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I have noticed since the changeover, when I view a reader post, the followup posts show up as folders in a tree view. I was able to scroll down and read the followup posts before, now I have to click on them one at a time and wait for them to load. This sucks at dialup speed. Is there a setting to go back to the old view?

Hey, its my Home Water on the West side, East side is the Castor River. Just don't give up all of her secrets, I don't want to have to find a new quiet place to fish.

Waterfowl season is over and all of the other outdoor hunting for the most part. Superbowl weekend is coming up and it is time for the first big trip of the new year. Kind of a tradition, a few good days of trout fishing followed by a return trip listening to the Superbowl on the radio. I get cheated out of all of the commercials. I usually get back to watch the last half on the TV anyway. I have not seen a report on the Current River, Spring River, or 11 pt in a while. Which way do I go???

The St. Francis River, one of MO's finest and most diverse. From its headwaters in the St. Francois mountains to where it exits Missouri in the Southeast Mo. lowlands, it starts at one of the highest elevations and leaves at the lowest. The upper end is home to clear waters and fast runs. Whitewater championships are held in the upper reaches in the spring flood season. After the Little St. Francis and Big River enter in, the river forms deep runs with riffles at each end. It is dammed up from near Greenville to Wappapello Dam forming a 44,000 lake for flood control. After that it becomes a lowland river, slow and deep, full of silt, to Wilhelmina at Mo.'s lowest point.

Had to look a little closer and now I see a turbo layout boat painted the wrong colors. Needs a jet or a Go Devil.... Where are the plans????

Them starlings make good soft hackles.....

I bought the Eagle 242 Portable a few weeks back. 8 AA batteries, suction cup mount transducer. I can move it from jon boat to yak to inflatable with no hassles. I was not looking for highend electronics, just something to give depth and bottom structure. If it finds fish it will be handy too. Hummingbird makes one also. I was going with the Bottomline, but the trolling motor type mount would not work in some of my watercrafts.

Looks like water level is back to normal. River Gage

Air gun barrels need to be cleaned regularly to maintain accuracy. While there is no powder residue, lead and other stuff accumulates in the barrels. Alot of pellet rifles sit in a corner and dust accumulates in the barrels. Like any other firearm with a rifled barrel, the projectile acquires the grooves of the rifling as it passes thru it. Lead is soft and it will accumulate in the barrel and it needs to be scrubbed to maintain peak accuracy. The higher speed rifles like the Beeman, RWS, and Gamo's will lead a barrel quicker than a low velocity CO2 or pump up gun. If the barrel is smooth and the gun shoots only BB's, it does not hurt to run a rod thru after every session to remove any grit that may have been picked up off a BB.

Here is a good CCW site. legallyarmed.com

There could have been a cavein in the cave system that feeds the spring. The water may have not cleared out since the last system went thru. They could have cleaned the hatchery runs out. Many reasons for the water to be off color. It may be muddy in the recharge area of the spring system.

Large treble hook with weight on shank dragged along the bottom may snag it. You may have to dive for it...

Good article. I too like the air rifles to keep the neighbors guessing whos shooting all the critters. I currently own 10 air powered and 3 CO2 weapons. I have 4 Crosman 140's, a Crosman 120, and a Daisy Powerline 822 in .22 caliber, all pump up rifles in various states of repair and refurb. I have a Benjamin 347, Powerline 880, and an RWS Model 34 in .177. I have a pump up Crosman 1377 pistol. I have a Crosman 1008 and Crosman 357 CO2 pellet pistol and a Daisy 15T CO2 BB pistol. Last, but not least, A Red Ryder BB Gun from when I was a kid, my first.. My favorites would have to be the 140's or the RWS. The 140 has taken alot of game and pests from my younger days. Target practice was blackbirds over the hog feeders. I have killed a few rabbits, crows, squirrels, and several other things with the 140. The RWS is even more deadly and is the weapon of choice now when rabbits invade the garden and neighbors are still sleeping. The Daisy 880 is my daughters first gun, I gave it to her for Christmas this year. She is 12 and is getting to be a pretty good shot. The only production guns of today that equal the ones of old are the RWS and Beemans. Most of the others are crippled in power compared to the old pumpups.

