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Then, you must visit the Big Brutus steam shovel. http://www.bigbrutus.org/ or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Brutus

Welcome BushmanJ85, These other guys have given you pretty good advice, but I'll try to add some. An awful lot of the fishing in KS is in reservoirs. The streams are mostly mud-bottomed and warm water. Mic mentioned 'strip pits'. Those are pretty unique and fun places to fish. Coal miners would start digging until they found coal, then dig in a line creating a 'strip'. Often they'd just stop and start another, or make a turn and continue on, depending of course on what they were finding. Some are shallow, some are deep -- each is different. There are lots of them around SE KS and SW MO. Just looked and there's a "Mined Land Wild Life Area" just east of you and "Strip Pits State Wildlife Area" NE too. I love to fly fish for trout, and do it in the cold water streams of the Ozarks in MO. For me, those are 3-1/2 to 5 hour drives so it doesn't happen often enough. There is some trout fishing down in OK, but I don't know much about it. Our fearless leader, Phil Lilley, was born and raised in Parsons. He could probably add to this if he notices the thread. He owns a resort on Lake Taneycomo (a tailwater fishery) near Branson, MO that has large rainbow and brown trout swimming in it. Do you do any hunting? KS has a Walk-In Hunting program where farmers grant permission for people to hunt their land in return for a payment from the state. It opens up hundreds of thousands of acres to you. Lots of duck hunting northeast of you. SE KS used to be a quail hunting mecca, but the last couple decades it has declined significantly. There are quail around the state though, and of course KS is known as a premier pheasant hunting spot. Anyhoo -- good luck. You've found a great resource here.

I've been out twice this year for pheasant/quail and haven't fired the gun yet. But there are still birds out there -- I hear enough good reports to confirm it. Just gotta work a little harder and longer. Now that opening days are behind us, the 'recreational' hunters are out of the picture and that changes the game a little. Now, if I can just make it through deer season without getting shot... Hope to get up to NW Missouri this weekend.

Nice! Always like to hear stories like that after so many bad ones over the years. It really feels like we're turning the corner a little on quail.

Us clean-cut folks don't seem to have all those troubles, wrench.

Did they keep the LSD concessions going, or is it gonna be like all the other boring conservation areas??

C'mon JD. Don't trivialize this with your political BS! What's a trillion dollars if it grants a couple hundred thousand folks some comfort they'd have to go out and seek themselves without it??? Just kidding, zealots. Remember -- it's OUR mess. Let's figure it out together. Reading the Gettysburg address -- any version -- would be a great place to re-boot. And, I mean slow -- like you care, not like it's an assignment. Do yourself a favor http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/nation/july-dec13/gettysburg1_11-19.html

So, we're about halfway to the rescheduled Armageddon -- has anybody heard how the negotiations are going?

I've never had it, and I'm ok with that.

I'm betting oxtail is probably one of those cuts that has a lot of collagen and fat. When that all gets melted down, it's goodness. I see in your picture you've got an enameled cast iron Dutch oven-- that's really the way to go when you've got the time for it. We make a Guinness beef stew that is really good, but I wouldn't dump it all in the Crock Pot -- it just wouldn't be the same.

Mitch I work with a guy that was born/raised in Jamaica. Oxtail stew is something he eats a lot.

I'm with you guys -- soups /stews are a favorite. Today I made 'mom's' beef stew. She got the recipe out of one of those community cookbooks back in the 70s. Some good meat, some raw carrots and everything else out of the pantry. Takes about 10 minutes to dump it all in the Crock Pot in the morning and it's ready for dinner.

Man, you bait slingers with your inferiority complexes all the time. Yawn.

Naw. The fish gotta be pretty too. Don't want no homely carp in there.

I agree Phil. Just wasn't enough on the camera angles I saw. Defense did pretty good holding a powerful offense to 27. Hali and Huston had their hands full all night. We has some dropped balls again and that fumble was maddening. Charles didn't get enough carries up the gut. Gotta focus on SD

There you go. Greasy's on the right track. Nice shot there!

Gotcha. Didn't read what you were responding to. Carry on.

Ask Quill -- he's the one that thinks Bowe is a freakin genious You do have a good point though.

Sounds kinda cool, bfishn. I like history schtuff. I finished up "This Town" a few weeks back. That's the book Al was talking about where the author gives the inside skinny on the goof-balls running our country. Dang, what a bunch of idiots. It's far worse than I thought. Both sides. It goes into the seamy relationships of politicians and lobbyists, but also how the media is in bed with everybody too. Near new condition hardcover mailed at my expense to the first human that PMs me their address.

A native cutthroat would be better than a ferel brookie in Montana. A native brookie in Labrador would be better than brookie in Montana. It gets complicated. May need a flow chart.

Initial reports say there was a strong odor of marijuana, they found a black bag with Bowe's wallet and some pot inside. Today, Bowe's attorney announces he's 100% innocent. Gotta love it. I have always thought Bowe is a knucklehead. Just not dependable; never seems to be putting in 100%; immature.

Oh looky -- the Jayhawks fans are coming out of hibernation.

He was probably heading up to Red-X to get cheap liquor. Apparently they caught him before, not after.

There's gotta be a Dwayne Bowe/Mile High joke in here somewhere, but I got nothing.

Ha! And substitute "bar-b-que filled cooler" where you see "suitcases".