jdmidwest

Large shiner on a 3 ought hook.

They are buzzing good here in SE MO. For some reason, they were strong on Sat., but quiet on Sun and Mon. The noise picked up here today.

It's a good thing your family sucks about babysitting, your little girl looks like she had a great time. Enjoy them, they don't stay around long.

Surely there is a better way to control than kill off the ash. Spray, natural predator, something. If we kill off the ash instead of the bugs, the trees are still gone. What if the bug adapts to a new tree species?

I just read an article in STL Today regarding the Emeral Ash Borer Beetle and Ash Trees. Seems like the way some feel to stop the problem is to kill of the food supply, ash trees. Morels love ash trees. What will happen if ash trees become extinct? I saw it a few years ago near Greenville, they found a bug and killed every ash tree on public property to try to stop the spread. They quarantined the wood, but they still spread. Don't they realize they can fly? http://www.stltoday.com/news/state-and-regional/missouri/destructive-ash-borer-beetle-advancing-in-st-louis-area/article_c1398f2b-e173-5a4f-9c1a-d3e4ea5bd0cc.html

Which weather station is that?

Cabelas has a good combo on sale right now for a decent price.

Feed it well and it will grow. Hope you have lots of room for the vines, they can grow about 20'.

While fishing for a brown trout on a Current River, Norfork, or Meramec stream does gain my interest, I long for other things. I dream about the time of Schoolcraft, but with all of my modern tech, roaming the Ozarks in them early days. I dream about duck hunting the swamps that were drained in SE Mo around the time this country was founded. I think it would be neat to fish the shallow sea that we currently call home in the early days of development of the earth. But I am not a time traveller, I have to deal with the cards I have been dealt. I really enjoy what I have now, and I don't want to try something different. After all, we are the original "invasive species"

It is not the mortality, it is the lack of nutrition or digestability in the corn that is the issue. They gorge themselves on it and starve. Why trout are attracted to corn amazes me. The only thing I can figure is it "may" look like a egg to them. They will gorge themselves on an egg, but it is loaded with protein. Trout are meat eaters, not veggie tarians.

Yep. I used to pass the time on the farm during the day shooting blackbirds picking the corn out of the turds of the above with an ole Crosman pellet gun. I always laugh when someone chooses chicken over other types of meat. I pass along the fact that our free range chickens on the farm picked corn out of the hog turds, along with the flies that land on them. Chickens are just nasty animals.

Great idea. But my favorite panfish lure is a fly. Or a fly of many type. Some dry, some nymphs, some wet, and all time favorite is a popper. Second is crickets, third is a wax worm.

I am just thinking the original op does not have a kayak, otherwise, why would he need a cranking battery? Or 2 batteries for that matter. But that has not been brought out in the open. I run a cranking battery on the bass boat and another deep cycle AGM for the electronics and trolling motor. That way, if I suck the life out of the trolling battery, I can still start the gas motor without having to dig the pull rope out of the emergency box. I have a portable fish finder that has 8 AA battery pack that gives it 12 volts. It will run for at least a day or more on that system. B/W fishfinders are low voltage consumers. Bigger ones that have down scan have more draw.

Bush beans usually depend on the weather. As long as it does not turn dry they keep blooming. I plant Blue Lake and Jade. The Jades seem to be more one and done where the Blue lakes keep producing longer all season. I will see this year, I have mine enclosed in chicken wire to keep the rabbits out. In the past, at the first dry spell when grass gets skimpy, they attack the bean plants and clean them up in a few days. They are looking good now, pole beans are starting to climb the poles about a foot high now. No blooms yet.

Holy crap, temps in upper 30's tonight around here. When is this weather ever going to straighten out? I am picking about 3 quarts of strawberry each day, but tossing several more due to excess moisture in the beds. Lettuce is growing crazy, spinach too. Snow peas are chest hi and putting on pods. Tomatoes are trying. Pole beans are climbing poles and cucumbers are growing. We need some sunshine, warm temps, and dry weather for a week. I don't even think it made it above the 50's here today.

Memorial Day weekend, you probably won't even get your feet wet wading. Just hop from canoe to canoe on the Huzzah or several other streams in the area. Grab a topo map and scout out some skinny water to fish.

