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  1. Allen

    Sakakawea Smelt Die-Off Occuring

    Hated the smelt die offs in the 80s. Fishing was terrible for weeks at a time. Pretty tough to get a walleye interested in anything when there's a dead smelt every 6 inches along the shore and in the water. Uggh!
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    Lake Tschida camping spot to close

    no, I wouldn't buy llamas. For some reason I just don't like them. I think you have misunderstood something here. Any lease holder who didn't see this coming and decided to build a deck or put in septic field, etc after 2009 was in pure denial of the risk. Much like I would be if you had...
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    Lake Tschida camping spot to close

    I am pretty sure that lease monies, just like pretty much any other fee collected by a federal agency goes to the U.S. Treasury. Reason being the U.S. Congress wants to set the budgets for the federal agencies and have them run for their congressionally authorized missions and not running as a...
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    Lake Tschida camping spot to close

    Why is it so hard for you to admit that the government's job is to look out for the general public and not a select group of people? By the way, I don't know for sure that they needed permits from Reclamation to build a deck. Do you? p.s. I answered the pasture question. I have no issue...
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    WHOOO Finally joined!

    Welcome! and congrats on the family addition. I will take one small disagreement though with the above on pics. Do as you wish with the electronic pics, there's lots of good ways to keep them around between thumb drives, add-on hard drives, and in the cloud storage. However, about once a...
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    ND spring weather

    The orange orchards in Florida turn on the water sprinklers. The theory being it takes more energy to lower the temperature of the water on tree buds/branches to create the damage a frost would do. I guess if you wanted to get up about 4 AM and set out the sprinklers it should help. Actually...
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    ND fishing lodge. Profit or bust?

    There are a few, but not many, places on Sak that I know of where private land gets down to the shoreline. Mostly surveying errors, and none that I know of where the water is deep enough to install a durable (for water level swings) boat ramp. I'd have to imagine the Corps would be a bugger...
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    Lake Tschida camping spot to close

    Hah hah, yes...I consider myself very familiar with the general issues at hand here. However, if someone on here has a copy of 2009 lease and a 2016 lease for comparative purposes, I think some of the confusion here would disappear. So yes, I recognize there is another level up from my...
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    Getting the "SNIP"

    I knew a fella in the Marine Corps who had one of the Navy's finest do his. They still used staples back then to clamp the end of the VD tubes. As we would be working or working out, every now and then he would grimace as a staple would "catch" on something. He'd spend a few seconds adjusting...
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    Lake Tschida camping spot to close

    gst, Their being able to remove the mobile homes was always a condition of the lease as far as I know, that's what has always differentiated these sites from those with permanent structures. Problem was when the shit hit the fan, not a single one of them got moved (again, that I am aware of)...
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    Lake Tschida camping spot to close

    Once the "agreement", aka a lease expires. It has no standing past it's term. These aren't 40 year leases they are changing in year 5, these are annual leases. EVERYTHING is subject to change on a new lease. And I believe you are wrong in that none of those camp sites are being closed, those...
  12. Allen

    Catch and Release Tourneys

    The NDGF seems to be leary of having another DL event on their hands. Several years ago there was a C&R tourney on DL. After the tourney there were lots of reports of floaters, I think it was in Creel. Lot of fish didn't make it even though they swam away from the basket. That being said, I...
  13. Allen

    Worst tasting fish

    Fish I like: Walleye of any size, although the texture gets less pleasing as they get larger. Once they're above 24 inches I tend to prefer someone else eat them, they can also be bad from warm, murky waters. Perch, but I don't like those with that little black parasite in the flesh like is so...
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    Lake Tschida camping spot to close

    gst, I have indeed read the article. Personally, only thing that crossed my mind was "what a bunch of pompous asses" with respect to the editors. Under what authority do they have the right to tell anyone, or any govt agency, what they have or have not forfeited? In general I think they are...
  15. Allen

    Have you had the boat out yet?

    We mortals hate you. Just thought you should know.
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    eating devils pike...

    Yeah, DL pike are more yellow in color than pike out of the Missouri (including Sak and Oahe). Not 100% sure why, but it seems to turn white when it comes out of the hot grease. Good eats!
  17. Allen

    Fish Smell

    The cause of the stinkFishes smell because of a natural process of decay. Bacterial enzymes attack the flesh of the fish. This triggers an oxidation reduction reaction. The muscle of the fish contain a substance called trimethylamine oxide (TMAO) which is broken down by decomposition. The result...
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    Lake Tschida camping spot to close

    gst. I am VERY familiar with Tschida and the issues present. A person can spin it as they wish, but those people are simply unhappy with the loss of their special privilege to public property. That special privilege turns $3k shithole campers into $80k "lake homes". You may be happy...
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    Getting the "SNIP"

    Did you read to the end? "About Dan Q Dan Q is a software engineer, a director of a voluntary organisation, a trainee counsellor, a keen geocacher, and an amateur magician. He lives with his partner and her husband in a polyamorous triad, and occasionally finds time to blog." Sounds to me...
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    Getting the "SNIP"

    Ha hah hah, sorry k9, but I literally laughed out loud when I read that! My former neighbor had it done several years ago after being done with having kids. His experience was terrible from what he shared. I think he was unable to work for a couple months as they swelled up to about the size...

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