Johnsfolly

Great hunting BH and friends! Looks like some fine meals coming up. I really like duck, but my better half needs convincing. Enjoy the fruits (birds) of your labor.

BH I'll look into scoutlook. Thanks. Good luck to everyone going out for archery this year! Let's see some posts, whether you are successful or not.

Nice bucks. Do you have any photos of them in hard antler? Does anyone know of a good wind direction APP? Might try to use my phone for more than posting on this site and the occassional phone call.

Definitely looks like it has a real attitude. Great photos! Congrats again!

Trythisonemv Great report on an awesome trip!. Do you think your success was do to the new creek section or something else, like a fall bite? Congrats again on the great trip and also on your PB McCloud!

Chief and MoPanfisher Still trying to get the recipe from my wife. She mentioned about giving me the recipe and then said she would have to kill me. If I survive, I will post what I can.

No cans were opened for tonight's dinner. Thawed a bunch of frozen crappie. Cut the fillets into bite sized pieces and dredged them in a flour/cornstarch mix with Chinese five spice and powdered ginger. I fried the fish in a little olive oil and then removed the fish. My daughter peeled and cleaned a 1/2 pound of gulf shrimp and I put the shrimp shells into 2 cups of vegetable stock and cooked until the stock picked up the shrimp flavor. I took the shrimp and hit them with five spice and powdered ginger and cooked them for only a 3-4 minutes at medium high heat. Put the shrimp on a plate. I poured the stock through a mesh to remove any shrimp shell and brought the total volume up to 2.5 cups and whisked in 2 TBSP of corn starch. In the stock pot I added 1 TBSP of oil and chopped garlic and fresh ginger and onion. Cooked the onion until translucent, then added the stock/starch mixture and brought to a boil. Cooked a couple of minutes then I set it aside. Back in the main skillet I added onion slices, broccoli florets and peeled sliced stems, celery slices, snow peas, chopped garlic, chopped ginger, sliced oyster mushrooms (bought at an Asian market), and red/orange sweet peppers. The cooking was staggered so that no vegetables were under or overcooked. I added the shrimp back to the skillet and the white sauce. Cooked until the sauce thickened. I added the fish last to keep it relatively crispy when we served the dish. Served it over white rice.

Not sure how the Mrs likes being the retriever. Does a good job though. Congrats on your teal!

That's a great rainbow! Its big and its got amazing character and coloration. That would make a great reproduction mount for the wall. I'm amazed that they were able to land it in that little net. Compared to the size of the fish, the net looked like a goldfish net.

BH Tell Pat congrats on her bird! Glad to hear that you guys got some teal. Hopefully you posted on how you prepped them for dinner. Good luck on tomorrow's hunt.

JohnP Congrats on the teal. Great sunrise photo. Hope you get some more through the season.

My wife found a similar recipe for a stuffed cabbage soup that she made Thurs. night. It was just like your lasagna recipe. All the items in a traditional stuffed cabbage just cooked in a single pot without having to pre-cook the cabbage and roll them. As you said tasted just like our normal stuffed cabbages, but in much less time.

That's the look I give my son when he tells me he can't get the grass cut.

I appreciate the offer. Thanks.

On the Roubidoux, the best fishing is right at the water treatment discharge when they are running water. Must dump a bunch of midge in the water plus anything else in the water. Any trout in the creek around their just start getting really active. I've caught them there, but I don't know if I would keep any from below that outlet.

I felt it in Columbia. I was sitting and felt like I was dizzy with the seat moving slightly. Stood up and it stopped. We didn't have a lot of rattling of anything in our house. Until my wife said there was an earthquake, I just thought I was dizzy.

My wife kept it simple with just cinnamon, brown sugar, and butter into the hole where she cored them. Baked them until the skin split. Pretty tasty. We have a recipe we picked up in Ireland that is a pork and apple stew. Looking at the 25+lbs of apples in our kitchen, that will be a meal that we will make. Probably make a fair number of crumbles or pies. Also a bunch of good eating apples.

Tonight was homemade lasagna. Wife made the sauce and she and my daughter assembled the dish. Hard for me to not over eat. Dessert will be roasted empire apples that we picked this weekend.

I threw javelin in high school and they were Dick Held javelins. That always made us teen age boys laugh.

Well I'm glad to hear that you weren't getting excited for your nuts to drop. Seems like that should have happened some time ago .

BH Was up at a pick your own apple orchard this weekend and came across this tree on their property. If I hadn't seen you posts, never would have known what kind of tree I was seeing. Maybe this will help with the ID Of course I was going to make some comment about you not having nut envy, but decided to stay adult on this post. This was the only chestnut that I saw.

Don't know too many ball players, Dick Trickle raced stock cars. Always soundef like a bad condition to me. I remember Jim Shockey"s (hunting show host) dad saying that before he would go out hunting taking a 1/2 of a Viagra because he didnt want to pee into his boots.

Haris122 I'm assuming that you are using a spinning reel. Do you ever back reel? I do that a lot with larger fish. I feel that I can put more continuous pressure on the fish and have more control that way than letting them run against the drag alone. I set my drag pretty similar to what you have done. I do agree about trying to get a better hookset.

What is worse is when you know that you are going to fall and can't do anything to stop it. One trip down at Bennett's, I was fishing upstream from the whistle bridge and had a fly fisherman cross my line just as he was back casting. Just about ripped my rod out of my hand. However, it did knock one of my small tackle boxes containing many microjigs and flies into the water and down stream it went in a hurry. Not wanting to lose $50+ worth of tackle I started after it. I was running over the large boulders lining the bank on the downstream side of the bridge and lost my balance. I still took three or four more steps to regain my balance and realized that no matter what I did that I was falling into a pile of boulders. I just tucked my head down and braced for a painful landing. My shoulder and side took the brunt of the fall. I hit my head on one of the rocks and only the band of the hat hit and probably saved me from a serious concussion. It took me a coupke of seconds to mentally assess my condition before I tried to get up. Many of the folks that came to me were surprised that I was able to stand and actually walk away without too much problem. Someone had caught my tackle box downstream and returned it to me. I dont even recall if it was a man or woman. Called my wife and told her that I would rest a while to see how I felt before making the 2 hour drive home. I also let her know that I would call again if at anytime I didn't think that I could make it home. I didn't have to make that call. Now I refer to that hat as my lucky hat. Most folks think that is because of the fish I catch when wearing it, but it is for when it protected me from sustaining any serious damage from that fall. In many of the pictures that I post I am wearing my lucky hat. Maybe it does help me catch fish as well. So that was my accident. Looking back I could have yelled louder to the folks downstream to try to catch my tackle box, which may have prevented the accident. I guess that is why they are called accidents.

GJ Have you looked at this year's deer and turkey hunting guide? You might want to check what weapons you can use on that piece of property. Some of the CA land down this way now can only be hunted with archery equipment and like Thomas Hill you cannot use an antlerless permit only your any deer tag. With the antler point restriction removed on the CWD counties, you might consider taking a young buck instead of a doe. They tend to move a lot and can be one of the ways that CWD is spreading across these counties. Good luck this season.