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Private ponds are whatever you put and take, no limits, unless they are stocked by MDC and then you have to abide by state rules. Private ponds are your fish, you paid to stock it, you can do whatever you want to with them. There are many reasons the number of fish could have legally shown up in the photo. And, some people eat fish, so I am sure they did not go to waste. It they were rotting and tossed up on a bank, a more disturbing photo would have been taken.

Maint. in July??? Did it get whacked by a flood or something? I have not been down there yet this summer.

Not to make it political, but since the government is running the debt collection, they will probably end up shredding the company as the stock you buy today is concerned before it is over. I would think it is highly risky, much like GM stock when it dropped a few years back. It ended up being worthless, the company reorganized and new stocks were created under a new company name.

Since it is the first of the month, you should get in and out of the license bureau pretty fast. Otherwise, carry his stuff with you in case you get checked, I think you have 30 days to get legal after purchase. Be sure to get a bill of sale and have titles for the boat, motor, and trailer. Check Dept of Revenue website to see what all you need to take to get licensed, probably last years property tax and all of the above. You can also print out the legal bill of sale off their web too to get it signed when you purchase it.

I think it is age dependent on most waters in most states to operate a motorized boat nowadays. Check individual states water patrol website or Dept of Revenue that licenses the boats. I am old enough to be grandfathered in for most places, so I have not worried about it.

Ahh, the prettiest trout in the state from the most scenic of waters. I need to take a float on the point. Its been a while.

They were bad at the airport during the airshow, but have not seen any in the garden or at the farm.

The garden was doing nice this spring, everything was going fine. Then the beans and peas got nipped off to the stems. I had to remove 9 rabbits to a new location. Last few years, the squirrels had raided my corn patch and cleaned me out. Last year I killed a dozen squirrels off the corn patch and the neighbor got a few also. This year, I erected a nice electric fence system last week because the corn was starting to mature. Friday I came home to find a half row was stripped clean during one day. Sunday, came in from Montauk and a weekend of fishing to find most of the rest of the corn ruined. Yesterday, I cut all of the stalks down, saved the remaining ears and scrap for bait and set the traps. Today, I caught the first squirrel and tomorrow night he will fry in hot grease.

Facebook and other social networks are becoming an Agents "Best Friend". Human nature, they like to brag to their friends and post their exploits. Agents are monitoring and making arrests from it. Cell phone conversations are easily intercepted as they are transmissions that can be tapped without any extra legal means. No need to request a wire tap, just set up equipment and listen in and track a signal or cell number id. The "good days catch" could have been an aggregate of people dumping the fish in a photo for a photo op. Or it could have been one man's catch, who knows without more info.

There you go, OAF fundraiser for a good cause. Paint it up and raffle it off, donate the proceeds to a charity. I think it will fly, I think most that have seen your work would pay for a shot at it. Or post some pics, my buddy needs a cheap trapping rig.

Did you try email to Lilley, maybe he has a place open for her and would cut you a deal as an OAF member?

MDC Agents can confiscate whatever you have on your person in a poaching violation I believe, guns, trucks, atv, other equip. I am sure a Sheriff can hold it for Evidence.. Did the guy state what the offense was or just trespassing? Sheriff's deputies can write game violations in MO like a MDC Agent. Typically, a deputy or agent will just ask you to leave. If you refuse, then an arrest usually follows. I guess it would depend on where he trespassed also, a county road with public access is a less likely offense than if he was caught on a private pond miles inside a property line.

+1 on the Orvis Silver Labels, I have a pair that is still in use 10 seasons running now. Heather wore them this weekend and snagged them 3 times with a fly and are still watertite, I checked her socks. I have been in and out of boats, canoes, and kayaks. Busted ice and crawled around duck blinds. I used them to build a blind several times, brush, wires, sharp sticks. They really have held up and are supple enough to wear like a nice pair of kaki's. I have blown out a pair of Lacrosse Horcotex in 2 seasons just duck hunting. I have one duck season on a pair of Drake Eqwaders and like them for hunting, we will see how the fabric holds up. I have a pair of Orvis Pro Guides that are nice too, but are heavier and stiffer than the Silver Labels, I have been using them in cold weather and Alaska since 2006 and are in great shape. The Entry Level Orvis breatheable waders are not a bad choice either. I have seen several AFG using them on the job and have not heard of any bad reports about them.

Al, autograph it and sell it as an original, tried and true, fishing machine by the legendary artist, Al Agnew. You might get more for it. I would like to see the top side also, I have a friend looking for a trapping boat this winter.

The first Road Runner I ever saw crossed the road in front of me going out of Mountain Home to Crooked Creek fishing back in the 90's. It was a rare sighting but a cool bird. They are made for running, but I think they are flight capable. So they could end up in a tree. The tail feathers are oversize for balance while running, but a Mockingbird, turkey, and others have elongated tail feathers too.