Did you reset all to defaults in the setup menu? If you reset, there will be a question regarding deep water or something, if you answer it correctly, you will get the shallow depths back. Looking at the screen, it is showing depths of 400 ft., I doubt you will encounter that around MO. I don't think you hurt the transducer, I think the instruction for mounting show how to mount it inside the hull, dry. I only know this because I just bought an Elite 4 from an outlet store that sells BPS returns for $20 over the weekend. The cable looked like a dog bit it, but all the rest looked like new. Sealed the cable and hit the power to it. Loaded up and started working, but the depth was showing 60'. Scrolled thru menus and found the reset to default, answered the setup questions, and all worked. GPS locked in and works. I bought a Mark 4 DSI a few years ago on sale. I like the down scan and being able to see the structure, but I missed the fish arches. The Elite 4 shows arches and has an old traditional sonar. I notice the newer units have both the down scan and the older type sonar that shows fish arches. Both units give me good coverage now, I have one transducer in the back of the boat and another on the front off of the trolling motor.

I agree with Brian, the trout compete with smallies on the 11 Point for food and have crowded them out. Same goes on the Spring River in Arkansas. They feed on the same minnows and crawfish for the most part. Trout numbers are artificially increased vs natural reproduction in smallies. Smallies lose. And so do other native species like the pickeral and walleye to some extent. Most Ozarks streams were Prime Smallmouth streams originally before introduction of non native trout of any species. All trout in MO have been introduced, not just the Browns. Maybe before or near the last Ice Age, trout may have inhabited our streams naturally. But in the current time, all current trout strains have been brought in on a train from either the east or west coast and stocked, or some other man made form. The big dams changed the water temps below them and smallies moved out of those areas because the water was colder than what they thrive in. Spring fed rivers are close enough to optimal temps for smallies, they have existed in those long before trout were introduced.

You spelled WoW wrong, or maybe you did it in a mirror.

Ticks and snakes are tops on my list. I saw a photo of a nice little 81" rattler out by the Castor River yesterday. Neighbor killed a 34" copperhead next door and another one about 8". That means a breeder has dumped her offspring next to me. I have warned the better half to watch closely in the strawberry patches, a known hideout for the copperheads. Ticks have been bad already this year. And they are finding all kinds of new tick diseases. I had a tick stay on long enough during turkey season that started to turn clear. I found a yearling this morning that had munched in a few places on my leg leaving red marks along the way. I can hardly wait for a mess of seed ticks. BTW, poor kitty. It's a shame there are no mountain lions in MO.

Buy a test kit and see what the soil actually needs. Some fertilizers just make green leaves and do not help the plant bear fruit.

Around 75 and 76, I was slaughtering the white bass on the St Francois River near the Old Greenville access with my great Uncle Bo. He lived in St Louis and came down on weekends to our farm where he had a trailer. He had an old 14' jon boat with a 25 hp Johnson that would only run when it wanted. No seats, just the hard aluminum. I would either dig the nightcrawlers or trap minnows during the week waiting for him to come down. Most of the time we would catch a mess of Drum or White Bass and filet them out. If it was a drum, we would shuck the rocks out of its head and toss them in a jar. We had a collection of them, each one had the L shape on them, he called them "lady luck. Auntie would cook them down and make fish cakes for us to eat fishing or for supper. For kicks, we would head down to the dam and fish the spillway for a pot luck fishing trip. Carp, buffalo, crappie, bass, white bass, or drum would be the one on the hook. For fun, we would toss minnows and catch gar. Those were the days, good days I miss.

I sit my daughter in front of the TV and made her watch fishing and hunting shows from the get go. She was happy and content sitting there in her little bassinet seat. Her mother pushed her up to the bank and she watched from the stroller as I flyfished for trout. She grew up fine. She fishes and hunts. Loves to camp. Can shoot a gun really well. Her favorite thing to do is flyfish with me. Never too young to start.

I thought humor was the point.

The Ned Rig is there, it is buried deep in his gullet giving him indigestion and you can't see it..... If he had hit the Ned Rig, he would be in a frying pan.......