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Mo. has the new "Castle Law", if someone is in your house illegally and is threatening, you have the right to shoot if I interpret the law right. Before, they had to be visibly armed and your life had to be in danger. Of course, it has to be your castle, not someone elses.

Lilley, I am having issues with the web cam loading in IE7 or Firefox, it tries to stream and gives up.

Question, when you say they are going to open the gates further, are you talking about the ones over the main stream portion of the dam or the overflow ones to the north side of the dam? I was looking at google earth and trying to figure out where that water will go if it comes out, looks like it would flood out the hatchery. Any pics of the dam with the gates open?

Yep, water turkeys. A large rapala or other shallow running fish like plug should lure them in. They are fish feeders. Should put up a good fight.

Wonderful.. I beat the bushes and hillsides around here all weekend and came up with nothing. Checked South facing hillsides in last years cut timber, bottoms, and fencerows. Spent a few hours Sat and Sun and did not even find a toad stool. Mayapples are just starting to peek thru here. If your're bored here's a dancing mushroom for your amusement http://morelsandmore.com/dancingmorel.htm

Bass in streams are closed till May something, usually the week before Memorial Day. Bass in impoundments have different seasons, check the local regs for the lake/area that you are fishing. An impoundment area can reach up an area of a stream above a lake and the impoundment regs supercede the stream regs on that portion in some areas.

What size pellets are you using? That would be a good pattern for a #4, if you need more pellets drop down to a #5 or #6 to get better shot density. I assume you mean 13-14 pellets in a turkey head target.

New problem, bought the 9.5 Evinrude and went thru it today. Removed the lower screw and water run out of it for a while before oil came out. Water in lower unit... Flushed and refilled. Checked prop and made sure no mono behind it. Popped the hood and started working. Kill switch wires all lacking insulation, added shrink tube to insulate. Spark plugs were black with oil, replaced. Cleaned carb and choke with carb cleaner. Replaced rinky dink pull cord with OEM pull cord. Greased all grease fittings to free up. Placed on boat and ready to go? Why was there water in the lower unit?

It has a cracked cylinder and water in one piston, no compression. I think the thing had only been running on one cylinder all along, it never came up to full power or idled. There was water coming out of the outlet the few times I had it running, but not much. This style of motor never shoots out a stream, but the water impellor was probably shot. The head was discolored and pink instead of white like the rest of the guts. I sold it to him for parts for $ 75. I have been watching on Ebay for other motors for parts, picked up a service manual on there. Would like to find a better source for parts. I would like to see some links to the tech sites on motor repairs, I am normally a do it yourself kind of guy. Took me a year to give up and take it to a professional.

Looks like it will be about $700 or more for repair. Found another one Evinrude 9.5 about same vintage, runs and alot less. CC, I pm'd last nite, did you get it? I did not know you could buy parts at NAPA, been stuck with local marine dealer. Charged me $9 for a spark plug last summer and I thought they must be something special. Found same plug at Wally for 2 something. I will take advice and change out impellor on this one before running just in case.

Took the motor into the shop to make it run. Bought it last spring and could never get it to run long. I had replaced plugs, fuel pump, carb kit, hoses, and fuel tank. Every time I would do something it would start and run, just not well and had probs idling. Last time it run was duck season in Nov. Took it into marine shop for them to figure out. Called today and said it had overheated and had water in one cylinder. Water pump was working while I was using it, must have happened with last owner. Anyhow, is an old motor like that worth anything for parts. Would it be worth a repair or should I just forget about it and move along. I know there are some on here that like working with the vintage stuff. Any thoughts? My only motors in the past were wooden paddles, never had a use for a motor boat where I go. Just been trying something different.

Just received a couple of more pics with the boat and fish. I was trying out the BPS lip gripper that I bought, worked great. Kept the hands and gloves dry and away from trebles.

Closed to floaters?? Is that a rule or a reccomendation? I would assume that float camps would be prohibited from launching but a personal boat should be able to launch a boat. That river never gets that bad that an experienced floater would get in trouble except at higher flood stages.

Good report, what kind of shape was the campground in? We are going up in 2 weeks to camp in loop 4.

After several years of low flows and minor floods, we need to be glad we are having a wet year. Alot of streams need the recharge. It will only help the fishing in the long run. Besides, smallies need attention too......

