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Here is the link to the MDC website on edible mushrooms. We are talking about the Morel here, hard to cross up with a poisonous one. MO Edible Mushrooms

Hey, what did I miss? I see this one starts out about Conservatives speaking, so it must have been about Me. Was it calling the President by his full Christian name, Barack Hussein Obama, that offended someone? As far as Phil goes, he has stated his views in the past, when it was ok to state your conservative political views on here.

Both of my CO2 units are manual, but like you, if you get a whack on the head, how will you pull the cord. I have a Stearns Belt model and another that is inserted into an Orvis Flyfishing Vest. They are comfortable on the days that I feel confident that I will not need much. In the winter, I always wear a real PFD. The shock from the temp of the water could be the same as a whack on the head. Do a little research, surely the mechanism that activates the self inflatables requires immersion before it pops. I am sure they will take in account the fact that most fisherman will not be off the water because of a little rain.

Dang Phil, you have a website for your business too? Keep it simple and avoid the flash, some of the world still has to crawl along on slower connections. I have satellite now, but it will not do flash, video, and other content intensive websites. Since alot of your viewers may be in rural areas, I would keep it in mind. Check out how it looks on mobile browsers too.

They are "essentially" the cause of the fiasco.

A good definition of a "flat" in MO would be an old Flooded Field that got inundated when the lake backed up over it. Level and constant depth over a large area outside of the main channels. Topo maps would be a good place to look. They would probably warm up first and later in the summer have the best vegetation.

Heading south this weekend, hopefully a little rain tonight will spring them up in a spot I hunt along the 11pt. Dang wind will dry them out pretty good from the looks of the forecast.

No, but I slept in a Holiday Inn one time. Everyone knew what a trout was, the Vigotous was confusing. Anyway, enough of this, lets go fisting.

This has actually been going on for months, the Traveller just posted it and I thought I would pass it along. Nobody really knows what it will do when they go live. The GPS is a very weak signal versus the ground based tower signals.

Hit another good spot today, nothing. First time back in that one since the big wind storm of May 09. Last year, the owner did not let me hunt it because of all the tree damage and hangers. Most good spots are buried now under treetops. 10 to 15 years from now it will be great when it all rots down.

Give me an R and not a T. Where is that spellchecker?

Only in America. This wonderful thing called GPS is about to be over run by the worthless invention called the "Cell Phone". GPS has become a part of my daily life that really has a useful purpose. It puts me on my mushroom spots that my memory seems to forget. It guides me to the fishing spots and turkeys that I put to roost in the dark of the early morning. It helps me find addresses when customers don't have a good sense of direction to tell me. Now it looks like a new company called Lightspeed is going to block weaker gps signals with their stronger broadband signal. Read the article and go to the link to voice your opinions to try to prevent it. Can't rely on the old FCC to make the right choice. Lightspeed to interfere with Gps Signals in MO.

Went out this afternoon and hunted a few spots. One of the regular producers had 5 or more small ones about the size of my thumbnail. I left them to let them grow. Looks like this weekend might start the season off right with the first mess of shrooms for the fryer.

Well if you like Bald Headed Eagles, you will like this. I came across this back during a ice storm and missed a good shot. Ice was on the tree and the nest, bird next to the nest on a limb, and the sun was hitting it just right, but the eagle flew before the camera warmed up. Now she seems to be nesting, and still pretty shy. The shot was taken off a levee road with 10x zoom. It is in the McBride Bottoms outside of Perryville. Gonna keep watching the progress.

Why did you put it in the "safe"? That is a shooter, not a collector. Did you put any rounds thru it? I got out yesterday with part of the safe, shot both of my M&P 45's, 6906, Officers 1911, 22a, and the ASA 22. Sighted in a Ruger Mk2 77 in 243 for my Dad while I was at it.

So I assume the strain of fingerling cutts that they had been using was not fairing well. I know the ones they stock on Spring River usually become Musky food.

For one, there is no viable predator for the otters. Secondly, the species is supported by unnatural means, ie, farmers ponds. When there were here the first time we had the predators and there were not thousands of stocked fishing ponds for them to fatten up on and increase the reproductive rate. Most of the attacks on ponds I have witnessed have been in the winter time when they switch to an all fish diet after frogs, snakes, and crayfish go dormant. Man is helping them overpopulate and man is the only predator.

It started out as a lighthearted thread anyway. Was anyone thinking we seriously have any wolves?

Who got mad, I was laughing at the joke the whole time.

We all know he gigs, not a pole and line guy.

Duhh, that would be because of the increase in population for the most part. More people=less carrying capacity.

Having dealt with the "gravel" problem for years on the creek that runs thru the property, I am at a loss at what would be the best solution. We have let the county "gravel skim" the area for all of my life. It just comes back, from upstream. The problem is that alot of the ground upstream is pastured to the edge of the stream with little treeline along the creeks that fork into one at the upper end of the property. The one fork was involved in a large timber clear cut 15 years ago and most of the gravel seems to come from that side. The other side is getting a pretty good riparian corridor along it along with a good meander and it is shaping up pretty well with nice hole forming. I vote trees and lots of them.

If the riparian corridor is managed correctly and use of the stream by cattle is eliminated, then the gravel problems should go away. Managed gravel mining will clean out large gravel bars that have formed because of the above and the stream will return to normal, in a perfect world. But getting landowners to see that is a whole different story. I checked for more restrictive creel limits and lengths.

Free range bison = free range burger on the hoof. I can hardly wait to see the MDC report that a Mastadon has been spotted on a game camera, then we can be assured that global warming is over.

From the looks of the pics on the blog taken back on the first of March, they were able to trap enough water to bring the level back to normal pool. Depending on weather and schedule this weekend, I am going to try to give it a shot. Sometime, later in the year, you will have to take a long way around to get to it when they close the bridge.