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Thats better. Must have been a leaky wader yesterday!

Man, the look on her face in that one pic. Normally she looks so happy, but that is not a happy face. Nice war paint. Took me a while to figure out the casting rod, then realized you must have water over wader deep in front of you. I took this weekend off. Still getting trailer finished for layout boat and finishing up with the bees for the season. Gonna hit it all weekend next week.

This is true. It is one fine piece of work with nice features. Surely a great product. My only knock on it would be that it is as heavy as a rock. I use a table clamp vise so I don't have to carry the heavy base in my briefcase size portable tying kit bag.

Hooks are not a problem, I have taken them off a snap ring, unscrewed them from the plug, or cut them off till I got home to get them out. A good leatherman and a pair of fishing pliers are always close by, along with a sharp knife and a bandaid. I have always had to remove them myself anyway even with friends. I even removed one from a doctor buddy of mine years ago. Knee caps and wrists are a bugger. I find floats by myself more relaxing because I alone am in control of the day and can sit the pace. Group floats are more work and usually involve more alcohol making the day longer and the morning after a little hazy. Solo trips, I get up nice and refreshed from a good night sleep. If you are really worried, Delorme makes a nice little satellite communicator now for about the price of a good gps, they even have a gps unit with the communicator. You can send texts and get help in remote locations if you need it. Of course, we are all assuming that you are in good health, physical condition, and are a skilled canoer. If not, it may be a deal breaker.

I tye portable in many places. Park benches, tailgates, Motel Rooms, tying classes, camper, and friends houses. I have a lightweight, compact board bench I carry with me made out of a 1 x 10 board about 12" wide. Simple and compact, lightweight.

Al Agnew does it all of the time. I kayak solo whenever I get the chance. Wear a PFD and let someone know your schedule in case something happens. Most MO streams should not get you into any trouble due to rapids and sweepers. They can usually be avoided.

Looks nice, would be great on a tying bench. But I am with the others, seems to heavy to be portable.

The part about a fly designed for spin casting then adding bait tends to be a stumper. To spin cast, you need additional weight to cast right. Then to add a worm as a kicker and keep it on and not cast it off? Maybe a woolie bugger with a spinner in front and a bait hook trailer!

Pics are worth a thousand words.

Paco's was a great taco joint in Chicago. I think young BHO was a cook there in his younger days.

If you need dynamite to plant a garden, raised beds are probably what you need. They have worked wonders for me.

TF did catch the skunk and stuffed it in the Coosa he has for sale.

I like Pickwick in the fall, farther up river above Kentucky Lake in the bottom of TN. Nice bass feeding up for winter are pretty fat in Oct. I am planning one of them trips myself.

Sweet. I would pucker up everytime I saw a rock that may skuff it up.

I have toads digging holes in the garden and the yard this year. They have been taking advantage of the mole runs in the yard. The neighbors mosquito pond also is a breeding ground for toads. The have been worse than grasshoppers the past few years. More like a locust plague. Hard to put your foot down without taking out a few. But they have did a number on the ants that used to bother the bees.

I miss the little fellers. But, with the dearth going on this time of year and 7 bee hives setting about 50 feet from the house, you don't put out sugar water. There would be a wad of bees in no time.

Check the hatches for the illusive skunk first. Does it smell skunky?

It may have something to do with the way your browser caches the webpages also. Try a refresh if you are seeing stuff like that. Or empty your cached info when you close your browser to start fresh the next time you fire it up..

Traps and pellet guns work better and are more sporting.

You yanked all the maters? Mine look like crap but they still have alot of tomatoes to go. I yanked my green beans a month ago because they quit blooming, I planted new ones twice and the bunnies have made stems out of them both time. I built another box about the same time and planted fall lettuce and radishes, but the heat is keeping them down. Fall snap peas are starting up the trellis now at about 18" planted the same time. Squash are starting to bloom again and the okra is going good. Cucumbers are still blooming also. I am going to finish out the garden this fall with raised beds for next spring. No more tilling clay dirt.

Check out Silver Mines also. Baily Joes in Arcadia has some good food if you need a place to eat.

So what happened here? 2 trains on the same track hit head on. I have not seen any more as to why they were on the opposite track heading towards each other. Seems like there may be some safeguards missing somewhere. http://www.aol.com/article/2014/08/17/2-dead-2-hurt-in-arkansas-freight-train-collision/20948143/

Lots of bunnies this year. I have been letting them ride because they did not bother the garden this year. Until I tried to plant fall beans. 2 plantings got up and put on a few leaves, then overnight they were reduced to stubble. This dearth that has been going on since mid July has brought them into the garden. No fall beans. As far as the turtles, a few years ago when I was tilling the garden, I plowed up a nest of eggs. I figured from the size and shape, they were probably box turtles. All were pretty well ruined when I found them. Nice and round, leatherly. Freshly laid as there was not any embryo.

Wait till the Indian gets wind and poops on it.