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Careful about feeding them too well, they will get so fat it will be a big wad of granny panties when they drop.

Gonna have to find a new place to smoke my dope other than Pink Rock. It is a nice little place, I used to go there years ago before the dopers and crack heads got run out of Johnson Shut Ins. You used to have to hike a way to get there years ago, now they have a nice gravel parking lot to encourage its overuse. There was one nice little spot in a rock that acted like a recliner, and the cool water would run over you just right. All it needed to be perfect was a cupholder drilled in it for my beer. I spotted my one and only collared lizard on those rocks. I have packed a tent and camping gear in there on the bluff overlooking all of it and spent a few nights. It used to be a nice peaceful area.

At least a county just to be safe! Several miles would have been enough, in the boonies, not in town. Had an employee come in on Monday telling a story about a couple of his friends hooking up an old car in a field this weekend. One stuck his hand under to attach a chain and thought he was struck by a bolt of electricity. He thought there was a live wire attached to the frame. He started looking and found a nice little 4' timber rattler and realized he had been bitten. Looks like he will be alright.

Found a recipe for killing the powdery mildew on the cuc's, milk and baking soda. Of course, shortly after I applied this afternoon it fell another flood. Most of my ailments are attributed to the extreme wetness we are suffering from. Not large amounts of rain, but some every day ranging from a tenth to a inch or better each time. Up side, the bees have alot of forage still. Normally they are starting to hit the dearth of dryness by now. But they are still balls to the wall busting in and out of the hive packing in nectar. I am going to check supers this weekend and probably add some more. New 4 frame honey extractor on the way, be here tomorrow. I may hit a 20 gallon harvest this year. But the humidity will have to drop some so they can dry out honey enough to cap it.

Seems like most Mothers failed to teach their daughters to cook, so us men had to pick up the slack. My x wife could not cook a boiled egg. The current one does two or three meals ok, then overdoses on salt or leaves something out to ruin one. I have spent enough of my life alone. I can read a recipe and make a good meal. But no vinagarette here.

There has been a group of them on the lower Spring River this year in Arkansas. Pretty nifty machines. I thought about one when I first saw them several years ago. But I can find a well used jon boat with a jet on it for about 5k, much more efficient to fish from.

Rain, mud, cloudy days. Late Frost. My garden is a mess. Its been rainy for the last 3 days. My squash have squash bugs on them that like to dust like turkeys in Sevin Dust and still multiply. My tomato plants are 5' high and don't have a leaf on them for the first two feet. They are just trying to set tomatoes on them. My pole beans are under attack from Jap Beetles from vineyard across the way. They are just starting to bloom. The bush beans are broke over by the pounding rain. Today, my cucumber plants have been hit by a fungus or virus and have turned yellow in one day. They were just starting to produce. This is a new twist, I have never had a problem with cucumbers other than dry weather or bugs. Okra is foundering. My garden, the okra is still only 6" high. It looks better in the other garden, about knee high, but it had an earlier start. I walked over to check the other garden at the neighbors to find 20 Canada geese in it. They had pulled up about 2 rows of my second planting of corn and stomped it into the mud. What corn that came up in the first planting is tosseled out at about knee high, no ears. Good thing we have a farmer's market close by.

I think I would have packed him off a little farther than the fence line. There was some reason he was crawling around your property, probably mice. No need to risk a nasty bite if you don't see him next time.

I too feel the same way about the jets too. Although, some of my best fishing has been from them. You can cover alot of water and catch more fish. My buddy has one with a lowly little 25hp Merc on it. We run it on the 11 Pt and catch many trout with it. We also use it on the Buffalo river in Tenn. for smallmouth. That is something that most of the locals have never seen down there. The only other boat we have run across is a jon with a 9.9 short shaft prop. We are mindful of others floating and do our best not to make much wake around canoes and kayaks. Probably our own use of canoes and kayaks all of our lives has let us remember how bad a jet boat can make a day of floating. I don't really think you should show alot of restraint during the week if there are not other floaters around. I would use it more if it were mine. It comes in handy with the weather and river stages we have this year. Get in the boat and motor to some good fishing and get out if a storm blows up. You can still fish a stretch of water that would take you all day in a canoe or kayak and spend half the day getting rained on while paddling down to the takeout. You can also do it alone without arranging for a shuttle, saving time and money. We decided to use it on the 11Pt a few weeks back instead of shuttling and floating. We did more fishing and had alot more time to relax after. We fished the stretch from Turner to Whitten the afternoon of the first day by running up from Whitten. We still had time to help another group we were with floating in kayaks set up camp. We were able to fill the jet boat up with wood from a nice drift on the river and shuttle it to them so they would have wood for the night. Next morning, we motored down almost to Hall's Bay and fished back up in front of the canoes that were coming down river and had fresh fishing instead of fishing behind someone. We absolutely caught more fish than the floating group by doing so. We were able to get off the river in time to be nice and dry when the storm hit. When it passed, hopped back in the boat and fish some more till dark down at Narrows for smallies and pickeral.

