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I will have to admit that other than squab, no dove has passed my lips. Always hear about dove tasting like liver. You know me always willing to try something new☺.

Dan - great to see you getting out on the water with you grandson. Looks like he is taking after his grandfather with those jigging spoons!

With fall in the air I wanted a bit of apple for yesterday's breakfast, but we had eaten them all. I opted for opening a can of our preserved peaches. I diced a couple of peach halves and toasted diced walnuts. Livie made a buttermilk pancake batter. We also added nutmeg and cinnamon to the mix to bring in those warm autumn spices. Mixed in the walnuts and peaches. The walnuts ended up a little bitter. I would have use pecans if we had any in the house. The maple syrup did counterbalance the slight bitterness of the walnuts.

On Saturday while in St Louis I looked up a couple of the Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives locations. There were three that were fairly close to the Botanical Gardens, a gastro pub, an Asian fusion restaurant and a barbeque spot. We decided on checking out The Shaved Duck (the BBQ spot). You could tell immediately that this was a BBQ place with the smell of the smoke filling the small dining area. There was evidence of Guy Fieri's visit that included poster and a air-brushed Fieri head logo painted on the wall. As we were sitting the chef came out with a large butcher block tray of assorted smoked meats and ribs for a party of 10. It looked and smelled fantastic. We all ordered apps and small meals and split all of them between the six of us. We got and order of their jalapeno and duck chili topped on mac and cheese, just a bowl of the same chili, candied bacon with walnuts, and skillet cornbread for apps. A 1/3 slab of baby back ribs, a smoked meat sampler with pulled pork and smoked meatloaf, and a couple of wedge salads Definitely worth going back!

Ness - I'm very partial to Bushmills. I haven't had their Red. used to get Bushmills Black which may have been aged in port wine barrels. While we were at the Japanese Festival in the MO Botanical garden on Saturday, I got reacquainted to Japanese beer! The also had a decent locally brewed Sake. We had Tako Yaki (octopus puffs), chicken Yakatori, tempura shrimp sushi roll, smoked salmon and avocado sushi roll, and a lobster spring roll. All were very good.

Yes I am fighting getting glasses. So the rifle will sit until the leaves start dropping. I ended up shooting at seven, missed the one, and lost one. Better ratio than some dove hunts and more and better tasting meat!

Great river walleye! Great job HW.

I struck out yesterday on catching a new species. I had small minnows that I haven't caught before on my bait but no hookups. So i had the urge to get onto some game. Still haven't decided to go after doves. Instead went out to get on the bushytails still hitting the hickory nuts. Started down a finger of hatdwoods and heard some cutting ahead. Saw a few squirrels ahead of me but out of range. I could hear ine or two to my right. I gor a bead on a couple in an oak. Shot the trailing squirrel. Waited a little while to see if the other would give me a shot. Nope. Crossed the drainage and picked up this guy. Had two more going back into the hickory trees. One stopped to cut the nut but I don't want to shoot them when they are sitting. Too much damage with the pellets. Got the bead on a second one in a cherry tree to my left. Dropped that one. I chased after some high squealers. Snuck up on another in the hickory tops. Shot it through the brush but must have missed as he ran off onto private property. I got into more heavy timber and could not find an intermittent cutter. Sat diwn and submitted the first post as two chased each other down a large oak 30 yards from me. With my game muffs I heard some squealing in the distance. Closed the gap and saw a couple chasing around a large dead tree. I shot one, then another and then a third. I found two out of the three. The last one either crawled or ended up in the thick brush and wood from the dead tree. In the 15 to 20 min that I looked for that third one the last man standing was still chasing the female in the trees above me. I thought a couple of times about shooting one or the other. Instead let them go off to make more squirrels!

Let's hear it for the small game hunting this season. The upland and waterfowl guys will try to monopolize the hunting threads until deer and turkey seasons. This thread isnt for those just sitting on buckets or comfy sports chairs☺! This is about spot and stalk squirrels. Creeping up on cutters. Belly crawling for bunnies. OK Nobody is likely to belly crawl for bunnies. Busting brushpiles for bunnies☺! So let's hear about these hunts. If you hunt from a recliner that's ok too☺! Actually just missed an opprtunity at two while submittng this post.

