jdmidwest

I don't know of any places that carry ladybugs locally. We usually have enough of them around here naturally. They usually wad up for the winter in my storage shed.

Looks like Phil forgot to turn on the cussing blocker when he switched the forum over this time. I miss the spell checker too. For the record, I don't gig or plan to. I don't know anyone that does. But you can not slam a sport just because you are seeing POACHERS using the sport to collect illegal game. Report it to the MDC or do the leg work and prove it with pics of someone gigging the bass yourself.

But when someone makes a statement that states, "Gigging Sucks", you essentially condemn all giggers, the legal ones and the POACHERS. No method of taking game is really more effective in the hands of an experienced individual. Gigging is not a method of mass destruction. A POACHER that is using his method to take game is doing so illegally, no matter what the method. As I have stated in the past, Don't condemn a sporting method just because some POACHERS are abusing it. Target the poachers and eliminate them.

Just because you don't understand a sport, you really should not condemn it. As a catch and release smallie hunter, how many smallmouth do you kill a year in your pursuits? You catch one and stress it, you foul hook it and it contracts a disease, you fatally gill hook it and it dies instantly, you hold one out of the water too long while you get the camera out to take a picture. You are probably are not really fully aware of the mortality of the smallmouth bass species that involves your sport either. And what about the legal bait fishers wanting to take a creel of bass and having to release ones that do not meet the size requirements, but have a hook and a minnow buried deep in their gullets? Giggers pursue a non-game species of suckers that do not readily take a bait on the hook and line. Sometimes they hit a smallie by mistake. Sometimes you catch a Longear Sunfish when you are targeting Smallies. And, like any outdoor sport, there are those worthless SOB's that poach. It happens with all game pursuits, there are the unworthy around us that POACH. Flyfishers poach and keep more fish than the limit allows. Hunters kill more than the limit. Every species has its POACHERS. That does not mean you should eliminate a method or a pursuit of a species of game in this state.

We took a hit over here too last night. One started in Marquand, MO, went skipping thru Oak Ridge, MO, crossed the river and may have been the one that finally landed as an EF4 in Harrisburg, IL. I can see the storm path across the field from my house and heard the roar from it as it passed thru here about 2 tenths of a mile away. I did not have any damage, but neighbors on other side of street had roof damage, carports moved, and a trampoline carried for several hundred feet. Trees were not pushed over or damaged for the most part but pole barns and houses seemed to take the most of the damages. Barns and sheds scattered, several houses damaged, debris scatter everywhere. Several injuries here. Harrisburg IL looks kinda like Joplin did last year, deaths, destruction, injuries. Other storms hit around Puxico near Duck Creek and I think one person died in that one. Another storm is supposed to roll thru Friday. I hope this is not the start of another round like we had last Easter.

From the little info I have gleaned from past experience and current research, bees have been bred for many years by bee keepers to try and get preferred characteristics. Of course you want gentle and good pollinators. Nobody wants to mess with an angry beehive when it comes time to move them or collect honey. A quick search shows the mason as a certain species of bee that makes a mud nest and is not really for honey or hives. It is not a colony bee, it is a solitary bee. But it does pollinate. So does the bumble bee, which may be the same thing, but it bores holes in wood and makes a mess. You do not have to buy a hive or mess with them, from the looks of it, you just let them go wild. Kinda like the ladybugs you buy for pest control. http://www.masonbeesforsale.com/

We stocked a few the last time we stocked the pond back in late 90's. They really shine when they come up to feed. Most private hatcheries raise a few of the channel cats for pond stocking. Years ago, I floated a stocking of fingerling brown trout on the Norfork River with the AGFC guys. There were several albinos in the brood we stocked. Hatchery guy said albinism is common, one out of every so many thousand. They just don't last long in the wild. I have seen an albino trout while floating the Spring River in Ark once, he was average stocking size and did not take my lure.

Lettuce and radishes have come up and are looking fine. I am going to try my first beehive this year if I can get a start of bees. Last few years, plants have bloomed and bloomed but never produced fruit. I hardly ever see bees pollinating them. So I am getting a hive and the equipment. I will be working with a local beekeeper to get a start of bees. When I get one established, I will split it and move one out to the farm.

And remember on opening morning when you go stomping out in the water in the dark, the holes you were just fishing in C&R season may be over your head. It always happens after they do this to the stream, people go swimming.

I tried to eat a smallmouth one time, it was wormy and tasted like carp. Give me a trophy stream fed trout any day and a smoker.

You forgot over predation by otters that were introduced by the MDC a few years ago for fish control.

Whoa. Ron, 10 Mile Creek is almost totally encased in private property. That is why you don't hear much about it. Acess is limited and fishing is ok, not great. Watch your back and your vehicle when you try it out. It has a good population of cottonmouths also.