Normally when I eat fish, its Tilapia or Salmon on the grill. I do keep Rainbow Trout in the parks and in the put and take areas. Bluegill, tasty when fried. I will keep Largemouth Bass from ponds and areas that need some population control. The last Smallie I cleaned was full of worms and nasty. Brown Trout have too many PCP's and other toxins in them to be safe to eat as do most Rainbows from trophy areas, must be the runoff of trout hatcheries that cause this.

I can remember the gas wars, we still have them around here. Non branded stations selling cheaper low quality fuel with no additives a few cents cheaper. Then there were the cash only places, of course he went bankrupt. I also remember the gas shortages of the 70's where there were long lines at the pump waiting for fuel.

BP is a big conglomerate, and they are involved in all stages of production, exploration, drilling, transport, pipelines, mineral rights, refineries, and probably the smallest part, but I am not positive, the local gas pump. If we lose BP, it would not be as simple as just going to a cheaper quick shop for a fix in the supply of fuel. It has been a while since I have had close friends in the petroleum business, but 10 years ago, BP was one of the major players. Like most of the big petroleum companies, they are foreign based, I really don't know who the American Based companies are anymore. The chances of a British Corporation paying US taxes may be pretty slim.

Hatcheries stock trout streams so you will have trout to fish for. Trout in Missouri in most of the streams are stockers, very few are stream bred trout with a few exceptions in a few locations. If MDC does not toss them in, you will not catch them. That requires hatcheries to raise them and staff to move them from the hatchery to the stream. Even if you toss them back, they die eventually and need to be replenished with new ones from the hatchery. Just buy a tag, it is pretty cheap. Arkansas has done the same thing for a long time now on most of its trout streams.

Trout stamp revenue funds the hatchery programs that raise the trout that are stocked in the streams. It is not about put and take, it is about the put. If revenue falls, trout production will drop and trout numbers will be less. If you trout fish, buy a stamp. Many people purchase Federal Duck Stamps to generate revenue to ensure the survival of the waterfowl. Many people buy steel shot to further insure the safe release of ducks back into the wild, much like a barbless hook.

Hey, I did that after I electrified the garden last night to keep the squirrels out of the corn. And I read it while eating lunch at work, so it really did not interfere with my fishing habits.

