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I do know the Corn-produced Ethanol farce uses 6 gallons of fresh water to produce one gallon of dratted Ethanol. In some areas where Ethanol producing plants were established and had to rely on well-water for that fresh water supply, surrounding residents water wells went dry and they had no choice but to have them drilled deeper....until the next time. What I am waiting to hear is how the States plan on recouping the lost fuel tax revenue that these electric car owners avoid paying for their use of Public Roads and Bridges. We're already "giving" them about $7k in tax credits to buy their vehicles.

That's a step in the right direction but since the Poachers are stealing from ALL of us in the public, it still isn't enough of a fine. Couple the fines with being a "MINIMUM, REQUIRED sentence" to get around namby-pamby, weak Judges and throw in what Minnesota used to do or maybe still does and immediately confiscate, Boat, Motors, Trailer and any vehicle they used in the Poaching incident.

We've had Centurylink in the immediate Baxter area since 2004. Started off with gosh-awful Dial-up and then they thankfully upgraded to DSL. We get a reliable 8Mbps and if our home's wires on the poles was just 200' closer to their "Office" at the entrance to Briar Cliff we would get 10Mbps but distance over these antiquated phone wires chokes us down in speeds. A few things I've discovered over the years: If your place is on the Little Indian Lake-arm side of the ridge that Highway "H" comes down, there is a chance you can get Total High Speed's radio signal from their antenna at Black Oak. If you are on the other side of "H".....NOT. Suggest you investigate by calling them and they can pull up your address and tell you if you are a candidate but the last time I checked with them I was not impressed with their speed nor their prices and cannot receive it here anyway. Suddenlink, nor any other Cable is not available South of the Bridge. A few years ago, Centurylink brought new, underground copper wire down to their "Office" building at Briar Cliff's entrance that enabled the 10Mbps via DSL. If they ever should bring Fiber down to that Briar Cliff office like they recently did (per Matt Bell at Bell Computer) in their upgrade to the Cape Fair area that will potentially increase our speeds to 40Mbps but, again, the antiquated phone lines in the area, going back to the late 1950's, will choke that down. As far as "reliability", one thing that greatly increased ours was to call Centurylink's Internet Repair and complain 1-855-331-1346 about how unreliable your internet service is. They should offer to send out a Field Service Tech. Have him check and determine if you have the old fashioned 2-wire phone line in your place (most around here do have that) and when he verifies that you do, ask him to install, at no cost to you, what the Service Techs call a "Home Run" with modern CAT5-wire direct from the phone access box on the outside (where your phone line enters the place) and route it directly to your Modem. After many, many complaints and service calls 8-10 years ago, they finally sent a more tech-savvy young guy out and he identified the old 2-wire phone line as being the problem and did a really nice job installing the "Home Run" here and at our neighbor's and it has made a huge difference. If you currently have Centurylink in the Baxter area, I'd strongly suggest you consider retaining your account because I've been seeing multiple complaints from new property owners in the area on Social Media (Table Rock Lake Group) that when they call Centurylink to get hooked-up they are being declined and told Centurylink is "full-up" in the area and is not accepting new customers !! We also tried doing the Cell Phone modem thing ( 25 Mbps if memory serves unless there is a lot of traffic on the AT&T cell-tower over in Viola ) and bought AT&T's necessary hardware but they lie about what size of Monthly Data Plan you will need and we quickly and very expensively exceeded ours and told them where they could shove their service, after getting "dinged" with a 30% re-stocking fee for the returned hardware at their Branson Corporate store. Good Luck ! Let us know how you did please.....

Got pooches ? All this Duck discussion reminded me that I found a large bag of "Duck Jerky" at Sam's club (where everything is large 😄) for Dog treats. Compared to their other Dog treats it was inexpensive and contains none of the artificial by-products or corn gluten meal the others had in their list of ingredients. Our four-legged beggars are just nuts for these pieces of jerky and try to lead me to where I keep the bag stored. Only thing is you have to break the strips of jerky into shorter pieces so they don't try the usual gulp and swallow eating cause it's real Jerky and needs some chewing.

Bassmaster Pro talks about fish mortality on certain fisheries and claims Tournaments have no impact. Nah ! He doesn't have an axe to grind here....not at all ! 🤣

Really tough to beat the most disorganized Officials I've ever seen and the other team too. 14 free Points to OSU compliments of the Officiating crew they hired from Grade School games. + really dumb plays dialed up by the highly touted new Offensive coordinator like the game ender. Had to laugh when the "AutoZone" Bowl TV broadcast on ESPN that included the most terrible camera work ever and numb-nuts play by play "announcers" had a RockAuto commercial get slipped in there.

Yep, those Cedars took a big hit in the 12:30 A.M. derecho-wind or whatever it was on Dec. 1st. We have several areas where mature, 18" to 2 ft. diameter, Cedars were snapped off at chest height, and the tops carried off and disappeared and no one has found them yet. They may have gone into the water...not sure. Plenty of them were uprooted both on private and Corps land. Most of the residents around us reported hearing the passing "freight train" sound when that wind hit and there is evidence with cedar branches being forcefully wrapped around the trees to indicate one or more small twisters.

5.5 Inches ? You're not that far away and here at Baxter I recorded less than 0.67" over the last two days and an additional 0.17" this morning before the clouds broke.