I am sure it takes talent to shuffle in a current and dunk a jig without losing touch with reality, might overload their little brains without a little guidance. The one on the left looks like John Candy, has he been reincarnated as a shuffler?

Looks like the pivot man showed up late to the circle jerk. I assume this is a common practice on Taney. I know they outlawed it in Ark.

Interesting story taxidermist. In college, I used to have several exotic pets in the dorm room including snakes. Several others on the floor had the same interests. One weekend I collected a prairie king snake while out at the farm. He was very docile and easy to handle, he took to pinkie mice quickly. Feeding time was a group activity, everyone like to watch except for one. One weekend I returned to the dorm and tried to handle the snake and he bit me and was very aggressive. Come to find out a football player friend of my roommate was scared of snakes and had been shaking him and the cage over the weekend. I took him out of the cage and placed him under the sink in a jar. Tim came around later and asked where the snake was. I told him how he was too mean to handle so I let him go in his room.. He stayed in another room till someone finally told him it was under the sink in the jar. Later that night, I caught Tim going into the bathroom. I let him get settled in, opened the door, turned out the lights and announced "Snakes Loose" and rattled the jar on the floor. We all laughed as he exited the bathroom with his pants around his ankles. Amazing the fear someone can have over a 12" kingsnake......

Good article. I personally have been using the internet for years to enhance my outdoor experience. I habitually check the weather and radar and watch river gauges to make upcoming decisions on where/when to hunt, fish, camp, or kayak. It is a huge data collection device, just Google it and it will appear. The internet gives you real time forcasts for a part of the state 3 hours away that the local forcast will miss. I can check river gauges instead of calling an outfitter or a friend to see what the river is like. I can see forcasted river stages to time flooded timber hunts along the Mississippi River. I can reserve campsites or motels before I leave and know I will have a place to stay instead of searching around after I get there. I can research a area with Google Earth to hunt or fish without having to purchase alot of topo maps. I can search for fly patterns and methods for an area that will help better the fishing quality. I can read reviews from other people on products that I am planning on purchasing without having to just take a salespersons word on the equipments performance. I have purchased equipment on Ebay of better value than I could afford at a local shop on my limited budget. That said, I still take alot of info on the net with a grain of salt. Everyone is entitled to an opinion and most are expressed freely on here. I still have the capability of making my own decisions, unbiased, based on all information gleaned from all sources. By the way, it takes me longer to figure out what stuff like JMHO stands for than it would have for the person writing it to have typed it out. Its like the trying to figure out what people are trying to say on personalized license plates.....

Did anyone mention the fact that squirrels are good eatin? Good video on a squirrel catapult.... Squirrel catapult video

The Nikon is a little overpriced at $800, I would suggest the Canon S5 IS for the entry level digital camera, its loaded with features and takes a great pic without the learning curve of a full blown SLR. Great lens, zoom, custom pic features. If you want to get into photography and need the capability of interchangeable lenses, flashes, filters and other accessories, I would recommend the Pentax K100D digital SLR. I have seen them as low as $450.

Merry Christmas everyone!!!!

This one did the custom meat processing, you just have to hold on to your meat and take it in after the first of the year. She said it was a storage problem. I took the meat in the second week of Nov., over a month ago. I wonder, if they have a storage problem, where this meat come from. The deer I took in a month ago would be spoiled unless it was frozen. The others in the past I have used cooked the meat in seperate batches, one had a minimum of 16 lbs. of boned meat.

