Outdoor Writer

This one will work provided you have a nice clear and clean entry into the sewer line. Probably still need to drill and anchor, however.

I knew that by the black mouths and meant to say Chinooks! 🤬

Nice job, Houston. 👍 Looks like you got into a few salmon, as well. Look like coho, eh? Sitka is the only NA deer I'm missing. Wish I was still able to do that hunt, but I put it off too long. Now my days afield are over.

This ring (Home Depot) will fix your problem, but you'll have to drill the concrete to fasten it down right with expandable mollies and screws.

Ouch. Rusted out indeed. It's gonna take some work to get it functional. Good luck. Does the wax ring that came with toilet have a rubber skirt on it? If not, buy one separately because it will save you a headache.

Yuppers. Anyone with kids in EL school should have them so they can learn some history because they sure ain't teaching much of it anymore in today's education system.

Did the old flange rust out or....? It sounds as if you and I need our own medical staff. 🤬 Stay well.

Hope a new gasket was part of the purchase.

I remember it well. I posted some pix of my Marc Plunkett Gallery in the Trophy Room thread.

Super buck. Great job by all. 👍

Had I not screwed up, there would have been four more life-size mounts and one half javelina. In the photo below, there are life-size bear hides hanging in the corner and draped on an armchair. There is a huge tanned lion (9' tail to nose) hide over the coffee table, and a tanned blackbuck hide on the left end table. Unfortunately, I waited too long to get the work done, so all the tanning oils dried out because I didn't store them properly in a freezer. If they are rewet now, they will tear in the stretching process. These are some in-the-field pix. Randy Epperson with my lion from the Sycamore Wilderness Area. In the tree. These are the two BC black bears. The biggest was 8'6" and the other was 7'3" nose to tail. I had a big red salmon to use for the biggest with it standing and the fish in its mouth. I hadn't decided on a pose for the other one. That's Roy Pattison (now deceased) and Mike Bond measuring the big bear.

I think all the images are showing now. If anyone is seeing an X place holder, let me know, please.

I need to do some repairs for images not showing up but don't have time now.

I have photos but they're really old. So they don't show all the added mounts and rearranging that's been done. This first bunch is my first trophy room. The birds in the alcove below are a chukar (upper right), ringneck and a male & female Mearns below the Eastern turkey. The 23-lb. northern pike is from the Hotlitna River in Alaska. These are of the newer addition I built several years ago as a family/trophy room to house my African, New Zealand and misc. critters. I often refer to it as the Marc Plunkett Gallery since he had mounted nearly everything in it when these photos were shot. L to R -- Nyala, warthog, Black wildebeest, blesbok, kudu. Ctr. -- Red deer stag -- New Zealand L to R. -- Gemsbok, Impala, Blue Wildebeest L to R. -- Springbok, bushbuck from Africa, chamois and tahr from NZ New location of bear These are additions since these photos were taken.

FISHING REPORT Nov. 8, 2019 Arizona Game and Fish Department TIP OF THE WEEK This week, we stocked rainbow trout into: Show Low Creek, Patterson Ponds, Green Valley Lakes, Yavapai Lakes, Fain Lake, Dead Horse Lake, Goldwater Lake, Watson Lake. In our Community Fishing Program, we're scheduled to start stocking trout the week of Nov. 18 -- just in time for the holidays. Catfish were stocked this fall and now we’re switching to trout. Top baits for trout in Community waters tend to be worms, salmon eggs, and PowerBait. Use light line (4-6 pound test) and size 8-12 baitholder hooks. There may be only a few weeks left before winter conditions prevail in the high country, so if you're looking for scents of pine, scenes of eagles and tight lines from trout, go now. Bass anglers: Sounds like the reaction bite is hot at many desert impoundments, including Bartlett Lake in the Tonto National Forest, where bass are occasionally chasing shad to the surface, even around midday. See a Bartlett report, and don't forget to consult the latest fishing forecast. Flathead catfish also are fattening up for the winter season. There's been an influx of reports of big flats being caught at places such as Lake Pleasant, Bartlett Lake, and the Verde River -- see the Catch of the Week below. Frye Creek fish stocking: Gila trout restoration in Mt. Graham area gets major boost Gila trout, one of two trout species native to Arizona, are being restored to the Mt. Graham area. A major step was taken Monday when AZGFD, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and volunteers from Trout Unlimited and the University of Arizona backpacked 250 Gila trout into Frye Creek. All Gila trout in this area were lost during the aftermath of the 2017 Frye Fire, a major setback to a recovery effort that began in 2009. The creek remains closed to fishing. See video of the stocking. Catch of the Week Send your fishing reports and photos to BFishing@azgfd.gov -- one will be selected for Catch of the Week Verde River Daylan B. caught this 41.56-pound flathead catfish on Nov. 1 on the Verde River between Horseshoe Dam and Bartlett Lake. What's been stocked this week ("Catchable" sizes only; water temp in parenthesis if available) Rainbow trout: Show Low Creek, Patterson Ponds, Green Valley Lakes, Yavapai Lakes, Fain Lake, Dead Horse Lake, Goldwater Lake, Watson Lake. See the stocking schedules Thank you, anglers! Arizona fishing opportunities wouldn’t be possible without the Sport Fish Restoration Program. It was created through the Dingell-Johnson Act of 1950 (Federal Aid in Sport Fish Restoration Act) and the Wallop-Breaux amendments of 1984. Through a federal excise tax paid by manufacturers on fishing gear and motorboat fuels, it provides grant funds for fishery conservation, boating access, and aquatic education. Save time, buy online Grab a license online (that helps conserve all species of wildlife, not to mention provides funding that goes back into fishing opportunities) and go "Fish AZ". SEE MORE REPORTS

