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Did you see any mention of tickets, charges, or wrongdoing? Did you see how this article included the regulations regarding protection of the personal property unlike the first.

If a pedophile moves in next door, would you let your kids go play with him? He seems like a nice guy and has lots of candy. Yeah, he could have been there stalking deer and the farmer thought his cows may be endangered, mistaken identity, sterotyping. But would you want to risk a few hundred dollars of your hard earned money and be wrong? The law of averages makes the mountain lion guilty by association. One lost calf is like someone stealing your favorite top dollar fly rod while you are not looking. You would want to prosecute the thief. But the thief in this case will never pay restitution in a monetary means.

Cattleman kills mountain lion in Ray County Bob Littleton has a big cat story that few Missourians can tell. Conservation Agent Tammy Pierson said Littleton went to one of his pastures Sunday night after coon hounds treed a mountain lion where his cattle were grazing. He killed the mountain lion (Felis concolor) with a shot to the head from a .22-cal. rifle. Littleton reported the incident as required by law. Pierson collected the mountain lion this morning and sent it to the Missouri Department of Conservation Resource Science Center in Columbia, where resource scientists examined it this afternoon. Ray County is located just north of the Missouri River east of Kearney, near Kansas City. The most well-known Ray County town is Excelsior Springs. Conservation Department furbearer biologist Jeff Beringer said the mountain lion weighed 115.2 pounds and measured a little over 6.5 feet from nose to tip of tail. The sharp edges of the cat’s teeth and faint barring on the insides of its legs indicate it was a young male, probably three years or younger. Beringer said laboratory tests will provide more detailed information about the cat’s age and genetic makeup. Conservation officials say the mountain lion showed no sign of having been held in captivity. “We removed a small premolar tooth that will be sectioned so we can count the annual growth rings,” said Beringer. “That will tell us exactly how old it was. DNA testing will tell us whether it was related to native mountain lions in states to the west of Missouri, or if it is more closely related to mountain lions from somewhere else – possibly captive animals.” Northwestern Nebraska is the closest place to western Missouri with an established mountain lion population. Beringer said nothing about of the Ray County mountain lion led him to believe it had been held in captivity. It had no tattoos or electronic identification tags – customary ways of marking captive cats. Its skin and paws showed no sign of having lived in a concrete-floored enclosure, and it still had dewclaws, which often are surgically removed in captive animals to prevent injury. The Ray County cat is Missouri’s 12th confirmed mountain lion sighting since 1994. Most of the mountain lions whose bodies have been recovered have been young males. Young males are the most mobile mountain lions. They typically leave their birth areas to establish new territories, Finding young males is consistent with the idea that most Missouri cats do not originate here. Beringer said there is no evidence of mountain lion reproduction in Missouri to date. The Missouri Conservation Commission reclassified the species from “endangered” to “extirpated” in 2006, based on such lack of evidence of a self-sustaining population. Current Commission policy says that re-establishment of a sustainable mountain lion population in Missouri is not desirable, due to the potential for conflict with human activities. Missouri’s Wildlife Code protects mountain lions, but the Wildlife Code also allows the killing of any mountain lion that attacks or kills livestock or domestic animals or threatens human safety. People who kill mountain lions must report the incident to MDC immediately and turn over the intact carcass, including the pelt, within 24 hours.

The hypoxia was what I was thinking since everything in SEMO was iced up last week, but was wondering why only the drum, but they may be the only fish in that stretch.

I see, the Zebra Mussels ganged up on them and forced them out of the water? Or was it the poison built up in the mussels that the drum ate that killed them? Or did they get a bad mussel, get a bad case of gas and were propelled out onto the bank where they died of exposure? Do fish fart?

The trout kinda rules out the St. Francois.

Interesting thoughts on the God theory, I am sure some on here will consider 2011 the end of the world. Maybe this is one of the first in a series of plagues that will signal the end of time. Instead of locusts, it is redwing blackbirds. Anyone have any more info on the fish kill? What would target drum and nothing else?

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Yes it is a shame. They should have waited till it actually killed a cow and shot it off the carcass. Bears, Mountain Lions, Elk, Otters, and Rattlesnakes. All harmless and perfectly natural in a world with out man and domestic animals. Reintroduce them and you start having problems. Unless you get rid of man and domestic animals and then all will be in balance in the natural scheme of things. We really can't have our cake and eat it too. Mammoths, Saber Tooth Tigers, and Dinosaurs were here before us too. If by some means of modern science we could bring the back, should we have them too?

If there had not been a bunch of killer tornado's on New Year's Eve, I would not have believed the hail storm either. That was a severe line of storms that came thru. But, when did they find the birds, what day, I can't seem to find that info. Large numbers of blackbirds have been moving thru in migration lately, I have watched clouds of them in strings that stretch out for a long time. One lightening bolt, downdraft, explosion could wipe out several in one swipe. Interesting to see what wiped out the drum, probably low water and O2 levels due to cold temps.

Who cares if man survives, I thought you guys were out to save the planet!!! Man is a species involved in evolution, there is no assurance we are to survive the next step in the grand scheme of planet earth.

Just drink the koolaid and simmer down, we will survive this global onslaught....

