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Turning a motor on and off will surely create more noise, the jerky motion always pops the mounting of the motor. But I seldom troll with a trolling motor, I use it to get where I am going or position a boat for the drift. Then I use a wind or current to move the boat silently into fishing waters.

Pawn Shop? Looks like he lost his train of thought. Or thought this was craigslist.

I get to see them on Friday, one opens up here locally in Cape Girardeau. Never been to one, but have heard some good things. I would rather have a Gander, BPS, or Cabela's that close.

The mean breed of queens are still in the 2 original hives from this spring, somewhere. I hope I did not get one in the nucs as they will sting the store bought queen thru the cage and kill her. I actually worked them for the first time yesterday without a sting. Maybe I am getting better at handling them. No honey this year, I am making bees instead. I did have about 6 deep frames of honey drawn out and filled on the one hive. I dispersed it amongst the 4 new nucs to feed them. I have $360 in bees alone this year between the 2 nucs I bought back in the spring and the 4 queens I bought this week. I should have done the splitting back in early May, but I decided to try for a little honey. The original queens in the 2 new hives swarmed and took off with about half of the work force in each hive. Now they are built back up, I decided to split into more hives and forego a honey harvest this year. With 7 solid hives going into next spring, there should be some honey next year. I don't really have the time or facilities to mess with honey production now. I still have to build the honey house to store the extractor and equipment to bottle it. I still like to do a little fishing from time to time and the bees tend to cut into it. I have been outside all morning making some new hive equipment. Mother Nature dumped a flood on us yesterday and fishing waters were blown out.

Wouldn't that make you a coon a s? How did that term come about anyway?

Sweet ride.

That went about like I planned. I could not find the queens in the two hives. I split one hive into 3, and the other into 2 and used my 4 queens on the new splits. I now have 7 hives and plenty of bees and equipment to spare. Nothing like roasting in the heat of the day working a bunch of bees. At times they were attacking the veil to where it sounded like hail bouncing off of me. I tried nitrile gloves today and did not get stung once. It took about 2 hours to complete my job but my armor worked today.

Like all of the current Admin stances, I tend to be against all of the. They tend to be what is worst for the country in general.

And 2 spare speed loaders to boot. That man was prepared for anything. Never met him, but looks like a great guy. You have to admire the wheel gunners, they are a dying breed. I switched from speed loaders to loader strips a few years back, they are easier to carry concealed. But they are not as fast to reload.

I tend to glean my news from several RSS feeds from Reuters, Yahoo, Stltoday, and the local newspaper. The local TV is worthless. My weather comes from NWS.gov and Intellicast. We had a little conversation the other day coming back from the 11 Pt regarding the local TV. They will break in and state "Car wreck on Hwy 60, 2 killed. Details at 10." Now anyone that has anyone traveling on Hwy 60 gets worried that someone they know may have been killed and they have to wait till they break it at 10. Or they show up on the scene of something and start spouting off the report, but they don't have any details. I quit watching the news on a local station about 15 years ago. We were sitting at a little bar enjoying our late night meal watching the tube. There were several major international events taking place that really had an effect on the whole world and the lead story was about a kid that was too fat to make it too school all of the time. He had missed too many days that semester because he spent too much time shoving breakfast down his fat little face and the school decided he could not graduate because of his tardiness. It was a 10 minute tragedy that spilled out on the local station while the whole real world stories only got a blurb. May make a good Facebook story, but it was not newsworthy of a major media station.

Toss some vinegar on it, it cools and tans the burn. Unfortunately, I have had to use it from time to time on a burn. You smell like an ole douche, but it really helps and is something most people keep around the house.

Thanks for rubbin it in. I hope the mosquitoes are big as sparrows this year up there for ya....

Really, they are sitting in the back room tonight in a little ice cream pail. What you see here is the equivalent of a 100 dollar bill, $25 bucks a pop. Inside of each of the little cages is a ripe new laying queen. They are surrounded by the attendant bees which are passing food to the queens inside the cage. It is amazing how they stick to the queen cages, you can open the bucket and none of the bees try to fly or get out. In the morning, I will split my 3 hive into 6. 2 of the queen cages will replace the queens in 2 of my original hive and one generation from now I will have gentler bees in those. Part of the frames of bees in those hives will go into another 2 hives and a queen cage will be placed with them to make 2 new hives. The third original hive will be split in 2, and the bees will make their own queen in one of those hives. Looks like a fun day for me tomorrow. The cages keep the queen protected until the bees accept her in about 4 days. I will then go back in and pull the cork out of the end of the cage and release her to start laying. The new bees born will have her characteristics and the old mean bees will die out in several weeks. The 2 existing queens in the old hives will be caught and I will return them back to the fellow I purchased the queens from, he wants them. The hives I purchased this spring have been a stinging little bunch. Suckers nail me ever time I open them up. I want gentle bees, not a bunch of stingers.

I watched a group of 20 on the 11 Pt yesterday. Rods ranged from Snoopy poles to river catfish spinning rigs. They were fishing anything from white powerbait balls to 6 inch mister twisters. None of the line weights were under 8lb test. Big red and white bobbers on some of the rigs. None of them were fishing anything that would be considered normal by any angler on that stretch of water. But they were flailing the water and scaring the squirrels out of the trees. Somehow, they managed to catch a pickerel, and it was on a big yeller stringer.

And marketing has resulted in more people outdoors to sell more licenses.

It will never match the "dead zone" in Washington DC right now...

Met up with some friends and floated from Whitten to Riverton on Wed. River was up and flowing good. Whitten access was over run with campers and tents. Upper parking lot was full of tents and the lower one had several campers. River was up and dingy, I really would like to see this all year round, if I was in the jet boat. In the yak, I ended up blasting thru most good runs and had to struggle to wade back thru them to fish. Most were too deep to wade. Fishing was horrible until about 2. Front rolled thru the night before, river was tailing out from recent rains. Crowds were heavy for a weekday in the middle of June. I caught my first fish right above Greenbriar. Others in the group had only picked up one each. After I broke the skunk, things starting popping and the fishing picked up. Not spectacular, but on the tail end before the next stocking, I think we did well. Halls Bay was fun with some great standing waves that cooled us down before the end of a hot day.

There was a crowd on the 11 pt yesterday all day. Middle of the week, middle of June, no holidays anywhere near. Way more people on the water than ever before. I am converting back to lake fishing.

Nice tye.

Sounds like that river is getting pounded pretty hard. Those are going to leave some ugly scars. Is that one of the streams the MDC put a bounty on by tagging a few fish with reward tags? Local reports around here are the Black River and Castor River have been hit pretty hard by the ones that are out to collect the tags and some meat. Bringing alot of attention to small streams with a reward tag system seems to have a detrimental effect on the fishing on this side of the state.

It should be in great shape this time of year. Plenty of rain has the river flowing good.

Till you get pulled over when they catch the golden stuff. Do teenage boys still drink the golden stuff before they turn 21?

Glass is good unless you are in the Scenic Riverways as far as I know. As a rule, I don't carry glass on any stream and never really thought about the old glass traps. I use the wire ones and have for years.

I have worried about the snakes in the grass for many years now. It is not a fear, it is just looking out for one's own self. Always being aware of any dangers and removing the known ones when possible before they create a problem. Poison snakes do have their own built in defenses. I also kill wasps and yellow jackets too.

Cheif, I am from the "stompin tribe".