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My son joined OAF last week or so. He says it wont let him log in. His screen name is JBoothe. It shows him as a member, so dont know.

Thats a good one!! ahhh, what her number?

Nobody has mentioned the improved clinch knot. Am I the only one that uses it? Also tie the palomar knot for single hooks.

My youngest one bought one and said it was a joke. Like I told him though, with any stop smoking aid your mind has to be right. YOU GOT TO WANT TO STOP.

Might be inputities in the lead. Are you using odds and ends for your lead or are you using virgin doe run lead? Some lead products have zink in them and makes for hard spots or slag in the lead. Zinc needs 700- 800 degrees to pour well and most molds wont hold up to that. Whens the last time you emptied your melting pot and started with new? Dross or sedidiment will settle in the bottom of the pot, its like gooey mud or lava. Used lead spells trouble in the long haul.

I keep it all stowed below deck. Nothing worse than a bunch of clutter all over the decks. Ever try to get to a net and discover it has a tackle box in it, empty pop cans ect? Keep it clean and lean.

I saw lots of threadfin shad flipping on the surface last week on Table Rock. Lots of them swimming on there sides, so my guess is it wont be long.

I have been swimming it deep, slow retrieve.

Glad they got em! I hate a thief. Bet they had done that before at Ahoys.

After fishing Wed, Thurs, friday all half days and only catching 1- 2 fish a day they finally bit today. My son went with me today. He was throwing a jerk bait me the grub. Ended up with 20 or so fish with 5 keepers out of the bunch. Best one was a 3 pound black. 3 smallies mixed in with the rest. The grub was the bait today , it out caught the jerk bait two to one. They are starting to smack the jerk bait like they are supposed to, so it wont be long.... Water temp. was 46. Fished from point 2 to point 7. For me if you wernt in a creek you didnt get bit. Boat in 25 - 30 ft throwing to outside of the timber. It was my sons birthday today, to bad he didnt catch most of the fish!! Couple of pics showing the average of what we caught. The KY are starting to toad up. Every time I would catch one on the grub , Jason would say that dammed ole grub, ( he doesnt like to throw it). Fished from 7;30- 1:00.

I too was wondering the same thing. Then I read this: The Army Corps of Engineers will drop the levels by running Beaver Dam's generators 24 hours a day for about five or six days, and then scaling down to 12 hours a day after that. They do not plan on opening the dam's spillway gates. I guess right now not too much diferance between the top and bottom water?? Was thinking about the upper end but might have to rethink the plan.

troutgnat, Not too shabby! I stayed away this week as I thought it might be tough. Going to give it a go mid week. Dont know whether It will be rising water or current from Beaver. Either way it might get things going, ( I hope).

Whew! Thats good to know.

