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Take the road less travelled and you will be rewarded.

You just spooked them before you realized you spooked them. They're spooky!

I'm with Chief -- cut the cornmeal with some flour; paprika, salt and pepper and maybe cayenne. On a really mild fish like crappie, more flour. Rarely deep fry, but when I do it's the trusty Dutch oven.

I got a call from my daughter at work the other day: 'You're not going to be happy...' Someone left open the 2 doors to the inner sanctum ('my' part of the basement.) I had several packs of hackle and a bunch of this year's pheasant tails sitting on the workbench. Just hadn't gotten around to putting them away yet. Our older Brittany must have gotten a little bored (never a good thing). It looked like a pheasant stumbled onto a cock fight down there. She mostly got the less expensive died bass bug stuff, but it's still a pretty big loss. Between that, and selling my good hackle during the hackle bubble of 2011, looks like I'm gonna have to restock. She's currently doing hard time:

Nice fish, Gavin. I see Kipster in there. Did Senior make it this year?

Hard to read. Frank Zappa?

That 50-50 soy/Worc is an old favorite of mine. The Dew is new. Might have been here, or maybe not, but saw a recipe with it recently. Sounds interesting.

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I was talking about the OzarkAnglers.com link upper left of forum. I just tried again, logged in over there ok, came back here still logged in and new content was what I'm used to seeing.

Glitchy little things, but I'll report them if it helps: I am getting in fine this AM, and the site remembers me and logs me on. Clicked on the OzarkAnglers.com link, got there but couldn't login -- said invalid password. Clicked on Forum link to come back here and I was logged out. Logged in and clicked View New Content and it said there wasn't any. I'll usually get 24 hours worth of new content.

It's always amusing to me how statements get simplified changing the meaning. I believe MDC's position is that there's no evidence of a breeding population. Evidence would be kittens, pregnant females, trail cam footage of cats making whoopy, etc. They're not saying it's not happening, but are wisely not declaring it is happening until there's proof. You arm chair biologists and MDC conspiracy theorists should, at a minimum, offer up a recent official quote from MDC denying the presence of cougars.

I'm not a MO citizen, but I am a MO taxpayer. I agree with Justin that it would be good to see the arguments for it. That said, the arguments laid out against it are pretty common sense and convincing. The original idea to remove it from the general spending pot and fund it separately keeps the politics out of it. MO has an excellent and enviable system. Seems a shame to mess with it.

Those are pretty ones. Haven't seen too many of those around.

Welcome. Sounds like we're in the same neighborhood.

Do tell? I s'pose I mist this most recent affrontation by the taxists to infringe on my rytes to ware felt upon my feet. I shall rally the militia and defeet this tyrannous attempt of monarchial cobbling! Or I mite just get some new bewts.

Because old flies, like old women, are rarely hot.

Just saw this response. Good to see you back on here, Rat. Haven't seen Kelly in a while. Elway still kinda rubs me the wrong way -- I'll leave it at that. I'm a big fan of Marino as an actor (Ace Ventura, Slimfast). Blackledge -- well, not the best color guy out there but... What about them Chiefs today???

Wow -- that looks like fun. Great that you can get your ladies in on it. My daughter has a big soft heart for animals, and went through a lot of years grumbling about me hunting. She even dabbled in being vegan for a while. She'd never hunt with me growing up, but she will fish with the ol' man if there's nothing else going on. Funniest thing -- she heads off to college and falls in with a couple guys, comes home and tells me she's been going turkey hunting! I bagged a couple pheasant a few weeks ago, and she was even willing to give it a try. Good to have may baby girl back on track!

Oh chit -- Tucker's here. Now there's a redd-plundering, Taney-shuffling, roe-eating, milt-drinking, carbon-emitting, kitten-killing, biscuit-and-gravy-eating, Cheney-loving, SOB you if I ever saw one.

Look -- Brian's a good guy that I've known casually for several years. You've made assertions that he's done some stuff, claim it's all over his blog and Youtube, but you can't show anything but some knucklehead eating roe to support your accusation. That's lame at best, but it's far superior to your argument that he's fishing in spots, at a time of the year, and catching fish with colors that all prove he's fishing redds. C'mon, man!

That's obvious if you've ever seen one of his fly-tying videos.

KA -- tossing out accusations without backing them up is bad form, brother. Brian's one of the good guys.

What Gavin and Brian said. I'd also toss good ol' Clouser and Thunder Creek in the mix. Both are a breeze to tie. I can do a couple Thunder Creeks in the time it takes to watch one of Brian Wise's videos (sorry bout dat BW)

Yep -- I see what you're saying. I hope it doesn't take a major disaster to get this thing moved up the list. But unfortunately, that's the way it works a lot of the time. I had to chuckle when I saw they squeezed a modification to daylight savings time rules in the legislation. Thank gawd we got that issue fixed

OK -- researched it a little. Here's a link to an article about the legislation. Just reading this article gets me riled because it shows how a basically decent idea (incent domestic energy production) can get so muddied up that it ends up a bad law. Energy Policy Act of 2005