Let's hear for the small game hunting this season. The upland and waterfowl guys will try to monopolize the hunting threads until deer and turkey seasons. This thread isnt fir thise just sitting on buckets or comfy sports chairs☺! This is about spot and stalk squirrels. Creeping up on cutters. Belly crawling for bunnies. OK Nobody is likely to belly crawl for bunnies. Busting brushpiles for bunnies☺! So let's hear about thise hunts. If you hunt from a recliner that's ok too☺! Actually just missed an opprtunity at two while submittng this post.

Mbrown.- some great looking fish! Congrats! Those browns are making me a bit jealous. Still haven't caught a brown in Taney. One of my goals this year. I'll look at this post as inspiration. Can't wait ti see what you'll catch on your next trip.

You know it is all about the LIST☺! Keep lists for lots of things! Ask JestersHK about my list obsession! If you have Excel I'll send you a fish life list file that I have prepared. Just scroll down the list of species and fill in the date and location that you caught your first one☺.

Congrats on the PB LMB! Also a heck of a walleye! Spots are for eating.looks like fish fry for dinner.

Great job guys! I haven't seen collared doves before let alone shot one. Little jealous. Just a little☺!

His early comedy was always about passing off the the absurd as sophisticated. Why else would you wear the arrrow through the head? I have enjoyed a lot of his movies and some not so much! I do think that Roxanne comes close to how he sees himself. A sophisticated comedian with an absurd feature. Really like planes trains and automobiles.

Ness Lamb or more likely mutton is the traditional meat in an Irish shepards pie. Too expensive to use those ingredients here. I guess that technically our dish should be called a cottage pie since no lambs left the shepards flock.

They didn't have any problem finding my olive/orange jigs when JestersHK and I fished last June☺! I hope that anyone getting down toTaney this fall have a great time. I hope to get back down there again this fall and hopefully can fish again with JHK or other OAF members.

BH Sounds like you made the right move. Not just to get into birds but into your memories.Thanks for sharing. Since there was a lot of farm talk would that be considered as crop sharing☺?

We just had shepard's pie. Made with beef and not lamb. No photos my son didn't leave much just a couple of empty pans☺!

Thats a great looking meal Griz!!! Got me drooling just looking at your post.

I either get on genre kicks like every October I start DVRing old horror movies or go after movies with certain actors. I have been watching Sydney Portier movies lately. Does not help that TCM programming matches my mindset☺. Then like Ness I will try to get through some of those lists. We did watch a classic comedy this week. Had the infamous "Picking out a Thermos" song. Also had lines like "Die gaspumper!" "These cans are defective!""Waiter there are snails on her plate!"

You're not that far behind. Your BC trip added a bunch of fish to the list. I haven't caught anything new lately. I missed a couple of gar strikes last Sunday in Illinois. Not only did I not catch a gar, but I still did not catch a fish in that state. Failed on two counts during that trip. Let me know if your burning gas north of the border! I can get you onto orangethroated darters, commons shiners, blackstriped topminnows, plains topminnnows, etc. I may be looking to try for pickerel again or shadow bass to get to my species goal!

I have had most of my sucker success when they were trying to spawn using bait in Feb/Mar. I know that you are asking Ham but as I mentioned never had a flathead on the line. Love to see if we could get a trip together for those guys this fall. I have caught channels and a big blue this year. Missed out on a yellow bullhead but may get back after them. I will be trying for madtoms soon. Missed hooking several and now I'm obsessing about them!

Hey that fish looks familiar! Must be a famous photographer! Hogsuckers seem to be opportunists. I have caught them with bait and like Ham had caught them on lures. Here is one I caught using a microjig while trout fishing. That sucker chased the bait! I haven't caught on yet this year .

BH I eat them both raw and cooked. To each his own unless it is about peas!