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Looks like it was made for a guy named Durargo, look him up in the phone book and give him a call. I am sure he is searching desparately for it.

Yep, I think they go hide under a rock till the rain passes.

I got a dose of seed ticks last weekend, either from the farm or at the pullout on the St. Francois. Took me a while to find what was itching me, dam eyes are getting too dim to see the little spots.

Did you notice any sex with animals that would bring up a bestiality charge? Canoe vendors dealing drugs? Sounds like a normal summer.

They usually turn on right before a storm. Feeding before they have to find shelter from the rain? After a big front passes, the bass seem to turn off for a day. Lateral lines seem to be affected by air pressure for some reason so I have been told. But fish feed on rising water, shut down on falling water. Rising water brings in more food, falling water causes them to drop back to normal places. But, if you hold your mouth just right, you can catch a fish most any time if you know what they want to eat.

Been doing a little wood working this week. The 4 new starter hives need a bigger home. I moved 2 of best ones out to the farm last weekend. Here are the new houses for them. I will move them in this weekend weather permitting. The cedar is working out great. I have been treating all of the latest boxes with Flood CWF-UV sealant and it really brings out the wood and waterproofs it great.

They used to be plentiful and large in the Black and Current also.

When I was a kid, there was a nail polish like substance that was supposed to suffocate the little critters. Trouble was, you felt a little crusty after a good infestion. There was campofoneqe too that relieved the itch. Don't know if they even make that any more.

The part I was kinda erked about was his accusations of other concessionaires dealing drugs. Surely, if it were true, the authorities would nip that in the butt pretty quick. And where the bestiality came from really got a chuckle. All in all, I thought it was a pretty baseless slam on MO riverways. I float them all of the time and never really have the issues most seem to complain about. Sure you see drunks, underage drinking, a boob here and there, and I am sure there are some drug users. But for the most part, people are just out enjoying the river. I am glad to see that most are not even fishing, they are not really hurting that resource that we all love. I do tend to stay away from the major ones during the holidays, so maybe I miss most of the debauchery. I do hate the trash, the crowds, and the noise. But everyone seems to promote the outdoors nowdays and have made it a big cash cow, so I guess we will have to live with it.

In the day, you could catch them in the MO portion. Then something caused them to crash.

I wonder when the Donkey show starts?

Why do police officers carry guns? They have tasers and night sticks.

Arkansas allows the landowner to go to the edge of the river as far as trespass goes. But if you are in the water and entered it legally you are ok. But she can keep you off the bank.

Looks like you may be treated to a little Bestiality if you go there...... http://rhtrav.com/wordpress/niangua-outfitter-pulls-no-punches-misbehavior-on-rivers-must-be-reversed/#more-14080 Don't go floating over there, all of the farm animals are skeered.

I was thinking about the rod idea for duck hunting. Normally we just sit in the boats shallow enough where they touch the bottom and it keeps us anchored. But there are times that the water is about waist deep, the rods stuck in the mud would make a good stable anchor. An anchor on a rope lets the boat pivot too much to be of any use, you almost have to use a 2 pt system. For the most part, I don't anchor the yak. I use moss beds, trees, or swing my feet over the side and hold the boat while I fish. Anchor rope is just something else to snag on bringing a fish in. For the bass boat, that system would work great also and several hundred dollars less than a power anchor in shallow water. Would not work too good in a gravel or rock bottom like a stream I am guessing.

I used to run a fly shop in Cape Girardeau during the early 90's and he was a customer. He was good friends with one of mine, Rick Hayden.

Carrying a gun for protection has alot of responsibility, more than any of the 2 parties involved possessed at that moment on the gravel bar. I carry a gun because there are boneheads like that roaming around all over.

A life jacket may have made a difference, but you never know.

Nice. I still think I can fab one for a kayak out of PVC with all of the ideas on this site. Doubt if it would hold a big boat.

Some kind of fungal or parasitic infection.

Not much of a deterrent, I rode for an hour last night with 2 of the hives in the 4 Runner with the windows up.

You didn't miss much, fish were not biting good today after that front.

Picked my first real big ripe tomato today. Been picking about a quart of grape and little sweeties each day. Cherry tomatoes are just starting to ripen, wild plant that grew out of the composter again this year. Okra is putting on. Sweet corn needs picked this afternoon, squirrels have let me have it this year, they did not bother it. Cucumbers are producing about a peck ever week, just take most of them over to the neighbor so he can make pickles. Few yellow squash and zucs. We did get about a tenth of soaking rain last evening and 2 inches on Tues. Garden perked back up after that. 7 hives of bees and none on the garden. Lots of blooms again and nothing setting fruit. I should have 3 times the amount of cucumbers. Pumpkins have been blooming a month and have not set a one.

It is somewhere above C Hwy. All I was told it was 4x4 going in, not really sure if the guy still owns it. Trouble with an overnighter on any part of the area is leaving a vehicle at a public access. Might not be in one piece when you return. I will probably get Dad to put us in and pull us out.

Al, people just need to get back to reality. They need to respect others and have some morals and common sense. You can beat a horse all you want, but it will not fix the problems. It has to realize what the problem is and change it itself.