That looks like a typical Meramec Spring 17" trout.....

I am usually out till the sun sets in the west. This time of year, it is not common for me to eat at 9. Fall and winter, normal to eat around 7 or 8 most nights.

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BTW, I have a new worst spot. Standing in the pavillion of a nice little lake after getting poured on, bilge pump running poured on, just as the fish turned on watching the boat from afar.

We drove there 3 hours one time and had the park to ourselves once in catch and release. It started sleeting shortly thereafter. We fished for about another hour without much luck, and bailed. Road was so slick, almost did not make it up the first hill. Decided to go thru St. James and back the Interstate. Lovely little 6 hour back trip. I asked for a refund because the whole stream was mucked up and covered with floating greens. The idiot at the gate should have warned me. There was actually a sign stating that it was going take place, but a worker was standing in front of it painting the building when I came thru.

Why release them? The Ned Rig hooks them so deep they will die anyway. Might as well stick a knife in them and fry them. Better than letting the turtles have them.

You all missed a sweet spot. I took off last Thurs. and Fri. and we took the jet boat out. Camped at Whitten, run up to Turner and floated and fished down on Thurs. Lots of nice fish, several 19". Run down to Turkey Bluff and worked our way back in a quick 3 hour trip on Friday before the rain, probably caught 60 a piece in those 3 hours. Not the size from Thurs, but good, decent fish. After the rain, we put back in at 142 and run up a mile or so. Caught a few bass and pickeral before dark. It was the best trip on the 11pt that I have been on in a while.

Nice to know Redear love those nasty little zebra mussels. I love to eat Redear, shellcrackers are the perfect bream.

What surprises me most about this thread is that most seem to be reading the paper version. A true sportsman worried about the environment would go online and read it or save it to a book reader. It would save trees, save the MDC the printing costs, labor to mail, and postage that could be used on some other project like a nice Bass Cook Book. http://mdc.mo.gov/conmag It is and always has been a first class publication that I have enjoyed for many, many years.

Meramec Spring trout park. I have had some of my worst experiences fishing there. Rude people, crowded, and other things. The worst was when I stopped in for an afternoon of fishing, paid entry fee and bought a tag. Go down to stream and there was a jon boat puttering around cutting moss. Went back and asked for refund. I have drove by many times since and never stopped.

Pulled up my snap peas today and cleared out the lettuce bed, its done. Replanted both for late summer. Picking a few small grape tomatoes, green beans, jalapenos, and cucumbers. Zucchini just starting to set fruit. Dill is headed out. Everything else is catching up. Sweet corn is only about knee high as is the patch of okra. The other patch of okra is only about 5 in high, it was planted only a few weeks ago after a short drying period. Cowpeas are looking pretty good, no blooms yet. Horseradish is doing good, should have some nice roots this year. We went from too much water and no sun, to hot and dry. I am watering the beds now to keep them happy. Tomato plants still look weak this year, all vine and no foliage. I am going to cut some trees this fall to open up the main garden to the sun again. My pole beans are vined and looking great, but. Jap beetles have started on them and they are not producing flowers or beans yet, just vines. Bees are still packing in the honey.

Thats what waders are for, leeches don't stick to them. I have had several latch onto me wading around the thick flowing water weeds. Only took a few to make me just put on a pair of waders. Interesting little critters, rubbery, stick like glue. Looks like the campground is still there. But like the last time I was by, a machete would help.

I wonder if you could scoop them up, boil them, shuck them, and make a nice etoufee?

Separate and identifiiable is the rule. Cutting a fin of all the ones that one person has would make them different from the other if you were tossing them in a bag. But I would not advise going to all of the trouble. Metal stringer poked thru the tender spot of the lower jaw is the way I carry them on the stream. As long it is attached to your body, you will not need to tag it. Gut them and toss them in a ziplock with either your daily tag or something with your Conservation ID and the date and they should be good for possession and transport in a cooler for camp or trip home.

I don't disagree that it all runs downstream. But I remember a time when it happened in many major streams. I would rather see it where it is and know it will stay there then try to stir something up and find out they have a majority vote somewhere and get it back in other streams. No matter what we do, we can't protect all of the environment all of the time. I have resolved to the fact we are in the next big extinction, number 6, so it really does not matter.