BilletHead

Quite the fishing trip Curt. Thanks for firing everyone up! Pat and I need to visit that area sometime. Does the wind blow all summer up there?

Way to go Dan! Thanks for sharing your Christmas Present with all of us.

Just Pat and I 😁 Ten bluegill twenty pieces. There are four pieces left. Note we only eat two meals a day generally.

Bluegill, baked tater and salad. Living good in the Billethood.

I used to be that way Anthony like in yuko. Then I grew some in the garden and started eating them raw right off the plant. Tried canned again, still not right. Fresh or frozen I have learned to like! I do like you thought on the substitution.

What have we here? VID_20250601_123530260.mp4 VID_20250601_154641468.mp4 Garlic squirrel, lots of garlic and black pepper. @ness notice that the peas are like peas should be not creamed. Nice long braise in the pellet grill. No sense heating up the house. Fall off the bone tender.

Most of it is but there are varieties that can now be planted and grown through the summer. A certain type of Romaine is one of them.

Zoom in on the no quibble guarantee. If you are not satisfied with the product, you can get your money back. If you cannot read English you can read it in Spanish.

Is this soil made in the USA or imported from another country?

Dinosaur shaped so called chicken nuggets come to mind. 😃

this way you know the origins of your veggies! If you go to the Piggly wigglys you will have all kinds of stuff sprayed on it. If you get it from the Amish, you never know if they emptied their chamber pot into the garden or not. I also know for a fact some buy from commercial growers and resell to you. Tell Sugar Britches I am really proud of her! Two things. First it is good for the soul and body to garden second is her new deal aggravates you so much!😁

Then you can get a really good picture of a bloody mess of a once lovely GAME BIRD. I like owls and any bird of prey. There is a period of time where I'm not really happy with the owl though. Right now, we have rabbits in the yard. They are not scared of us and just stand there as we walk by. I mean like three feet away. They are raising little ones in the yard here and there. We get to see them also. By the time late summer begins the owls have raised a nest of owlets and have been teaching them to hunt. With the short grass in the yard the rabbits are easy pickings. Nothing left for me come October first. These cottontails don't leave because I find piles of fur where they meet their demise. Bobcats get their share also I have video of that.

Thanks for the link, Jeff, I had no idea what BFS even meant. 😁 Really truthfully. So my 79 year old uncle that comes down twice a year has this stuff when I take him to the ponds. He just told me it was ultralight fishing for bass, and it did get popular in Japan. His dexterity is shot, and he takes several minutes to tie on anything to use fingers at his age suck. First cast he makes a mess and ends up using the spinning gear based on that way of fishing which turns into the same mess. No telling how much he has invested because he buys the best. We might fish close to an hour and then he hurts and complains about that. We will all get that way and forever think about what we used to do. Heck I'm getting that way in some ways.

Lots of wilted lettuce being consumed here also. Neighbors come pick also. Gooseberries have been picked and more coming on. Jam has been made with those. Tomatoes and peppers look great with nature watering like it should be. Same with the flower garden. Simply amazing.

Pat asked yesterday. What do you want to do tomorrow? I said let's fishing 😄. That we did. Again at our favorite place to fly fish. With all the rain lately this place is full and it has not been that way for three years. Today the target was bluegill. It took three places of trial and error to find them. But find them we did. Annoying crappie and stinkin green bass keep getting in the way. Not a bad problem though. We kept 40 bluegill, 15 crappie and three bass. Bluegill should be getting ready to start nesting. Out of the 40 39 were bulls. One female. It was a hoot with non-stop action. Less than three hours and we were done. I used one fly the crawfish colored Grinch bug. It was pretty shredded at the end. Pat used a chartreuse bead head bugger. But instead of hackle I make that part with Angora goat. Also she used a crawfish colored craw I make with pine squirrel. I've done a step by step on here. Fish were in two to three feet of water over flooded grass and weeds. After the cast you had to strip fast to stay above the weeds and grasses. So lots of good eats here 😉. Two towels full. One is just bluegill and the other still had bluegill fillets with the bass and crappie, Best birthday ever for me today.

Que music, The plot thickens.

Oh definitely you get better prices when you put up fur like you did. When I sold it to Keller for an example he had to pay his workers to do what you did. I really liked Bud. You know my friend and bee keeping buddy is actually catching swarms in traps on Buds old farm by Weaubleau. We trade catches and I have two swarms in my yard in hives from the Keller place.

I never got into stretching and drying my catches. Just sold them to the traveling fur buyer or too them to Collins. My alum salt was used only to do a tan on squirrel when I was younger just for fun. I sent in well over a hundred tails to mepps a couple years ago. I may be getting closer to that amount salted up for selling after season ends in February. Some pictures of some squirrel hides. The last little piece of alum/salt tanned, VID_20250528_175656187.mp4 The rest are just fleshed and stretched and dried. Think rawhide with the hair on. I have already scraped bags of fox squirrel and grey squirrel backs. Also belly fur from both. The hides will last forever if kept from critters and dry. You are right I could probably pawn off some but I don't want a job. Also if I remember right the first fox squirrel nymphs did not use the slf or antron mixes. The fox squirrel belly was mixed with the back fur.😄

Chicks dig scars. I have heard that.

I will get you some pictures of what I have done with some hides. I can tell you I have just one half of a big fox squirrel that I couldn't use up at my tying pace for the rest of my life. Some were done with salt a alum and some stretched and dried. Fleshing is the worst part. Time consuming and a pain in the rear. I will post some pictures when I get home. This reminds me I owe @Ham some fox squirrel.

Yes we do 😁. VID_20250527_122353111.mp4

Saturday squirrel season started. I did not start then too much other stuff to do. However yesterday and today myself and the Air rifle got with the program. There will be a Dutch oven of squirrel aurora getting happy this afternoon.

There are 18 now in the small fly box. Six natural hairs mask with some tan antron mixed in with the pink head, six with same mix with a nickel head. Six more will nickel head with a mix of purple pine squirrel and purple antron. All on a Fulling Mill jig hook size 18. Might be a spell before we can try them because of the high water. Note mine are more like the Mad Rabbit fly having a rib and brushed out with more of a halo effect.

The last few days rain event has ramped down up here. 2.75 inches is our total in the BilletHead's yard. I'm not going to complain one way or another. Our ground needed it coming off of a three-year summer drought. too many places did get too much too fast. It will be interesting how the corps of engineers deal with it.

She thanks you.