I read an interesting article from Livescience today and thought I would share it with you. The Earth will still be around after man is long gone. The demise of Earth will be when the Sun starts to burn out and turn into a red giant, consuming earth as it grows. While we may scar it and pollute it, it will continue on. Interesting part about the Natural Nuclear Reactors in Africa, I thought we made nuclear fission, not nature. Can Earth Survive? By Jeremy Hsu, LiveScience Senior Writer posted: 21 June 2010 10:27 am ET The millions upon millions of gallons of oil hemorrhaging into the Gulf of Mexico every day is a crude reminder of the many ways humans are fouling the planet. As forests are cleared, cities and suburbs paved and expanded, as the air and sea warm and become increasingly polluted with cancer-causing chemicals and garbage, and with species dropping like flies, the planet’s health is being challenged in ways that have not occurred in its entire 4.5-billion-year existence. Can Earth survive? The simple answer is a resounding "yes." When humans are gone, as the fossil record suggests will happen eventually, Earth will clean itself up and take on yet another new look,just as it has done many times in the past. In many ways, Earth’s existence has been tested far more dramatically in the past than by anything humans have thrown at it. From its origins as a giant lava ball to an epoch that engulfed the entire planet in ice a mile deep, this planet has seen it all. Our planet was even purple for awhile, scientists say. "As far as the solid Earth, I doubt if it cares much about life on Earth," said Richard Carlson, a geochemist at the CarnegieInstitution of Washington in D.C. "So volcanoes, plate tectonics,earthquakes, etc. likely would go on as before." The Earth may care little, but humans certainly have reason to figure out how to better survive the planet's changes, whether natural or caused by people. Some like it hot Earth is thought to have formed from protoplanetary bodies colliding during the chaotic early days of the solar system. Barely 30 million to 50 million years later, a catastrophic smashup took place between the young planet and a smaller Mars-sized object, reshaping the world dramatically around 4.5 billion years ago. That early violence helped spawn the moon. More giant impacts between 4.1 billion and 3.9 billion years ago may have shaped the continents and possibly even re-melted the solidifying planetary crust, scientists say. More recently, supervolcanoes that dwarf anything seen in recorded history wreaked additional havoc. One series of eruptions around 65 million years ago spewed lava across an area more than twice the size of Texas. But the world has not ended in fire just yet, and it even survived a "snowball Earth" period between 710 million and 640 million years ago that put ordinary ice ages to shame. Geologists have found evidence that sea ice and glaciers reached all the way to the equator during that period. Despite all the upheaval, life managed to not only survive but thrive. A thick organic haze of methane and nitrogen may have helped out by keeping the planet unfrozen early on,scientists suggest. The rise of life on Earth may not have shaken things up in a geological sense, but it did give a makeover to the planet's chemistry. Now humans represent the latest to alter the balance of life and chemistry on the planet during our relatively short existence. Turn and face the strain Species are going extinct at a rate between 1,000 and 10,000 times higher than the expected natural extinction rate based on the fossil record, according to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, which is charged with officially declaring endangered or extinct species. Forests that once covered continents such as Europe now look like shadows of their former selves after hundreds of years of land clearing. Deforestation has begun to slow in the last decade, but an area of forest the size of Vermont and New Hampshire combined is still destroyed each year, said a recent report by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization. All major fisheries have collapsed due to overfishing, and rising carbon dioxide levels raise the specter of moremass extinction among marine life due to ocean acidification – not unlike what has happened previously during the Earth's history. Humans have even changed the atmosphere, as in the case of chlorofluorocarbons(CFCs) used as refrigerants. The ozone-destroying chemicals could have created a world where a permanent ozone layer hole yawned above Antarctica and people sunburned within minutes, if not for the Montreal Protocol that banned CFCs in 1989. Such changes may have proved ruinous for humans, but Earth itself would have shrugged them off. "If these [major chemical changes in the atmosphere] were big enough to kill off humanity, the atmosphere likely would recover pretty quickly, at least on geologic time scales," Carlson told LiveScience. Similarly, the Earth has stoically endured climate changefar beyond anything experienced by humans. But history shows that humancivilization remains vulnerable to even minorshifts in climate patterns. For instance, a cooler Pacific Ocean has been connected with drier climate and drought conditions that led to famines in Medieval Europe, and perhaps the disappearance of cliff-dwelling natives of the American West. Now global warming driven by greenhouse gases may lead to even wilder climate fluctuations in different parts of the world. Rates of increasing carbon dioxide areapproximately 100 times greater than most changes previously seen during geologic time, according to researchers on the Ocean Carbon & Biogeochemistry website. Whether or not humans choose to deal with greenhouse gases, Earth's history shows that they inevitably face a running battle with climate change. Species that couldn't adapt in the past have died, and odds are that humanity's number will be up at some point. The things we leave behind "There will definitely be minute traces of us around, but I suspect most of the stuff that says we were here will be buried by geology," said Alan Weisman, a journalist and author of the book "The World Without Us" (Thomas Dunne Books, 2007). Many of humanity's most visible achievements would vanish quickly. Buildings would crumble and decay within just 10,000 to 15,000 years. A bronze bust could survive for millions of years, Weisman said, even if it toppled and ended up buried, as would be likely. Some more lasting effects on the Earth might come from the chemicals that would leak from their tanks within decades, or nanoparticles being engineered every day inside labs. "We've created some chemical molecules that nothing in nature knows how to break down yet," Weisman pointed out. "Some, nature will figure out. Microbes will figure out how to do plastic." A more deadly legacy for life after humans comes from more than 440 nuclear power plants. Overheating would cause about half to burn and the rest to suffer meltdowns, releasing radioactivity into the air and nearby water. Unattended refineries and chemical plants could also start burning and in turn releasing chemicals. The equivalent of hundreds of Chernobyl disasters "would probably start forcing evolution in pretty dramatic ways," Weisman said. Still, the Earth had already experienced nuclear fission almost 2 billion years ago. Several uranium deposits at Oklo in the Republic of Gabon, a southwestern region of Africa, showed evidence of having operated as natural nuclear reactors for several hundred thousand years. Earth also has experience dealing with oil spills, given along history of natural oil seepage in places such as the Gulf of Mexico. Wild microbes that have evolved to break down oil no doubt found an unusually bountiful feast in recent months because of the Gulf oil gusher from the BP oil rig disaster. That "horrifying" event may register as just a blip on the Earth's radar. But it still seems like a very long-term mess for the humans who have to live with it, Weisman noted. "The oil sucks," Weisman said. "You can quote me on that."

A destination fly shop will have local patterns that you need for the fishery there, probably some that you will not find anywhere else. The staples can be purchased at any major fly catalog or online.

It probably fell out of the poor guy's truck after he caught his limit at Roaring River.... A whole box of San Juan worms on the loose... F.Y.I., the Federal Duck Stamp is still issued in Lick and Stick form as of last year. You will have to sweet talk your local postmaster into ordering them as they are a special request. I always sign mine in erasable ink so you can rub it off after season is over..