jdmidwest

Yee Ha, that cold snap is bringing some deep moments out here!

We were down there in Oct and no sign of anything. Cut through from Riverton and down into Ark to fish lower river for a change. Goofy place for a park. Since they don't seem to have money for the ones they have, where are the funds coming from for 3 more?

Bass taste pretty good if you fry them right.

Have you been outside in the past couple of days?? 25 degrees would be a heat wave. Sunday in St Louis, you could count the high on 2 hands and the wind chill was less than one hand below nothing. I spend days in January sitting on a block of ice stirring the water with my legs to keep it from freezing over duck hunting. It helps to have something between the outside elements and the skin.

60 years ago was about the end of open range. There was a time that most livestock roamed free without fences. I remember a farmer 40 years ago that let hogs roam, but that was after fence law. I would run into them turkey hunting near his property.

Layers are the trick. Stay away from anything cotton near the skin, it absorbs moisture and will make you cold. Always a polypropolene or wool base layer. Then a fleece layer followed by an outer shell of Gore-tex to block wind and breath. Neck gaiter and a hat. Cover the ears if temps below 20, otherwise keep them out to hear. The main thing is to layer and let everything breath.

The odds are really slim. Agents sit out at all hours of the night listening for a shot in the dark. They know the problem areas. They rely on tips and other intel. They hear a shot and drive toward it, trying to catch them in the act. And they are successful sometimes. In all my years, I don't think a coyote has ever came close at night. There has been times when a pack was howling in the fields and we tried to catch them out in the open, but never happened.

You can hunt coons with a spotlight too. One of those goofy rules.

I still had some snow peas and lettuce last time I was out in the daylight hours about 10 days ago. Since then, dark when I leave, dark when I come home.

I don't think you can hunt coyotes with a light. But if you are checking your livestock during the night and run across one, you should be justified in shooting a coyote or any predator harming your livestock. A farmer has a right to protect his livestock. There is always a fine line in areas where spotlighting deer is a problem. MDC takes a dim view of spotlighting deer hunters. But the culprits seem to use the defense of spotlighting something else to cover up their real intent.

There is another 1 million pedestrian bridge out for bid now at Eagle Bluff. They did not spend enough money on that one. I thought the lost the 11 pt property. I thought they gave it back.

"Extensive Research" = Tags with bounties. Not really seeing how it will change any "smallmouth management". Just a new size limit on Goggle Eyes.

And there are the nice black hairs that grow on the new portion of the tongue. Those would have died if radiation was needed. The tongue is a little large, they put extra in. Radiation would have shrunk that too.

My soft diet was a feeding tube for 3 weeks in the nose. Took about an hour to drain a can of food down and did it 5 times a day. They took the tube out the day they took the trach out. Nothing went in the mouth for 3 weeks total, not even liquid. I could not even brush teeth for first week. After that, I gradually worked up to solid food in a week or so. I still chew mostly on the other side since the new tongue has no feeling, even when you bite a chunk out of it. Mine was 1/3 also. Starting at tip, down middle, over to rear teeth, then down to the base of it where attaches to gums, actually half of visible tongue. My staples came out on day 5. The tongue still dries out, but does not bother me as much of a night. I see they used donor tissue to make your tongue. Mine, they took a 3"x4" chunk of muscle from the inside of my right wrist with a vein all the way back to my elbow. I then had to rehab my casting and shooting arm back into shape.

Yeah. Sounds like you lost about as much as me. How is the speech and taste? I have been free for about a year. The tongue still tingles and dries out in sleep. The neck is stiff and arm still has problems. But, Cancer free for over a year.

There are some lots out by the airport, I don't know if they are for rent. Just mobile homes stacked in. There are several properties for sale going into the park also, may be picked up for the right price. A nice little property was for sale last year, we stopped and looked at it during a rainout road trip. It was the house that sported an obnoxious Democrat with a Dick Cheney doll out front for several years. It may be worth a road trip to look at the property. Last trip out I did notice a piece that may be reasonable on the way to Licking out of the park.

And the USGS Streamflow Program is funded with over 850 Federal, State, and Local Agencies. All seem to be taxpayer dollars.... http://water.usgs.gov/nsip/ http://water.usgs.gov/nsip/nasreport/es/NSIP_Executive_Summary.html http://www.fondriest.com/news/stream-gauge.htm They are one benefit of your taxpayer dollars you can utilize and enjoy. Contact your Senator and Congressional Rep to get some attention to the problem. Then drop down to State Reps and State Senate to clinch the deal.

