jdmidwest

So how is the campground?

I think the rule is, if you own all of a small stream environment, you can do what you want. Better them mucking up a small branch somewhere than tearing up and down a more significant riverbed. That would scare the crap even more out of the cattle.

Your has dried out to mud? Last I looked the yard was still ponds and streams here. You must have better soil and less ticks. Our woods have been too green for mushrooms since May.

Skip Clearwater and spend the whole time at Duck Creek. Unless you just want to go over there and look. I doubt if the walleye would be around. Winter months are better for them and I never hear much about them over there. St Francois has been stocked for them, but I looked at the Patterson gauge yesterday and they had a 6 foot rise from Wed/Thurs rain.

Look like tater tots.

Omg. You have never heard of Sponge Bob Squarepants? Thundermans, Phineas and Pherb, or Sanjay and Craig? Phil, don't you let the grandkids watch tv?

I bought a factory second Ellis Battery AGM 5 years ago and it has performed well. In the second boat now and I have never had it run low. I have fished it a whole weekend trolling and drifting without it going dead on the 43 lb trolling motor. I always charge it back full when I get home, I don't let it sit low. I will bring it back to full about 2 times during the winter. I have a shutoff switch on it to prevent any accidental discharges by a switch left on. I would buy another in a heartbeat, most lead acids only last a few years before going weak.

I never said anything about machine guns. I have never seen a machine gun, much less owned or shot one.

Buy an AGM style, you won't regret it. They hold up so much better than an lead battery. Buy a good digital charger to maintain/charge them too.

I have friends that target the white bass this time of year. They use inline spinners, silver blades and red feathers. Look for feeding schools with activity on the surface. Both lakes fish about the same I am told, but have no actual experience.

A friend of mine spent some time this year in the Isles of Man. They freaked out when he talked about concealed carry and building AR rifles. Not something they can do over there. One of the blessings we have and fight to keep.

Live, local, late breakin. A black bear came to town and got shot because he was about to bother some children. We were pulling out at the boat ramp at Perry County Lake this afternoon when we got the story from a local old timer. He said it weighed 400 lbs. Looks like KFVS shrank it down about half. http://www.kfvs12.com/story/29316511/caught-on-cam-black-bear-loose-in-perryville

I took a bee to the foot yesterday. Learned not to wear crocs and shorts for even a simple task around them. It is swelled up even more today.

Stealth bug

Lane Spring is an interesting little area, I used to fish it alot when I lived in the Park Hills. I never spent a day there, but would drive out and camp the night, then fish the next morning. After that, I would leave out to other areas or float a bigger stream. MDC used to stock it during the summer and there were even a few holdovers in the winter sometimes. But they have changed it since then, I think most of the trout are below the campground.

You just can't use spinners and jigs in the bait zone, they will ticket you for that too. But if you put a dab of bait on a spinner or jig, you are legal. Bennett is its own special critter, backwards from what I like to fish. I like fast moving water when I fish for trout, almost all of that is in the bait zone. The only place I really like is below the main bridge at the hatchery. I have caught many there on flies.

Probably some guy took a female out west and had her bread. Then came back to Ark and started a herd. One got loose and had some bad DNA. Bet they did not think about that.

Power bait is not typically used by catch and releasers, try fly fishing, you will catch more trout. Your ethics are there, but the agent has probably seen alot of dead trout nearby. Park trout are pretty weak and fragile. Some don't even survive an encounter with a barbless hook. Just stick them on the stringer till you get 4, go to the truck and change clothes and catch some more. That seems to work better in trout parks, those numbers on the tags are too small to read from afar.

I have seen the otters clean rivers out of frogs, snakes, and crayfish that have never been connected to any of the Lead Mines. But on a lighter note, I really am suprised that the sinkholes do not appear more. There are 100's of miles of mine shafts under about 5 counties in the area that are bound to break thru in the future. Water is a powerful force. There will probably be more of it in the future, no way of stopping it unless you fill the tunnels back up with cement. And we know that will never happen.

That poor feller is missing all of his crawdads, tadpoles, and snakes because of the dang otters. Blame the MDC, not the Doe Run Co.

Well, at least at the end, they stated it was all based on fossil finds, and a creation of latex and stage props. Someone only watching the first half hour would not have known any of that. 2 hours of fluff.

Main garden finally dried out enough to retill and replant. Replanted okra, cowpeas, and zucchini that failed to come up last time. The monsoon and cool weather causes a fail to germinate. Moved over to the sharecropper garden and tilled it up good. 2 and a half rows of corn failed to come up, probably due to the rain and it being the wet side of that garden. Replanted the corn and filled in the spots on the other rows that did not come up. We are several weeks behind here on most things due to the rain. Raised beds are doing good with the exception of the tomatoes, they are puny. Peppers, beans, cucs, lettuce, sugar peas, onions, spinach are all doing well in the raised beds. I am going to expand on them for next year and plant almost all of my veggies in them.

Facebook is the devil I have never met, don't care, don't need. I wish I could have the luxury of high speed internet, mine is a 4G Lte hotspot with a 5 Gb limit. You don't stream anything on it. I sometime bust the data limit posting a few pics on here or doing the monthly MS updates. Dish TV is a luxury, we have a simple package with no movie channels. But most of the crap requires a foreign language to understand, a credit card to buy the crap they are selling, or an interest in reality tv. I do like the military and American History channels. Comedy Central makes for some fun. FX has some good shows. But this show really takes the cake. I would have much rather seen the actual science behind this based on the fossilized finds. It would have been more realistic to me knowing how it really works. Walking with Dinosaurs was pretty good.

I want to go back in the dead of winter just to see what snow is really like sometime. I think I could have enjoyed my 2 trips just on the scenery and experience alone. It is a wonderful area.

Sunday TV is usually pretty lame, so tonight I decided to watch a little T Rex Autopsy on Nat Geo. Part of Dino Weekend, this is the grand finale. Smelling BS when they delivered it to the top secret facility under heavy armed guard. Assembled a team that actually scrubbed up to go in. Then they attack the fake mess of a fake dinosaur. How many people will start thinking that the government has actually found an intact dinosaur that looks like it died yesterday? I know that alot of what is being filmed was actually gleaned from a fossilized find, hard rock version. But what they are depicting makes it look like its a fresh, still warm corpse.