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Took a 3 day trip to St Louis in the Barnes Hospital Area last week. Got in a bad knife fight and the mugger took all of my lymph nodes on the right side. I woke up three weeks ago wed. and noticed something funny feeling under my right jaw. I poked around and found a small pea size lump that was tender. My new grandbaby was coming that day, so I let it ride, hoping for the best. Things calmed down from that and on Monday, I made the appt. Thurs comes and I am facing the doc. It takes him a while to find it his self. Did an ultrasound and decided to biopsy, just as a precaution since cancer has been there before, on the other side. I got the call the following Tues afternoon, cancer is back. Squamous cell carcinoma. Nurse laid out my plans, Friday Pet test, Tuesday surgical removal of remaining lymph nodes. Tuesday was a walk in the park compared to the last. 2 hour surgery and 2 days in hospital. Pain was minimal this time, only a few Tylenol to knock the pain. New scars, new numbness, stiff neck. Otherwise, good to go. Will find out on Wednesday what my next step will be, probably a stint with the nuclear med guys.

Tornado went north of it, missed it by a mile. Should be normal with no damage.

Thats why I switched all my license brackets over to steel ones. Those flimsy plastic ones break off too easy. After time plastic gets brittle and force of water or wind can snap them off.

I don't think, in all of my years, I have ever seen anyone catch a fish at 98 MPH. They do jump into the boat from time to time.

Its official, bankrupt and closing stores. Looks like all the ones I visit are safe for now. http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2017/03/10/breaking-gander-mountain-close-19-stores/

That guy probably paid pretty good for the cabin and access on the Kenai. Most public access during salmon runs is worse than Montauk on opening day. You wait in line to get into parking lot, wait in line for ferry on the Russian, then combat fish with others for the salmon bounty in the river. When we went up in 2000, you could bring back a cooler of fish as checked luggage free. Airlines charge for extra bags now, so fish has to be shipped back over nite for a fee. But, its a trip worth doing. Try to do it in the off season or a remote camp for the best experience. Otherwise, you fight the crowds of tourists.

Pretty sharp.

Some old feller at Meramac Spring tried to get me to use a white marshmallow when I was nailing them on corn. Told him the same thing, yellow is the way to go.

Yellow and chartreuse always work. White is worthless.

The person filling out the form 4473 has to answer the first question, Are you purchasing the gun for yourself? That is all the seller really has to be concerned about. The seller should not prevent anyone from helping make a choice on a gun, not the sellers job. If the seller has some reason of doubt that the purchaser is buying for another person, it is the seller's right to decline the sale. I have done that in the past, I turned away a husband and wife team. The husband had tried to purchase the day prior and when the background check declined him, he bluntly stated "Must be that exparte order against me". When he returned with his wife later and attempted to buy again, both were asked to leave. I have only purchased one firearm at a big box store, and it was a nightmare of a transaction. It was at Cabela's and it was a rifle on sale. At any other gunshop, it would have been a 10 minute transaction with a quick check. Cabelas has some kind of goofy database they check first before they let you start the yellow form on an I Pad. Some chick with a name nothing like mine who lived in a different state with an address that matched my 3 digit street address but not the street name caused me to get flagged. After 20 minutes and a couple of managers involved to get over that, I filled out the yellow form 4473 on the Ipad and then went thru the standard NICS check. Then I waited in line to pay for it. Then I waited 10 minutes for the walk out. Over an hour to purchase a rifle and I was one of 2 customers at the gun counter. Never, ever, whatsoever, will I even think about buying a gun at any big box store unless they are selling it for a buck.

Never ran across that problem. But the ATF is about to be disbanded and the FBI will take over their duties.

Plastic, rubber, and steel must taste better than those little sardines. I was able to fish the fall shad balls this year on Pickwick. Bass were hammering them from underneath like schools of sharks fattening up for the winter. And, if we tossed the right thing, we could catch a bass. Funny thing was, tossing something that did not mimic the shad drew the fish in.

I guess there is going to be a season on blue birds in the future. The other 3 are all game animals....

Gander Mountain had the best deal I found last spring. Interstate Batteries and no core charge or return core. I picked up a size 24 cranking marine for $89 out the door.

Ahh poop. Should help the brown trouts.

I use Orvis waders for both hunting and fishing. They have been the most reliable breathables I have owned. My original pair of mid grade waders is still waterproof after 16 years of use. I have a pair of bootfoots for water fowl that have been thru 5 seasons now. I have Drake neoprenes for extreme cold. My Drake and Hodgeman breathables failed after a few seasons of ducks. Long ago, I had good luck with Cabela neoprenes, but only use Goretex now for fishing. Boots, another story. Most boots only last a few seasons no matter who makes them.

Both have not posted for a long time.

Wow. If you need lessons on how to navigate the forums, I have been teaching others to use computers since 1986. Way before the net and Al Gore. The network back then was a phone handset in a cradle.

Maybe I misunderstand the sport of gigging, I thought it was always done for food. Do people gig fish just for the sport? The giggers i have met eat what they gig, usually suckers.

And it depends on what you want the electronics to do. Chirp, side scan, interface to a trolling motor, mapping. Raymarine has some simple units that interface wirelessly to a phone that perform well also.

The quote was not edited to cast a dark shadow, it was as posted on the MDC Website. The phrase states, they did not know what they had. The following line states, at the time they got it into the boat, they thought it was some kind of shad, but still not certain. I am making a guess, at the time of impact of the gig on the fish, they did not know what they were gigging based on their reaction and the fact that most do not gig shad for food. But I am just making a wild guess. Once again, know what you are aiming at. In this situation it is all glory, they get their names in the record books.

Made a new strawberry bed today from new plants made last fall. Plants in cells of concrete blocks made runners into raised bed. I dug them out for new bed. Alaska snow peas are up.

I am guessing they may not know what it was at the time of the gig hitting the fish. Not too many gig shad for food or pleasure, but just guessing. I am not a gigger, nor do I condemn them and the sport. My point was knowing the target before you shoot, gig, spear, or otherwise kill something.

Note the phrase " “My dad and I didn’t really know what type of fish we had in the boat until we got back to the boat ramp,” said Nolan. Always know your target. https://mdc.mo.gov/newsroom/fenton-angler-gigs-state-record-gizzard-shad

I work for 2 brothers, that show is nothing. But it is more sad to see. Its like they compete to come up with the dumbest idea first.