I am pretty sure it is all government funding. It may be funded from other branches of government in places, but all are taxpayer dollars. It may be a small percentage of the overall budget, which I don't think they really have used one in about 10 years or longer, but it is a portion allocated from taxes collected from US citizens and businesses. https://www2.usgs.gov/budget/ But it is a scientific budget that falls under more scrutiny. More money falls into coffers that support other projects that have higher returns on voter visibility. There are gauges maintained by certain other agencies I believe and have seen. TVA, SWPA, and others that may draw funding from both Government and Power Generating agencies on waters they control or create. Then there are gauges maintained by the Corps of Engineers on steams they manage and maintain.

We all pay for them each year on April 15 when we file taxes, or quarterly. I don't see notices about closing down fault monitoring or any other sensors. Why do they always pick on stream gauge? They should be cheap to operate.

Look at the parent site, the main url to see where their funding goes. Its not hard, unless you can't stomach it. Just watch the banner and see. https://www.usgs.gov/ Faults are a concern. Important stream data is too. Volcano and Landslides. But the main theme on the banner is the all important "Global Problem", the nasty we don't talk about here any more. It looks like it may be the fund sucker. The "Fault".

Their earthquake monitoring sites seem to keep running without any threats. Faults seem to be self sufficient.

They did that a few years ago with the smallmouth. The study worked well, it has almost eliminated the smallmouth in the small stream nearby that used to hold nice fish. They shocked the fish and put tags on them with different rewards. It became a game to see how much money one could make on a trip down the river. It also brought attention to the stream on a large scale, alerting the nation that it held smallmouth that needed managing. This led to more pressure on the stream. Then there were the giggers that had always worked their miracles on the fish. The bounty system in the name of research has turned a stream that I used to call "homewater" on here many years ago to a fishless expanse of water that is now home to more RV campsites along it than it can support. But that bounty was for research on how to improve the stream smallmouth.......

You can wade at the town access in Mammoth, Laseter below the Hotel, Below Dam 3, and at the Bayou. You can enter any of the campgrounds along the river and pay a daily fee to fish from their banks. With the river low from the drought, wading can be done in alot of places. That may change with the incoming rains. Probably not much hatching. Streamers, woolly buggers, egg flies. Contact Mark for guiding and local info. He has a fly shop with flies and a website. http://www.springriverfliesandguides.com/

I was and am still a lucky man, to have mentors that have guided my life and moulded me to the man I am today. Uncle Bo was my introduction to the wonderful city of St. Louis. I spent alot of time with him growing up, sharing his knowledge of the city that he had made his home. Coming back from WWII, he and my Aunt settled in the city where jobs were plentiful. They made a good living there, Aunty making leather goods at a factory in South County and Bo working from factory jobs to owning a string of used car lots. it was at those car lots that I got to drive Shelby Mustangs, a peppy little car that were Rent a Cars at one time. He used to buy them when they came off service and up for auction. Man, how I wish we would have tossed one of them into a garage somewhere for the future. It was with him that I had my first White Castle burger, the best was on Grand near Bevo Mill. Ted Drewes, Buck or Two, and several other places were stops to eat too. We run the pawn shops and he taught me the art of the Deal. Never pay full price, jew them down. We roamed Soulard, South Broadway, and Carondelet area looking for stuff to do and bargains. For fun, Forest Park was always a place to hang out. Or run down to Grant's Farm and take a ride and eat a pretzel while watching the animals. The city was a fun place to visit, but we both enjoyed the country better. When he was at my place, we were always going if the weather permitted. First, we all run the backroads in Willy's jeeps that were a dime a dozen. Our area was full of log roads and country gravel roads that we could travel all day and seldom see pavement. As I grew older, it was dirt bikes we used for the drives on the off roads. Or we built VW Baja Beetles, Dune Buggies, and Rail jobs to run the off roads. Uncle Bob was the master mechanic that could make anything out of a VW engine. We would leave out in the morning as a group and ride all day. The VW.s we would use for hunting, the narrow wheel base would navigate around the ruts left by 4 wheelers and the rear engine gave us additional traction. In the fall, we would idle along behind a squirrel dog on a log road till he treed a squirrel, then get out and harvest it. When we had down time or a nasty day, Uncle Bo and I would spend hours playing Spades or Gin. Another skill I learned from him.

I wonder that myself, have not heard from him in a while