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Or, when you use them on the river and hit rocks, trees, and shoals all of time. I have had to hold onto foot pedal to keep all from going overboard. That rubber goes bad pretty quick and loses grip, hole gets wallered out, then all lets go.

I always thought the rubber wings on those mounts were for vibration reduction. Learned something. They always tear out after a while on the jet boat and I have sandwiched them to the aluminum underside with a big fender washer and lock nut grounding the trolling motor to the boat I guess. Will have to look into that when it warms up and put a rubber gasket under that fender washer. Need to find a rubber washer to do the trick.

The only time I will feed sugar is when I split a hive. The hive I make will only have nurse bees and capped brood about to hatch. They will be short on foragers until the new queen catches up production in about 6 weeks. The last few years, I have been able to provide the splits with enough honey from parent hive to skip the feed. I have had comments about the taste of my honey. Some say it's the best they have eaten. Commercial keepers have to feed to keep hives strong during dearths of nectar. If done correctly, that will not enter the honey supers that are put on and taken off during peak flows. The honey supers are what get harvested, boxes that were on hives during feeding will stay with the bees.

We have done past the stage to worry about cougars. I see enough wrinkles now, can't imagine one 10 years older than me, yuk.... I worry more about bobcats, more of them. And I am after a single wild boar roaming the property now, big ole long tusks and they have been known to charge and attack.

Scoured pretty bad. Guards still posted at park?

He is the only one that seems to know how to make one...

I wonder how that family name came about? Licklider!!

Too bad you have to wait for next hatch in 17 years

Drained some out of the 4 wheeler this fall after it sit for a few summer months that looked same way. Don't think a match would lite it. It's a government plan to force us to buy battery powered transportation.

Somebody took a good whiz in that guys tank....

At least it comes out the front end. Eggs come from the other in a shared tube from a chicken. Nobody ever thinks about that one either.

And bags for 12 cents.. But I did get 2 ribeyes vacuum packed for $12 for deer camp this weekend. Probably tough as leather... But claimed to be grass fed.

Probably not cold enough yet to make trout happy. It has been a warm fall.

The spring branch there is pretty protected from the floods.

I saw that too, looks like he thought his foot was still going to grow into them.

Looks like beak of something trying to stick its head out of your hand.

I saw some pics, looked like tons of sand in the runs and around them. It was a scouring flood from upstream that gouged the sands up from the stream and dumped in the slower parts, the water below the levees of the runs.

How could you tell? You would have had to had Didymo on your shoes for it to be effective.... It was a kneejerk reaction that resulted in alot of taxpayer dollars wasted and everyone having to give up felt sole boots.

Like the $30,000 Didymo boot wash stations the installed at every trout place, even Greer Spring. That one required some work getting water to it.

Montauk looks pretty bad. Park is closed for a while. https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/state-and-regional/floodwater-overruns-montauk-state-park-trout-hatchery-in-south-central-missouri/article_f65219a8-9c8f-11ef-baa1-57ce2a40660b.html

I saw pics of Montauk Park. Upper fish runs in C&R area under water and lake levee bank full of muddy water. Lower fish runs looked like they were breached and full of muddy water. Main hatchery bldg basement flooded and water in building. May be complete fish loss.

Mike sold Hufstedlers. We camped there back in Sept and the new owner did not seem to know much about fishing. What about Brian Schlosser, did he leave out of 11pt after he sold 11pt Canoe to Mike or did he stick around and still guide?

Trackers have the grease zirk fitting on the axle hub. I looked it over, and it squirts grease in the bearing, somewhat. I still strip them down and repack every season or next. 19 years on bearings is probably a long time. Depends on how far you pull your boat. A good indicator is tires. Most Bias tires only last a season for me, radials up to 3 or 4 years. Bearing inspection and replacement is about the same schedule. You can usually see the slop in the bearings with tire wear, unless the bearing lets go prematurely.

No HO Ho hoes for you this year, Ba Humbug...... Good thing they did not activate you for all of this flooding going on. It was a miserable mess in Swampeast Missouri today. I was onsite at an Aluminum plant all day in full PPE and rain, it was damp to say the least. Not even good duck hunting weather.

It is almost 2017 again over here, west of Highway 67. It peters out to a sprinkle and I ended up with 3" on the farm and only a slight rise in the creek of about 2 ft. Most river gauges on the other side have come up 15 to 16 feet. Montauk was at 13.4 this morning, now reads 999999999999999. So does Akers on the Current River. It was a freak rain that hung out in a line.