Nice cat rug. Marc does super work. He did a life size bear, a deer shoulder mount and all of my African and New Zealand critters - about 19 in all. The Camp Verde thing got a bit inconvenient after he moved his shop, so I switched to Chris Krueger, who also does great work. A bobcat w/rattlesnake he did for me won all sorts of awards at one of the taxidermist gatherings.

I thought the same when I killed my first on Cibeque Ridge in the 1960s. The "hands" and "feet" are the things that stood out to me.

I got a call back from the superintendent of the Navajo Lake State Park yesterday. I had called him to get clarification on this issue, and we had a nice discussion. He said that as long as a permit holder obeys the NMGFD rule on shooting from a boat and the NSP rules about being safe distances from any campgrounds or other improvements, shooting a rifle at a deer on shore from a non-moving boat is legal in those parts of the park that are open to deer hunting. But he also stressed that hunters should be concerned with safety such as background and fishermen in nearby boats.

I cracked up when I read the above because you were dead on. Although I got decent grades, Creative Writing and Speech were the only two classes I aced during my journey through journalism in college.

I wasn't interested in that area, so never paid much attention to that special hunt. Still, I doubt that was going on in the '40s & '50s. It's a wonder there are many deer in it now since it's gotten so built up in so many places. If I get time this week, I'll make a call and see if I can find out anything for you.

As I mentioned in my other reply, I doubt you'll find anything. Deer hunting in those two decades was based statewide. A hunter bought a tag and hunted wherever he wanted, other than the North Kaibab. The permit system didn't go into effect until 1971-72 or so. Thus, there's no way of knowing how many hunted in 37A or what the success rate and actual harvest were. And I'm pretty sure they weren't sending out survey cards way back then.

Must have hit a nerve, eh? The discussion that was taking place was based on what is stated in the current regulations, and since I retired more than a year ago, I no longer follow the daily happenings of changes that take place. That's why I searched for the new rule and posted it. Now, you can denigrate me and call me all the gutter names that your feeble brain has stored up, but two things you can't call me are thief and poacher. So you'll have to make due with kin. P..S -- It's "that are not even in EFFECT" not "that are not even in affect (sic)"

The other day while searching info on the "shooting from a boat" topic, I ran across this tidbit in the NM regulations: Skulls Are State Property Skulls are both fascinating and valuable. When found in the field, the skulls of all protected species remain the property of New Mexico—unless from an animal legally taken by a licensed hunter during an approved hunting season. This rule applies to all individuals, whether hunting or not. To combat poaching of our valuable big-game resources, the New Mexico State Game Commission has adopted this rule. This important law enables conservation officers to better regulate the taking of big-game animals solely for the head or trophy. Deer and elk shed antlers each year. Although possession of shed antlers is legal, possession of antlers attached to a skull found in the field is not. Antlered skulls may be available for purchase from NMDGF. If purchased, the receipt must be retained by the owner. Should probable cause suggest an animal was killed or is possessed unlawfully, conservation officers may confiscate such skulls. If you find the skull of a protected animal, leave it where it is found and contact an NMDGF conservation officer.

Yup. Bet your bro is relieved that he'll save about $6,500. This is the complete readable version: 17-314. Illegally taking, wounding, killing or possessing wildlife; civil penalty; enforcement A. The commission may impose a civil penalty against any person for unlawfully taking, wounding, killing or possessing any of the following wildlife, or part thereof, to recover the following minimum sums: 1. For each turkey or javelina $ 500.00 2. For each bear, mountain lion, pronghorn (antelope) or deer $1,500.00 3. For each elk or eagle, other than endangered species $2,500.00 4. For each predatory, fur-bearing or nongame animal $ 250.00 5. For each small game or aquatic wildlife animal $ 50.00 6. For each bighorn sheep, bison (buffalo) or endangered species animal $8,000.00 B. The commission may bring a civil action in the name of this state to enforce the civil penalty. The civil penalty, or a verdict or judgment to enforce the civil penalty, shall not be less than the sum fixed in this section. The minimum sum that the commission may recover from a person pursuant to this section may be doubled for a second violation, verdict or judgment and tripled for a third violation, verdict or judgment. The action to enforce the civil penalty may be joined with an action for possession and recovery had for the possession as well as the civil penalty. C. The pendency or determination of an action to enforce the civil penalty or for payment of the civil penalty or a judgment, or the pendency or determination of a criminal prosecution for the same taking, wounding, killing or possession, is not a bar to the other, nor does either affect the right of seizure under any other provision of the laws relating to game and fish. D. All monies recovered pursuant to this section shall be deposited in the wildlife theft prevention fund established by section 17-315.

You can buy other individual books on eBay quite cheap. I'm going to sell my set shortly but won't be breaking it up.