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Locals have probably been tossing McDonalds into the water. I have seen the same effect on the locals that eat there. It makes some whoppers.

I read today that the convoy is lead by LGBT refugees. What does that stand for? There is a B in there, must have something to do with bowfishing. T for trash fish. Figure out what the what the LG stands for and we have an answer.

Does that thing really work? Or you just funnin us. Looks like $13 bucks lost at the same time as the lure on a flowing river. That being said, I have a device I purchased many years ago that looks like a little boomerang with a nub and a string. You put the nub on the tip eyelet and hook the boomerang over the limb that fly is stuck on. Yank the string and pull the fly off or the limb down to take it off. Works pretty slick. Longer the fly rod, the more reach you have into the trees. I have used it to retrieve others lures left behind in trout parks and streams also. Paid for itself many times over and helped me find some new local patterns to tye.

Do chickens have weiners? Maybe that is a butt shot

Only allowed 12? Not sure how that works. I would rather depend on a mechanical device that rusts and fails and needs replacing every so often.

Looks like Gavin's tax figuring thing a ma bob.

Alot different than it was my last trip down 10 years ago.

I keep them in the boat to track bluegill in livewell, one for each person. As we have aged some, we do track the boat total fish on one during the outing. BTW, they are $3.99 normally at Academy in fishing Dept.

Back in College, I managed an open pit BBQ joint. I BBQ'd a bunch of wild game for a benefit feast. Coon was pretty good, greasy. Grandpa used to feast on groundhogs. Since they are only eat veggies, they taste pretty good. Squirrels like deer, eating nuts can taint their flavor.

My method is a little tricky, but less cutting and handling. Cut thru the tail at the base from the vent side leaving skin on top of tail. Stick a sharp pointed blade down the back a ways on each side of tail. Grab squirrel by back legs and stick partially detached tail under boot and pull the hide off to the front legs and head. Grasp the pants and skin out the back legs to ankles. I then have a post with 2 nails driven into it about 3" apart. Hang the squirrel by the pants and gut, clean, remove head and skin, trim. Then cut the back ankles off. Grandpa used to make one incision in the middle of the back, insert fingers and pull the skin off to the front and back. Gonna have to get a PCP. Been looking at one that just came out that has built in pump handle.

They have a pro rated. 4 year warranty. I think. Aquaseal works good or the repair kit they put in the box is your best bet at that age.

Nice buck.

Bullwinkles down by HWY 60 is not too bad. We stayed down there in the spring for a memorial service of a friend. Clean and reasonable priced. Not far from dam.

Find the biggest bunch of meth heads and camp in the middle of them. Still curious about the treatment, what kind of cancer are you suffering from?

It turned out to be a one fish weekend. After a breakfast at Billy Gails, I managed to tweak out another hour of fishing below the dam in Taney. I walked in at the upper outlet and fish were rising to little dog pecker gnats hatching off. I flailed the water for a while with some micro dries but could not get a fish. Polarized glasses were still in truck and the glare was killing me. The dark bottom of the tailwater rock did not have any contrast to see fish. I went back to the truck, doing a little dance on a rootwad and about biting the dust. Fished down to the other outlet switching off to soft hackles and finally a midge nymph. Tripped over a few fish walking out and almost bit the dust again. They do like to eat what the waders kick up. Back on the road, big Bass Pro in Springfield. Last time I was there was 1998. It has gotten a little bigger. Took the 40 year tour upstairs. Picked up the fishing needs I wanted. Then I found the NRA museum. That morphed into the Archery Museum. I did a flash tour of it, wifey was getting tired of walking. Every nook and cranny led to something else. We finally found the old store over by the camping section. I recognized the cold water fish tank and the underground shooting range. Need to go back and spend a day there. Forgot to mention US Guns. Great gunshop. I got to visit with those folks on Sat after lunch. Nice shop, friendly folks, great assortment of all kinds of firearms. I like the way they arrange handguns by caliber and long guns by type. Killed an hour there. Found stuff I had not seen in a long time. I could retire in this area and have enough to do for the rest of my life. So many things to see and do.

Driving across 60 by Cabool yesterday, my backup display came on suddenly. There was nothing behind me. I looked up in the mirror and the boat was still there. Then the image disappeared. The head unit connects wirelessly to the remote camera, it picked up some bodies other camera.

I second the Monty Python also. Neat!

Blazing Saddles, that's our Classic Movie. Wrench sitting around the campfire eating beans.

We toured the town this morning. Went by and meet Phil for the first time and visited with him for a few minutes. I stopped by last trip in 07, but he was out. Nice place. Took his advice and ate Dannas BBQ for lunch, good eats. Picked up some fossils at the Fossil Store for the grandkid. Launched at Indian Point MDC ramp and fished both sides of the point. Tubes, crankbaits, and suspending all failed to bring any action. Caught 1 KY bass. Nice day for a boat ride. Gonna Wade for trout in morn and head back.

Pickwick fell thru this weekend due to weather. I decided to follow thru with an old plan I have been wanting to do for three years but was interrupted by the cancer. Loaded up boat and wife and drove over yesterday. Got checked in at 5 and run down to Bass Pro. Found a whole new world of shops along the river and we piddled away the rest of the evening down there. Stopped at Mcadoodles and picked up a 6 of Cobra Chaser ale then went back to room. Heading out for round 2.

Nice boat. But Airborne and Ranger, does that mean you can take a Forrest Wood into the air on a wake? Just funning. Looks like you are ready for battle.

Sitting here watching the original Dracula from 1931 with Bella Lugosi. Almost all of the actors were dead before I was born. The movie has been restored and digitized for HD, its full screen on my larger TV. I saw the wires on the bat. But the camera did a pretty good job of capturing it. 80 some years in the future, the primitive equipment did a pretty good job of capturing the images. This was filmed before WWII. Makes me wonder, how will our generation be immortalized?

What makes the Etec better? Seems pretty simple to me, that is what you would do to any outboard. You don't have to change oil in a two stroke would make it cheaper.

They make nice pets.

I have for many years gotten his catalogs and weekly emails. I have a few in my collection and watch for them on Ebay. Like many, most are made overseas any more and just have his name on them. But the US made ones are the best. I have always wanted a trip to his Retail Shop. I have been to Smokey Mountain Knife Works, its one big knife show. I usually come home with a few from every gun show and buy several on Ebay. My knife and multitool collection is getting pretty large.