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So do they actually spawn in there? I was under the impression there was no spawning.

I think if the hatchery guys made it a priority they could select for later-spawning brown trout, or import other strains that do it already and maybe get some successful spawning going. They’ve tweaked rainbows over the years to spawn earlier, grow faster and be healthier. Of course there’s the need for large quantities of rainbows for the parks driving that. But that still leaves me wondering why tailwater trout in AR can spawn but we can’t get them to do it in Taney without a helping hand. Wonder if something is fundamentally different about Taney? Or does AR have a different strain?

Who’s retrieving these ducks? The new guy? I really miss the thrill of calling in some ducks and knocking them down. Beautiful dog work to bring them in. Don’t care to do a draw and hope I get to hunt. Don’t have the knees, time or patience to scout and hunt locally, though I know there are lots of ducks around. Can’t justify the cost of a club membership. These Brittanys don’t like water so much. It’s a pickle!

When Governor Bush commuted my sentence I promised I’d never do it again. And, I’ve mostly kept to that vow. Just don’t want to put myself in a bad situation. 😄

I posted this somewhere recently - forgive me if it's a duplicate

Like I'm going to sit down with him with all kinda sharp objects around

Nice boat. Now get it off the driveway, buddy

Me too -- 30 years, two neighborhoods and never a problem. They serve their purpose and you know the rules going in.

Like the mustard/pork combo. We did some pork chops a while back with a mustard/panko coating that was pretty good. Never think to do Brussels sprouts that way. I like the idea.

I like your optimism! Maybe ought to think about a backup plan just in case 😄

Feel like I’m probably a little late with this advice, but a woman in her 50s might have been a better bet given your advanced age. 😄 But, you gotta work with what you got. Maybe you could do some yoga and make yourself more desirable 😄

I really enjoyed it. It’s a lot of information to absorb though. Adding it to the growing list of stuff to dive deeper into when I’ve got more time.

I've been home sick for the last couple weeks (sinus infection/bronchitis/numerous other friend and family diagnoses) so I've had time to watch all 16+ hours of Ken Burns' Country Music. Boy, that opened things up for me. A.P, Maybelle, Bill M, DeFord, Hank, Bob W, Woody, Merle, Buck, Charlie, Willie, Dolly, Connie, Patsie, Waylon, Roger, Johnny, Keith W, George J, George S, Randy, Dwight, Alan, Vince...

Welcome to the forum. You have come to the right place for air bag questions.

Always loved the horse stuff in that movie, especially when they're going down the steep hill. I need to watch that again.

That was my lame attempt at an Ellie Mae cross-reference

That's great scene from a great movie.

From a 2008 article by Spence Turner that I scraped off The Columbia Tribune website a while back: "Brown trout had a checkered history in Missouri’s trout program. The Neosho federal hatchery stocked brown trout first in 1892 in streams near Neosho. These fish came from Northville Federal Hatchery in Michigan, one of three hatcheries in the country to receive brown trout eggs from the Rhine River in Germany and Loch Leven in Scotland. As near as I could determine from the hatchery logs and Missouri Fish Commission reports, those early stockings were unsuccessful. The stocked browns didn’t live long or reproduce like the early rainbow stockings. Brown trout stocking was discontinued in the 1930s until the 1960s. Brown trout came back into Missouri’s trout program in 1967, when MDC received brown trout eggs from the federal hatchery in Decorah, Iowa. Those browns were the same strain as first stocked from Neosho. MDC hatched the eggs at Montauk Hatchery and stocked the small browns in the Current, North Fork of the White and Meramec rivers. Anglers caught a few large browns in both the Current River and North Fork of White River. Success was limited. Anglers caught only a few large browns. The eggs proved difficult to hatch. Fry and fingerlings experienced high hatchery mortality. Brood stock experienced a chronic disease. Once stocked, the small browns quickly disappeared – likely food for smallmouth bass and other predators. Those few survivors grew large. That’s when your humble reporter, at the time a young biologist, fresh out of graduate school, supporting a wife and three young hatchlings, received his first assignment: to evaluate the brown trout releases and what happened to them. Along with evaluating those first brown trout stockings, hatchery managers destroyed the Montauk brood stock. MDC began looking for a disease-free brown trout replacement. Finding disease-free browns proved difficult. Our search ended at a Utah hatchery on a tributary stream to Flaming Gorge Reservoir, Sheep Creek. The hatchery used wild browns, migrating each year from Flaming Gorge Reservoir to the hatchery as brood stock. We hatched the Flaming Gorge brown trout eggs at Shepherd of the Hills Hatchery in Branson and established a brood stock for future stockings. However, along the way something neat happened. Mature browns stocked in Lake Taneycomo from the wild Flaming Gorge strain, began migrating each fall upstream, back to the hatchery, not only creating one of the best brown trout fisheries in the nation, but also providing a source of brown trout eggs for the hatchery. It was a win-win for the angling public and Missouri’s hatchery system. These brown trout were wilder than the original browns from Michigan and Iowa hatcheries and were heavier for a given body length. They lived longer after stocking and grew larger than the first browns. We still had a problem with high egg mortality in the hatchery and understanding why Missouri browns didn’t spawn successfully in our spring branches. We learned that if they were protected from early harvest by anglers, they grew large and spawned, but unsuccessfully, in our spring branches. I discovered our spring branches flowing from the ground at 58 degrees were too warm during October and November when browns spawned. A blinding flash of the obvious: Shepherd of the Hills Hatchery had the capability to regulate water temperatures during brown trout egg incubation. Hatchery managers reduced water temperatures to less than 53 degrees. Egg survival increased to almost 100 percent. This allowed hatchery and fisheries managers to stock brown trout in many more trout streams in Missouri, establishing a trophy trout fishery."

Six people, seven tents. One for each and one for storage.

This is a really good, simple recipe made that I made mostly with seafood I had on hand. I bought a package of frozen dungeness crab from Wal-Mart, which I knew was a gamble. It didn't make it into the soup. Kathy liked it, but said she liked the fish chowder I made a while back a little better. So, I'll probably do that soon.

Reminds me of an old Garry Shandling joke: I opened my fortune cookie and it said 'I peed in your rice.'

Gee, I thought you had a joke there. 😄

Well???

I didn't even cook most of that last bunch of stuff