MOPanfisher

Chopped up brisket in the beans is ALWAYS a good thing.

Was on Grampa duty today. Daughters birthday was yesterday and she requested some fresh crappie for supper. My wife told her there were some in the fish bowl. You know how some days everything is perfect, brown on the taters and onions, fish crispy on outside and oh so tender insude, cornbread with just right amount of crust! Yeah well this was that day at all. However everyone seemed to lime it, if judging by the amount they ate. Photo would have been ugly, but taste was good on everything.

Yep, you are pretty much afraid if not unable to sleep during the "purge". This thread covers filling your belly/system and now cleansing it. Awesome.

It ain't exactly fun, I added a fair amount of lime juice when I had to drink it, didnt make it good, but something abut the flavor of it made me want to gag. But by tomorrow night you can hit an all you can eat buffet and get your money's worth!

Got home late tonight due to unplanned fishing trip and the cleaning fish. Wife had made some bacon in oven. So I cracked a couple family fresh eggs into a skillet and made myself an egg, bacon, and cheese sammich. Lightly toasted white bread, dijon mustard, 2 slices of asiago cheese, and the aforementioned bacon. Drink of choice, ice cold Coca Cola with a shot of lemon juice just because. Mmmmmmm.

I can remember my dad talking a out eating squirrel brains, I quickly became a head shooter on squirrels so I didn't have to face that choice!

There have been documented cases of CJD from eating squirrel brains, however as of yet no cases are documented from deer to humans. There is however I believe a case of CWD transmission from contaminated venison to a macaque monkey.

I Have A Big Ole Butternut Just Waiting For That treatment!

They used to sell them or something very simular at the Project office, seems like it was 75 or so pages and was quite detailed. Haven't seen one in years.

If MDC wants to ut some carp regs on some urban lakes to grow some big ole carp, have at it. I believe I will not hold my breath on that hapoening statewide. MDC is a biology based organization and not AS subject to political whims. Heck I enjoyed catching carp for many years, probably still would. May take it up again when I get to where I am not mobile anymore. But that ain't this week.

Well my wife bailed at the last minute for a meeting paving me to cook supper for mom and i. Was about to thaw out some hamburger for boring burgers. Opened the fridge door and there was the big stainless fuss bowl with a few crappie and white bass from last night's trip. Burgers be darn!. Sliced up 3 taters into a hot cast iron skillet with a diced onion, and mixed up basic cornmeal and seasonings. Should have taken a moment for a photo, cause I burned the heck out of my tongue on the first crispy golden brown fillet, when I forked up a pile of the fried taters I was a bit more careful. I am sure I looked like a yard dog testing the bowl of baked taters or gravy to see how hot it is before wolfing it down. Yesterday they were swimming freely without a care in the world, tonight they are swimming in my belly.

Heck yeah!

Arby's fixed linch for myself and my grandson today. Gyros and jalapeno oppers. While I was movin hay bales this afternoon though my wife made her meatloaf and big pot of Mac and cheese with sharp white cheddar, American and gruyere, very rich. She put some panto on top and browned it as a finish. Meatloaf had some crusty edges that I like as well, kind of meatloaf burned ends.

Wayyyy back in my youth we helped a farmer who had several hundred he had raised in a 1 acre rearing pond. I still remember swinging day when it looked like every nature show I had even seen on salmon going up a set of falls. Had planned on selling them to folks, but ended up with the pond so stirred up they came to the top gasping for air. So we waded in with dip nets and started scooping them up and into a stock tank with fresh water, then hauled them down to the big pond of 7 acres and dumped them in. We should have let them die. That 7 acre pond had a lot of algae mats and was a great bass pond. We guess maybe 800 of them thing we dumped in. Within a year there was nothing green left in the big pond, and we had begun prowling the shallows and shooting them with rifles to get rid of them. Biggest fish I ever caught was one of them that we guessed at at least 50 lbs, his fight was less than stellar for a fish that big. Ah the misspent days of youth.

That's what I was thinking too. Couldn't see the head very well but body shape sure says grass carp.

Winter prediction. Widely scattered colder weather, interspersed with warmer days and a periods of snow, ice or rain. This was whispered to me by a wooly worm as he sat on a persimmon.

Every persimmon seed I have cut in my life were either spoons or deformed spoons.

Huh, would never have guessed that!

I do love stuffed peppers. Bell peppers tend to attack me later though.

2 pork butt with big chunks of garlic stuck in are in the smoker for tomorrow. Low and slow. Only other seasoning is some weird looking Hawaiian salt, looks like red dirt, but that was what wife wanted on it. I think the plan is to take some home made bbq sauce and brew up a cup or so of crazy stout kona coffee to add to it for the final result of pulled pork. Hopefully I will remember to take a photo or 2. Right now, after mowing and working on food plot and some fence my recliner has me trapped. Bummer. The butt are now bacon ed and bagged with coca cola to marinate in, on their way to that magic temp so they pull apart easy. Oh and wife says NO to th kona coffee bbq sauce. If I had my way it would have gotten injected with marinade and into the bag would have gone some apples from the orchard. But sometimes you just have to do what you are told.

Another quick check station story from college days, volunteering at a check station in Diggins MO. Lady came in with a nice buck, she was very nicely dressed, nice shoea, not a speck of dirt or blood, hair brushed etc. We made a note of her information and gave it to an agent about 30 minutes later, he looked at it and laughed. Said I know that individual very well, she killed that deer probably 2 hours before bringing it in, because there was NO WAY she would come into town looking less than put together, said she would change clothes before getting into an ambulance if necesaary. There is value in knowing the people in your area.

I remember working as a volunteer at check stations, it was always entertaining. I have zero problem with them using legitimately obtained data to make a case or at least trigger a Vista or call. My first deer I was I think 11 or 12. Check station guy definitely didn't believe I had killed it, and asked me to show him on a map where I killed. He'll I was a kid and couldn't read a map for nothing, but once he helped me locate the town and then our farm it was easy. Farm tagged too, with information written on a piece of cardboard from a cracker box and rid on with a string. By the time he had listened to my story, complete with kid excitement, and an explanation of my hand loads for my Marlin .30-30, all he really wanted was for me to leave. Again simply following the rules makes it pretry easy, though there are time it is "trying at best", late sunday evening kill, check station closed at 6 pm, quick call to the game thief number who informed me the check station was open until 8 pm. Took a few tries to explain that I was currently sitting in the dang parking lot and the place was definitely closed. They then went with the, "sir this number is reserved for reporting of violations", back then I was a little more prone to getting loud and went into full "it's gonna be a darn violation if you don't figure how I can get the thing checked in". 30 miles later at another check station a very grumpy hillbilly finally got it checked in. I personally love telecheck.

Agents used information prior to telecheck. They would get printouts with things flagged, like a permit purchased at 4 pm and a deer check at 5 pm. Follow the laws and its no problem.

Dang that sucks. Heck post the video, better than another carp video.

Carp fishermen transported them with a bucket of carp fingerlings.😁