Is the little boat to keep @JestersHK in line ? Just let him float around by himself behind Riley's. As long as he has a rod in his hands, he would probably like being out there.
In Columbia we would have them breed in our rain barrels. As they got older we would also see one or more on our sliding glass doors catching moths and insects attracted to the kitchen lights. Nice to see them out here in MD as well.
@Fish24/7 you have had a haul on tomatoes. Looks like a farmer's market sale.
Our tomatoes went to the squirrels. They would grab the larger ones and eat them on the bird feeder ! Then we lost the plants during one of our trips to MO and everything dried out. Our cherry tomatoes are bouncing back and may get a few more from them. We do have some small acorn squash coming along and still have the hot peppers.
He caught that striped sucker in Duck Creek CA which is northeast of Mingo. I'm sure that they are in Mingo as well. Saw and lost lots of gar there. Looked like long nose mostly. State record spotted gar was caught in St Francis River back 2019.
SIO3 is correct that there was hardly any ice thick enough most years to ice fish in central MO. We thought that we would have more opportunity here in MD, but have yet not seen enough ice here either. We may have to do 4 hour runs up into PA just to find thick ice .
Great ice fishing trips for sure! Haven't seen too many folks pulling up toad largemouths through the ice. Livie likes to ice fish but didn't often have enough ice to fish. We had a couple of trips fishing the urban trout through the ice in Columbia.
@FishnDave Found this old post - Nice slab bluegill and toad of a largemouth! Hard to put down the spin tackle and throwing similar baits, but these make me want to dust of the long rod.
These are now my wife's goto breakfast. Easier that regular pancakes or crepes since you just make one. can be topped with just about anything, fruits, eggs and cheese, etc., and be good
we've eaten chicken feet. The flavor is fine. It's the texture that keeps me from eating them again. Oh and I see where our chickens walk. Don't think that you could ever get them clean enough to eat π.