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How was the fishing from Cane Bluff to Greer?

Here in MO, it is mandated 10% in low grade fuel and has been approved for 15. We don't have a choice other than use premium or go near a marine place that sells non-ethanol. Ethanol has been mixed in our gas for years and I tried to stay away from the stations that sold it. I have noticed in my mower tanks, my small outboard tanks, and others that I can see into, moisture forms in the bottom of the tanks. In the steel tanks, I see more rust. I use more fuel additives and clean out my throttle body in the 4 Runner 2 times a year to keep the check engine light off.

Yeah,,ok! Mine tasted pretty fine tonight in Land of the Lakes Salted Butter and Club Cracker Crumbs. But yours sounds pretty good too. I tried the dehydrator and came out with almost nothing one time. How dry do you usually dehydrate. Mine came out about like a macaroni noodle. Al, I have heard some locals going after the reds around here in the bottoms too. I only stick to the morels, and sometimes, after a good mess of them, I get the poots.

I usually do that with little greys or yellows that are in better shape. But these have been up for a while and the mites and ants have been working them hard. Some ended up down the disposal, eat up thru and thru. As you can see, I have a bounty at the moment. How do you normally store them for later? I have sliced and breaded them, then froze them. Usually works if I eat them within the next few weeks.

A few more weeks will probably be better at Duck Creek, with all of the wind we have had lately, I have not been able to fish it. First attempt was up to 50 mile gusts week ago Sunday, this Sunday, gusts to 40. 5-10 is alot on there, no wind blocks or coves.

Probably otters, caught them at a local pond and stacked the carcasses there. Look for piles of crap with fish scales in it.

Done hunting mushrooms, its time to harvest. Went back to the spot from last week where I left some for seed. The little guys did some growing and called up a bunch of friends. 65 in all. Soaking the bugs out of them now, they are full of them, 2 salt baths and 2 rinses, mites are still coming out. Should have picked some Friday by the looks of them. Good rain on Sat and today will get them popping up all over this week around here.

You forgot "Glaciers are melting because of Cow Farts".

Here is the link to the MDC website on edible mushrooms. We are talking about the Morel here, hard to cross up with a poisonous one. MO Edible Mushrooms

Hey, what did I miss? I see this one starts out about Conservatives speaking, so it must have been about Me. Was it calling the President by his full Christian name, Barack Hussein Obama, that offended someone? As far as Phil goes, he has stated his views in the past, when it was ok to state your conservative political views on here.

Both of my CO2 units are manual, but like you, if you get a whack on the head, how will you pull the cord. I have a Stearns Belt model and another that is inserted into an Orvis Flyfishing Vest. They are comfortable on the days that I feel confident that I will not need much. In the winter, I always wear a real PFD. The shock from the temp of the water could be the same as a whack on the head. Do a little research, surely the mechanism that activates the self inflatables requires immersion before it pops. I am sure they will take in account the fact that most fisherman will not be off the water because of a little rain.

Dang Phil, you have a website for your business too? Keep it simple and avoid the flash, some of the world still has to crawl along on slower connections. I have satellite now, but it will not do flash, video, and other content intensive websites. Since alot of your viewers may be in rural areas, I would keep it in mind. Check out how it looks on mobile browsers too.

They are "essentially" the cause of the fiasco.

A good definition of a "flat" in MO would be an old Flooded Field that got inundated when the lake backed up over it. Level and constant depth over a large area outside of the main channels. Topo maps would be a good place to look. They would probably warm up first and later in the summer have the best vegetation.

Heading south this weekend, hopefully a little rain tonight will spring them up in a spot I hunt along the 11pt. Dang wind will dry them out pretty good from the looks of the forecast.

No, but I slept in a Holiday Inn one time. Everyone knew what a trout was, the Vigotous was confusing. Anyway, enough of this, lets go fisting.

This has actually been going on for months, the Traveller just posted it and I thought I would pass it along. Nobody really knows what it will do when they go live. The GPS is a very weak signal versus the ground based tower signals.

Hit another good spot today, nothing. First time back in that one since the big wind storm of May 09. Last year, the owner did not let me hunt it because of all the tree damage and hangers. Most good spots are buried now under treetops. 10 to 15 years from now it will be great when it all rots down.

Give me an R and not a T. Where is that spellchecker?

Only in America. This wonderful thing called GPS is about to be over run by the worthless invention called the "Cell Phone". GPS has become a part of my daily life that really has a useful purpose. It puts me on my mushroom spots that my memory seems to forget. It guides me to the fishing spots and turkeys that I put to roost in the dark of the early morning. It helps me find addresses when customers don't have a good sense of direction to tell me. Now it looks like a new company called Lightspeed is going to block weaker gps signals with their stronger broadband signal. Read the article and go to the link to voice your opinions to try to prevent it. Can't rely on the old FCC to make the right choice. Lightspeed to interfere with Gps Signals in MO.

Went out this afternoon and hunted a few spots. One of the regular producers had 5 or more small ones about the size of my thumbnail. I left them to let them grow. Looks like this weekend might start the season off right with the first mess of shrooms for the fryer.

Well if you like Bald Headed Eagles, you will like this. I came across this back during a ice storm and missed a good shot. Ice was on the tree and the nest, bird next to the nest on a limb, and the sun was hitting it just right, but the eagle flew before the camera warmed up. Now she seems to be nesting, and still pretty shy. The shot was taken off a levee road with 10x zoom. It is in the McBride Bottoms outside of Perryville. Gonna keep watching the progress.

Why did you put it in the "safe"? That is a shooter, not a collector. Did you put any rounds thru it? I got out yesterday with part of the safe, shot both of my M&P 45's, 6906, Officers 1911, 22a, and the ASA 22. Sighted in a Ruger Mk2 77 in 243 for my Dad while I was at it.

So I assume the strain of fingerling cutts that they had been using was not fairing well. I know the ones they stock on Spring River usually become Musky food.

For one, there is no viable predator for the otters. Secondly, the species is supported by unnatural means, ie, farmers ponds. When there were here the first time we had the predators and there were not thousands of stocked fishing ponds for them to fatten up on and increase the reproductive rate. Most of the attacks on ponds I have witnessed have been in the winter time when they switch to an all fish diet after frogs, snakes, and crayfish go dormant. Man is helping them overpopulate and man is the only predator.