BilletHead

Duck fried rice Vietnamese style. Made some rice and chilled it a couple of days. Really wanting to make some fried rice. Took a recipe out of one of my books. Only deviation we did is used some smoked duck. Got ingredients ready and fired up the big wok burner on the back porch and went to work. A tablespoon of goose fat then fried up a couple of eggs. Puled them out and another couple of tablespoons of goose fat again hot. Started working up ginger and bell pepper. Then green onions, garlic, Serrano peppers. Threw in the diced smoked duck for a bit. Next a bit of sugar, fish sauce and rice. Returned the egg to the Wok and then some chopped cilantro. Heated it all up and plated. We also had some fried turkey left from Sunday. Heated this up and added some store bottled sauce, bell peppers, onion and broccoli. Good eats for sure. A bit of a funny though. When Mrs. BilletHead added the fish sauce to the hot ingredients we both got a good strong sniff of it. This was the first time we have ever used this stuff. Both of us simultaneously wrinkled our noses. Said oh my can we eat this? Well it melded and fit right in . BilletHead

Well done young man! BilletHead

You filing down those spurs? Tough old hens but they make good eats with noodles! BilletHead

Nice bird John, We at one time had chickens. Various chickens including mixed banty, hoodans like the one you have, turkins and other crazy breeds. Then we had ducks, turkeys and guinea hens. A few cotournix quail also. The guineas were a hoot. Very wary and the best watch dogs. Every once and a while when we wanted to eat one I would stalk them and take one with the recurve bow. So it looks like lots of fresh eggs but not fresh fried chicken . BilletHead

The BilletHead's like fresh eggs. We don't have chickens anymore but have a few sources in the boonies what we get nice eggs. So I have a question for the OA brain trust foodies. I am wanting to make some basic mayo and then venture into other various sauces. One thing we see is raw eggs in the mix. Says to use organic or you should know the source that you are getting your eggs from. What say you all? Have you ventured into the raw egg realm? Exactly what should I be looking for? Yes I know I have never gotten sick from raw cookie dough yet, BilletHead

Way to go John and Livie, Fish fry at Johnsfolly's place. Everyone is welcome . Big shiners are a pretty neat surprise. We get into some every year on ponds. They like a small fly and will really hit them hard. BilletHead

Glad you got back out Wily, Would of liked to be looking for fish myself but the wind oh my goodness. The distance of our drive plus the wind equals a no go. Would get me pretty frustrated. In your opinion do you think the fish have moved farther upstream? Water temp is looking better, BilletHead

Actually I would like a tame goose, save a shot shell and wrong it's neck. Migrant geese can tend to be thin. Fats where it's at BilletHead

Yes and the more junk food the people feed them the fatter they will get.

Well ran another pair of goose breast halves through the smoker (Spickgans), The first batch I did was great but this time it was greater . One change this time. Knowing I would be doing this again I cleaned some breast halves leaving the skin and fat off the opposite side . This sentence might of left you puzzled? You see I wanted to completely cover the goose breast meat with skin and fat. Picture should answer that statement, The trussed up meat, Started off with cold smoke for three hours plus and then slowly worked up the heat. I had the temp gauge set to 142 degrees. I ran this pretty much all day and the timer went off around seven last Evening, Put them on the back porch to cool and when cooled wrapped them plastic wrap and put in fridge. This morning just had to sample one half . YES! With the fully fat wrapped meat it was moist and very tasty. The one cut is less fat than the other side. Will be freezing that half for a special time. OR anytime we get the urge to have a treat and a treat it is, BilletHead

RPS needs an intervention, He is a totaholic. We like tots too. Have not robbed yet to support the habit , BilletHead

I never knew Ness got so bored he is reading the archives . BilletHead

How about a Rain Bowtie? Har, har har.

Watch out JohnsFolly! It is a trap, don't trust these guys. The only ones you can be safe to share boats to be repaired and secrets are the BilletHead and that Fishinwrench fellow. You see I post my flies to fool these scammers. My posts are leading them in the wrong direction. My ties don't catch fish . Be fair warned buddy, BilletHead

Maybe John ? May have to match the bait the way of the ShuttleCock. Send me a good photo or a link of the bait. Might be a challenge . BilletHead