Got this today hope its not true, but appears to be. Subject: Gun owners... look what's on the 2010 tax return.... As if we didn't have enough to get upset about! If you have a gun, I hope it isn't registered! It begins... more Freedom gone.... the right to protect yourself and your family gone! Now ALL GUNS must be listed on your next (2010) tax return! Senate Bill SB-2099 will require us to put on our 2009 1040 federal tax form all guns that you have or own. It will require fingerprints and a tax of $50 per gun. This bill was introduced on February 24, 2009, by the Obama staff. BUT, this bill will only become public knowledge 30 days after the new law becomes effective! This is an amendment to the Internal Revenue Act of 1986. This means that the Finance Committee has passed this without the Senate voting on it at all. Trust Obama? You must be kidding! The full text of the IRS amendment is on the U.S. Senate homepage: www.senate.gov. You can find the bill by doing a search by the bill number, SB-2099. You know who to call; I strongly suggest you do. Please send a copy of this e-mail to every gun owner you know. Text of H.R.45 as Introduced in House: Blair Holt's Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2009: www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h45/text Obama's Congress is now starting on the firearms confiscation bill. If it passes, gun owners will become criminals if you don't fully comply. It has begun... Whatever Obama's "Secret Master Plan" is... this is just the 'tip of the iceberg!' Very Important for you to be aware of a new bill HR 45 introduced into the House. This is the Blair Holt Firearm Licensing & Record of Sale Act of 2009. Even gun shop owners didn't know about this because the government is trying to fly it under the radar as a 'minor' IRS revision, and, as usual, the 'political' lawmakers did not read this bill before signing and approving it! To find out about this - go to any government website and type in HR 45 or Goggle HR 45 Blair Holt Firearm Licensing & Record of Sales Act of 2009. You will get all the information. Basically this would make it illegal to own a firearm - any rifle with a clip or ANY pistol unless: 1) It is registered 2) You are fingerprinted 3) You supply a current Driver's License 4) You supply your Social Security number 5) You will submit to a physical & mental evaluation at any time of their choosing Each update change or ownership through private or public sale must be reported and costs $25. Failure to do so you automatically lose the right to own a firearm and are subject up to a year in jail. There is a child provision clause on page 16 section 305 stating a child-access provision. Gun must be locked and inaccessible to any child under 18. They would have the right to come and inspect that you are storing your gun safely away from accessibility to children and fine is punishable for up to 5 years in prison. If you think this is a joke - go to the website and take your pick of many options to read this.. It is long and lengthy. But, more and more people are becoming aware of this. Pass the word along. Any hunters in your family pass this along. This is just a "termite" approach to complete confiscation of guns and disarming of our society to the point we have no defense - chip away a little here and there until the goal is accomplished before anyone realizes it. This is one to act on whether you own a gun or not.. <Search Results - THOMAS (Library of Congress) <http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:H.R.45> : <H.R.45: Blair Holt's Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2009 - U.S. Congress - OpenCongress<http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h45/show> <H.R. 45: Blair Holt's Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2009 (GovTrack.us)<http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-45> Please..... copy and send this out to EVERYONE in the USA , whether you support the Right to Bear Arms or are for gun control. We all should have the right to choose. Subject: Control: Look What's on the 2010 Tax Return (Please Pass On)

There is also Wildcat Glades conservation area in Joplin. Right on Shoal creek. Might check there too. http://www.wildcatglades.audubon.org/default.html

Theres tons of them up here at the I44 and 71 Junction in Missouri. Theres Coachlight Rv, Mid American Rv, Colaw Rv salvage where they have a lot of trailers they buy from insurance companys, and repo. Most have nothing wrong with them but do come with a salvage title. I bought our first one that way and sold it for $1000 less than what I paid for it 5 years later. Then theres Daves Rv consighnment and then Rv Consighment. All within 3 miles of each other.

Did anybody buy the megasbass for $28. ea? I bought two. He had a special buy 4 for a $100. While talking to Denny Brauer he was sighing Wheaties boxes for folks. Didn"t even know he was on them. The only other folks I saw that I knew where Eric and Rick Johnson. I need two get out more!

If it busted open due to feezing up I dont think the warranty will cover it. If you hit a submerged tree then your boat insurance will cover it.

