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Skid plates are a preventive measure to protect vulnerable areas. Most kayaks are being made now with a replaceable part of different material on back. That is the part on them that gets abused dragging them from the front. I would put one on that boat, it was one deep gouge, but looks sound.

I still say that was a caveman sorta mating cuddle they were going thru. And that coon was pimped out.

Them coons will breed with anything.

Current, Jacks Fork, 11 pt, Spring River Ark, St Francis, and creek at farm all up. 2 1/2" at farm last nite. I hear there are several yard sales this weekend if they don't get rained out Sat when next round comes in.

What are you sautee'ing the snapper in?

That has to be hard on tiller tines and hoes.

Is that a healed bullet wound on her forehead, about 22 cal from looks of it....

On made News over in my area this week, a small one. https://www.kfvs12.com/2025/05/29/bear-cub-spotted-near-leopold-mo/ I saw one about a month ago a few miles from the farm on my way out, it was a young one, but not a cub. It was in an old yard and ran back into the timber.

I have used borax in the past for a few. Squirrel tails just hang out to dry with some salt on the meat end. I have never tried to tan them for a leather appearance, just bag them and use them. But you still need to flesh them. Back in the coon hunting days, we skinned and froze hides in bread wrappers. Even a small coon would bring 10 bucks green and a big one green would bring 30 to 40. But that was the 70's and Davy Crockett hats were real fur. I would not want to go any further down that road just for the few bucks they bring now tanned out.

This may be cause of the whacky weather, first it was COVID virus, then balloons, now secret space fuel. https://www.yahoo.com/news/chinese-spacecraft-accused-dumping-experimental-141411371.html

Got it tilled last nite before monsoon sets in. First and second plant of sweet corn up. 25 mater plants, taters, onions, garlic, radish, green beans, squash, cucumbers, okra, dill, and sunflowers are all up. Still have winter squash, cantaloupe, and hull peas to plant. Looking good, no critters yet. Hay crop looking great this year, may break even on cost to run this business.

No surprise there. NWS has been calling for it all week. I am with Wrench on this one, "Fake News"...

Been watching it all week, 3 day weekend and everything is calling for rain. All my fishing partners are doing other stuff, wife working, grandkid working. Farm caught up as much as it can be with wet weather. Had been working myself up for a road trip to Beaver Tailwater, never been there. Drive south thru the upper Quachita Mountain chain that I have not seen. Toss a tent in just in case I can spend a nite out and camp. Fly Rods only, no boat. The NWS forecast just blowed that out for me. Looking in all directions for 6 hour drive, nothing. Missouri, TN, Ark all washed out in every direction. Bite the bullet and punt.

No idea. It was muddy this weekend at 142 when I crossed and still up. With Montauk down, probably not. Try calling hatchery at Montauk and see what they say.

I am going to give it one more try, if I can ever get back on water to make sure it's not my error. Then back to the mother ship it will go. How did you mount yours? First time out mine was on a trolling motor. Second time, I made a PVC transducer pole separate.

I bought one back in the spring at BPS big sale. Put on the troller of the jet and piddled around at Wappappello for a while, spotted a few fish, but had trouble with it going full backlight. It was just flashing. Tried it a few weeks ago on another boat and a transducer pole of pvc and got erratic depth reading and no display of forward scan. Don't know if I have a dud or just not trying enough. Lack of trying has been an issue this year. 1 trip to TN and a Spring River trout trip last weekend. Few futile attempts at working my arm a Wappappello for some casting practice, that hole of water sucks.

Are they June bugs or Japanese beetles?

We have more bullets now, and most don't know how to even tye a knot....

Picked up a block the same day as my Betty White stamps. Good investment now since they are always going up, but are Forever Priced the day you buy them. Specials have some collector value. I still wish I collected ball cards as a kid instead of stamps.

I popped a rib out at the sternum, still catches me some and takes breath away. Cartilage gets stressed and gives way, never really heals completely. Like knees and elbows that flex, surgery is needed to somewhat correct the problem. Broken ribs normally puncture lungs or skin depending which way they break.

NIce ones. I need to hit the White this summer, been a while.

Suckers taste better than trout, when will the younger generation learn?

I like this little short forward comp. Been putting them on my shorties and seem to work well. But, I always wear muffs or plugs. I pity the man that shoots a AR 5.56 with std muzzle brakes. My first A2 Colt I bought in 1988 caused hearing loss with the first 20 round mag. I was young and dumb, been shooting pistol and hi power rifles for 10 years without protection. Looked at my buddy and could see his lips moving, but nothing coming thru. It never was the same on the right side. Now, radiation and many more duck blind blasts have my ears playing a tune all of the time, but no hearing aides yet. I plug them every chance I get. And improve the forward blasts. That A2 actually ended up with a $100 custom flash can made special by a gunsmith in Paducah not long after. I should have pursued that design and patented it, but I thought it up and someone else made it. Much like the extended mag for the Ruger 10/22 that I had a vision for back when I was a kid. Butler Creek came up with it and produced it. I took my 10 round apart to clean and stared at it for a while and thought, springs, longer mag, and more rounds would make this rifle more fun.

I am thinking jealousy. Probably tame turkeys.. Cemetaries are really public ground, they are not taxed and open to anyone to visit. Unless there is a no hunting sign around. Hey, they got their moment of stupid fame, no matter what. Cameras help prove the world is dumbing down at a rapid pace. Hence the need for AI...

Cameras everywhere now, look at this one. Who is really at fault? The guy that was taking advantage of public lands to turkey hunt, OR, the photography hunter that set outside of the public land and took pics as the turkeys snuffed his setup? https://www.outdoorlife.com/conservation/video-turkey-poached-cemetery/