Yep

Deck hand said that was part of the reason the bigger tuna have not shown up yet around the rigs. Water temp is still up

I'm fearless that way!!!

Lol

You go into the water with those things also in it?

Game hens and a day of rest for me and the wife.

Great hunting and dandy bucks

Family in southern Illinois

Nice one

MikeTraps2 great story, how old do you think you might have been around that time? Happy Thanksgiving to all on here

wws

I like the three legged triangle blind seat.

from my reading, it can also be transmitted to deer from them eating "infected" vegetation...plants take up the mis-folded proteins (which can remain viable in the soil for up to twenty years).

now, how PREVALENT that mode of transmission is, I don't know...

They are a lot better with tomato gravy.

LAST CALL.

Yes....transmission by saliva, urine, and feces. But does take repeated exposure. And that will happen with deer as they are social critters.

Yes...transmission by breeding is possible and proven to transmit from doe to fawn at birth.

Yes...weeks for results in most states as very limited labs doing the testing.



Yes...deer have died. At least one here in Georgia (a few weeks ago) was fresh dead enough for lymph nodes to be extracted. It was found in edge of ag field....It was positive.

Pittman-Roberson funds are probably being used as it relates to wildlife research and management. Some states have received a budget boost thru their state legislatures.


GUNNLEG,
It won't matter much to humans until a human is confirmed to have contracted CWD from consuming venison. The testing that is occurring in most states is simply to learn the location and prevalence of CWD. Decisions beyond that are based on varying factors and every state is handling it differently. Here in Georgia, baiting/feeding is not being stopped...yet. And sharpshooters are not being used to eradicate the local deer population. We are encouraging eliminating gravity and trough feeders and moving spin feeders & feed locations frequently. We also highly recommend that the hunters in the CWD areas do the deer population management thru hunting.

Lower deer population means less deer to deer contact. Less deer to deer contact lowers the probability of deer to deer transmission of prions. What deer population level is acceptable to hunters & and landowners is the million dollar question.