In that case, welcome, you are not a spammer. Barbless hooks are great for catch and release. I have been using Orvis barbless hooks for years. And I pinch barbed hooks down too, because, for the most part, I practice Catch and Release. Even if I am keeping, the barb does not seem to make a difference, I still land the fish, with or without the barb.

8 Botched Environmental Forecasts from olden days... Looks like some of the forecasts did not really take the reality tour. Happy New Year. 2011= year of truth.

Mine is to get a more honorable job. That way, I can fish more.

Another shameless plug? I hate barbless hooks, it is too hard to snag fish with them.

Another shameless plug? I hate barbless hooks, it is too hard to snag fish with them.

Some of the studies actually show they may affect the groundwater with the embalming and other byproducts. Of course, it may be a scare tactic. I have requested a simple pine casket, and burial on the family farm in an unorganized location, no vaults. I want to return to earth as I am, no byproducts. Cremation causes pollution which causes global warming,"sic". The processes of decay should be simple. Why embalm, I don't need to look good after death? Why a vault, I don't need protection of my remains? I think the state requires a casket of some sort, it does not have to be elaborate, it needs to decay as the body does. It amazes me to the lengths some people go to during the funeral process. I have attended the burial of a friends dad, so I thought, only to scatter the ashes during the following duck season. We buried an almost empty elaborate coffin in a vault with full military honors. And we scattered a vial of ashes around his favorite duck hunting spots. No matter what, all we are left with is the memory and the spirit of the individual that has passed.

It is a 1999, one of the non interference motors. When it shot craps, my mechanic thought it would be valves and pistons and head work. But when we found out that from 1996 up it did not affect it to lose the timing belt at high speed, I started breathing a little easier. When we cracked it open yesterday and I looked at the mess, my only thought was "wow". Looks like the tension idler was failing and causing the other failures. Everything was fused together and all the bearings were locked up from the heat of the belt. Except for the cam bearings, they were intact and unharmed. It is really a rugged design. I have grown to love Toyota engineering in the past 2 years.

Don't know what an off season is, maybe it is the time I spend in my duck waders and not in my fishing waders? But sometimes I hunt in my fishing waders and fish in my duck waders, so they all get some exercise throughout the year. Since I have switched to all breathable waders, I let them dry and stuff them back in the sack or bag. Wash them in the washer every once in a while when they start smelling funky inside. You don't have to worry about creases. Neoprene was the same way, I have some that are 15 years old and still water tight. Rubber, you hang by the boots in a temperature controlled place away from rodents and cross your fingers that they won't leak the next time out. One thing I have done with all my waders is to store them inside the house in a temperature controlled environment. They seem to last longer than my buddies that keep them in garages or storage buildings.

Its been a while, but we used to butcher and process pork at the farm when I was a kid. The bacon and hams were salted and smoked in the smokehouse, which was about the size of an 8x8 portable building with a hole in the floor that the smoke entered. The smoldering fire was underneath and it was cold smoked for a time I can't remember. I think we just salted the hell out of it and hung it in there. I long for one of those hams, it was the best I have ever had. I have not run across a ham like it at any store. I am sure there are several recipes, I buy bacon at a local guy that is wonderful and his smoked cheddar and brats are great too. Old Hickory Specialty Meats

I have had a chattering noise in the front of the engine for a little while but could not pinpoint it. Could not tell if the timing belt had ever been changed, should be changed every 70k, odometer at 225k. Coming home tired and wore out from the gun show a week ago Sunday nite, I heard a noise and the temp gauge started rising. It stabilized and was not leaking bad, tried to limp on to town instead of walking (left cell phone at home that day). Finally about a mile out of town running 60, she sputtered and dies, coasted in to a gravel lot. I had to hoof it back into town. Here is the mess, timing belt still in one continous piece, held together by steel cords. Idler and water pump seized up, belt tensioner blown up with ball bearings all over the inside. Belt melted to the components, not sure what really failed or was a combo of all. $400 in new parts and some labor, back on the road and running good so far. Word to the wise, if you have a belt, check it from time to time. My engine was the "non destructive type" luckily, no damage to pistons, heads, or valves.

We would catch the bulk of them in the spring before the lake warmed up, so the meat was pretty good. Not much different than the white bass we were catching around the same time. I would like to try them blackened, so I may have to keep a few in a few months during the white bass run. It is funny how people have the wrong ideas about alot of fish and their edibility. We used to can carp and make fish cakes out of them. Pike and pickerel are good eating, just too many bones. We also snagged buffalo in the spring and canned them too. I can count on one hand the grinnel I have caught, never tried to eat one. Caught a many gar, never tried to eat one of them either. Just thinking back, most were hooked in the side of the mouth or roof, never noticed alot of lower lip hooks. There was an old tale about why they are called drum, they drum their head on the bottom of the boat, I have never witnessed it.

We used nightcrawlers and minnows for bait. I have caught them on jigs, cranks, and even the flyrod while bass fishing on the Saline creek. Interesting note about the blackened redfish recipe, may have to try that this year.

The do fight good, they bulldog like a catfish. I have caught some weighing over 4 lbs while crappie fishing that really strained a light weight rod. They are pretty good eating depending on where you catch them. Water quality is always a plus, brackish water produces the worst tasting fish while cool river water makes the best. You can fry them or can them.