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Dark meat and wings make a mean turkey salad sandwich. I tossed my dark meat and wings in the crockpot for a while, deboned, chopped it up. A few boiled eggs, relish, spicy mustard, and some good heavy mayonaise served on toast. Fried breast and morels make a tasty spring meal.

He was a fun guy on here. I did notice he had not been active on here for a while. Prayers for his family.

I use a Max Cold from Igloo. It will hold a bag of ice for at least 4 days. It has a tight insulated lid, a handle to pull it around, and wheels to roll on. I never worry about broken hinges or a broken drain plug, it has neither. The friction fit lid works great, don't have to worry about it blowing off when the boat is in tow. I can sit on it and drink a frosty cold beverage. Never tried to stand on it. I have cooked a few meals on top of it with the propane one burner. I would surely buy another if this one fails. But it takes a licking and keeps on ticking. $25 bucks. The money I save will buy a nice fly rod, trolling motor, or more beer than I will drink in a summer. You have to remember, the Yeti is a fictional creature, a myth. An Igloo is what eskimo's use to insulate them from the outside temps.

Around here, we have "Farmer's Markets". It does not cost anything to join, and you can walk thru, pick and choose what you want. You are not restricted to what someone wants to send you. Seems to work great. Free market system at its best.

I will second that motion. Why fk with perfection. Gold and black is better though.

Anything that will bite a hook can be caught with a fly rod. It has its own special techniques of presentation that can be taylored to many species. I remember years ago, there was a flyfisher from the Ozarks fishing bass tourneys with one. They are alot of fun with panfish, crappie, bluegill, goggle eye. Carp will give you a run. Catfish love purple streamers. A creek chub will give you a run when times are tuff. Fly rods were around before spin casting and bait casting. It was the original method of catching fish.

Your kingsnake is looking for small mammals or birds. While they are known to eat other snakes, they love mice. I kept a prairie kingsnake in the dorm room while in college and fed him pinkie mice. How large is it? Young black rat snakes look almost the same when young, they darken with age and turn black. If I remember right, you have to look at the pattern on the belly scales to determine which is which. Adult black rat snakes have a pattern on their back if you look close enough. Feral cats carry all kinds of disease, and are hell on baby rabbits, birds, and other critters in your yard that are more fun to watch. I am blessed with 2 nesting pairs of doves, several robin nests, bluejay, and even a cardinal in the pines by the swing. My trees I planted 16 years ago are making nice nesting sites. Probably some hummingbirds too, nests are too small to find in the foliage.

Smallies actually thrive on cooler, nutrient rich waters. The upper Black is almost sterile and crystal clear. Not really optimum habitat. Some of my best smallmouth come from waters that I could only see 3 to 4 feet in the green water.

You actually saw a 4lb smallie removed from the upper Black. That is a pretty big fish for that stream. What exactly illegal was he doing, it certainly was big enough to keep. There is no law that states he has to kill it on the stream. Or was it simply the fact he was a local that made you assume he was breaking the law? The rest I can see why you reported. But just to get riled because a local kept a big fish in a stream where you can keep one is not breaking a law.

Look for a glow in the dark worm and I bet you could not keep them off of it.

Ness, when I read the title, I thought you may have defected from the Union and joined the Confederate State of America....

I never really cared much about the whole watershed. The upper parts were too clear. Clearwater Lake has had many problems. I always like floating below the lake down towards Poplar Bluff. The best fishing I have seen on the river has been the lower parts from Mill Spring to Sportsman's. The upper river is a nice float, but fishing is better below.

I smell a scam. But if you see it on the net, it must be real....

Nice. Bring me back a platypus egg.

Nice.

AT&T is acting up tonite, double posted.

My neighbor offered up most of his garden spot this year to me. Now that he is a single man, he does not need a big garden. I have farmed it in the past, when the previous owner came up with cancer and could not plant it. I tilled it up today and planted 8 20' rows of Silver Queen and Peaches and Cream sweet corn, 1 20' row of Jade bush green beans, 1 20' row of Dwarf Long Pod okra, and 4 hills of zucchini squash. It is a nice open, sunny spot for growing big row crops. They should do well. My garden plot is getting shaded by trees in a fencerow shared with a neighbor. With that, and the squirrels, it has been a while since I have had a good mess of sweet corn. I planted some at the farm the last few years, but the coons and squirrels raided it before I got any. My plot has the 4 raised beds I made last year, one is all tomatoes, 2 smaller ones are pole beans and bush beans, and the other is all cucumbers. The remainder of the garden is a row of okra, 2 rows of silver cowpeas, a row of sunflowers, and a few hills of zucchini. The strawberry bed I made last year is blooming like crazy and looks like it will really produce this year. My other raised beds/cold frames are filled with lettuce, a few peppers, spinach, and knee hi sugar snap peas. I split my bees here yesterday and made 5 new hives. Going out to the farm later this week to do splits there. At the end of the week I should be at around 20 hives between both places. If all goes well, I should be able to get 5 more splits in June bringing my total to 25. I need to get all of this stuff done so I can get to fishing. I am tired of people telling me how great the fishing is now.

Larger smallies are probably on beds. Hard to get them unless you drop one in on them. Give them a little more time and it will pick up.

So much nicer than a pic of one laying on a gravel bar.

Ignorance is bliss.

Where is Wild Acres?

I was thinking the same, but he kept saying it tasted good. That was what was confusing.

I think it is over around here. Grass too tall to find them anyway.

I fished Sunnen for bass a couple of times, nothing spectacular.

http://www.guns.com/2015/05/01/teen-hunter-facing-expulsion-cleared-to-return-to-school/ This one has a semi happy ending. Seems like social media may have helped him get his message out. And it may change how MO. law sees firearms in locked vehicles. Just another one of those fuzzy gray areas that befuddle anyone that carries a firearm. In MO, it is legal for someone 21 or older to keep a loaded firearm in a vehicle. MO Castle Doctrine extends to a vehicle to cover self defense in the case of a car jacking. Your car or truck is personal property and requires permission or a warrant to search, just like a house or domicile. But, schools are state property, gathering places of more than a few people, off limits to loaded firearms. But your cars and trucks are personal property and should be exempt. Looks like it will be clearer in the future.