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Look again........it's not "lung"

At the Chinese market today. Didn't know if you guys wanted me to pick you up some pork bung?

I met Charlie several years ago at an MSA banquet. He's a wealth of knowledge. He spoke about ways of using the sun to approach a brush pile. I remember he spoke of being able to walk spooks around obstacles. Met his wife too, great lady. Love those people.

Chief, you asked me if fishing is better in other states, I answered your question yes. I love my home state, we have great fishing but it could be better, it's most certainly not as good for smallmouth as other states. Why are you so defensive? There's no argument here... But I know you love arguing for no reason.

Though I don't have one, I've been encouraged to use a "whale tail" that sits just above your squirt gun. They are supposed to help you get on plane faster and maintain plane at a slower speed, which in turn will give you a couple of more seconds to react. I also encourage you to real ease all the smallmouth and largemouth you catch.?

Bunches, I caught 4 in one day on a river in WI, but it doesn't take any talent to fish there. If you ever go there you will see for yourself. Then you will come back and believe us.

Second class meaning "not as good as" then, yes..... Missouri is not as good as many other states. But it's my home and I love it, and I know we can make it much better.

I wouldn't say Missouri fishing sucks, but if you ever go to Wisconsin Minnesota Michigan Ohio Pennsylvania, Virginia, Tennessee Alabama Kentucky you will see what we've been missing. Especially the states up north that I mentioned

Ok, my LAST Irish joke............because I'm Scotch Irish and have a ton of em Clancy and Sean are old buddies, who love Scotch. They went together and purchased a bottle of 100 year old Scotch. Clancy asked Sean if, upon his death, would he pour the bottle of 100 year old Scotch on his grave. Sean, thought for a minute and said " Would ya mind if i ran it through me kidneys first?" Don't forget to tip your waitress!

BTW, what do call the Irishman who sits in back of the house on a small concrete slab? wait for it........ Patty O'Furniture

Please tell me that this whole monastery story wasn't made up just for that punch line?!?!

My actual business is laser scanning. With a laser scan you can do two things, create a model exactly like the original scan, or, you can use the original scan and "improve" the scan. In other words, make things flat, parallel, perpendicular, symmetrical, constant radius, etc. Our customer usually wants us to improve the raw scan data. I think this was done to the Savage craw, and in a pretty big way....which for production purposes, is not all bad. My craw is nearly all original scan from a real craw. The unintended consequence of doing it this way made the movement of the claws much better....the downside is the claw arms are fragile for reasons you could figure out. But I've experimented with a ton of plastic variations and have finally got it durable while still maintaining the movement in the claws. But it's definitely not a high production process. So, it would be tough for me to get samples to all you guys quickly,

Great report! The %#*^ rig is a great clear water bait!!!

Wow! That's awesome! Thanks for making my day!!

Chief, I knew it was Federal, ok. It slipped my mind. You're always so quick to criticize. I don't have a dog in this fight. Carry on with your MDC cheerleading...rah rah rah

Like this?

Yes Marty, the stamps were quite a memory, it's a shame they made you sign your name across the face and stick it on that license

I usually don't get algae on my cranks in the winter unless I'm fishing by a spring.

I hunted the entire decade of the 90's. Now I don't believe I'd walk across the street to shoot a mallard. Loved the calling though, I would rather call them in and let someone else shoot them.

http://waterdata.usgs.gov/mo/nwis/rt

Maybe to the USGS River level website for Missouri. I saw generation schedules and lake levels only, maybe I missed it.

The Duck stamps I'm sure are federal, my bad. But the price of the small game and Migratory went up too. I think it's like around $40 or more to hunt Ducks now.

According to my friend, in order to get a Duck stamp he either had to go the the post office, or go to Walmart and fill out a form and wait two weeks. Plus the price of the stamp went from $15 to $25. If this is true, that's a shame.

Ventilation is the issue, you either need to do it outside, or make an airtight booth inside with a 6-8" vent fan going outside

The limitation to my injector is that you have 2 separate pots heating the plastic. So you might as well pick 2 separate colors. The cool thing is you can add hardener to one pot and leave the other soft, or add flakes to one and not the other.