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They are on it! Caution - Article is riddled with embedded ads. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/china/u-s-intel-community-examining-whether-coronavirus-emerged-accidentally-chinese-n1185371

This is interesting, but it's been a problem for years, harvesting south bound chinook of SE Alaska. https://wildfishconservancy.org/20200318NOAAPIPR.pdf

Dirty Water Dogs! No problem getting a hot dog in that city.

Congrats, some great fish! I like that pea-green stained water too.

I don't have any future plans to visit that city again myself.

Not working makes it a lot easier for me to go back to life the way it was. To me it is more about what will be the new normal as far as the rest of the world? Not so bad for us semi-rural or rural types to adjust to. I spent 6 years of my life working and going to school in downtown Boston. If you've ever been to Boston or NYC then you'll understand how crowded it is. During rush hour the subway cars are packed so full that sometimes the doors won't close until people push themselves in a little more. Sidewalks are jammed with pedestrians, restaurants and bars are packed, elevators jammed full, it's just a lot of people in a small area. It's going to be interesting to see how those big metropolitan areas deal with a return to 'normal'.

Went back again today, shad chasers were out again early in the back of the same two coves as they were in yesterday. Still eating the 3.3 Keitech on a 1/4 oz head. Later on found some Ned eaters that were almost all spots on the bank usually on the drop off on the rock ledges you could see close to the bank, maybe 5 -10 FOW. Caught 40+ bass, but mostly sub-legals, maybe 7 or 8 keepers in the bunch.

$1.29 today in Seligman, MO. Didn't get any, but will stop there tomorrow on my way home from the lake. Seems almost free at that price.

My first day on Table Rock since March 11, high water and the Big M dock being sideways kept me on Beaver and the Bella Vista lakes. Launched at Big M and coming out of the cove saw some scattered top water activity in the deep water so made a few casts with a 3.3 Keitech, caught a 13" spot and missed one. Didn't tear them up in the location, but was good to see a few chasing shad. Motored a few miles down the lake, started fishing a rocky point, saw some activity back in the cove, a smaller cove, one where you could reach both banks if you were in the middle. Bass were off the deep end of a dock and along a steep bank that led back into the cove, feeding on 3" shad. Stayed back there for maybe a couple of hours and caught 20 or so there on the 3.3 Keitech, they were all over the water column, some on top, some near the bottom in 35 FOW and some in between. If I could get a cast to one that was on top, they'd hit it almost every time. The others were caught slow rolling the Keitech with periodic drops, lots of bites on the drop. Mix of largemouth and spots, some of them being keepers up to 17". Once that bite died down the wind really started blasting, fished a few locations with just one here and there on the Keitech. Caught one fish on the Ned rig, but it was too windy for me to fish it, I just hate fishing it in a strong wind. Found another group of fish in the very back of a small cove chasing shad over shallow water, had the boat in 10 FOW casting to the bank. Caught 8 or 9 in the back of that cove, again a mix of LM's and spots, but did catch my first smallie of the day that went 15". All on the Keitech. My last location to fish was a gravel point that had the wind blowing from the shallow part of the point straight out, so I put my boat up close to the point and threw that Keitech out and let it ride the wind. Then I'd let it sink and roll it back with some drops. That gave me my big fish of the day, an 18" smallie. Had one more bite there and it was time to head for the barn. 34 bass total for the day, didn't keep track of the keepers, I know I had a half dozen keeper LM's, a couple of keeper smalls, and a bunch of spots that were in that 14-15" range. I only saw three other boats today. WT 56 Little bass, big shad: My 2 best:

Great day Bill! I had a good day myself, but they were all shad chasers.

We are fortunate to be living where we are and in this time. Covid is serious for sure, but throughout human history people have been dealing with infectious, deadly diseases. Smallpox, cholera, malaria, bubonic plague, typhus, tuberculosis, polio, to name a few. Childbirth for women was always a roll of the dice. Any infection was a serious matter. Always going to be a war between us and the microbes.

Speaking of viruses, smallpox may hold the record for number of humans killed. 20-30% of people who contracted the major version of it died. If you the little blisters it caused in your eyes, you could be blinded, it could also disfigure survivors. Smallpox was around for hundreds of years. It decimated Native American populations in both North and South America who had no resistance to it.

A counterpoint to the bioengineered theory: https://directorsblog.nih.gov/2020/03/26/genomic-research-points-to-natural-origin-of-covid-19/

I'm no fan of the Chinese government and I personally believe we should be doing all we can to wean ourselves away from Chinese made products. However I will remain skeptical of whether or not this is a lab created virus. If it is, we'll figure that out, time will tell.

from what my DR told me, the pneumonia shot doesn't even work that well with pneumonia, according to him there's about 100 different strains of pneumonia and the shot is only effective for about 3 of them.

My 2 cents is that is a possibility, but I'm far from convinced. That guy in the video you posted makes a good case, but I have 2 problems with it. No one he interviews is currently working for any institution like the NIH, CDC, or any recognizable research facility. The people he interviews are all "former" types as in former military, CIA (supposedly) or other 'investigative' reporters. It's all one sided, I'd like to see him interview people who have a different opinion. And people that are with credible organizations. It's like a trial where you only hear the prosecutions case.

Yeah who knows, people react differently when they don't have time to think things through. Only other thing I can think of is that he thought if he kept backing it in, the boat would get up on the trailer, and he was focusing on that and not paying attention to where he was on the ramp. Could've been tired of making payments too. Hello State Farm, you wouldn't believe what just happened to me.

Panic.

I didn't know what a pangolin was until this Covid thing hit us.

Now that you mention it, very few of the Wally employees were wearing masks at the Jane store either. I didn't look to see if the checkers had plexiglass up as I did a self-checkout. Lots of containers full of groceries waiting to be picked up, seems a lot of people are ordering online and picking up. I'm curious how long the TP stock lasts, but no way I'm making a trip over there just to check.

Here comes some more water, I am hoping it won't cause TR to raise very much.

Yep, when the pollen is really bad, like it is now, I get a runny nose and my eyes itch. It's really bad when I first get out of bed in the AM, but isn't too bad during the day. Needless to say, if you're hacking and coughing around people it will probably spook them. Just have to maintain distance if you can.

Well that tells you that people, for the most part, don't want to talk politics. In the past we did and it generally results in everybody getting in a mud slinging match. Today I made my weekly visit to WalMart, went over there about 0830. Very few people there. Shelves were relatively well stocked, there was even an abundance of TP with several brands to choose from. Even though I don't need any hand sanitizer, I checked to see if there was any and there was not, but there was liquid hand soap.

I can dig it, me, I'm done with the liquid stuff myself, seems I'm always getting it on my fingers or I set a bait down that I've just glued and it leaks and glues itself to whatever I laid it on. My complaint with the gel is that there isn't much of it in those little bottles.