BilletHead

Nice Pete!

Hard to follow up the Ness meal! For our daily meal we did dirty rice. Yeah that is all. Meat, veggies and rice in one meal. The dirty part was goose heart gizzard and livers. Big bowl full!

Ummm fruitcake 😂!

Bite your tongue, no rain please. I realize it kept us inside and visiting between the showers though.

Pretty good! Now taking whales will open another can of worms. There are not many countries taking whales anymore. Guess we need something sustainable like a bean or vegetable oil.

Pat says (she's been known to change her mind) we will be bringing venison sauce piquant or venison chipotle meatballs. Meatballs will sauced up well. I have brought the sauce piquant to jig fest before. I know Phil and @Ham liked it down there. I'll try to get some cheese smoked also. Pat said if it's anything like last year nobody is going to starve. 😆

Pressure with percussion as a matter of fact.

That is a fact.

Merry Christmas to my foodie friends, This might tire you but I could eat this weekly if not more. We were blessed once again with some mallards. Time to eat fresh so Christmas meal. The best two drake breasts were seasoned and the skin was crosshatched. Then into the sous vide @130 while we watched the chiefs victory. I started the charcoal as Pat started the sides. Charcoal ready I added some crabapple wood. On went the duck. There is something magical about smoke and fire. A primitive thing. We had the new of the sous vide and that smoke and fire. The transformation to nourishment, Then the neighbor showed up with something sweet she had made, neighbors can be a good thing even though a half mile away. I'm full 😁.

Along the lines of this discussion, I knew it was just a matter of time. 😄

After our body recovery we see things like this in a different way.

Cool! I think they are pretty safe here in the United States as long as they are not close to a coastal natural disaster potential and if we are not in a war. The other plus would be a warm water winter fishing situation.

Great question. This answer is what I want. Harnessing solar and wind is still a good thing. Hydro is pretty clean I guess but depending on precipitation we get. Drought years have a big impact. What does everyone think about nuke plants. Risk vs reward?

I was asked if I would do that, plan is I am. If it rains like it did last year I might need a spot indoors. My antler billets and pressure flakers don't like wet.

Nothing new just going to manage my time for fishing better.

No sir. Many Walmart stores are doing it.

I posted for info for everyone to read. I have no dog in the fight. I'm not sure if it is greener than fossil fuels. I know they need oil and products made from oil so that will still need to be available forever. I do know using wind and solar is a good thing but in the long run does it pay off?

HA! I believe that. Our store is now locking up shaving cream and razor blades.

I do get what you are saying Glen. It is Compassion. Trapping is no different to what you do catching whites on the river or stream setting the hook crossing the fishes' eyes and then sticking a stringer through their jaws (the trap) and dragging them around until you catch a meal or limit. Then you put them on ice to chill or into a bucket of water for the trip to clean them. they soon begin to suffocate jammed in that bucket. we are all guilty in one way or another. The only answer is for you to become a vegan. Let me know how that works for you 😁. Actually, you have one of the biggest hearts of anyone on here.

Thank you, Jeff, and back at you and to all the rest of you on OAF that share trips, stories and cool information. I think I will gift something to myself this year. To balance my too many hobbies better to allow more fishing this season. Merry Christmas to all, Marty and Pat

Yet you let someone else do that to your pork, beef and chicken. Out of site out of mind? Slaughter houses are no different and can be more inhumane. Kill a spider 🕷️. Its a living creature.

I have a good friend who had a video of himself turning loose a bobcat. It ran under his side by side after he turned it loose. Then had to get it out from under that.

Here you go Glen, Same thing with wolf bycatch, https://youtu.be/n6hSSegDPo4 The treed cougar was not intended to be attached.

Turn it loose, yes it can be done.

You can ruin a steak if you don't cook them right.