If I remember right the water flowing in and out of the lake doesn’t freeze and I don’t think it is particularly “navigable”.

Might as well use it on something. Everyone has something they hang on to with good intentions. I have a 4’x6’x10’stack of hardwood boards in the shed. Mostly oak and walnut that just sits there and I always have good intentions of using it on something good someday. Heck, I probably have the only chicken pen and rabbit boxes made out of walnut and scrap 2x4s. I didn’t want to buy any wood when I had that stuff just sitting there.

I’ve had what I’d call moderate CO poisoning and two people I was with passed out and an ambulance was called. They both came to with fresh air but it didn’t dawn on us what happened for a couple days when on of the guys went to the hospital with side effects. The symptoms don’t always register, especially when the circumstances are odd. Ours was from an improperly vented heater in a shed. The overhead doors were opened when the ambulance came. Massive headache didn’t show up for about an hour afterward.

I have lower back disk issues. I got an inversion table and used it very regularly for a couple weeks when I first got it and now only once in a while if I can tell its starting to act up. I am pain free about 95% of the time now.

I’m a bit biased because I make my living doing ecological restoration. I mainly do vegetation restoration and management but I have been involved with streambank stabilization, meandering, rechanneling, and even removing trees. First off, the map at the start of the post is very general. Within the different vegetation types are a mosaic of other types. In your area it is a mix of the woods like on the map as well as prairie, wet meadows, savanna etc. I’m sure this isn’t news. At least in my experience, most of the tree removal and work like in your pictures are in areas that were historically more open. Most of the trees are early successional species like boxelder, ash, invasive woody species. Most are trees less than 40 years old and not what was historically growing at that site. It also isn’t fair to judge these restoration efforts in the first few years before vegetation has matured. In a few years they do look very natural. I have worked closely with a couple of these types of projects and 10 years down the road there is a vast improvement in the numbers and quality of fish. Not to mention the reduction in siltation and damage from moderate flooding.

I am a fan of coarse woody cover and in some of these projects there are large trees cabled and anchored into outside bends to provide habitat and more stability.

I don’t doubt that some of the project areas are poorly chosen but from my professional experience, the long term results are better.

We’ll be down there too. Hopefully the weather works out. I’m an Evert’s cabin virgin!

There are a few factors to consider like: Would you produce it or license it to a manufacturer? Do you want to sell the idea and part ways or do you want to retain at least partial control? IS it something that can be produced with existing equipment or does it require new start-up? Do you own the patent?

I invented a product. I knew a manufacturer that could produce it with their equipment. I chose to license it to them and I get a percentage of gross $ sold, not net (big difference wit ha new product). I also retain sales ability and get an additional percentage on units that I sell. This relationship allows me to be as active or inactive as I choose. Another value that I found is that the established company already has the sales, marketing, bookwork,and shipping in place.

Value is what you can get but it is generally a small percentage. Negotiate an increase in percentage with an increase in units sold. You could have a ton of time invested in the idea or you could have just pulled it out of your hind-end. I don’t know if that ultimately makes any difference to the end value.

As long as everything is relatively safe I just always assume that I have forgotten something. In fact my buddy still brags about the time he forgot his pole and I only had one so I put about 30′ of my line on a stick and he claims he out fished me that day. I didn’t keep track.

How about forgetting the last time out last year the battery connector broke. Luckily a vice grip did the trick. And yes, now that I’m thinking about it, the vice grip is still holding the bare wires to the battery.

Be careful. This problem can make your town famous/infamous.

Police chief charged with cat shootings
West Concord, MN (US)

Incident Date: Tuesday, Feb 28, 2006
County: Dodge

Disposition: Alleged

Alleged: Robert Utech

The mayor of this southern Minnesota town is defending the police chief after criminal charges that he killed cats, including using a rifle to shoot out of a moving vehicle while trying to kill one stray.

Chief Robert Utech is charged in Dodge County District Court with felony mistreatment of animals and a gross misdemeanor charge of misconduct by a public official. He’s on paid administrative leave.

But at a raucuous town meeting Thursday night, Mayor Burt Boe called the charges “trumped up” and said that even if Utech did shoot cats — which Boe insists he didn’t — it was because of complaints that stray cats are overrunning the city.

