Quillback

Still some good fishing! A buddy of mine, fishing on Table Rock, ran into a school of walleye, he caught 8 on a jigging spoon pretty quickly, but only one made the 18" mark. The rest were 17-17.5, close but not cigars.

Looking good for sure!

Yeah, I'd probably think it was a piece of junk.

Amateur fossil hunter Eddie Templeton usually knows when he’s onto something. Having scoured creek banks in Mississippi since he was a kid, Templeton has made several stunning extinct mammal finds, including a mastodon mandible, numerous bones from a giant armadillo-relative, and even a saber-toothed cat’s foot bone. But his latest discovery may be the most unexpected. Templeton was wading through around 3 feet (almost 1 meter) of water in a creek in Madison County on August 3 when he stumbled across a giant tusk partially exposed from the mud bank. The conditions weren’t great for fossil hunting, he said — the water had been blocked from draining downstream and there were no exposed gravel bars — so he hadn’t anticipated making a find of any particular importance that day. Coming across the 7-foot-long (2.1-meter-long) tusk, which turned out to be completely intact, and sharing it with George Phillips, the curator of paleontology at the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science, proved him wrong. Phillips confirmed the tusk belonged to a Columbian mammoth, a distant relative of the woolly mammoth. Columbian mammoths lived during the end of the Pleistocene Epoch, making the fossil anywhere from about 11,700 to 75,000 years old, Phillips said. The tusk, which could be anywhere from 11,700 to 75,000 years old, was found partially exposed from the mud bank. - Courtesy Eddie Templeton “It was exciting to find a big piece of a tusk, certainly. But it was particularly exciting that it was a mammoth,” Templeton told CNN. “After the geologists got there, and we started uncovering it and realized that it was the entire tusk, from tip to base, it was even more exciting. So things just got better as the day went on.”

Close finish between Swelbo1 and Nomolites,

Dairon Blanco, 2 HR's last night including a grand slam, 7 RBI. Royals are now 4 games out of 1st in the Central Division.

That's an efficient use of a dozen crawlers!

Got hot quick yesterday.

Couple of sky shots from this morning:

Rained on and off all night, and still some T-storms around this morning. It was needed. A lot of lightning around 7:30 PM last night it was like strobe lighting out there. High altitude stuff.

Thunderstorm is overhead, getting some much needed rain. It ought to cool things down a bit too.

Nice pics. Looks shady and cool, but maybe not.

I am now toast. I started off well, but the last few tourneys have been brutal.

98 and there's still time left today to add a degree or two. Time for my afternoon stroll, I'll be packing some extra water. Looking forward to October. Which isn't too far away.

I have this in a print article in the Weekly Vista, can't cut and paste. so I will summarize: An AGFC project has put white rectangular floating plant pens in the Rocky Branch and Van Winkel arms. These containers have American pond weed and coontail. It is hoped that wave and wake action will shake loose seeds from the plants in the enclosures and start plant growth on the bottom. Six large enclosures for pond weed and eighteen enclosures for coontail are in place. It's something of an experiment, but is has worked on DeGray lake. I have noticed the hydrilla on the dam end is becoming more widespread every year.

Great fishing!

It was some fun fishing for sure. Very interesting seeing the fish and how the react. Jeb has set up his FFS so that he has a screen up front and one at the console that we back seaters can see.

Last tourney in ongoing. I swung for the fences, not doing so well.

Fishing with Dutch yesterday and we caught most of our fish shallow too. This morning on Beaver lake, they were in 30 FOW.

Flying fish. 😃

I've been waiting for that up the creek after a rain thing for a while, we're not getting rain here, north of us and south of us it has been rainy but not here.

They are all splattered on my windshield. Killed a bunch going to TR yesterday.

Mooneye is a good name for them.

That's some good fishing!

It was a good trip for this time of year and the weather was decent. It is now 95 at the house, so adios cool weather. Thanks for the trip!