I had a dilema this year, I killed a nice ole buck and needed a deer processor. The one that had been doing mine the last several years had retired and the new highway took his business. He was good at what he did, pretty fast, and had a quality product. Others I had used in the past locally have also gone. Normally, if it is a younger deer, I process it myself. The new telecheck is the greatest thing to come along in a long while. I always hunt the farm. Before the telecheck, you kill the deer, gut it, haul it 15 miles to the check station, check it, then haul it 15 miles back to finish the processing. Now, you kill it, gut it, skin it, quarter it, put it in the fridge, then take care of the formalities. If the temperature is low enough, you let it hang and age, but the last several years it has been too warm of a night during rifle season to do so, so it goes straight to the fridge. My family has always taken great care of any meat that we butchered. As a kid growing up we butchered our own pork, beef, and poultry at the farm. We had 100 percent control of the quality of the meat we consumed. We smoked our own hams and bacon. I took the hams to this processor in good faith with a reccommedation from friends. The hams were skinned and chilled, fresh and nice. I processed the tenderloins and shoulders myself. Since it was a mature buck, I wanted the rest made into sausage. My first mistake was doing that, the deer had been feeding mostly on grass this year and the meat was great unlike it is when they are eating alot of acorns. I went to pick up the sausage today and noticed that the packages were unmarked. She just brought out a box of sausage sticks and counted me out some. I asked if that was my deer, she replied that they just toss everyones deer together and cook it down. YUK! I have seen some deer that others handle. Hunters that don't know the proper way to care for fresh wild game. To top it off, it was hot this year, it would have been hard to cool off any meat without refrigeration. Deer get left overnight in the field, carried around on hoods of cars, not field dressed, gut shot, busted gall bladder and urine bladders, on and on. Needless to say, the look on my face must have clued her in, she said I did not have to take it if I did not want it. I took her up on it, knowing dam good and well that the meat I contributed increased the flavor of whatever batch they put it in to. Always before, the processors I used give me back my meat. They cooked it in small batches and made sure it was my meat. This one told me after the fact, if I wanted my own meat, I should have waited till after the first of the year.

Spring water coming out of the ground from the depths will be the same temperature unless some geothermal activity under the surface warms the water. It is cooled from the ground and is at air temperature when it enters the ground in a sinkhole or some other crack in the earth. The 4 degree increase in temperature of the air in Missouri will result in the water being warmer closer to the spring than it is now and the trout habitat may change due to that. Global warming is a scam, the earth has been warming since the last Ice Age. If you want proof, visit the Mammoth Park at Imperial and look at the remains of the Ice Age animals that roamed here a few thousand years ago. Nobody cared that Global Warming was killing them and look at them now. What about the poor dinosaurs that were killed off by Global Cooling? We can only wait till a large volcano erupts or a meteor crashes and plunges us into the next Ice Age. But it did make a good story that made some nobody a Nobel Peace prize winner. Thank god he created the internet too so I can ramble on this website. As far as pollution goes, we should all do our part to protect this beautiful land we have the chance to enjoy for the few shorts years we are around on it.

Could be a combination of several problems. I have noticed the Wonderline shooting thru the guides and sounds/feels like sandpaper. I have tried the Gen 3 lines and sent them back for replacement. The new one had the same feeling, unless you clean it. I had a 5 wt finish crumble off on the cloth when I cleaned it the first time. I have switched back to the silver label Orvis and things are better. Depending on the series of Orvis rod, they could have been assembled in China or made in China, YUK. It may contain inferior product made to compete with the lower end rods on the market. If it has the 25 year guarantee, they will stand behind the product and fix the problem. Call them and find out what to do.

I was going to tye up some beadheads the other day and realized I was out of beads. I tire of buying them in the 25 packs so I went looking on the net for some. I came across this shop on Ebay and found their e-store. Prices were good and I ordered some hooks to try them also. Everything came in about a week, shipping was minimal, and product quality was good. I highly reccommend them for those looking for higher quantities but not wholesale amounts. Togen Enterprises Fly Shop Link