MOPanfisher

If you don't start them young, by the time they hit driving age they will have other things to do. The world itself is full of goobers, anymore part of growing up is how to deal with goobers. Should be a class for it.

Hell I don't WANT to get up and go to work. My kids are workers, early late whatever. Always told them be the one that is always there and a little bit early, be willing to do Crappy jobs as well as the fun ones and believe me they will remember. Now if I could just get my son to understand the difference between a job and a career. But he is young, food, shelter, and cute girls are his world. If I could only hunt one critter the rest of my life it would be squirrels, partly because there is no "trophy" unless we sink to measuring the size of a red squirrels testicles, it was about the first game I ever hunted and still brings back memories of hunting with dad. There are plenty of them they are tasty and if you decide to stop in a comfy place and take a nap, no harm no foul.

Add in SWPA and power generation agreements, a congressionally authorized management plan, congress men who like to get involved, and thousands of members of the recreating public who will complain if it rains during their vacation.

Just about anything that is different or provides a little cover will hold fish. Tires will work but man take about a job bolting them into a structure to hang. Used to fish a dock that had about a 20 foot cedar hanging by a steel cable, pure gold. Hang stuff from shallow to deep and there will always be fish there. If I owned a dock everyone would be afraid to swim for all the "structure" in on and around it.

Well log cabins have a habit of burning down. 😲😉😞

I agree on old hkuses. I have worked on several helping remodle them, you can drop a lot of money into it and still have an old house. Demolish, rebuild correctly with proper isolation etc. Never worried about any old ghosts or frisky old ladies.

I worked in Florida after a hurricane, in an area that had a lot of manufactured homes basically double wides. Nearly all were totalled because they were sprung at the centar seam, marriage wall they called it. Regular homes seem to take some damage but we're repairable. Also trailers usually have a much thinner wall and don't take the abuse well. But an F5 tornado don't care, the only place safe was underground. Cars blown against a chain like fence like tumbleweeds, cars in homes that the homeowner had no clue whose they were, tires with splintered 2x4's driven through both sides, giant oak trees simply went missing, entire houses gone but a couch and big screen TV still there, strange happenings. 6 blocks away people were back to mowing their grass the next day.

I named every hog and steer we had earmarked to butcher. Never bothered me, I knew them white package came back in a week or so and I liked pork chops and steaks. Dogs are used in their advertising because they generate more of an "awwwww" response than a steer standing around.

Sink them, they will use it. Have never cut any openings in them.

I spent six weeks on Joplin after the tornado, it was impressive what it could do. Anything that can move a 5 story concrete building enough that it is unusable is mind boggling.

I will admit to not being a pot pie fan, but that looks good! Smoked gouda should add a nice flavor to it.

Do the screw lock types work with a Ned. I bought some for crappie fishing and they will keep a bait useable longer. Suck to lose one though. They are available in about any color, I bought orange and purple ones. The purple to fish with craw type jigs.

X3. Wishing I was fishing out there today!

When you watch the re or highs and lows on the new both are scattered over the last 75 years. Cold periods and warmer periods. Does seem that winter is shorter and less well wintery than it was when I was a kid. When you are walking around outside on Christmas day in a t shirt and sweating if you do anything you know it's warm. Personally I am not pining for a return to the cold snowy days of winter. Prefer it like this as the fishing is darn good in the fall/winter, even if I don't get to go much.

Merry Christmas to everyone! We are eating with some friends today, they are making a standing rib roast, my wife is making her sausage & sage dressing so I decided to whip up a couple loaves of homemade yeast bread. Pic is of it waring to rise a little then go into the oven. Will see if I can remember to take a pic after it comes out. Fresh warm bread, real butter, mmmmmm.

Best answer yet.

When I grill them I melt some butter and add garlic powder and usually some lemon juice and brush it on the fillets in a sheet cake pan lined with foil. Then depending on mood, maybe some simple salt/pepper or cajun or old bay, whatever I like at the time. Put the pan on the grill and cook until they turn white and flake apart. I also usually save th butter/juice from the pan and pour it over the fried taters. Its better if the butter brown just a little. The fillets are very fragile and fall apart easy, but dang tasty.

I went out for a little while this morning. With some help I kept 10 nice crappie will divide them between 2 different couples from church and deliver them some filleted fresh crappie later today. They make great Christmas presents, you don't even have to wrap them.

Pretty basic, grilled crappie fillets (fresh caught Saturday), fried taters and onions and salad in a bag with bleu cheese dressing. If it don't make you at least a little hungry I don't think we can be friends.

I kind of like to modify stuff to my liking. Knives, rods, pow guns etc. I fishing for a little while before work this morning and the rod worked perfectly, balance point was right and the butt end was hitting me all the time. Gonna take a closer look at a couple others I have. Years ago I had a cheapo rod that I used to throw gitzits on some creeks I waded, always thought it was a little soft for that, but one day it had an accident and lost a few inches off the tip. I promptly repaired it with a new tip and it was a completely different rod, was much better after that. I like happy coincidences.

Some of them cajun women were scary, some were dang cute and tough enough to hold their own in a fight too. I wouldn't have wanted to make any of them mad for sure.

Apparently I can't text today. St Croix rod, not a croissant!

After a productive day spent in a boat crappie fishing yesterday I noticed for the umpteenth time that one of my crappie rods simply has too long of a handle. It's a 6'6" St. Croissants Med Lite spinning rod. The handle is just long enough that it hits against my body (belly mostly) while sitting g down fishing. After Che mo I lost a lot of my balance so I don't stand up as much fishing and the dang handle is just irritating, just enough loge than my 6' St Croix that it doesn't work as well for me. So . . . . After a few hours of contemplating it I got out a hacksaw and cut almost 2 inches off of it, that was easy. Since I am picky about balance every rod I use has a lead weight of varying size glued to the butt end to make it balance where and how I like it, right on my index finger or even the tip slightly lighter. Seems to make the rod more lively and light hits easier to detect, and not as tiring tonuse. As luck would have it I had a weight already sitting the shelf that was the right weight and diameter. I have an oak board with different diameter and depth holes drilled in it. I pour molten lead into them and let them cool to make the weights with. Glued it on and now it balances right and hopefully wont hit against my body when sitting. Do you think it will change the action of the rod? I can't thing of any reason it should as it is still the same balance and from the reel to the tip nothing has changed. I am not of fan of the longer handles on rods, but many must be judoing by they number of them made that way. If this works out as well as I hope I may shorten another one or two. I still have a couple that I use fishing from the bank where the longer handle doesn't bother me.

Probably the Ned question.

Having a retirement party for a good friend at work, spend tonight making a double batch of Jambalaya, always good always popular. Meats include a pound of spicy pork sausage, a pound of polish sausage, a package of chicken thighs diced up, 4 cans of oysters. Tomorrow will get more chicken stock to offset the amount the rice soaks up, 3 bags of shrimp, and a large pa kage of imitation crab meat. (I love that stuff) short of meat it aint.