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A bit of surf and turf dinner tonight. Steaks were thick ribeyes coated with montreal seasoning and garlic powder. Grilled them in my new grill pan (my 20 yr work anniversary gift - no grill at the Maryland house yet). Cooked medium rare. Dry sauted white mushrooms (don't ask about any wild mushrooms - finding literally hundreds of poisonous or ones not recommended for eating ) and yellow onions. Clams were steamed with salted water and served with browned butter. The butternut squash is where I put in some thought. I diced the butternut squash and cooked at high in the microwave for 5 minutes. Then into hot skillet with a little light oil. Browned the pieces, then salt and pepper. Cooked a little more then in went sliced yellow onion. A little more S&P and Chinese five spice. Once the onions were translucent, I added sliced black mission figs. Cooked until the squash was tender and the figs were cooked through. Just a little more S&P, a light drizzle of aged balsamic vinegar and about a tablespoon of brown butter. Cook through and served it with the steak and clams.

From Bob Uecher: Two ball players decide to try duck hunting. They get all the gear and head out to the swamp at O dark thirty. They are out there all day. No shots fired and no ducks. As they are getting ready to leave the one turns to the other and asks why didn't we get any ducks? The other says I don't know. Maybe we aren't throwing the dog high enough.

May have to keep that in mind! First idea was to hunt up in north MO on a friends farm but that may be getting sketchy due to my son's work schedule. May PM you if that plan falls through.

They sound really cool. Looked like one was fossilized bone. Thanks for the details.

Congrats @CLoyd on some nice trout! You guys, @JestersHK, @fshndoug, @duckydoty are starting to give me the idea that instead of trying for a fall turley that I should make the run down to Taney instead!

Duane what are those handles made out of? Look like old bone.

Sounds like a great time! Congrats on a great trip catching fish and spending time with family! All this post needed was a couple of photos😁.

Agreed!

That's a chunk! Great way to break in the kayak!

I'd call that economical ingenuity😁! Kayak looks like it belongs on that hatchback and ready to find new waters.

The horror of catching and putting minnows in a bucket😢. They need to be set free! Free the Minnows!

Planning on heading out that way likely on the 20th. Plan on being in MO through the end of the month. Planning on a couple of days to hunt/fish. Want to get into some gray or fox barkers 😁. Turkey if I come across some or better yet a bow killed deer!

May have to push my better half and daughter (yes they are OAF members) to put their names in the hat ! That would give three chances for a Doty special sculpin to head east.

Now I'm jealous ! If I caught a little one it would still fulfill my goal. Congrats on some great fishing thus far! I hope that I win the Doty special sculpin so that I can use that when I get a chance to get down to Taney.

Weds night had baked potato soup with sweet corn on the cob. Double smoked bacon, Yukon gold potatoes, sharp white cheddar, sweet yellow onions, ... (no Old Bay but was added to the corn ). Photo of the soup topped with sour cream.

That is an awesome brown trout. Just a great fish! Congrats on a successful trip.

That may be up for some debate 😁! Seriously, congrats on a great time out catching fish buddy!

Duane - put me in the mix. You know that I am a sculpin man! Thanks!

I'll throw my hat in the ring😁.

@BilletHead or @Al Agnew or @MoCarp do any of you know if quartz was commonly used for points, particularly in the northeast? I found a quartz piece in Connecticut that I was certain was a point. I gave it to my brother when I went to college. Haven't seen it since.

Ness - I heard that one before, but still makes me laugh!

By the way I found this point on Steve's farm and it did not have my name written on it .

Couple of funny stories along these lines. I knew a guy, Steve, that worked for me in the past and was kind of a prankster. He would do things like set up vine/twig doll (like from the Blair witch project) in front of a guys deer stand or put a buck skull on some brush down from another guys stand so that the antlers were above the brush and moving in the wind... This guys was a really skilled point hunter. He still had the most impressive collection of axes, points, etc. that I have seen outside of a museum. He would often hunt points with another guy that would walk past points. On one prearranged point hunt, Steve took a large point from his collection and wrote the other guys name on it and placed in a obvious part of a creek bed that they were going to hunt. So needless the say this guy actually found this point. He was so excited until Steve said "that's a great one! it looks like it has your name written all over it" then the other guy turned it over ! When I was in grad school I worked at a sanctuary in the Poconos. This property had only been owned by three families in the last 150 years (approximately 640 acres with a 56 acre lake). It was rather untouched. Back in the 40's they had a storm that had hurricane force winds come up through one of the valleys that knocked over hundreds of trees. They set up a mill on the property to mill those trees for lumber. In the mid 70's there was a archeological grad student that was looking for burial mounds on this property. He came upon a spot in the forest that appeared to have well over 40 mounds. He secured funding from the University to dig on some of the more prominent mounds. They spent the whole season mapping and digging several of the mounds and found nothing. Turns out the mounds were the remains of the root balls from the trees that were knocked down in that storm . I would not have wanted to go back to the department chair to explain this mistake.

I've got nothin here either😒.

I'll let her know buddy.