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@dave potts Congrats! Sounds like you had a successful sale!

Wishing you all the best. You and your family will be in thoughts.

I had a chance a lone drake a few years back, but kept hearing a turkey. I passed on jump shooting the wood duck and harvested the turkey for thanksgiving 😉. Saved a few hundred dollars, but still would like a mount.

Hey @Daryk Campbell Sr I had to go to the local hospital for a procedure. As I was being prepped for the procedure the anesthesiologist came with a boat paddle. She asked me if I wanted to sedated with gas or the paddle. I found myself in a typical ether/oar situation!🤣

We do the same. I prefer the thighs. More flavorful, tastier, quicker to cook are all bonuses for me.

My kids like that show a lot as well I still know most of the characters.

Either bluegill or sunnies. I had heard about horned pouts a few years ago. I was hoping that it was a different species. Was disappointed that they just are brown bullheads.

How many rednecks does it take to eat a possum. Three. One to eat the possum and two to watch for cars 🤣

That honey hole that we found might be the best spot to teach Livie to flyfish. No brush to catch her back cast and lots of eager mouths for any sinking fly or even small poppers. She has been really involved with her friends. Might be tough to break her loose.

That's an eating sized crayfish!

I guess that I could have titled the post "Filled to the rim with Brim!"🤣

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After my trip from NC, I am still a few new lifer fish from achieving one of my 2022 goals. I found some spots close by for a species called a spottail shiner. I spent an hour fishing a spot after dropping my daughter off at her friend's house. No luck. Yesterday I had planned for a long trip to go ack and try for a sculpin species out in western MD and also try for some small game and fall turkey (these areas actually allow Sunday hunting and the fall season is only in three counties and lasts a week). But due to a persistent cough from a recent cold, I decided to get some stuff done around the house and run errands. One of the errands would put us on a new spot for those spottails. We found a little community lake with a creek coming from the outfall. I was fishing a tanago hook on very light line for those shiners and my wife was fishing a trout magnet 1/16 oz jig armed with a piece of redworm under a float. We caught fish after fish. The float would go down as soon as it hit the water. These were nearly all bluegill sunfish of all sizes. Afraid of breaking the light line on one of my few tiny tanago hooks I switched out for a trout magnet jig and float combo after catching my 21st bluegill. Sue was way ahead of me with nearly 30 bluegill and this nice redear sunfish. She went up to fish the lake. Very scenic but not as productive. After she was chilled she headed to the car. In the end she ended up with 38 bluegill, that redear and a hybrid pumpkinseed sunfish. I fished until I no longer had bait. I ended up with another 40 bluegill after switching from the tanago, thus bringing our total bluegill catch to 99 and 101 total fish for a couple of hours of fishing. What a great little honey hole!

We are a couple of weeks behind you guys. Still we do have some color out here in Maryland with these photos from yesterday.

One of my favorites. Simple recipe but very tasty!

I've never skinned one, but also hear that beaver is difficult to skin as well. @BilletHead could confirm. I'm sure that a few folks on here have known this for some time, but it was about seven or eight years ago that I saw my first groundhog up in a tree. It was climbing out to eat buds on the branches. I've seen that a couple of more times since then. Pretty funny to see. I wonder what it would sound like after you shot one up in the tree and it hit the ground. One of them was out on branches above the Current river. I wonder if it would have sunk or just floated downstream.

Very True! I always hate the commercials that have polar bears and penguins together🤔. Outside of a zoo they are world's apart in different hemispheres. Polar bears up north and penguins down south.

Congratulations to all of the youth that participated in and were successful in this year's early youth Deer season! Also congrats to those adults that took the time to take them out hunting! Top harvest counties were Franklin, Osage, and Howell Young hunters harvest 13,759 deer during early youth portion of firearms deer season Top harvest counties were Franklin, Osage, and Howell JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Preliminary data from the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) shows that young hunters ages 6 through 15 harvested 13,759 deer during Missouri’s early youth portion of the 2022 deer hunting season, Oct. 29-30. Top counties were Franklin with 330 deer harvested, Osage with 310, and Howell with 260. Youth hunters harvested 15,608 during last year’s early youth portion. View additional harvest numbers for the 2022 early youth portion at https://short.mdc.mo.gov/Z3g. “Saturday’s conditions were fairly comfortable for our young deer hunters,” said MDC’s Cervid Program Supervisor Jason Isabelle. “Although the rain we received in portions of the state on Sunday was much needed given the ongoing drought, it did put a bit of a damper on the latter half of the early youth portion.” Missouri’s archery deer and turkey season continues through Nov. 11 and resumes Nov. 23 through Jan. 15, 2023. The November portion of firearms deer season runs Nov. 12-22 followed by the late youth portion Nov. 25-27. The antlerless portion of firearms deer season runs Dec. 3-11 (in open counties) followed by the alternative methods portion Dec. 24 through Jan. 3, 2023.

You Momma is sooo ugghleee! The world had to fake a virus just to get her to wear a mask 🤣!!!!

You don't know how hard I am trying not to go all biologist over this statement 😉.

Congrats! You have been having some great bass fishing the last few months! Your hard work is paying off!

Gotta love the fall! Great crappie Jeff!

Me: It's not how many times that you fall. It's how many times that you get back up! Cop: Sir that's not how a field sobriety test works!🤣

Good luck Mike. I have a couple days off scheduled. I would like to get my daughter on her first buck. Back in Sep we were seeing a really tall spike and she was just as excited about that deer than a big one. Out here in Maryland you can harvest spikes.

I agree. I am just too picky on how I want the meat cut and wrapped. I like thick steaks and typically cut the backstraps into two roasts per backstrap instead of the typical butterfly steaks. I can get a good sear and then cook to just medium rare, then cut to serve. When I first got to MO, one of my coworkers gave me a loin chop steak where the processor just cut through the bone and both backstraps. It was about 1/2 inch thick and still had the silverskin. Not only was it difficult to not overcook, it was not even that good tasting. I had processed the few deer that I shot in PA before moving to MO and wanted nothing to do with MO processors if this was the quality that I could expect. I do know that there are some good ones out there, but I just did not use any.