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White vinegar makes horseradish hotter. If you can find a source for the roots, you can make it as hot as you want. I had a boss that liked everything so hot you could not taste anything for a week. Not a very good cook so it always killed the bad taste of food he made. Same way with peppers. He could even ruin horse radish. http://www.gardeningknowhow.com/edible/herbs/horseradish/make-horseradish-hot.htm

Define "custom made". Are you wanting features or better fit?

Since back in the 90's and I don't think they did it very long. I remember them growing up a little after they first stocked them, watching them feed on the fresh fingerling brown, cutthroat, and brook trout they toss in. I always wondered why they did it, introducing a major predator when you are trying to establish another bunch of fish . And that is probably one of the reasons you hardly ever catch a brown, cutthroat, or brook trout on the Spring River. There are those fishermen that target the lesser known species of the Spring River. The trophy musky and the walleye. They are there, lurking in the deeper holes. There are native chain pickeral there too, you catch one of them every once in a while.

Spend more time in Tennessee. Still trying to land that hog smallie that weighs more than 6 lb. Came close this year, broke a rod. Almost yanked it out of my hands. I horsed him in too fast not knowing his true size and species. But I got him to surface and had a witness, then he dove for the deep so fast the drag did not slip. He would have broke the 6 lb barrier with room to spare. Still in conversion from stream and river fishing to lake fishing. Gaining ground but still have lots to learn. I spent the first 50 years of my life in water less than 10' deep for the most part. It is a whole new world in deeper lakes.

I squealed when I picked out a $8 Booyah Frog to use. But it works. Just very careful to make sure line is good, don't want to break it off.

Not always a farmer. I overheard a Ftard bragging around a campfire about hauling a load of horses down to Texas and backhauling a load of wild hogs. Of course, he also bragged about dumping them out on public ground. He was just some drunken guy that stumbled into a campfire and struck up a conversation. Probably many more just like him. Then there are the ones that feed them and have guided hunts. All seem to proliferate the problem.

Beats a new gig.

Public land should be left alone sometimes. We need to preserve some nature for the future. If they leave it alone and manage it as a natural area park, then I would be happy with it. Grand Gulf is a natural State Park with minimal interference. Outside of the parking area and boardwalk, it is still nature. I would be happy with maintaining the 11 PT area like that, or returning the pastures to forests and making it more of a wilderness. Echo Bluff is not natural, its a resort. Concrete, pavement, steel, and artificial light. It is like a city park. I don't think I would like to see that on 11 PT. Then it could become more commercial like Current River.

11 pt can be waded. You will have to be willing to hike a little and drive around. This time of year would be the best, lowest flows are right now. Last fish were stocked in Oct. or Nov. Grab a map and take off. Best wading would be above Whitten. There are several accesses and trails. Wear orange, Alternative Firearms Deer opens this weekend and runs thru first of year.

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.