BilletHead

Still have you in our thoughts and prayers oneshot. To all the guys on here. Keep up on your yearly wellness visits and get that blood drawn. There is so much that can be caught early before it gets out of hand. My doctor watches close on everything including PSA. She knows my baseline on it and if there is ever a change it will be followed up on.

Thank you, Jeff. You are the man! Fatties you have there.

Thanks Rick, There is always more than just fishing. Nothing wrong with that. Good eats and good drinks are a must in relax mode.

Think what on star can do right now. Probably way more than we know.

Yep. More than one is guilty, Same charges to the armory gal is the word that's out.

Bummer JD sorry dude. Starting Christmas day lost a young friend 45 years old. Within two weeks another friend 59 years old. Both of Colin Cancer. I am hoping for a long dry spell of funerals to attend too.

Should be. If you know nothing about a weapon it should not be in your hands.

David Crosby passed today. Crosby, Stills and Nash and when Young was part of the group is my favorite band. They are a favorite and played a bunch as I work and mees around in my little shop. 81 years old. I actually figured he was older than that. RIP David,

This is scary, so scary I wouldn't even make a joke about it! Dang!

Thanks Kendall.

It's in there

Used it some years ago. Not the best. Try Hank Shaw's stuff either in Duck, duck goose or Buck, Buck goose. Follow recipe as close as you can. For the mushroom powder in it I spin up my dehydrated chanterelles in a coffee grinder.

Thanks Mike, A pretty easy one to tie up. I should do a step by step sometime.

@mic. In post this morning eta Saturday.. You all feel free to trim the head if you want but I would caution you not to until you get the jist of what it looks like wet.

Nice buck and beautiful mount. It's nice to have critters on the walls to keep memories going. Looking forward to getting mine back someday.

Same here Les, I would say if there were in depth studies there is nothing out there that has not been affected by something man has done to our ecosystem. We are now living longer than ever before in history. I say fry another fillet and enjoy. Much better than processed food. Look at that label on those packages and decipher that. I just seen on the news MSG is making a comeback .

It is neat. We have shot some banded right here in our county, Minnesota and Iowa also. There used to be a map deal of banded birds of all types you could see where they were banded and recovered. The recovered areas were in general and not spot on. I have tried to find that map again because it is interesting. I think it was done away with.

Give your input we don't care. We or you might learn something new. Nothing wrong with creative input as long as it isn't in an asinine way.

Limit of three Canada geese two of which were banded up on the East side of Hudson Bay. Three mallard drakes too.

Nope and I think streamer is covered by all so far in this swap noun Angling. an artificial fly having a wing or wings extending beyond the crook of the fishhook. streamer fly noun : any large wet fisherman's fly with long streamer feathers, hair, or other appendages extending out behind the hook and from the head What is a Streamer in Fly Fishing? A Streamer is a fly (lure) used in fly fishing that simulates a bait. Examples of what a streamer imitates: minnows, shad, crayfish and other aquatic bugs. Streamers are typically made with a hook wrapped in natural (feathers and fur) or synthetics materials like polyester and Mylar. Streamer Fishing is the ACT of fly casting and retrieving the streamer fly.

Have a good time, Rick! Yes, to a report and pictures please .

Great report as always Jeff. It was a beautiful day. Cooler up here today than yesterday but wind was zero. I was out but killing birds instead of catch and release.

A report from this morning, Still fighting low water in the ponds and small lakes close to home. Getting a few ducks here and there but not like most years. Our Area is still in the severe drought area. In the high wind Monday Pat and I got five mallards but could see large flights of ducks coming from South of us. Geese out the wazoo and I knew where they were working. We drove by one pond that was covered after our hunt and seen geese dropping on another close pond we couldn't see from the road. I tried the same place we did Monday yesterday. Nothing came in but I seen some good duck flights again but not as many as Monday. I took a walk to the pond we could not see from the road to see this. There were as many around the pond as you can see in the air that had already took flight and left. The ones you see in the air are the geese from pond. I then panned the water and those are ducks. VID_20230116_090034125.mp4 I decided to set up there this morning for the ducks and geese coming back. Well, it was too still with not a breeze. Decoys were lifeless. Only movement was a pulsator duck butt. 18322d42a1bb4e2c49ea7218b0c622e2bced4924.mp4 Mallards were the first to show and some liked what they seen but there were some that did not. Birds were coming from the East and there are two roost places I leave alone both low and way less water than normal. Three mallard drakes were taken in those early hours. chances for hens but they got a free pass today. Then geese began to fly again just like the ducks nothing like the two previous days. the larger flocks I did see had places to go but a single came in and I shot it. A bit later a pair started working and pitched in both were taken. Well done with Canada geese maybe my other duck will show. More geese around I did not even try to call those. I was hiding really well. Had the layout grassed nicely. I finally gave in and picked up the last two geese looking for a band on the first, Bingo! So, fingers crossed there are times when you get one there is another banded bird with it, BINGO again. Two banded birds . We have done this four times in the past. Getting more than one goose band on a hunt. This makes us 15 goose bands to date and only one duck band. Checked the bands in and both were banded on August 2nd when too young to fly. Near Churchill Manitoba, Canada. Some of our previous bands are from there. This place is way up on Hudson Bay. I like it when a plan comes together like it did today.

Love this story Ketchup thank you for sharing this.

Those will catch fish!