.com/news/mercury-marine-introduces-industrys-first-v10-outboards

Found this in another group I’m in thought I’d share

In the spirit of Halloween fast approaching, I came across this…thought I’d share… among all of the grim history of battles and death that hangs over the Civil War like a dark specter, there are scattered throughout curious tales of the strange, and it seems that there was more than just the enemy lurking about the battlefields of the era. Out of the war come stories of bizarre beasts that prowled through the wilderness to evoke curiosity, bafflement, and indeed fear in the bedraggled troops of both sides. Mostly lost to the mists of time, these perplexing accounts are a bizarre look into another, stranger facet of America’s bloodiest war. THE WHITE RIVER MONSTER Another strange creature that reared its head during the Civil War was an alleged enormous amphibious monster that inhabited the White River near Newport in northeastern Arkansas. The thing that has come to be known as the White River Monster was first brought to public attention in July of 1915, when a plantation owner spotted a huge monster with rough, grey skin basking on the shore of the river. The report generated a good deal of excitement, and there were even plans to make a large rope net to capture the beast. Although the creature could not be captured, its trademark three-toed footprints were often seen along the river’s muddy shores, as well as trees that had been bent out of shape and brush that had been plowed down flat by something very large and heavy. A river-monster further sighting would be made in 1937, when another plantation owner named Bramlett Bateman saw a creature which was reported as being 12 feet long, with skin like that of an elephant and with a face that looked like a catfish. Bateman was so upset by the presence of the creature in the river that he had had plans to blow it up with explosives until authorities put an end to such ideas by denying permission to do so. The monstrous creature would be sighted nearly a hundred times after that, and in 1971 there was a series of other high-profile sightings which described the monster as being up to 20 feet long and having smooth flesh and some sort of bone protruding from its forehead. It was also said to produce vocalizations that sounded like the mooing of a cow or the neighing of a horse. Oddly, some of the reports described the creature to be apparently molting, with patches of skin sloughing off of it; an interesting detail to mention that seems to somehow give it some weight as to being a real creature since how many witnesses would think to add on such an odd observation? Sightings got to be so prolific that there was even legislation passed to create a refuge for the monster in 1973, which states that it cannot be harmed within the area’s borders, which stretch from an area known as “Old Grand Glaize” and a point on White River known as “Rosie.” It is an interesting case of an unknown animal being protected even in the absence of proof of its existence. Although the White River Monster was brought to the public consciousness in 1915, there are supposedly reports from even earlier, during the Civil War, when the mystery monster was said to occasionally overturn boats used for shipping supplies and for transportation of troops. Some boats at this time were reported to have been smashed from underwater by some sort of large, aggressive creature, which would cause damage or even sink them. There is even a report of Civil War soldiers firing upon a large “elephant-like” monster on the shores of the river, which seemed to be unfazed before submerging and swimming off. It is unclear if these accounts really happened, or if they were fabricated later to match the growing number of sightings of the purported beast in the early 1900s. Although it is unknown just what sort of creature was prowling the White River, one popular theory is that it was wayward elephant seals far out of their normal range.

More…every fall Carthage celebrates maple leaf fall color even have Wiener dog races!

Carthage has great fall color

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