Pro-Spanking Studies May Have Global Effect Thursday, 07 Jan 2010 11:11 AM Article Font Size By: Theodore Kettle Two recent analyses – one psychological, the other legal – may debunk lenient modern parenting the way the Climategate e-mail scandal has short circuited global warming alarmism. A study entailing 2,600 interviews pertaining to corporal punishment, including the questioning of 179 teenagers about getting spanked and smacked by their parents, was conducted by Marjorie Gunnoe, professor of psychology at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Gunnoe’s findings, announced this week: “The claims made for not spanking children fail to hold up. They are not consistent with the data.” Those who were physically disciplined performed better than those who weren’t in a whole series of categories, including school grades, an optimistic outlook on life, the willingness to perform volunteer work, and the ambition to attend college, Gunnoe found. And they performed no worse than those who weren’t spanked in areas like early sexual activity, getting into fights, and becoming depressed. She found little difference between the sexes or races. Another study published in the Akron Law Review last year examined criminal records and found that children raised where a legal ban on parental corporal punishment is in effect are much more likely to be involved in crime. A key focus of the work of Jason M. Fuller of the University of Akron Law School was Sweden, which 30 years ago became the first nation to impose a complete ban on physical discipline and is in many respects “an ideal laboratory to study spanking bans,” according to Fuller. Since the spanking ban, child abuse rates in Sweden have exploded over 500 percent, according to police reports. Even just one year after the ban took effect, and after a massive government public education campaign, Fuller found that “not only were Swedish parents resorting to pushing, grabbing, and shoving more than U.S. parents, but they were also beating their children twice as often.” After a decade of the ban, “rates of physical child abuse in Sweden had risen to three times the U.S. rate” and “from 1979 to 1994, Swedish children under seven endured an almost six-fold increase in physical abuse,” Fuller’s analysis revealed. “Enlightened” parenting also seems to have produced increased violence later. “Swedish teen violence skyrocketed in the early 1990s, when children that had grown up entirely under the spanking ban first became teenagers,” Fuller noted. “Preadolescents and teenagers under fifteen started becoming even more violent toward their peers. By 1994, the number of youth criminal assaults had increased by six times the 1984 rate.” Since Sweden, dozens of countries have banned parental corporal punishment, like Germany, Italy, and in 2007 New Zealand, where using force to correct children entails full criminal penalties, and where a mother cannot even legally take her child’s hand to bring him where he refuses to go. The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child, meanwhile, challenges laws permitting any physical punishment of children and has called on all governments in the world to prohibit every form of physical discipline, including within the family. In the U.S., the National Association of Social Workers has declared that all physical punishment of children has harmful effects and should be stopped; social workers are being trained to advocate against physical discipline when they visit homes. And in 2007, San Francisco Bay area Assemblywoman Sally Lieber unsuccessfully proposed legislation imposing a California state ban on spanking children under the age of four. Contrary to popular belief, the pediatrician and leftist political activist Dr. Benjamin Spock did not popularize parental leniency. In early editions of his famously bestselling book, “Baby and Child Care,” Spock did not rule out spanking, (although he did later); on the contrary, Spock called for “clarity and consistency of the parents’ leadership,” considered kindness and devotion to be a necessity for parents who spank, and believed that the inability to be firm was “the commonest problem of parents in America.” Spock’s 21st century disciples, however, depart from his original precepts. DrSpock.com, which “embodies the strength and identity of world-renowned pediatrician Dr. Benjamin Spock, providing parents with the latest expert content from today's leading authorities in parenting,” and embraces Dr. Spock’s “philosophy and vision,” declares that “Punishment is not the key to discipline.” The parental guidance website contends that “Spanking teaches children that the larger, stronger person has the power to get his way, whether or not he is in the right.” DrSpock.com concludes that “The American tradition of spanking may be one reason that there is much more violence in our country than in any other comparable nation.” Of like mind is the American Academy of Pediatrics, whose official policy says: “Despite its common acceptance, spanking is a less effective strategy than timeout or removal of privileges for reducing undesired behavior in children. Although spanking may immediately reduce or stop an undesired behavior, its effectiveness decreases with subsequent use.” The academy adds: “The only way to maintain the initial effect of spanking is to systematically increase the intensity with which it is delivered, which can quickly escalate into abuse. Thus, at best, spanking is only effective when used in selective infrequent situations.” “Timeout,” a widely popularized alternative to physical discipline in which a child is separated from a situation or environment after misbehaving, was devised in the 1960’s by behavioral researcher Arthur Staats as “a very mild punishment, the removal from a more reinforcing situation.” Gunnoe’s findings are being largely ignored by the U.S. media, but made a splash in British newspapers. It is not the first time her work has been bypassed by the press. Her 1997 work showing that customary spanking reduced aggression also went largely unreported. Nor is she alone in her conclusions. Dr. Diana Baumrind of the University of California, Berkeley and her teams of professional researchers over a decade conducted what is considered the most extensive and methodologically thorough child development study yet done. They examined 164 families, tracking their children from age four to 14. Baumrind found that spanking can be helpful in certain contexts and discovered “no evidence for unique detrimental effects of normative physical punishment.” She also found that children who were never spanked tended to have behavioral problems, and were not more competent than their peers. As in climate change, politicians all over the world seem out of touch with the most rigorous science regarding parental discipline. The newest research could constitute powerful ammunition to parents rights activists seeking to reverse the global trend of intrusive governments muscling themselves between the rod and the child.

They forgot to mention the peace and solitude until those low flying jets create a sonic boom and make you pee your pants!

Yes they do! They have lots of stuff for every sport.

Welcome, several Joplin guys on this forum. I am sure you will have no trouble getting a fishing buddy.

I think the pointers throw a bit better than the Spro, but I like the Spro better. Why? I dont know why , just catch more fish on it.

Guess mine would be right here in the 4 state area. We got it all here! For a long distance trip it would be the Gulf Coast, salt water fishing.