Johnsfolly

Now that is some fine singing right there☺! Thanks Ness brings back memories of incessant laughing while listening to the Yodeling Cowboy!

Sounds like a great time Griz! I have only hunted wuth dogs on a single quail hunt and a rabbit hunt. I enjoyed watching the dogs on both trips. That was easy to do since I didn't hit a bird or rabbit on either trip.

Congrats on a great day fishing with your family and on your first post! Good luck in the future and I look forward to seeing many posts in the future! Great photos as well!

Very nice fish. Congrats on your successful carp trip!

He reminds me of Slim Whitman the yodeling cowboy! Back in High school I wanted to buy my friend a Slim Whitman album as a gag gift but they wanted $20 for his album! That wasn't recently either. I don't know how he sold more albums than Elvis at those prices☺! Mitch - you'll have to post a YouTube video of Slim if you could find one☺!

Haris122 - congrats in your successful mananged hunt! I have two memorable drags. Several years ago I had access to a farm near my house. The woman that owned the property did not want me to gut any deer on her property. Didn't want her dog bringing animal parts up to her house. Had bad experience in the past. It was the last evening of the antlerless season and I had a doe and her fawn coming towards me. At 40 to 50 yards I shot the doe and dropped her in her tracks. The fawn ran off to the woodline and walked back and forth. Another doe was coming with her two fawns snorting at the fallen deer. I watched her and did not even think about shooting her until she headed back the direction she came. As I headed out to the fallen doe the doe came back towards me and I shot her. Instead of dropping she ran 250 to 300 yards in the opposite direction. Had to go to both ends of the cut field to get both does loaded on my two wheeled cart. The second drag was on a buck that I shot about a 1.25 mile from my vehicle. The memorable part was that my wife was 5 months pregnant with our youngest at the time. She had to sufffer me field dressing the deer while she had morning sickness. This was the first deer that I used my two wheeled cart. We got to an area where we had to lift the deer over a barbed wire fence. I picked a spot on the fench where they had put in a wooden frame where they tightened the fence. My wife was on the other side if the fence as we were going to get the deer across. I had the back end of the deer in my face as I was lifting/sliding the deer over the fence. As I was pushing and lifting I didn't see that his head dropped down and was pushed up against the fench post. So I am pushing harder just as my wife saw the head pushed against the fence and pulled it up releasing the deer. At that time I was pushing hard enough for the deer and cart to go flying over the fence and nearly on top of my pregnant wife. To this day that was known as the day that I threw a deer at my wife☺!

Seth - I respect you for taking your time and energy to help with this hunt! Congrats! I hope that they get the chance to put down a bunch of deer!

Good luck Ketchuo. I understand having a crappy season. Only saw deer on the opening day. None since. I'm likely to head out on Sat. Not confident that I will get into any deer.

I love seeing state records fall. Also when it is one of these.under targetted species. Somehow I got off the MDC news list. Thanks Phil for posting this article.

Maybe we should forego the rivers for Jigfest and fish BSL and Norfork☺!

Congrats on an awesome hunting season! You were definitely dialled in this year. And you caught some fine walleye as well! Living the dream buddy.

We're getting some heavy winds now!

Bunch of nice fish buddy! Too bad no stripers or hybrids. Keep after them☺!

I have really wanted to have a fresh fish dinner. Figured my best bet would be a lake that I have caught crappie in November. I headed there this afternoon. Only fished just under 2 hours. I fished with a float and microjig set-up. I would love to say that I caught a mess of crappie for a fish dinner. I did not catch a single crappie. I did catch seven bluegill like this male and female. All were 6 to 8.5 inches in length. They would have made a great dinner if this lake did not have a 9" minimum length ! Wasn't a great day for crappie, but it was a beautiful evening with the water like glass and a fantastic sunset. I may try a different lake that also has nice hand sized bluegill and no length limit. Also some nice crappie if I am lucky. I may get that fresh fish dinner after all.

The only hen that I found this year was this little dried up one that Livie and I found during the early youth deer season back in Oct. Wasn't much larger than a softball. Very sad.

Let us know the next time you have these leftovers (if any) and we'll stop by for a surprise visit !

Thanks Phil for posting these changes. Seems an appropriate update prior to jigfest☺.

All that and a Stella as well. Very nice meal my friend!

I hadn't looked at this thread until today. If I had I would have made plans to head down to Capp's. Would love to fish with you guys and beat you on your home waters ! Is this always the Sunday after Thanksgiving? Should be a great day. I have fished Capp's one time only and fished in a driving rain for a while. Still lots of wind even when the rain stopped. Good luck to everyone. Looking forward to seeing the winning fish!

I am certain that I am likely to always spatchcock our turkeys. I really love how even they cook and the reduced time to get the bird out of the oven ! Thanks RPS!! Of course have to serve on a fish platter ! We had the traditional green bean casserole and parmesan crusted mashed potatoes. My betterhalf makes a great fresh cranberry sauce. I also made brussel sprouts with bacon, onions, pecans and a drizzle of mission fig balsamic vinegar. As always on Thanksgiving (an Christmas as well), plate is way too full. Had a local white wine, Les Bourgeois Traminette. A piece of pumpkin pie and now for the food coma ! I hope that All OAF'er foodies had a great Thanksgiving and also all of the rest OAFer's!

Been wanting to try Shakshouka but not no takers on poached eggs. I browned some breakfast sausage. Then added diced poblano and 3/4 of a jalapeno pepper, minced garlic, and onion. Added ground pepper, ground cumin and smoked paprika to the meat and vegetables. Added 6 eggs and scrambled it all together. Breakfast burritos. A little sour cream, sliced avocado, cilantro, and Colby and monterrey jack cheeses on a flour tortilla. A little hot sauce and it was all good. A nice meal before we start in on our Thanksgiving fixings.

I'll see if there are any desserts being brought to Jigfest. May have to bring this down for that weekend.

Nice Fish face photo!

Congrats on those ducks! It would be awesome if all three were caught and banded at the same time!

Every year on the day before Thanksgiving I make pumpkin and cream cheese bars and bring them to work to thank my staff for their hard work all year. The Folly family enjoys them as well. I have to make double batches every time that I make them. We roast our own pumpkin instead of using canned. The bars have the typical pumpkin spices, cinnamon, cloves, ginger, mixed with brown sugar, eggs, pecans, and raisins (both dark and golden raisins). The cream cheese mixture is cut into the pumpkin mixture before baking. The icing is a brown butter and powdered sugar icing. A 13 x 9 inch pan doesn't last long.