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At least it comes out the front end. Eggs come from the other in a shared tube from a chicken. Nobody ever thinks about that one either.

And bags for 12 cents.. But I did get 2 ribeyes vacuum packed for $12 for deer camp this weekend. Probably tough as leather... But claimed to be grass fed.

Probably not cold enough yet to make trout happy. It has been a warm fall.

The spring branch there is pretty protected from the floods.

I saw that too, looks like he thought his foot was still going to grow into them.

Looks like beak of something trying to stick its head out of your hand.

I saw some pics, looked like tons of sand in the runs and around them. It was a scouring flood from upstream that gouged the sands up from the stream and dumped in the slower parts, the water below the levees of the runs.

How could you tell? You would have had to had Didymo on your shoes for it to be effective.... It was a kneejerk reaction that resulted in alot of taxpayer dollars wasted and everyone having to give up felt sole boots.

Like the $30,000 Didymo boot wash stations the installed at every trout place, even Greer Spring. That one required some work getting water to it.

Montauk looks pretty bad. Park is closed for a while. https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/state-and-regional/floodwater-overruns-montauk-state-park-trout-hatchery-in-south-central-missouri/article_f65219a8-9c8f-11ef-baa1-57ce2a40660b.html

I saw pics of Montauk Park. Upper fish runs in C&R area under water and lake levee bank full of muddy water. Lower fish runs looked like they were breached and full of muddy water. Main hatchery bldg basement flooded and water in building. May be complete fish loss.

Mike sold Hufstedlers. We camped there back in Sept and the new owner did not seem to know much about fishing. What about Brian Schlosser, did he leave out of 11pt after he sold 11pt Canoe to Mike or did he stick around and still guide?

Trackers have the grease zirk fitting on the axle hub. I looked it over, and it squirts grease in the bearing, somewhat. I still strip them down and repack every season or next. 19 years on bearings is probably a long time. Depends on how far you pull your boat. A good indicator is tires. Most Bias tires only last a season for me, radials up to 3 or 4 years. Bearing inspection and replacement is about the same schedule. You can usually see the slop in the bearings with tire wear, unless the bearing lets go prematurely.

No HO Ho hoes for you this year, Ba Humbug...... Good thing they did not activate you for all of this flooding going on. It was a miserable mess in Swampeast Missouri today. I was onsite at an Aluminum plant all day in full PPE and rain, it was damp to say the least. Not even good duck hunting weather.

It is almost 2017 again over here, west of Highway 67. It peters out to a sprinkle and I ended up with 3" on the farm and only a slight rise in the creek of about 2 ft. Most river gauges on the other side have come up 15 to 16 feet. Montauk was at 13.4 this morning, now reads 999999999999999. So does Akers on the Current River. It was a freak rain that hung out in a line.

Montauk gauge is showing 13.4 ft this morning, good thing main season is over. St. Francis at Patterson is up over 16ft in last 24 hours just west of me. My little creek just has normal flooding with about 3" of rain. Most of the rise came from upstream around Fredricktown from rain there.

Chewed it up good. Looks pretty dry.

They will probably burn you out of your house you ole Missouri Hillbilly... Funny thing, my buddy was wanting to catch a brown on the White River this summer on a company sponsored guide trip. He is not a bait fisher and is used to spin casting lures to trout. But the guide was hung over and he "forgot" to thaw out his shad stash. So, he was lost, used to taking out baitfishers and did not help my buddy any. Kept him tossing bait to the rainbow stockers for entertainment. Even made fun of the flyfishing guides going by. Trout fishing on spin gear and lures can be very rewarding. Much like casting the long rod and flies. I prefer spin gear when floating. Flyrods are best from a standing position anymore for me.

This drought we have been having has them searching for stores all over. Surprised I have not seen any robbing going on. This was the driest fall I have seen since I was in my second year of bees, 2013. They have cut down bee populations prepping for a bad winter. My bee counts are pretty low, did not have alot of bearding going on late in the summer.

Not many beekeepers make it past the first 2 years. They find it can be alot of work and is rather expensive and time consuming. But it is an interesting hobby.

Interesting how things were done back then. Now it would be many millions, poorly designed, and obsolete by the time it was finished several years later after conception.

We had talked about running down to Wilson in Florence Alabama for his birthday, but that did not work out. Supposedly the fish are bigger and better at Muscle Shoals. We never had a chance this year to hit Nickajack or Chicamauga this year together. He is going there this weekend with another friend. See how that goes.

Looks like I was a little shy of the 54 lbs 8 oz from Nickajack in 72. Maybe there is a Flicker Shad class for State Records.

Green pumpkin orange flake tender tube. Buddy backed off the trolling motor to tie a lure on after a breakoff. I took over the front and dropped it off the shelf point we were coming up on. Just mouthed it and started swimming. I gave it nudge and he took off and set hook himself. Went down to fish with him on his birthday and ended up putting the hurt on him all day. But, as usual, we had fun.

Flicker Shad size 6 white with black back and spot on side.... They started hammering them about a half hour before sunset that nite. They were bringing units online and water was coming up.