“These cats have pretty (much) cleaned out all the song birds in this town,” Boe said. “And because there are so many of them, they’re hard to catch. They’re hard to catch. You got to really work at it.”

The criminal complaint charges Utech with shooting the cats and dumping their remains near a grain elevator in town. In the complaint, Tom Sendecky, a former part-time West Concord police officer, contends that he was once driving a squad car while Utech, seated in the passenger seat, was pointing a rifle out the window and shooting at a cat.

Utech then allegedly got out of the squad car and shot at the cat as he chased it down Main Street, the complaint said.

Utech has not yet entered a plea to the charges. He could not immediately be reached for comment Friday. His attorney, Tony Spector, told The Associated Press he had no comment on the charges.

The Dodge County Sheriff’s Office launched the investigation after a West Concord resident reported that six of his cats had been shot, and he suspected Utech was involved. The case has since been turned over to the Olmsted County Sheriff’s Office.

At the Thursday night meeting, resident Carl Martin defended Utech as a kind-hearted animal lover who has nine cats of his own. Martin also said the allegations are hard to believe because Utech is known around town as a bad shot. “I doubt Bob could hit the cat,” he said.

But some residents expressed concern that the case was making West Concord, in the words of one meeting attendee, the “laughingstock of southern Minnesota.” The city of 850 residents is about 30 miles west of Rochester.

“I got friends two hours away calling and mentioning about the city of West Concord,” resident Scott Greenwood said. “They make this town look like a bunch of hillbillies.”

I could tell you what I told my roomate one time when he asked how to hard boil eggs. Just boil them and when they float they’re done. I never did ask him how long that took.

Stick with a durable material. Something you don’t mind beating up. Keep your eye out for a used one becausue they show up quite a bit. Id say you have a little time before you will be out with a canoe so shop a little bit. I’ve never used one with a motor so I don’t have an opinion there.

You can strap one down in the bed of a truck pretty easily even without the hitch deal. You can make a rack like a ladder rack so the canoe sits above the cab. This works well for trips where you want the space in the back of the truck. Obviously a topper solves this problem too. You just need pads. I use foam pipe insolation or the foam pool floaties.

I’m an EMT and we had an ambulance run a couple years ago where someone was stuck to the floor of a car with a treble in the hand and in the carpet. Had to cut the carpet around the hand to get it out.

When we were kids we rode our bikes to go fishing a few miles away. My cousin put a Rapala in his shirt pocket and proceeded to hook his thumb. We had to go to some house and call my mom to get us because he couldn’t ride his bike with his hand stuck inside his shirt pocket.

I’m sure everyone has their own stories.

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Personally I am fine with more thorough background checks, but until we actually start enforcing the background check laws we have, what is the point of creating more?

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The problem with the increased background checks they are talking about is for private person to private person. First, again not criminal will follow this. Second, this is one more way to be sure more guns are registered and on paper so its easier for govt to find them if they want them, third there will certainly be a registration tax or fee. Probably not just from the person doing the transfer but from the govt. And most inmoprtantly, its noone’s business what guns I have or why I have them.

When they talk about all the people that fail a background check and then nothing happens to them it could be that many of these people are mistakenly denied. Ask any dealer that had sold very many guns and they all have customers that get approved one time, denied the next, or delayed.

If you want to really far down the road, where does it say in the Constitution that mentally ill or felons can’t own guns?

I just hope people read these bills and inform themselves.

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, because we don’t have to agree on everything, but we should agree that we have to do something.

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I don’t think there is a single gun law change that is necessary. It boilds down more to society and its values. I would be more for things like tax incentives to get married/stay married. Tax disincentives for children out of wedlock. Its not very politally correct to suggest things like that though. For what its worth, freedom requires self sufficiency and a result of liberty is sometimes bad things happen.

I guess I am steering this away from the original post a bit and the unavoidable “political nature” of this topic is rising.

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web pageHF 238 Where does it say “if they inadvertently carry on school property “?

Why would this anonymous author give false testament?

If I go on will I see more lies from this anonymous author?

If I missing something here I’ll freely admit it if pointed to further facts that these are not false statements. web pageHF238

I think this anonymous author while trying to discredit these bills above all else discredits his distorted writings and himself and does more harm to the cause of owning a gun.

