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It's not done quite yet. 1.96 " at Baxter yesterday morning and our Son, who lives just West of Cape Fair, has been getting hammered with heavy rains that miss the Baxter area. At least these downpours seem pretty local and not widespread.

I used to feed the birds year round. Two years in a row I had to kill 12 Skunks who were hanging around the bases of the feeders after dark. Can't have Skunks around when you have dogs in the house that sometimes need potty breaks after dark. Then I read where MDC is recommending stopping wild bird feeding about on May 1st and not resuming until November 1st. No more Skunks and, while it takes a little while for the locals to find the feeders again when I resume feeding in Nov., just one bird finding the feeder seems to spread the word. No more Coons or Possums hanging out either. Other replies on here are pretty good advice. .22 shot shells have very limited range and foul the rifling grooves in the barrel and a 12 Ga. is way too much.

Thanks for the reply and suggestion. I've seen several ads for boxes made of polyethylene and a local Company in Lampe that manufactures boxes made of aluminum sheet over a steel frame that sounded pretty good but are just as expensive as fiberglass. I had one guy respond ( that has now disappeared ) on here with an email address that I followed up on and got a reply from the alleged seller at that address who wanted to know where I'm located but never heard back from him after replying. Strange the reply on OA disappeared so no idea what was going on.

anyone have one for sale ? Tx/

Yep, that idiotic idea is almost as dumb as their re-introduction of the dratted Otters. Clearly recall the noise and opposition when they introduced the 15" limit in the 70's, which was one of the best things they ever did, but we now seem to have some very different people in charge. Notice when we see them doing their "Electro-fishing" census their boat is always relatively close to shore because the voltage won't reach deeper depths? So their sampling is incomplete. Would Florida strain LM survive our winter water temps ?

Would you mind sharing the locations in NIXA that sell non-Ethanol Pure Gas ? Thanks. I'm through there constantly and have never seen it posted on the Rapid Roberts or Casey's pumps. And yessir, I fully agree with always using non-Ethanol fuel in any Marine Engine.

"donating" their money or items qualifies as a promotional business Income Tax Write-OFF that is definitely not LIMITED to the cost of the items nor just the amount of the cash awards/prizes and is beneficial to most of them since they are reaching their hard-core targets without having to fork over large sums of cash in a "shotgun" approach to advertising. Always follow the money and Tax consequences. 42 years at a Fortune 500 Corporation in a Corporate Hdqtrs. position well aware of how Marketing minds work in conjunction with the Tax Department and the Controller's Group.

And that "hauling all the fish away" needs to be stopped....permanently ! Most of these "tournaments" are Commercial Operations conducted for Profit or a Product Promotion. Release them where you caught them like I hope the one large Tournament organization is still doing.

NWS took awhile but finally posted that it was an EF-0 twister that was 150 yards wide and touched down East of Y Highway to the West of Branson West in a lightly populated area....thankfully! They said the wide-spread damages, including the Marina and so many homes to the West and SW was caused by something called Reverse-side downdraft from the Tornado. While the actual funnel didn't do much damage, that "Reverse-side downdraft" sure did and it wasn't limited to the immediate area around the CF Marina.

Yep, our Son lives down Wooley Creek Rd. and he has extreme Hail damage with saved Hailstones measuring 3 & 1/2 inches in his freezer, numerous large trees snapped off about 10 to 15 feet up from the ground and one took out his Skeeter's trailer when it dropped on it. His dock over in the cove escaped damage but the big Cell Tower up on 76 on top of the ridge West of Cape Fair got destroyed and they are without Internet until August according to T-Mobile. Cell service is spotty at best and many of his neighbors had trees on their homes and shops along with the large Hail.

Notice on all the links posted about where to buy "pure gas" that there is nowhere within a 100 mile Radius of the St. Louis Metro area where non-Ethanol gas is sold. The nearest, as you travel West, is in Rolla. It took a lot of questioning and research several years ago to discover this is due to some "highly secret" agreement made with the un-elected Bureaucrats in the EPA to not sell non-Ethanol gas within that 100 mile radius. Was it really a "secret" ? Can't tell you for sure but it sure seems so due to the incredible difficulty it took to discover this fact and it was impossible to discover the reasoning for it or whom, at the retail end, agreed to this Policy. There is also some "agreement" that may have lapsed by now that only 91 Octane, or higher, non-Ethanol gas can be sold in Missouri while you could go into Arkansas and find both 87 and 89 non-Ethanol for sale. Just a basic reminder that Gasoline and Ethanol have two different Specific Gravities and, left undisturbed, Gas will eventually separate and "float" on top while Ethanol will sink to the bottom of any fuel containment vessel.....and that is right where your motor's fuel intake is located.

The incredible clouds of Pollen from the dang Cedar trees didn't help either.

Yessir, clearly a dratted Yellow Bass. Used to catch them far too often when I would get "persuaded" to fish the Mud-hole called "Carlyle Lake" in SW Illinois. You are correct about the darn things being "more prolific" to the point where they can almost take-over a Lake and are notorious for reducing the creel of both Crappie and White Bass in a shallow, flatland Lake like Carlyle. What their impact will be on a deeper, Highland Reservoir like TR is unknown to me but I don't like seeing/hearing the darn things are here. Maybe the larger Walters will consume them ?

We were surprised, and so was the guy at MDC when I called him and sent photos, to learn that Hellbenders ( mud-puppies) exist in Table Rock. We caught two of them in our crawfish trap about 10 years ago at Baxter Boat Dock and had just read the news about the attempts to re-establish their populations in MO streams and rivers. The MDC guy ( I forget his name ) was shocked and had me send him pictures of the two critters before we released them but when he got the pictures he agreed they were actual Hellbenders. He said they were native to the White River and the feeder creeks but the program was devoted to restoration of them in flowing bodies of water, not reservoirs.

Last sentence.....could not possibly agree more.