BilletHead

Spys everywhere you look. You can't get away with anything.

It's called expanding your vocabulary and being interested in adding to our knowledge base. Daily I read or find something I know nothing about. I can't hardly stand to not try to understand things so with the world at your fingertip and the world wide web available I look things up. I bypass all of the tinfoil hat and guessers then compare reliable sources. Then my brain gets the knowledge. Problem is my brain is getting full and beginning to overflow. If you don't use it, you lose it and now I have lost some of that stuff. Now to a funny. Pat gets so mad when I can come up with answers for random stuff. How do you know that? Then she doesn't believe me, so I send proof of it to her by text. Then there is when we are driving along and I hear something or out of know where I think of something I want to know like in right now. Since I am driving, I ask her to look it up. I get the stink eye from her but 99% of the time she will get me an answer.

There are hundreds of abandoned barns coons call home in each county. They may not crap where they sleep but they don't go far from the sleeping area to do it. Like in just a few feet. They are nasty critters. Ask @Terrierman. He used to hunt them with Jack Russels in barns and abandoned buildings.

I have a question too. The pairings of the tot rounds, ketchup (that could be siracha ketchup) and beer is intriguing.

I was told at the swap meet that the Chinese grind them up and make chicken nuggets in the shape of a dinosaur and send them back to american people like @fishinwrench because he likes to eat them. 🤪

Leghorn! Epic dude.

Glad to see you back out Les! Get after them friend.

Not stirring the pot this is really funny.

I guess @jdmidwest you could catch one of your neighbors stray dogs or better yet a cat. Leash it up and tie the leash out. Because it is your pet now. When the bear gets into trouble trying to eat it take care of the bear. Get two problems taken care of at the same time.

The Easter Bunny was served for Easter, as in not served dinner but was the main course. We had a friend get in touch with us asking if we would like a meat rabbit. Sure we said. When we picked it up I was like woah it's a big one. I had young fryer in mind. How much oh nothing we butchered some and this was extra. Good folks and we sometimes just do for each other. I had restored a deep hammered Chicago foundry skillet and gave it to her last fall. Easter dinner we thought and we began to get it ready. This could of fed four at least. I'm telling you it was very meaty. Needed to be braised. She had told us that the one this sized they fixed was good but a bit tough. They are new at raising rabbits. We decided to do garlic rabbit but before always subbed three to four old tough squirrels. All browned and onions cooked down a couple bay leaves then into the oven for 2.5 hours. Oh baby this was off the charts in our opinion. VID_20260405_152825066.mp4 This afternoon is going to be the leftovers.

Brisk 3 mile walk with some frost at 43 degrees. At our turn around place Pat foraged. More eating good in the Billethood.

Good karma I guess for today's hunt. We gave blood yesterday. Believe it or not Pat weighed the mushroom bag. Almost two pounds. These were thick and meaty. VID_20260403_134057192.mp4

I would be more inclined to think you would special order of vennia sausage to fit standard bread.😆

This was really tasty. More foraging today with more morels and asparagus. Sourdough toast topped with baked Brie. Then sauteed in butter,morels, shallot, asparagus and a sprinkle of thyme. Spread this on top of the Brie toast.

I think I have shared this before but if not here is a great way to cook breakfast sausage. Pat took two pounds and made patties. I fired up the charcoal grill and added wood, crabapple. She put this in a basket for easy turning. A hot slow smoke cook. Lid on cracked except for turning. Extra patties will be vacuumed sealed for warming up for meals. Some will just hit the fridge for next couple of days. VID_20260401_120042150.mp4

Besides that you can always each time you focus on them remember some Cody stories and laugh out loud. I do when he crosses my mind. 😆

Thank you.

Does alcohol go bad?

Today a caught and foraged meal. Tis the season. Crappie caught, morels and asparagus were foraged. Seasoned flour procurement at Walmart traded for cash. 😆

Do you remember the candy suckers with the worm in them? I do and did eat the mealworm.

Good old mealworm!

Burr grinders are the bomb! We have a Cuisinart burr grinder. The old spinning blade is now a dedicated spice grinder.

Thanks those are two colors not available in this stuff but if I can devise my own compound dubbing brush with floaty material I will try it.

Let's go back a few years. Back when the Ned worm was beginning to get really, really popular. I was still doing a bunch of conventional gear fishing on the lakes mostly Stockton. I loved fishing the Ned. Learning much from OAF about fishing them. As I began more and more transitioning to mostly fly rods for just about everything I wondered about a Ned answer. Fast forward to four years ago. I started experimenting with materials again for this fly. I wanted light and floaty tail and stand up like the Ned jig. I couldn't find anything that fit the bill. I even glued a disc of foam sheeting same size as my chenille or mop material. Nothing working right. I finally found some material and bought it for making a hellgrammite imitation for anything that likes such things and everything likes a hellgrammite. A guy was doing this on another fly-fishing site. When I got this material it was very limp and bendy but best of all it was floaty. Then things got more serious. Working first with the bare bones of hook and bead from my Grinch bug. I was finally onto something. Using the same inverting tungsten bead and then picking out a fly jig hook I started tying and sink testing. Oof it was working. Made a few and showed pictures to Ham and Grizwilson. We are talking our cold winter I hope its behind us now. I had not even had it wet but once during a temporary thaw but water being frigid cold no bites. I could hardly wait until things warmed up. One day Pat and I met @Ham over at Bennett. All of us wanted to harass and catch some rock bass in a certain place there. I gave a couple to Ham. He tied one on as Pat and I fished Grinch bugs. Ham began to put on a clinic on how it worked. He was the first to catch on the Medusa worm. I did try and did catch one but Ham had it dialed in. I was tickled pink about this. Finally things stabilized water wise on water temperature. For those of you who seen our last pond outing the proof is there. This is the result of what I came up with. VID_20260321_171931964.mp4 VID_20260321_171849236.mp4 The Hook and bead I'm using I put some thread under the bead and super glue on the thread to keep the bead tight and close to the hook eye. Remember we want this to stand up straight. With the material being kinda floaty and trapping some air in it. Working perfectly with this combination. I know you all are wanting to know this material. Most of you can get this figured out by looking at it but I would like you all to put your thinking Cap on and find something else that can and will work. For the amount of fish I clicked the official pond trial I used only two worms. One finally got shredded. The other one is still perfect. I finally found time to get a big selection made up because Im going to ride this wave as long as they like it. I want to hit the big pressured lakes and give it a try. Would also like to try it in some clear water streams that have smallmouth and in numbers worth trying. I don't have any really close.