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Well I have some pictures for yesterday's meal. Something we haven't eaten in three months. Split a ribeye steak. From Sam's club. Thin streaks of marbling throughout the meat. Sides of smashed potatoes and Cesar salad with homemade creamy dressing. There is something to be said even though not the healthiest thing to put into your system about taking a bite of red meat and the silky fat melting in your mouth. Feeling kinda guilty it was a two pack and the other was rubbed with seasoning vac sealed and frozen. I think we will wait and three months before we cook it. VID_20250118_125025832.mp4

I'll test again this morning. Working this morning, Yes!

Testing again Anybody having problems loading pictures today?

Did it look as good as it tasted? Sounds good. Did you try to load a picture. I can't seem to get one on here this evening.

I really liked the Texans field goal kicker today.

Exactly the problems. I have seen people smoking crack even. Some good fishing upstream of the millpond for smallmouth.

Thumbs up on gizzards. The only thing livers are good for is the part of dirty part in dirty rice the rest of the dirty is hearts and gizzards. We are talking fowl parts. There is no place in our life for mammal livers of any sort. We do like deer heart.

I have you some Jim. Not a bunch but some none the less.

Welcome back, Maybe our paths will cross on the water someday.

I have heard that same thing.

I really don't know why I get such a bad reputation. 😆

I will also, it's where I met you for the first time. Plateau was never the same after Jim left. So are you still out west somewhere or back this way?

Bring it Mr. Pitt I would like to see it please. See you there.

Harmony Mission conservation lake near Rich Hill has also been stocked with them. Never caught any there but supposed to be in there.

Hush your mouth, Not really and I agree. Spent many hours there also. Dislike the crowd there. I have been called names I would not repeat because I was in a boat below. Had things besides jigs thrown at the boat. These guys had to really try to reach me to do that. I finally quit untangling stuff and began to just cut the line. That made them even madder. They were going to call the law. Go ahead. I was downstream on the east side. I'm sure you know where that was. They were on the bridge. Guys on the bank behind me were laughing. I crowded out no one. Thankfully you know the highway bridge below is a good spot. No wading when generation but at low water some wading. You can tear up the fish below that though. I know you know that deal also.

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I think we did Daryk. Not exactually sure if it was this one. Either way it is nice to revisit the pattern.

Explore the Bates county drainage ditch from above rich hill. Conservation access and boat ramp there. Can fish the riffles below there and the deeper water below that. Crappie, walleye,whites and hybrids are there. Next place down stream from there north east of rich hill on a country road is another bridge. Same scenario below the bridge and down stream. One more place. Low water crossing farther down stream. We used to call it the pappensville riffles. Long straight shale riffles pools and eddies. Fish above and below the low water bridge. Used to fish it a bunch. I don't do River banks very well anymore. Use google maps and look straight above Rich Hill. Start looking there. Then follow the ditch and you will see all Three places. I'm not sure when the latest google photos were taken and what the map shows. Depending on water conditions in the spring where to fish. Start looking in February for walleye and they will be there through March. Whites March through April, hybrids and crappie through April into early May. Needless to say some of those fish roam in and out that river year around. Then the drainage ditch runs into the Osage which becomes Truman lake proper not far from Shell City. That's many miles of exploring and can keep you busy. Locals know it well, just watch them for info. Good luck on your search.

And camouflage up and use camouflage shelters so no one can find the hot spot.

Hey Rick @Terrierman, Do you remember the gas station on the South West corner of Austin and South Oak? The old fellow that ran its name? He had a brother that worked as a plumber. His brother always had chewing tobacco in his mouth. He would talk with a mouth full and say hey there rectric man🤣. We would fill up our line trucks there and the brother that ran the station knew I shot a few fish. He asked me if I would bring him some buffalo. I did and the old guy actually teared up when I brought them. He was happy and I was happy. Our Old friend Raymond Hughes would load up my pickup with watermelons and pat would sit up on the corner and sell them for two bucks a piece. Man this brings up so many memories.

Jeff their meat is snow white. You still have to deal with a few extra bones but no different than frying a bluegill whole. Bigger bones in bigger fish also. Worth it IMO. I would do the trip if I could shoot a conventional bow still. The bad shoulder took that away. If that bounty is a real deal those fish will not last long!

All of the species and I mean all of them. when the river came out, they would go out with it and when the river went back into its banks some of the fish would return. Some would stay in the back waters. On the levy roads there were deeper spots as water crossed the roads. I would stand in awe watching the fish pass. Smaller fish all you could see were back fins, bigger fish backs and the largest fish would actually pass over on their sides. I think you could have walked across those fish. If I was bow fishing that day my target was grass carp because they were the best eating.

I have watched buffalo spawn on the Schell Osage wildlife area. It was pretty neat. Lots of them in the remaining lake there. Plans are the drained lake is still going to be rebuilt and restocked. Larger with a bigger dam that might, and I say might keep the Osage from flooding allowing the common carp to trash it up. Like most of you here it's fine with me to control the take of the native buffalo. As @Ham said he thought I was condoning bowfishing. I do to a point. I bow fished a lot many moons ago. I did shoot buffalo, but I ate them, did not massacre them. Canned and fried those fish and did the same with some carp. When the river came up and out of its banks it literally spewed common carp into the flooded fields this brought us out to shoot them and also locals that did not gig or bow fish. they came with coolers and tubs asking for some fish. I am telling you some needed these fish. We always shared and they were grateful. Here is another thing to think about. When pictures of bad habits are posted everyone remembers this and it sticks in our memories. Not everyone does this. While common carp are here to stay and are (naturalized) it doesn't mean it's OK. We will never stay ahead of this mistake. Kill at your will but haul them off for fertilizer and proper disposal or eat them. I don't know what MDC thinks about overharvest of native buffalo, but I can tell you at Schell Osage Wildlife area they don't care. Each year floods spew out these fish and carp and gar and game fish into the "duck pools" and each year these pools during the summer dry up. All the fish begin to suffocate and dye until nothing is left but wriggling gar and they die. You have a wasteland of fish bones. Many years ago, there was a salvage deal, and it was advertised. Seining was allowed. MDC watched and took all the remaining gamefish to the lake. Carp and buffalo were fair game, and they went to good use. That doesn't happen anymore.

I agree but the jiggyness is enhanced with the jig hook don't you think? Instead of strip, strip, strip it will be strip jiggy, strip jiggy, strip jiggy. 😄