jdmidwest

Just looked at the forecast coming up, Santa may be dropping your presents. Looks like sleet and snow here on Christmas day. Might have to deliver some steel pellets to the ducks on Christmas and make me happy.

The amount of children killed in school fires in the last 50 years as of May, 2010? Zero. Nada. Zippo. What??? How come??? Because they trained personnel in fire safety and prevention as well as the kids. They did drills on what to do in case of fire. They installed Sprinklers to put out the fires. Something simple as water to stop the threat. Who would have thunk? Forward to modern day. Nutballs seeking fame are attacking our kids in a gun free zone called a "school". What do we do??? Interesting article from May 2010 that has an excellent point driven home. If it had been driven home in CT, maybe 20 young souls would still be here today. http://www.policeone.com/active-shooter/articles/2058168-Lt-Col-Dave-Grossman-to-cops-The-enemy-is-denial/ Install a security protocol. Train personnel on what to do in case of attack. Drill with personnel and kids on what to do. Install an armed security person(s) to deal with the threat, just in case of fire. It would really be simple. All visitors enter thu the front that is locked down, along with the rest of the school. Simple pass thru a metal detector would kill the thought of bringing in weapons, but that is an added expense, and an additional thought. Armed security person confronts any incoming threat. Maybe an additional CCW scattered throughout the staff that is trained also as an extra deterrant or additional support to defeat the threat to any students.

What's left is winter hardy for the most part. We have had several frosts, but my stuff is still going uncovered. Of course, I am a few clicks south. The Alaska Snow Peas are growing along the fence I put up around the green beans. They are little over knee high. In spring, they grow taller. I like them in stir fry and salads, very sweet.

I picked a few strawberries last week. The dry weather made them go dormant, the rains brought them back out and they started blooming some. Bugs had eat on them. I still have lettuce, radishes, and mustard. Turnips did not do much. Snow peas are blooming but not setting pods. Dill finally came up in Oct and is about knee high now. The bees were still finding some orange pollen last week, somewhere.

Lots of snows moved thru Fri and Sat on the East side of the state. I did not get out but friends did not report any new ducks, just snows. I think I might have to agree with the MDC, ducks have peaked and passed here. http://extra.mdc.mo.gov/cgi-bin/mdcdevpub/apps/wtr_survey/main.cgi

That foam should keep it up for a while. Have you tried it without the hackle, just pulling over the foam?

Better save that, might come in handy launching boats off a high bridge..

It depends on what color the rod blank is. The original Rocky Mtn was a red/burgandy color 9' 6 wt. Then they discontinued the rod and used the Rocky Mtn to describe a series of rods wih the PM10 blank and utillity fittings like Wayne stated. In the 80's, Orvis used to name the rods they produced, the Rocky Mtn, Henry's Fork, Tightloop, Far and Fine, etc. Then in the 90's they started using the old names to describe series of rods. Since they own the rights to the names, they can use them in various ways.

Hard to say what will happen, but I am predicting that the next few years will be different. Streams need a good flushing out, they did not go into flood stage this season. It should have meant a good year for spring spawners, as most beds should have reared young. But, without the floods, the young were not displaced and scattered like normal. Most areas of rivers remained pools all season, so there was limited migration in the system. For turkeys, it was a banner year. No flooding in the bottomlands resulted in more turkey production. The nests did not get wiped out like normal. Downside, NOAA is predicting the pattern to continue next year also. 2 drought years.

You guys have lake front property and complain about how far you have to walk to get wet in the lake. I have to drive for at least an hour to the nearest Corps lake.

The weather is turning Sunday night. I thinks I may be sick on Mon or Tues.

With this nice weather we have been having, the ducks have come to a screeching halt. Saving my days for the end ot the month, surely it will get cold and nasty sometime before season goes out.

I use an exacto knife, essentially a razor blade with a handle. Check for any rust under the material that may form due to moisture. Discard hook if rusty. Scraping the hook with a knife sometimes takes away the coating and the hook may rust faster second time around. Be sure to sharpen before you tye with it again to get a nice sharp point.

Comeon Wrench, Pot is used to fix eye diseases, not cause them.

Kinda hard to stuff one in a pocket. Neat idea.

All streams were affected by the drought this summer to some degree. Lets all take the year off next year and fish lakes only. Give the streams some time to recover.

And is the sealed vapor separator between the primer bulb and the fuel pump? Nothing between the 2 could have been clogged and burned out the pump?

Or it could have sucked a piece of the bulb into the pump and clogged it.

Catch and release really works. But it sometimes leaves some lop eyed fish.

And the springs around the Narrows lower the water temp. As a rule, no stocking is done below Riverton. But trout will move and get displaced in floods.

MDC was quoted earlier that it was only a male roaming around looking for a mate. No population, just a loner, traveling thru.

Shoulda bought a Renzetti for a little more. Rotary is nice when you are doing some types of flies and checking out all sides of a fly. Otherwise, Dynaking uses good steel so it should last a life time.

Shhh, Did you hear that?

Looks like he caught a member of the Klan going out to put leaflets on a car.