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Chief packs sticks and strings for self defense.

Boga type grips work good. My buddies know why I have a pair on my boat or on my person at all times when fishing for toothy fish. I had a buddy "lip" a walleye not knowing what he had on the end of his line. Cut him up good.

Was scanning the channels tonight and came across Apocalypse Now. Still a great movie. Well directed, great actors. Martin Sheen looks so much like his son Charlie.

Yeee Haa! The race is on.

Beer, Lunchable, Lays Stackers, Water, Ritz Peanut Butter Crackers, and maybe a Mtn. Dew. And a small handgun of high capacity with a few extra rounds.

Just kidding on tucking them in, my vines are about 8' tall. I have a hard time reaching the top of them. Bees are working good this morning in the cooler temps.

What a change in the weather, gonna drop to 56 degrees tonight. That is half of the high last Friday. This hot weather has done a number on the ole garden. Spring squash are gone. Green beans have been frying in the sun. Tomato vines look sad and quit blooming a few weeks back when the heat started. Cucumber vines are the same. Good news is the fall squash and radish look good. Fall cucumbers are coming along, they may make a few before frost. Tomatoes should start blooming again with the cooler weather as well as the beans. Having a hard time getting the lettuce to come up, I think the seed was roasting in the dirt. How is everyone else coming along??

Ebay would be a good one to watch. My buddy found his stolen cell phone on there and bought it back.

Even that rule is stretched pretty thin this year. I dragged the yak thru several riffles on the Spring River last weekend, something I have never had to do. And the fishing is poor for the most part. With the low water, the stocking is only taking place at the boat ramps if they are doing any at all. No float thru stockings are taking place that spreads the fish out along the river.

That should be the rule with anyone fishing. You should always be aware of your surroundings. You always check to see your backcast and make sure it does not go into a tree don't ya?

I like Shy Pokes, they are the transition carrier of the little white worms in bass that look like maggots when you filet them. Since the Shy Pokes have gained protection, the worms increase, more people toss the bass back as they are unfit to eat. Good Shy Pokes. Bad Pterdactyls. Nasty fish killing machines. And that dang screeching, squacking noise they make.

A landowner on a Scenic Riverway or NFS river may face different rulings Justin. But a landowner on a smaller stream that does not disturb the actual stream or course does not have to get a permit, especially if he owns both sides of the stream.

I am lost. I thought there would be something about navels somewhere in the thread. Nothing like a tight firm ab with a nice navel and maybe some naughty belly button jewelry whilst reading to distract you from what you were going to say in the first place.

You can also wade the river above where the spring runs in and get in some warm water fishing for smallies and goggle eye. There is a good trail, part of the McCormack Lake section that goes up to a local CCC lake.

Probably not, if you are trespassing while making a meth lab. What you may have witnessed was just a farmer making an access to get water from a stream since his ponds have dried up, making a spot for livestock to water, or just clearing out a spot for access. You have to get a permit to mine gravel for sale, but not for private use. Unless there is a major disturbance I would not worry much. I doubt if anything would be done about it.

No shortage of Shy Pokes around here. Usually see several each time out and a few blue teradactyls.

Maybe the neighbor has one of the Stoeger Air Rifles with the built in silencer and was tired of him crapping on his dock?

At least you can still paint!

I was scanning the channels late last night at the cabin and came across XXX Summer Olympics. I clicked it on expecting to see some of that pole dancing technique. Come to find out, it was just roman numeral for 30.

So Chief, are you a Breast and Thigh man or one of them that likes the back? I married off my Stepdaughter last weekend. The assault on the institute of marriage was part of the wedding ceremony. The church they chose approved of Chick Filet and their stance, as do I. The institute of marriage is and always will be the union of a man and a woman. If some seem to think otherwise, they really need to call it something else.

Better take advantage of it while it lasts. A bill introduced by Lautenberg last week proposes to: Eliminate all mail order shipping of ammunition to individuals by requiring to purchaser to present a photo id to the seller directly. Over the counter retail purchases of ammo from a retail dealer will be your only way to buy ammo. All qty of ammo over 1000 rounds must be transfered from dealer to dealer. All qty purhases of ammo are to be tracked by the Federal Government. Thanks to the Red Headed Freak in Colorado. And, if you live in Illinois, better get your AR-15 while they last. A bill was introduced in that state in the last few days that will try to ban them.

Not doing well, but better. I had requisitioned the machine shop crew at the office to build me one based on my rough drawings. The were dragging their feet. I was at one of those cheap tool places and the thought hit me, picked up 2 of the clamps for about $4 bucks and used some 2x4's that I had made for a trolling motor stand. Works like a charm.

Obamacare is a tax installed by the Congress and the President Of The United States upon the people of the USA. Quote the Supreme Court Decision that upheld this crazy decision. "In a 5-4 decision the Supreme Court upheld the joint venture of the President and Congress to force every American, regardless of ability or desire, to purchase a qualifying health care insurance plan by 2014 or face a tax penalty for failure to comply. Today’s ruling demonstrates a bizarre interpretation of the Constitution wherein the majority of the justices held that while the Constitution does not grant Congress the power to compel the purchase of a commodity, it does have the power to tax anyone who doesn’t make such a purchase. Chief Justice Roberts, writing for the Court, held while the “individual mandate is not a valid exercise of Congress’s power under the Commerce Clause and the Necessary and Proper Clause,” it is valid as an exercise of the taxing power granted the federal government by the Constitution. " It is a tax. It does not improve or change the healthcare system to improve it. It will not stop those that maintain financial irresponsibility. It will in the end result in the Federal Government being in charge of your healthcare decisions. I like this little refund business. Funny how it corresponds in timing to a few months before election. Seems like buying some votes to me. Our current political system is corrupt, and we are only helping to keep it that way!

I have caught tons of drum on bait, mainly worms. I have caught then on a white twintail jig also, but not with any consisitancy. They should go after a san juan worm or a fly of that nature. Some of the new power bait worms should be good too.

That new channel below the rock pile has some tight bends. For years, the river flowed straight east for about another 1/4 mile into a big bluff hole and turned south. Then a flood opened up that old channel and cut off the other one. It shortens the float a bit too. I always thought that channel was a creek running into the river and not part of the old riverbed. There have always been some good fish in that hole around that rockpile.