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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.

I have run Firefox since the first version after Netscape and have never looked back. I use Thunderbird as an email client at home with great success also. There are some sites that Firefox has problems with the code on, but Ozarkanglers.com has never gave me any problems. On mobile devices, I run Opera Mobile and I use Opera on certain sites that "require" you to run IE only, it never seems to make a difference with it. Those sites always choke on Firefox.

How are things around your place, did the water get anything?

Creeks are all muddy in this area. I have the boat hooked up and taking the daughter out in the morning when she gets here, weather permitting. Gonna try Duck Creek or Wappapello on Sunday, have to make a trip there for other reasons. Hopefully Monday, it will have warmed up and the creeks have cleared up enough for a wading trip or a short float. Saturday is still iffy, looks like 20mph wind again and chance of thunderstorms, just like all of the last 5 or 6 Saturdays have been. It is 59 here and sprinkling as I type, been cloudy and cold for the last 2 days. I have not seen the sun since the Tornado's blew thru on Wed.

At first I thought you were talking about chinchilla fur. I use brown hackle or pheasant tail fibers on my hairs ears. The bead head version does not even have a tail.

Pretty cut and dried guilt, but countless dollars will be wasted on something not worth 2 cents.

All species slow, bluegill fair on worms..... Arkansas actually has fishing guides or shops report the fishing there weekly, but you still get the same thing.

Good ending to that search.

Ok, so maybe the new info would lead someone to see it differently. But the Gabriel Giffords shooter declared insanity today and walked. Based on your first report, I condemded him.

Sounds like poop in the water again this summer with the E coli samples. You would have thunk that the increased inflows would have diluted all of the septic tank runoff into the lakes. Happy Memorial Day swimming in Party Cove... E Coli Closes 4 MO Beaches/

Sounds like "good riddance", one less mouth to feed in prison system. If he was smart he would have took the high ground..... Don't take me as cold hearted, the Missouri Prison System is one the major employers and one of the biggest burdens to the society of taxpayers that support it. The prison system includes criminal, psychiatric, and sex criminals. Most of its residents do not need to be in society, at all. Fish food for the Browns, try a carcass fly when the water drops....

Like I said, it was the area below in Arkansas that needed flood control where the farmland was located. What was the justification for Table Rock and Beaver? Locally, the flood control dams of Wappapello and Clearwater do not generate any electricity, their only main purpose is for flood control of farmland. They do not generate any electric power of any significance.