jdmidwest

I am starting to see some skin blotching that I need to see a dermatologist about. I have been wearing SPF 50 for the most part the last few years, and a big floppy hat to cover face, ears, and neck. I always wear a t shirt and shorts for the main part ot the summer with sunblock and avoid all sunburn. When I was young, I did not worry about it much. Now I wish I had of, my arms and hands are really showing it now. Of course, someone said the other day it might just be liver spots. Maybe I need to check my internals for alcohol poisioning.

Actually I have been looking a mono Humminbird unit with gps and DSI for around $299. http://store.humminbird.com/products/604319/581i_HD_DI_Combo

It has a vintage Hummingbird LCR 8000 and the gage on the cluster for depth best I can figure out. I think it runs off a cathode tube. Wiring is a mess, gonna take a while to track all of it down. I am looking at the Hummingbird DSI mono unit with gps that Bass Pro has on sale for $299 to go on it. Boat is solid with no dents or scratches. Last time it was stickered in IL was 94. Was bought by local guy last April and he replaced carb and put in waterpump. He was selling it to get married. It has seen minimal usage in the past. I hope to put some miles on it.

Last year, my 3 year old Grandson told me he wanted a boat he could steer. Of course, we were at a boat show and the one he was in was around 30k. Today I bought him one. 1988 Bass Tracker Pro 17 with a 35 hp Merc. Runs like a champ, test drove it before I bought it. All in excellent shape for the age. Spent most of the afternoon in the rain removing old IL reg numbers. Scraping and polishing with Mothers. I have most of it off, but the rain was getting in my ears so I quit. Gonna rewire the trailer tomorrow and put LED lights on it. Tweak a few things and off to Wappappello next weekend.

I have seen trout eat a cigarette butt, I don't think they are really picky.

The lake still produces fish in good numbers, but I seldom fish the lake any more. It has a great redear population in the spring if the flood waters are up you can catch great numbers off old gravel roads. Crappie fair to getting better. The bass have not been as good as it was in the years following the formation of the lake. My uncle used to tell me stories about the 6 and 7 lb's he caught regularly back then. My favorites are the white bass runs in the spring and drum fishing, both were great around the Old Greenville access. I spent many hours there as a kid drowning nightcrawlers I picked up off an old stretch of blacktop that was 67 originally north of town. You could peel back the turf that was overtaking the road and pick them up by the hundreds in the spring. I used to sell them to bait shops when I was in HS for spending money. The actual lake line starts above Greenville, but it is essentially a river unless there is high water. I have run under the old 67 bridge in a big flood year and almost touched the bottom of the bridge. Water backed up that year above HWY 34 at Patterson. Waterfowl use the area and the Corps have drawings for blind spots each year. Grandad's old farm where he was raised was flooded by the lake and he was forced to move out. Many stories of the area were told by him before he passed. I have fished the fields he plowed as a kid. He walked several miles to Old Greenville to go to school. He met Grandma and courted her down by Shook. He told stories of the Panther Den cave near his old farm and catching fish out of there when it flooded. Some of the fields he worked are now timbered islands along the river. Sulpher Spring is a rather large spring that has been totally flooded by the lake. But it is a good place to fish in the winter.

Found 16 today but they were dried out and full of little black bugs. They had chewed them up pretty bad, so I tossed them in the yard for seed. Same spot that I checked on Tues afternoon and did not have an up in it. Must have popped fast and the wind got them. Some were the size of my fist.

Size and color mainly. Pickerel don't get very big and have a chain link pattern on the body.

Looks like a tornado left some lumber in a tree. Or, someone started a treehouse and gave up packing in the lumber.

I have just been putting off the pain till warmer weather.

Its that micromanagement thing, they fail to look at the bigger picture. What is this global warming thing anyway? It must be something big if Sec of State Kerry is preaching it to the Chinese.

TN is the place to go for nice smallies. Buffalo River usually gives up a 3 lb smallie on each trip. Pickwick Lake was slow this weekend, but I did manage to land one smallie that was 20. Fish were pre spawn and hitting tube jigs pretty good. All were caught in about 10' of water around the bluffs. I used to fish MO and Ark for the smallies, but then it got too crowded and my fishing buddy moved to TN. About the same drive from my place to his as it was to the good spots in the Ozarks.

Muskie and walleye would require a boat and access to deeper water. I have caught walleye but never any of the muskie. Walleye were produced trolling some of the deeper holes and your best luck would be after dark. Most places rent canoes. Riverside resort has nice camping area, cabins, and an owner that likes to fish for the Walleye. He may be some help to you. As far as wading goes, public places are Lasseters in town, Dam 3 at the hatchery, and the Bayou access. All of the campgrounds will let you fish for a daily fee if you are not a quest.

Nothing here yet

Trees are blooming. Oak leaves are budding. May Apples and a few Trillium and Hornwort today are up. Snakes are crawling and box turtles all over the road. I hit some spots Friday and this afternoon but came up with nothing. I did find a place where a lone deer had been working over one of my patches. I fear it may have developed a taste for the morel, but no sign of them. Came home and had a nice big tick crawling up my arm. I hope this rain gets them to popping.

It goes to the James Foundation, the curators of the park. They hit you up at the gate as you go in.

We have had it pretty lucky around here. Most of our streams are really not crowded with fishermen to develop the need for combat fishing. Outside of trout parks and tailwaters, most of the time you can get out and away from the crowds. Up north where the streams are small and fishing seasons have an opening day and a limited run, I think combat fishing is pretty prevalent. Instead of a relaxing sport, it becomes a competition. Competition breeds agression, agression cuts off the supply of smarts to the brain, and retardation kicks in.

Who is to say that it wasn't his honey hole too! Not much you can do. Trying to explain fishing ethics to someone like that would probably just lead to a little streamside amusement. The whole world is just getting rude and impatient. With all of the cell phones and email, people just seem to walk around on autopilot. They don't really seem to care about the other person anymore.

There used to be one down at place called Broussard's on the riverfront in Cape. But I think they run out of alligator one nite and fried him up.

Mo just past laws that curtail the use of drones, so we don't have to worry about it. But there has been an Apache Copter circling around for the last 2 days. Don't know what that is about. No airshow scheduled.

How about cutting out all of their breaks and vacations till they solve the country's problem and pass a budget? That would be a real show of faith and leadership. All the rest is just political show.

I really don't pay attention to the label as much as the looks of the cut of meat. But the old cuts did suggest where on the animal the meat portion came from. And I can remember pork chops were pork chops 50 years ago, not much has changed except mine used to come out of white freezer paper with a wax pen label. I even remember what the pig looked like as it was growing up. It took me a long time to get used to eating store bought meat. When we butchered the meat was so much better. We smoked our hams and bacon. As a kid, about the only meat we bought was a pound of hamburger every now and then when mom was in a hurry and could not thaw any out fast enough.

I don't know about the rest of you, but the same 5 guys have been fishing that hole since he first posted a few days back. And I have not seen them catch any.

Note the spelling of the word gesture in my original post! Their sign of faith was a joke. Most will steal more than 5% back from the taxpayers.

Yes, it was a good jester. I think all of them should give more than 5% since they did not do anything to solve the problem. I give them my 5% also, that is what I figure my portion of tax increases will be this year.