OK, here goes, let the slings and arrows commence, I can handle it and to each their own. TWO big changes in regulations are badly needed to increase the numbers of Bass in not just TR but other Missouri Lakes Extend the Springtime Bass fishing regulations for Streams to Reservoirs across the State. Catch and release at boat-side only during the Spawn. End the Fish Transportation to weigh-ins. Measure, photograph and release where caught. MLF has just changed to doing it and kudos to the Shell Knob area Bass club that has been doing it.

Divers "see" Bass because of their predatory nature and their instinct to come and investigate a disturbance before turning away after discovering it's not a food source. Plus there is a certain amount of territorial behavior at certain times of the year. There are other fish in the area but they may be hard-wired to flee an unknown presence.

If those two buses were carrying passengers you were looking at video of another potential Mass Casualty Incident like the unfortunate Branson Duck-boat incident. Goes to prove "you can't fix stupid" ! If the depth of the water there didn't drown people, the drop down to it certainly would have.

I believe the increase is a total of $0.10/per gallon phased-in in 2 & 1/2 cent gradual increases over about a 4 year period. I have no problem with a needed funding increase for MoDot. What I do strongly object to are all the lies, including expensive TV advertising, lying about the tax money all going towards the roads and bridges when it obviously is not.

The morning news says the Beaver Bridge is now closed. Probably closely inspecting it for overweight damages.

If you have a boat/tow-vehicle that runs on gas or diesel and you fuel it and Vote in MO you might want to read this. Prop "D" is on the November ballot to increase the Missouri gas tax claiming it is for better/safer Roads and Bridges that we all use.....unfortunately, we are being LIED to again. Only 30% of the revenue collected will go to MoDOT for roads and bridges while 70% is earmarked solely for increasing/funding the Missouri State Highway Patrol. Your decision, of course, how you vote, but I'm darn sick of the lies and half-truths. If you doubt me, here is the actual wording of the Bill: SS #2 HB 1460 9 Section D. Pursuant to chapter 116, and other applicable constitutional provisions and 2 laws of this state allowing the general assembly to adopt ballot language for the submission of referendum measures to the voters of this state, the official fiscal note summary of the act proposed in section A of this act shall be as follows: "If passed, this measure will generate at least $288 million annually to the State Road Fund to provide for the funding of Missouri state law enforcement and $123 million annually to local governments for road construction and maintenance."

Didn't realize you previously had a Skeeter. I guess that's something all owners learn quickly....the hard way 😉

Awesome boat. Looks like the same transom design I had on my '98 50th Anniversary ZX 21'. If you haven't noticed already, when you shut her down and she drops off plane suddenly, watch for the backwash rolling over the transom.

As of this A.M. ….nothing. Cold front is still moving slow or barely moving at all. This weekend they are forecasting the remnants of the Pacific Hurricane to hit late Saturday night with some hefty rain totals....that is if it follows the predicted path.

If they're in TR, I wish they'd eat all the dratted Rock Snot we deal with every Spring. Maybe that's not on their menu ?

LMAO ! That sounds like my motto. I always say, after frequently getting skunked, that's why they call it "fishing" !

With a detached retina, yeah, definitely let your eye heal. Your boat will be there when you can get to it after you heal-up. I can definitely sympathize because I'm trying to heal after Advanced Surface Ablation on my eye in an attempt to rectify some less-than-great Cataract surgery on my eye that will hopefully restore my vision acuity. I sure hope your recovery isn't as painful as what I'm trying to deal with but time and following the Doc's orders is the best thing for both of us. Good luck !

IMHO, it sounds like, thankfully and finally, they are realizing there are more "viewers" on TV that the sponsors can reach with their ads than there are locals who show up at the dog & pony show weigh-ins. This will most certainly have a positive effect on the Bass population for the rest of us. Hope it spreads to the other "Jerk & Transport" tournament operations.

Just saw a "Carver Cruiser group" looking for members on the Facebook group page "Table Rock Lake Group". I'd like to tell them what they can do with their "battleship in a Bathtub" Carver Cruisers that the inconsiderate clowns create those boat-swamping wakes with.

As I discovered, the hard way, with a Skeeter's "back-end" design (and others like it) taking those wakes "back-end first" was the worst thing I could have done but mine wasn't intentional but accidental as I didn't see the wake coming from clear across the Lake. My switched port and starboard bilge pumps that I flipped on plus the auto-pump ran for maybe three minutes and I had to trailer the boat on a steep ramp and pull the plug to get rid of everything.

Having recorded over 7" of rain on my weather station during August at Mid-lake I'd guess our extremely dry soil has been replenished. This morning's NWS Hurricane Center storm track prediction has swung the center of the remnants of Gordon directly over Joplin in the Fri-Sat time period and it's forecast to interact with a Front. So the Lake is looking like it will be on the "right hand" side, maybe, of the circulation which they say is where all the heavier rain occurs.

I've had Precision Sonar's "Cable Guard" brackets for a year and a half and they do enable mounting and using your sidefinder/sidescan's transducer. Mounted on an Ulterra, which I don't like at all and wish I had bought the Ultrex, they do keep the cable managed but have to be turned to the up-side of the trolling motor shaft to clear the deck and mounting bracket when the motor is retracted. That makes the transducer cable more exposed to snagging on any brush or stick-ups when the motor is deployed so you gotta' be aware of that. Why in the world Johnson Outdoors, which owns both MinnKota and Humminbird, would manufacture a trolling motor like the Ulterra and not provide a slot for the more advanced transducer than what they build into the Ulterra's head is a real good question.