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It does say: “whoever possesses, stores, or keeps a dangerous
1.9weapon while knowingly on school property is guilty of a felony and may be sentenced
1.10to imprisonment for not more than five years or to payment of a fine of not more than
1.11$10,000, or both.”

Also: “
“school property” means:
2.3(i) a public or private elementary, middle, or secondary school building and its
2.4improved grounds, whether leased or owned by the school;
2.5(ii) a child care center licensed under chapter 245A during the period children are
2.6present and participating in a child care program;
2.7(iii) the area within a school bus when that bus is being used by a school to
2.8transport one or more elementary, middle, or secondary school students to and from
2.9school-related activities, including curricular, cocurricular, noncurricular, extracurricular,
2.10and supplementary activities; and
2.11(iv) that portion of a building or facility under the temporary, exclusive control
2.12of a public or private school, a school district, or an association of such entities where
2.13conspicuous signs are prominently posted at each entrance that give actual notice to
2.14persons of the school-related use.”

So, read these bills word for word. They are unbelievable and will make thousands upon thousands of Minnesotans criminals for doing nothing different than they are doing today. These bills are absurd and would be funny if the people introducing them were not so serious. And the fact they are all from the Dems and the Dems have the power now to do what they want. Hold on to your pocketbook and your guns.

Is there actually a significant winter flathead cat harvest happening? Is this for just a couple people that do this or are there really that many people out harvesting wintering flats? I understand and agree with the sentiment here but is it necessary and will it make a noticeable impact to close the winter season? I generally question any new regulation for anything, even when I agree with it.

I just got the Abu reel I have been wanting. It was brand new and at a pawn shop for $20. I’m sure they thought it was busted because when you cranked the handle the spool didn’t move. It was spooled with braid and I figured it was never backed and the braid was just slipping on the spool. Took it home and was right!

As far as Christmas, I too would just like more time on the water. My daughter will be 4 this spring and wants to go catfishing again too. She just reminded me yesterday that she caught two catfish this year when we went out.

The big one we ate that I talked about before was on a small Canadian shield lake.

I did have a hillbilly buddy of mine get pissed when I released a 29″ walleye. He said the DNR rules even say they want you to keep 1 walleye over 20″. Not exactly the way I interprete the rule.

We kept one that was about 8-9 lbs after it floated back up a half hour or so after catching it and it couldn’t be revived. It tasted great but so did all the 18″-20″ we ate at the same time. Cna’t say I noticed a difference. The fillets were so thick we filleted them in half so they cook better.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anf2qEjec3U

Heres one that can’t wait

Its all preference. A lot of guys fish with cheap rod/reel combos they got at a big box store some people fish with $200 reels and $200 rods. I’m sure more fish have been caught using cheap setups. I am more confident, for good reasons, using a rifled barrel and a good scope.

I agree about the Hastings barrel. Call Froyum Sports near Zumbrota to see what they have on hand 507-824-2372. You’ll need to buy the slugs for rifled barrels too and not the “rifled” less expensive slugs.

I have a 97 GC with the 4.0 and have hauled quite a few different portables. Sometimes you just need to move the front seats ahead a little bit. That motor is a decent tower and gets 17-21 depending on time of year and what you are doing. I love them and if anyone is interested I am selling mine. I don’t remember for sure but I think it has close to 200K. I just don’t drive it anymore because we have a truck and a wagon. PM me if interested, I don’t want a lot for it(my opinion).

Its decivingly big. I heard it can’t go under the Hastings bridge (train bridge?) but that might just be a story. It leaves a pretty big wake too if you happen to be anchored in a little aluminum boat and it goes by about 100′-150′ away.

I married an Iowa girl so I can make jokes like that where I know I won’t get slapped.

I just saw where they won’t be able to have sex ed classes in Iowa this school year becausue it was getting too hard on the mule.

http://grastontechnique.com/

I am a firm believer in this. I was diagnosed with a “cronic back strain” and lived with it for about 8 years. After about 4 sessions of this from my chiropractor it is completely gone and healed. I would get back spasms bad enough to put me in bed on muscle relaxers for days. Now no problems.

http://corbettdc.com/

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Since the FW was down, it takes a bit to get her dressed in her color coordinated cloths…but we did make it to the safety of the public restrooms at the resort with Woody literally in hand.

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I figured this would have been the quote noone could leave alone. I just couldn’t wait any longer.

I got 42