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It is crazy how all of the hackle has just disappeared. I stopped in at Reed's Cabin outside of Montauk this weekend. All capes were gone except 2 packs of 4 half capes of the 4 popular Whiting colors and lots of 100 packs. As a fly shop manager in the past, I could count on one hand the capes I sold per year, but I always stocked most colors and grades of Metz back then. I am sure this will freshen up the supply chain in the next few years. But as others have stated, I rarely use hackle on any flies any more. I use CDC for most dry flies and foam for terrestrials. Cheaper, and will float better without dressing.

OK, you win. Sorry my 24 years of computer experience could not explain it.

The OAF cookie contains login info that could be hacked by someone else, so a Security Software may see that as divulging personal info and throw a report. The ads flashing on the website are enough to launch a cookie or malware program since they are bits of computer code that Phil allows to run on his web. You don't have to click thru them for them to track you. I use Firefox with Flashblock and ad block, the ads are still there as a small banner, but they don't flash and grow larger. Clear out your cookies and restart your browser, then surf OAF for an hour and look at your cookie folder to see what it leaves.

OAF sets a cookie to track the login. Some of his ad sites that flash a banner across the top may set cookies of their own.

Did anyone mention what the antivirus message was? Did anyone mention what AV software was being triggered? Most new combo packages will warn if a site tries to set ad or tracking cookies as it sees them as possible malware or self loading viruses if they have protection turned all of the way up. I use Avast and have not seen any alerts, and it finds things in the temp folder from time to time on certain other trusted sites.

Funny how that coincides with the amount of rainfall we received that month.

If you want late summer bass action on a river, the St. Francois is great for that. Sam A Baker Park has the camping facilities. You will probably have to bring friends and make your own float and shuttles above the park. There is a canoe rental in the park but the shuttles are limited. 11 Point upper river gets really small in the summer so the float is not usually possible. From Whitten down it is good that time of the year for smallies and trout. Camping in Alton and Riverton with canoe rentals at both places. You left out the Jack's Fork, Current River, and the North Fork rivers.

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I stopped at the 142 Bridge this weekend on way to Spring River, the river is still up quite a bit and cloudy. I talked to a couple in a jet boat and they said the water was perfect for them. With it being up, it was easy to motor around and fish. There were several there Sunday on way back, but all were jet boats. You may want to try a Whitten to Riverton float with the water like it is.

Local TV here had a live report out of Fredricktown this morning. Quote, I thought at first it was the dog scratching itself, then I realized it must be an Earthquake.....

Then it was probably Boze Mill Spring above Riverton on the east side of the river. Do you remember the old mill dam down below the main pool?

Greer comes out of the ground, so does Turner, both away from the main river. Then there are the springs you walk to at the Narrows. There are McCormick and Graham that are a hike also. How can you just assume, based on info given, it was Boze? There are 11 springs on the river between Thomasville and 142 at least.

A person is responsible for his or her own personal safety in my opinion. You really can't rely on anyone else to keep you safe.

If the person seems to be unaware of my backcast, I put a little snap in it to wake them up a little, like cracking a whip. If that does not move them, then I shoot for an ear. I almost nailed a jogger by accident at the park the other day with my backcast. There was a 20 mile wind and a nice tight pair of shorts going by on the opposite side that distracted me.

All springs come out of the ground in some sort of way. 11pt is full of them. Did the water boil out of a stream or did it bubble up out of a pool? Did it come out of the base of a bluff or did it come out high in the bluff? Or did you just walk up a stream to its source and find a spring?

They do jump, and technically if you shoot them in the air, you are not shooting in the water, so it may be legal. Check the regs. Just make sure you are in the front of the boat when you start shooting..... I have a Mossberg Mariner with a side saddle and the ghost ring heat shield. I use it to dispatch critters around the house and when I float during teal season or am out fishing certain lakes. I cut off a wooden dowel that acts as a plug to make it legal. I have killed a few teal while floating for bass in the yak on some streams and ponds with it. The nickel coating is really durable and it does not take up much space in the boat. I toss it in the sheath while running around on the 4 wheeler too. I looked at a Kel Tec Su16C at the shop like this today but with the fore grip/light/laser. Might be a new ranch gun/home defense tool.

They do. But not enough. I run across a pond that I duck hunt along the Mississippi that floods when the river is up last winter and the otters had left carcasses and scales of the asian carp all over. Some of the streams they tagged will probably see increased pressure this summer since they put a bounty on the smallies. I doubt if it will help the populations this year.

Nicely done, except for the tactical grip on the forearm. I would think that would get in the way of actual use of the slide. Now if it was an autoloader, the grip would word wonders.

Alcohol usually helps in that situation. If fishing is slow, kick off in the woods and knock one off with the girlfriend.

I built another raised bed yesterday, that is the way to go so far. I had lettuce for a family get together 2 weeks ago, only one in a family of gardeners to have any yet. Your stuff looks pretty good. It has been so cool and wet here, alot of the seed I planted rotted in the ground. A live trap and a hot dog will take care of that cat problem, what you do with them when you catch them depends on how well you like your neighbors. I have found if you poke them good with a stick several times in the cage and really rile them up, they think twice about coming back again. Dogs are the dumb ones, they don't learn any lessons.

Elks Lake today, bluegill fair on crickets, all other species slow. Wind blowing like hell as usually, whitecaps in middle of lake out of the south.

Sounds like fun. Cicadas are nil around here this year. I did run across a bunch up around Potosi last weekend. Many were flopping around in the water, but no warmwater fish were hitting them.

My daughter did not show up till 10:30 this morning, by that time the wind was whipping up around 20 mph and we decided not to go lake fishing. She went to a birthday party, I worked the garden. The maters needed staking and tying off, some are doing pretty well. Some of the plants were pretty far along when I mudded them in, not too many putting out gardens with all of the rain and cool weather. Some of the plants are blooming and I saw one small tomato already. Peppers are sluggish, they have not done much since planted. Okra, corn, cucumbers, beans, sunflowers, and squash are all up. The above ground boxes worked well, already harvested radishes a few weeks back and have been picking lettuce for a while. It has been a good year for lettuce as long as I protected it from the pounding rains and hail. Strawberries were slow this year, alot of rotted berries due to the weather, and something is eating the good ones. Still picking quart every other day. Rabbit wars have started again, sweet peas were blooming and had pretty vines, but all got munched down this week. 2 rabbits are a little heavier with lead pellets. New fence went up to protect the green beans today, they had eat about half of them off. Made a new strawberry bed today along with another raised bed for cucumbers or something. Looks like this week will be dry and hot, maybe about Thursday, I can till the rest of the garden and plant flowers and pole beans.

Ran across some sign where they were using an area back before turkey season while mushroom hunting. It was on MDC land on the Castor River near the shooting range. But, they are normally nocturnal, so finding them is pretty hard. Pretty good population in the Potosi area.

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