Tim, I took the quote that he was talking about as you expecting the Agriculturists to donate some of their harvest to outweigh the share the harvest program. The Share the Harvest does several things. One, it actually puts meat on the tables of people that will eat and enjoy it from persons that only hunt for the sport and not the meat. Secondly, it helps to control the burgeoning population of deer that are exceeding the carrying capacity of the land they are managed on. MDC sets the limits on the harvest and encourages hunters to meet them to control the population to keep the herd vigorous and healthy. Thirdly, it benefits the sportsman, outdoor industry, MDC in tags, and it controls deer damage to crops and auto insurance rates, increasing revenue. Agriculturists, formerly known as farmers, run their business for personal gain. They plant the crops or grow the animals for a profit. Profit is the excess amount from the business cost that they receive to support their own family. If they have an excess, then they have an option to donate it like the hunters. Your comments bring up government subsidies to farmers to create a surplus in my mind, which would normally drive the commodity price down, cutting into the profit. The government agrees to subsidize the farmer to increase his profit in order for him to create a surplus and keep the markets in line. But then the government regulates the pollutants that the farmer creates and runs off into the streams and penalizes him. They regulate the labor the farmer uses on his farms, his kids now have to look for jobs at McDonalds because the farm has been deemed too dangerous for young adults. They mandate ethanol regulations to divert the corn to fuel and feed prices soar. The EPA makes it harsh on pig farmers and the smell, so they give up their business and prices rise. They demand testing on all cattle for mad cow and other diseases, mandate keeping records on the herd from birth to market, prices rise. And we all lose as more of our taxes are spent in ways we do not really need them to be.

Don't worry everyone, with the free birth control coming our way, the population will decline to the point that the game population will be back in balance. Of course, in a few more years, government will bring us our allotted fish to our front door, compliments of the rich folks.

Years ago we sent stuff to the troops in Iraq, but that war is over now. Local youth groups, parks and recreation in your town, maybe even a church if you want to donate them. Have a yard sale and sell of some of her shoes or things that she may collect also while you are at it.

Well, the setup finally worked and I trapped my first coyote today, a nice mature male. The restraint fired and trapped him clean around the neck. The ground anchor held and so did the wire. He had a nice catch circle cleared out, but was patiently waiting for me to come along with the 22 to let him go. Had it been a neighbor's dog, I could have walked up and let it loose, no worse for the wear, just like putting it on a lead. The coyote just had a little rope burn around its neck, of course it was wild and never been leash broke.

Not anytime in the near future. Right now I think the herd is only in the 30's and confined to the Peck Ranch.

Have not heard about the Brookies. They were raising them for parasite control, they never said they were going to release them to catch. The second round of elk are being trapped in Ky. Since they have done it once, they know what they are doing now and should not have the issues they did last time. This time there is less publicity and fanfare. And, hopefully, below budget on the cost.

I can show you how to do that with a can, it was common practice in my younger days... Was reading an old Herter's Guide Manual that suggested you sink your cans in the lake. Of course, back then they were make of steel and rusted after a time.

I can't believe you all let one of my threads run on this long. It has not happened for a long time. Even the changeover from the original post, which had nothing to do with Concealed Carry, and we are still going.

Lets go for 15.

Here are the Ozarks Scenic Riverways rules and National Park Service laws, it outlaws Jello Shots but not whiskey. Other streams are not covered outside of the National Park Service. http://www.nps.gov/ozar/parkmgmt/lawsandpolicies.htm http://www.nps.gov/ozar/parkmgmt/alcohol-policy.htm http://www.nps.gov/ozar/parknews/controlling-rowdiness-on-the-rivers.htm

Does he carry a permit to correct grammar?

I like the yukon gold, it has a flavor that already suggests that it is buttered. It is a russet of sort with a yellow inside, makes a nice baked potato, or in green beans. I like little red potatoes also, I cook with them all summer on the grill and in stews. I use russets for frying or chips. I buy my potatoes fresh at a local produce store. I don't really have room to grow them and any place to store them. Red potatoes were what we grew on the farm growing up, they stored well in the cellar thru the winter with a little lime on them. You have to have pretty loose organic soil to grow them.

Oh ya, Bison Ale from the Crown Valley Brewery. There is a little Cajun Bar and Grill on the square in Fredricktown that has Moose Drool on tap, which is better than a bottle or can. Food is good too, just pack a pistol as it is a rough crowd. As far as glass in established MO campgrounds, it is legal. The law was to prevent the broken glass on the streambeds and the cuts it was causing to feet. Most FS agents are checking at accesses during the summer for glass. There are a few private campgrounds in Ark that don't allow it in the campground either.