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Your son caught a sculpin. https://www.google.com/search?q=mottled+sculpin&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=Uv7&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=78RXULiQGaXbyAHYlICgDA&ved=0CCsQsAQ&biw=1600&bih=809

We spent Sat on the Spring River and I was going to meet a friend from Tenn. on Sun. afternoon at Riverton for an overnighter in the jet boat. It rained hard on the Spring and we never launched the boats to float. Sunday morning came and I drove into Thayer to check the weather. It looked like it was going to be more of the same for Sun. and Mon. so I called him. He was still at home and had not hooked the boat up yet. We cancelled for a better time. I drove on up to Fourche Lake and stood there for a while contemplating on launching the yak. The lake was glassed over and nothing was moving. Then it started raining and I decided to come on back home. From the looks of the radar, the rain stayed in Ark all day both days, so we probably made a bad call. I don't know if MDC is still burning a fin or not. Most of the time it is one of the smaller fins that are not really noticeable like the adipose fin

You drive by the entrance to Reed's Cabins on the way into the park, it is on the left before you descend the hill and has a sign pointing to it. The campground is on a constant flood plain, hence the sand all over. It gets washed out several times a year on a normal season. Most of the other parks, the camping is located out of the flood plain on hills. Montauk is what it is and is actually one of the better trout parks. The stream is more natural and is wooded on both side for most of the park. You can always find shade. But I would never consider any of the trout parks as world class. All are manipulated for the convience of the average fisherman that wants to bring home some meat. At least it does not have sidewalks running along the banks like some of the other parks. Good thing you did not try Meramec Springs! If it makes you feel any better, I drove 3 hours to Spring River in Ark. for a float fish with a friend and his son on Sat. It was raining so hard that we never left the porch or the cooler and came home without wetting a hook. But we still had a great meal and some quality bonding time.

I don't know about the flood of 2012, I have been there 6 times this summer and have not noticed any difference other than is has gotten lower each time I was there. I was there this weekend and it was low and clear, but did not get to fish it due to rain all day yesterday. We sit on the porch of the cabin and watched it rain waiting for a break that never came. Fishing has gotten slower all summer also. Fisheries usually float the stream and stock it from time to time with trout from a boat. With the low water, stocking has been limited to major accesses and fish are not scattered well. The crowds should be light unless there is an event like fall break or something. Fall is a good time of the year for the Spring.

I still have maters and picked my first pieces of Okra last week, then it was flattened by the windstorm last Fri. Squash looks good but not producing anything but blooms. Lettuce and radish coming along. Green beans are putting on and green peas are about 4 in hi. Getting some peppers still. I tilled a patch up in the back yard and planted alfalfa for the bees last weekend and it has come up nice. Mustard and clover in the parts of the garden that is not planted.

Trout are one of the most put and take fish in most states. Take them and eat them in the put and take areas like trout parks and stocker areas. That is what they are there for. Winter lake fishing, if you don't take them, they will not survive the spring warmup. Trout is edible, it is best fresh. When floating in the yak, I will gut the trout and put it on ice immediately. Same goes with wading, don't let them die on a stringer and clean them hours later. Gut them live and toss in a cooler. Eat fresh if possible. The meat degrades when frozen.

Soak for a while in some Italian Dressing and then toss them on the grill. Cook till white on one side then flip over. When done, skin should peel and meat should flake off bone. Blackened trout. Skin and dehead. Heat skillet smoking hot. Spray butter Pam on fish, sprinkle liberally with Cajun Spice and toss on skillet. Flip when meat is good and white, take off when other side is done. Best done outside on open fire or camp stove, smokes alot. Even trout park fish can be found with firm pink flesh if you try hard enough. Either of the above recipes works with both. To skin a trout, I gut and score the skin behind the head. Then I grab the skin with skinning pliers and pull it off like a catfish. It seems to help get rid of the fishy taste some.

Spending Sunday afternoon and Monday on the lower end from Riverton to 142. Floating the Spring River tomorrow and heading back to the 11pt on Sun. May get some fishing in around Greer waiting on my buddy to come in. Looks like a little rain for the entire time. Packed a gun and some dekes, I may try to find some teal while I am in the area.

