jdmidwest

The account in Stltoday mentioned beverage, they pulled over to get one and whip big Ed out to release one. One can only assume what would make someone go up against someone with a pistol with a handful of rocks. But the victim was actually acting as a cooler from the account I read. But then the mention of Army Ranger and merely pushing the gun out of his face then getting shot would lead one to believe.

7 11, thats not a baby, its a toddler. Congrats

I have run across this many times, landowner threatens because he owns the land. Sometimes they have a gun, they all want to shout at you as you float by. Key to the matter is, float on by. Trying to point out that you are in the right just makes things worse. Keep on paddling. Fishing usually sucks around them anyway. They don't bite with all of the noise. I float many streams that are classified as non navigable. They are owned by decent farmers and people that work hard for what they have. They have paid money for what they have and are taxed yearly for the property. Many have had to deal with a drunk like that, a poacher, someone trespassing on their property, or just found a bunch of trash left behind. Maybe he was tired of all of the piles of dung and toilet paper littering his property along the river. Standing in their face and telling them that a judge determined that you have the right to float thru and use their property will only make them madder. Put yourself in their shoes for a moment. Do you stop in the middle of a public street and go into someones yard to take a whiz on a tree? Would you get enraged if you saw someone taking a whiz in your yard? But nothing is worth the life that was taken over a simple matter like this. The group should have had the common sense to bug out, not go after him with a bunch of rocks. I doubt if anyone could call this one self defense, but that will be up to a judge and jury now.

In this case, it looks like they left it behind. The river rats were only carrying rocks.

Technically, it is illegal to be drunk and disorderly in public anywhere. But unless you are causing a problem, it is not enforced. Still not enough details to make a judgement here, but the landowner was arrested so there must have been some fault. There should be no guns in the hands of drunks period. From the looks of the mugshot, arrested individual may have been impaired also.

I don't need a timeout. When our leaders divide instead of unite, they are the ones that need a timeout. 6 years ago, none of this would have been spoken on here. Our leaders have brought on the partisan crap, the racial crap, and they love it when we are in turmoil. It distracts us from what they are really doing. And the media, social media, and all other junk info makers have melted the minds of many info believing what they say is true.

Like most things posted in the news, everyone jumps the gun and persecutes before the facts come out. Unless someone on here has a first hand account and was a witness, nobody really knows what happened. In all accounts, it looked like someone died. There is no fun and games with that. And I am sick and tired of a leadership that brings out racial tension and turmoil in the nation. What happened to all of that job creating he was going to do if re-elected?

Wet grass or a moss bed makes a good photo and is easy on the fish. I have always thought that the less you handle a fish, the better its chances of survival when released. I usually skip the photo or drag the camera out and have it ready to go for a quick shot as I reel it in. Most photos are taken when I fish in pairs. We both carry cameras and notify the other of a photo op.

Good looking boat. I think the red looks sharp. Looks like Glassmaster went out of business about 10 years ago.

Blow it over here, I am watering my garden now. Its dry here and has been for a few weeks.

You need to hit them early in April when the spawn is on. I have a couple of friends that go down there in April each year and fill the coolers with pigs. They like the spider rigs. I have never been a crappie fisherman, but I will take them if they are biting.

I really don't think anyone keeps smallies any more, they are full of worms.

Walmart sells little self adhesive strip led's that are water proof and various colors. They demo them with a battery pack in the package. Bright and low current draw, no need for a marine battery. You cut them to size and are about a 1/2" wide. You can buy down focused or side focused. I have been looking at putting a few in my bass boat. Look in the automotive dept.

Crap. Now all the giggers are heading to Big River. Remember, some little creek in a place far far away.

Whoever said that they are just here for us to look at was wrong. Mo Elk Season is coming in 2016 possibly for 10-15 hunters. http://rhtrav.com/wordpress/missouri-elk-season-tentatively-set-for-2016/#more-13860

Background radiation from when Mo hosted the Nike Missile launch site.

You can always mount the transponder on the trolling motor or some place farther forward to get a frontal view. Most transponders shoot down. I have seen guys suspend them from poles in front of a boat to see what is coming up.

But the MDC is funded by a sales tax percentage. It relies on what people spend. It has nothing to do with what is collected as income tax. The Conservation Tax is voted on and approved. Other taxes like the new one on out of state auto purchases are government mandated and did not get a people vote to approve. The MDC remains fiscally responsible and has more control than our State or Federal government as far as spending goes. The Government spends like little kids in a candy store always knowing momma will give them more to shut them up.

Odd, my best fishing is during the afternoons after 5 in the summers. That is when they go topwater in the middle of the holes around cover. As far as the canoe, probably around 3 to 400 depending on what shape it is in.

And neither does lynching, beat downs, or stabbing with a gig handle. If he is caught now, then the law will deal with him and he will be punished. This kind of stuff occurs every day but most citizens fail to report it. Then they blame it on MDC because they are doing it.

I have watched streams in my area decline for a long time. The little creek that runs thru the farm back in the 1800's was rumored to have holes with no bottoms. Now it has riffles that disappear under the gravel for a ways. If you find a waist deep hole you are lucky. General deforestation and other practices have released many many tons of gravel into the streams. Those have filled the streams for many of years. Holes are smaller and shallower. Water warms up and fishing declines. There is not really much you can do other than let nature run its course and rebuild the tree lines. But then you see a developer come in an do that to a stream corridor, it just makes you sick. Maybe the channel will take the new old course, but I bet it will revert back. A thin coffer dam of gravel will not stop the destruction of the Castor in flood stage. And I bet the house will take a few licks too. He cut down alot of trees around the house and paved the area with concrete. The trees would have helped block the debris. Interesting to see what becomes of it. And of course, there are those yellow signs posted all over the property "release the fighter". Does not look like he is too concerned about the stream the fighter lives in.

Even below dam 3 on the weekend you can get in some good fishing early in the morning before the floater hatch and after the last launch. The launch part is usually the hot time of the day anyway

And all along, you guys were blaming the scars on the real giggers of a night in jet boats. Now you know it is kids with gigs and spears during the day. And Herons too. They leave those nasty holes too.

We did that float in a day, once. Longest day on the river in my life. Paddled from Big Creek down to camp at 2 Rivers just to get there by dark. Nice stretch of the river. Lately we put in at Williams or get picked up there.

I caught the first part about a stove with a unique form of fuel, like most did. I think it just went on from there. I wonder how much longer Coleman fuel will be made? Whatever happened to a dual fuel stove that burns unleaded gas? Did ethanol kill that?