jdmidwest
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New trap this weekend from harbor freight. 20bucks and has a dropdown tailgate to load bait. Folds flat for storage. I nailed my mater eating possum first nite.
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I paint the cats with red spray paint on their butt. It helps let me know if I catch them again, they are a repeat offender and need relocation.
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Looks like a blue racer. But the cobra pose is a lot like a black rat chicken snake. Hard to tell from the pic. If his belly was barred or patterned, I would say black rat. But if it was all the same color as the neck exposed, I would say blue racer or whatever the scientific name is for them.
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Put something around the bait end to keep them from attacking the bait from the outside. Blocks of wood or just back it into the weeds. Then put the bait as far back in one corner as it will go and suspend ir off the ground. That way they will have to spend more time around the trigger pedal. You can wire the can up closer to the top of the cage.
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Otters are running out of fish to eat, so they are eating the snakes.
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Do you leave dog bowl's of food out? No wonder you have all of the critters.
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It is so nice. Drivin around with ac off and windows down. Low humidity is the best. Air quality is great too.
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The amazing thing about this thread, 1500+ views, 5 pages, and nobody has crapped on it yet!.. Put corn in there and you will get more squirrels. Have you tried a sardine yet?
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With all of the help, it still boils down to Fisherman's luck.
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Anyone Fished Lane Spring Recently?
jdmidwest replied to stlskyline's topic in Big/Little Piney River
I have not been there in years. Last time I passed thru, it had changed alot. Interested to hear a report, I too would like to know what it is like there now. -
Royal Coachman Wet
jdmidwest replied to Big Brown Trout's topic in Fly Tying Discussions & Entymology
Anything will catch a trout, I once saw one take a cigarette butt floating by in a hatch. Simple wet flies have been replaced by woolies and others. Streamers have changed alot too. But the old patterns caught fish then and they should do it now too. Maybe more so now as they don't see them all of the time. -
Another cool one tonight. And the humidity was so low, I did not sweat my t-shirt thru like I did Sunday afternoon just watering the garden. Now if I could get rid of those dang mosquitoes. Less than 2" of rain this month and I still have skeeters buzzing me while I water.
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I still have a finder on the Bass Tracker that flashes.
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56 this morning. What a July, about 10 hot days all month. How come they don't fear things when the climate is less than normal in the summer?
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I agree with Wayne, not normal behavior. Maybe a rabid skunk. Most skunks are pretty clean animals and you never know they are around. Pretty fur, makes good fllies. Nice color of black and shiny, like a soft black bear fur. Burn the remains to keep other critters from getting infected with the rabies.
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Good idea, might make a funny movie to watch.
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Skunks don't spray without reason. Something stirred him up. I suggest a sniper run in twilight hours and make a kill. Won't smell any worse from sound of things
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Sounds like you have alot of trash critters running around your place. I have to start running mine again, saw some coon scat by the trash can.
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I have been tying flies for over 30 years now. There have been many great patterns designed. Try looking at Mary Orvis book and see if anything today resembles what it did back in the 1800's. Look at the old Catskill flies and see how simple they were. Turn of the century flies were streamers, dries, wet flies, and full dress salmon. Nymphs did not even come about till later. Who even tyed a saltwater pattern then? New materials spawn new designs, that is the great thing about evolution.
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I like to target old road beds for redear around here in some lakes. I had a customer the other day that was removed from their family farm when the USFS dammed up and created Council Bluff lake. He was impressed that I knew where Enough was. Even more so when I told him I liked to turkey hunt and look for morels on his old family farm. Old topos show the original river channels and the contours when they were actually surveyed by land. But, not as accurate as they are today with satelites and GPS. And they are interesting from a historical aspect too.
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Its a short walk with good paths from the lower campground to the river. If you have a daily tag, you can just fish your way down stream from the lower campground. There is a wire across the river at the split. Plenty of good water between there and Tan Vat access. Usually enough fish that you will not have to venture far and fish alot.
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But they do give you a general idea of where to go. The chartplotter and sounder does the rest in real time. For a free service, it is nice. I have downloaded old topos of lakes before they are formed to find roadbed and to find feilds and timber areas. Another good resource.
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That is a nice site. I found it earlier this spring while researching Reelfoot lake. Nice contour lines.
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But he is not all pink and wrinkly? You are gonna enjoy all of the stink bait he is going to create for the next few years. Congrats.
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F&F raised snakes for a hobby. Much worse than bees. BTW, that is a little pinkie finger swelled up. They say bee stings are good for arthritis, but that is the only finger I have joint pain in. It still bothers me today over a year later.