Whilst browsing another website, flyanglersonline.com, I noticed an article about fly hook standardization. The reader was confused about all of the fly hook sizes, styles, bends, and crooks. I have used for several years a number of hook charts that are available on www.killroys.com that cross reference the 5 major hook manufacturers and the model numbers of the hooks. The charts are at http://www.killroys.com/hooks/hookchrt.htm . I usually never fuss too much when a pattern calls out a certain model/manufacture of hook, I use whatever hook I have handy that matches best. Not having access to a local fly shop, I make do with what I have. I thought this may be of help to new fly tyers, it may keep you from having to go out and buy new hooks for a pattern you have found on the web. The site has loads of other info that may be of interest too.

You may need to contact to the manufacturer to see what they suggest for a repair material. I cracked a yak last summer and they sent me a repair material that looked like a piece of weedeater material. I had to use a pinpoint torch to melt the material into the yak and it made a sturdy repair. I had some doubts at first, but it has made it a year and is solid. They may have some of the same stuff. You have to be careful what you use on plastics, you may melt it with some resins. Other option is JB weld or another type of material that I use to repair plastic gas tanks on small engines.

Look for reports for Montauk also, river gauge shows it is still running high. It may be muddy also. There was alot of water that entered all of the systems last week and it will take some time for it to filter thru. It may be some time due to current ground saturation and rainfalls. You can still catch fish in murky water, you just have to adjust your techniques. Darker color flies, bigger flies, streamers. Look for seams where the fish will hang out to get away from current.

Thats it, no report??? One little fish? Surely if you fished that stretch of the river you have some story to tell.

Okay, if you are in a trout park, keep all you want, they don't survive long in the wild there anyway. Skin them and fillet them and fry in Cajun Fish Fry mix and they are pretty good. Peel the head off and gut, spray with butter pam, lemon pepper inside and out, grill over charcoal. Marinate in Italian dressing and grill or bake, filleted, skinned, or whole. Skin out whole, take off head and fins, coat liberally with Cajun seasoning, blacken in hot skillet with butter, outside is best because of smoke. Peel off skin and eat. Smoke on a smoker seasoned with lemon pepper, filleted, skinned whole, or skin on. Gut and leave whole, coat with flour and spice to taste, fry in butter in skillet, peel off skin and eat. Make trout almondine, good, but alot of trouble. If you catch them anywhere else, toss them back, they taste like trout......

I have not had much luck for the walleyes. The white bass should be doing great now in the area below 34 to the lake. Big flood last week and doubt if it has all run out yet. Check with river gauge or call someone locally to see if river is even navigable yet.

Yep, what I get for trying to plant some garden a little early.

Toss them back when you catch them and go to the store and buy some Tilapia fillets. Trout taste like trout, you can cook them many ways, but they will still be soft flesh. If you are used to firm flesh fish, you probably will not develop a taste for trout.

Everythings a washout over here. Local streams pulled alot of silt in and are still muddy and high. Cape Girardeau area still having flooding problems due to the Mississippi River being so high, lots of backwater. High winds this weekend kept me off the lakes Friday. Went out to the farm yesterday to see the flood damage there. A small creek that you can walk across swelled and rose 15 feet. 1/2 of the fencelines on a 300 acre farm gone. Road washout, treetops everywhere. We had several sleet/snow showers today along with a good gusty wind.

Campground Hosts are all different, most are as friendly as can be. I never really met any that I can remember at BSSP. One that does come to mind is an old fart from Sam A Baker. I arrived with my daughter on a Sat., Father's Day weekend for our annual outing to find the park filled. I went to the office and she said no vacancies and the office was closing. We made another round and found a couple breaking camp. The spot next to them was loud all night and they were leaving. The spot was paid up thru Sunday. The grumpy old man host came thru and we told him what was going on. While I was setting up camp, he came back and pulled the tag and informed me that I would have to go pay for the site. I asked him how I was supposed to do that as the office was closed, and questioned why the site had to be paid for twice. Come to find out the office was just closed for lunch and he thought I was trying to scam him. He was circling the site til I loaded up and drove back to the office. I had detoured to meet with some other friends and took a while to get there. When I arrived, he was waiting, and he questioned me as to what took so long. I complained to the park about him and have not seen him since. The rowdy bunch in the other site was no problem that night. They were up all Friday night, on a float trip all day Sat. They came back to camp and passed out early.