jdmidwest

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.

Hey Gavin, got a good recipe for Barred Owl?

My buddy needs to do his also. I was wondering if there was a solvent to take the old carpet up.

Doesn't your jet have a kickoff release when you hit something. 11 pt is too low for jets. When you have to drag a yak over a shoal, it is too low for jets. I think the stream is flattening out more than it used to be over the years past. Most runs had a deep channel before, now it seem like they are just shallow all way across in alot of areas.

What about Lane Spring on the Little Piney?

You must have clicked something to make it underline. I was not looking for any gray area, just did not want to get caught in one. I tend to try to stay legal at all times. Since I have many friends on the law enforcement side, I would hate for them to think less of me. For many years of my life, I never breasted a duck. I always plucked and picked. Many times I plucked and picked in the blind to pass the time and to keep feathers out of my house and shed. Any more I just breast them out unless I have a nice mallard or woody with a good layer of fat and not shotup in the breast. I have always thought that breasting was skirting the "wanton waste" rule, but it seems to be common practice.

And here it is on the MDC site. http://mdc.mo.gov/hunting-trapping/regulations/waterfowl-regulations/federal-waterfowl-regulations-summary/waterfowl-p SPECIES IDENTIFICATION REQUIREMENT: No person shall transport within the United States any migratory game birds, except doves and band-tailed pigeons, unless the head or one fully feathered wing remains attached to each such bird at all times while being transported from the place where taken until they have arrived at the personal abode of the possessor or a migratory bird preservation facility.

How could that be construed as illegal? For that matter you could eat them that night in a campground too. You could cook them in the duck blind for lunch, as long as you did not exceed a daily bag limit of birds, just keep remains of the carcass, ie wings, head, remains of feathers as proof. Going on what I was told, once cooked they did not count as possession. And the link is the Federal Law, which may be different from the Missouri Code. Normally, a waterfowl violation draws both state and federal charges. But they only received a state ticket from MDC. Daily bag limit. You can take only one daily bag limit in any one day. This limit determines the number of waterfowl you may legally have in your possession while in the field or while in route back to your car, hunting camp, home, or other destination. MOTEL? Tagging. You cannot put or leave waterfowl at any place or in the custody of another person unless you tag the birds with your signature, address, number of birds identified by species, and the date you killed them. He could have labeled the birds and gave them to his son and vice versa, then they would have been legal according to the letter of this law while in transit from motel to home. Dressing. You cannot completely field-dress waterfowl before taking them from the field. The head or one fully feathered wing must remain attached to the birds while you transport them to your home or to a facility that processes waterfowl. But they only have to be "tagged" after that with the above tagging information. Technically they took them to their home for the night, and processed them. People rent homes too, just like you rent motels. And once home, you can transport them without a wing or a head as long as they are properly labeled. I am not trying to defend them or say the MDC was out of line. They were wrong and did not tag the birds with the proper label info like they normally do and they are not fighting the ticket. I always use the tags provided at the hunting areas when possible for waterfowl that you simply fill in the blanks for transporting processed birds. I have used a business card with my cons. id, date, and species written on the back. In the blind they are on my lanyard with my MDC id no.

It was a long weekend for both parties involved. The agents were in the second weekend of firearms deerseason working both sides an exit off of the interstate on a Sunday afternoon and had been putting in many hours. The hunters were coming back after a long weekend of duck season on the other side of the state. They were pulling over deer hunters specifically, but the saw the duck boats and decided to pull them over too. The agents on that side had to call in the waterfowl expert on the other side to do the waterfowl check. Both parties were low on tolerance. The hunters were in the wrong, so the ticket book came out. The frozen duck breasts were taken to a local food bank. They were not labeled and just separate in 2 ziplock bags in a cooler, which they normally don't do. I fully understand the meaning of the law of transport. But I thought transport ends at the motel when you process it for storage and freeze it. I thought the transport part of the process was to prevent you from carrying around more than one daily limit or taking more than a limit in one day. The confusing part is, according to what the agent explained to me, the wing or head has to be attached from the field to the motel, motel to home, field to hunting cabin. After that, just proper labeling from home to friend, family, smokehouse is all that is needed. I had always cleaned birds fully on multi day excursions at the motel or a friends house, labeled them, then transported them back.. According to the agent, I may have been breaking the law. Daily birds always ride back fully feathered on my bird carrier that is labeled with my cons. id.

They are there. Fish for them just like you would on the Current River, minus the jet boat. I usually have a couple per season as collateral damage from trolling for trout. I have not caught anything nice.

Cmon Ness, I live in the country. The only thing that will improve that lot will be foreclosure or repo. Hell, it may even be a rental. Lucky for me, it is seveal hundred yards away in another area.

Yum, burnt hair dog skin soup must be the other recipe. Medium size dog. Is a beagle medium size or are we talking Lab? I can never get my portions right when selecting dog. Come on Gavin, Surely you have a recipe.