The way I see it, in the legal vow of marriage, there is the binding phrase "till death do us part". Looks like he had to speed that part up some to conform. I condemn him for being dumb enough to get married the second time, or the third, or even the fourth....

But the presence of sperm does not support "virgin birth". There is some speculation of sperm retention in some species. Many species mate only once and propogate on the one mating. Birds do it as well as others.

Bees and sharks are a few that I know that have been known to have virgin births also. In a bee colony, if something happens to a mated queen which is the only egglayer, other worker bees that are female will start laying eggs that were never fertilized by a mail. The resulting brood will be worthless drones and the colony will be doomed. 2 sex reproduction is just a way of passing genes around. Virgin birth only duplicates the genes of the mother, if gene code gets damaged, that will lead to the death of the species.

I think I will just step out the back door, shoot mine, process it, and go back to duck hunting this fall like I usually do. Your way looks like too much trouble and time.

I guess it is hard to find dynamite any more, grenades must be easy to come by now. Good fishing bait, just pull the pin and chuck them in. Don't even need a cigar to light the fuse.

We have mountain lions in MO also, but I doubt there will ever be a season on them.

As long you don't expect too much, it will be everything you expect. The campground is nice. The river is low and crowds are thick if you go on the weekend. Check the calendar and pick some time there is not a tournament going on. A tournament weekend will be a bad first trip. It is a place where you can be the only one on the river in a stretch and still have someone walk in and snag your line....

You buy it, the government is its sole user, so in effect, they own it. They tell you where to put it and only they can stuff things in it. If you don't have one, they won't come..... http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Does_the_US_Postal_Service_own_your_mailbox

Interesting, care to elaborate?

Just booked a trip for next weekend and was wondering what was going on with the river this year. I have read the Whitton ramp is closed. I have also seen some reports that there is a log jamb around Turner. What is the status? I am going to fish the upper end first. Later we are going to hit the stretch from Riverton to ? for some smallmouth. We are bringing the new and improved jet boat and going to cover some water this weekend. May even bag some teal if they are using the river.

Google beekeepers in the Springfield/Branson area and look for one that removes swarms. It takes more than a bee suit to get one out. Might need a chainsaw. Have you noticed a wad of bees sitting on the side of your house somewhere? It may just be carpenter bees, they are solitary and drill holes for nests in the wood. As far as the bee activity goes, this cooler weather will keep them in the hive warming the brood. Not much activity today.

Operating on battery now, Power went out on the first front which was worse, strong wind, Neighbors jumpy thing wrapped up in my picket fence of yellow pine, i told them to anchor it better. No Naders tonight. Just good ole thunderstorms best I can tell. I have had radar and local NWS but no other reporting.

You don't really own the mailbox, the government does. It is a Federal offense to shove something in one without postage.

Circumstantial evidence is one thing. First of all it is evidence. Bloody glove, a knife that matches ones in your drawer with blood on it, a bullet from a gun that you once had are all evidence that a jury can deliberate on. But Hearsay. Second hand account of someone's idea is not really credible evidence. Based on Hearsay, most on here would convict me as a member of the Tea Party based on some opinions. I have never been to a meeting, know any members, or associated myself in any way with them. But, just because some feel my beliefs follow the Tea Party, they assume I belong. I made a funny about abortion the other night and was accused of being Todd Akin. It is not really that I care about Drew Peterson, don't know him and could really care less about his life story. It is the fact I care about the fundamental system of Justice, Values, and Law that the country was founded on getting tramped on every day that bothers me. They could not try him based on what was presently in place for over 200 years, they had to make a new law to get him.

We have never been hammered like Joplin, but in the past 10 years I have seen more tornado's develop in this area than we have seen in the past 50 years. The one that went thru last Feb just north of the house went on to do Joplin like damage in Illinois as it built up. 3 rotation storm tracks last night within 50 miles, another one pretty close last Friday. This area has something that changed the ways that storms intensify lately. And they settle in and take hold for a week or so before they blow out.