Thought I would share my version of the ASP streamer. I have been tying this streamer since 2012. Have seen other versions with other materials on other sites. One thing about fly patterns with a little tweaking of materials you can make it your own to suit your needs. The original recipe calls for fox tail and a dubbing blend for the body and a single or two colors of another dubbing blend for the head. In my take we will only use one color of dubbing blend for the body and head, make our own blend and then color up the streamer as we see fit. Materials Gamakatsu B-10 stinger hook size 4 Thread I will be using white 6/0 uni. Lead if you choose to I am using .015 to add a little weight to the streamer. A couple strands of flash. Fox tail and some lite bright for the dubbing mix. Cut a bundle of white fox tail. Hold by the tips and pull out the underfur retaining the underfur, one layer Chuck up hook in vice and lay out the thread front to back. Cut tail length as you see fit for length here it is about two and a half times the hook length. Tie it on the back of the hook. Right in front of the tail wrap the lead towards the hook eye leaving a quarter inch or so behind the hook eye. Cover lead wraps with thread and add a couple strands of flash on each side, Take the retained underfur and add some lite brite and mix well. You may have to rob more underfur to have enough to complete the fly, Make a dubbing loop right in front of the tail. Grab some of your dubbing and work it to align in a bundle and load it into your dubbing loop, repeat until loop is full, Spin it up, brush it out, and wrap it forward stroking the fibers out as you go not trapping the material. Stop back some to allow for the head, Take two more little bundles and tie on top and bottom for the head, Work thread to the front and whip finish, Brush head back and trim some somewhat forming a head shape. Don't get too crazy here you can trim more later if you need to. Better to have plenty of material than to trim too much off. Cannot put it back, Top profile, Now get your imagination on. We will fire tiger this one. This is why I like to tie in white. Less material to buy and felt pens will color white up. Chartreuse up the top half and orange up the bottom half. Some red under the chin. Experiment with different pens on some scrap. I find that sharpees do not exactly color like you think while the copic brand is spot on. Either mark some barring on the side or spray. Here I use the copic spray system and a hair pic for my barring, Glue on some eyes if you want to finish up. Trim more if you want to, go easy, Now go fish it. On a floating line it will run pretty shallow on a fast retrieve, deeper the slower you go. In fast or deep water I use a sink tip. On the sink tip it will ride on the bottom and can snag up like any fly. I have thought of using a small palsa float or small section of a foam cylinder on the tippet to keep it right off the bottom. Here are more I have done in the last couple of days. The larger ones are right at four inches and the small ones just about two inches. Size up hooks and materials on the bigger ones. The larger ones are on a size 2 hook. Adjust materials too. They are angora goat used the same way as the fox. Guard hair for tail and underfur for the dubbing. I have caught bass, crappie, white bass, channel cat, bluegill, green sunfish and walleye on these. From 2004 some walleye that were fooled by this streamer, BilletHead

Yep Lancer I was pleasantly surprised here. Even after a 21 and a 24 degree night everything did good. I thought maybe because the flowers were close to the ground the warm soil made a warm zone next to the ground. That revelation did not fly as even the forsythia blooms six or more feet above ground level made it through OK. BilletHead

The ones we were catching on crank baits were from a foot deep on the banks casting to ten to twelve foot deep trolling. Like I put in post above fire tiger or something with white. Smaller size baits, BilletHead

Grinning from ear to ear starting every morning when I wake up. BilletHead

Kind of sort of like the duck or goose last act of defiance. Missing finding a steel pellet when cleaning the bird only to later find it with a set of teeth. We know of King cake too and it even involved my sister in law. We are the black sheep of Mrs. BilletHead's family. This does not bother us at all. Sister in Law was transplanted to Louisiana so this makes her an expert in things indigenous to that region. One year when we were not so much out of favor with that tribe SIL brought us a King Cake. Being a bit frightful SIL might of been dabbling in some of the Voodoo crafts of the swamp country when she left we dug into the cake to rescue the Baby Jesus. Did not eat any cake but did succeed in the rescue. I think this brought us some good Mojo. So far we have lasted almost forty years and her family is a mess. Let's see the Mrs. has two brothers and three sisters and she is the only one to graduate high school. The only one to have and keep a good job. The only one not being a smoker, alcohol abuser and druggie. See there it pays to rescue the baby Jesus. Praise the lord and good things will be coming to you Ness! True story, Amen says the BilletHead.

Ness the tip of a fillet knife will flip those grubs across the room when cleaning them. You know like a food fight in school with a spoon and peas. That and Chief can keep and eat six of those stream bass daily until the 28th. He may even have a possession limit in the freezer too . Looks tasty Chief, BilletHead

Pictures or it didn't happen . You notice the corn and mashed potatoes may be touching but I assure you they did not get mixed and went in in separate fork loads. BilletHead

Two word Ness! Micro greens. Figure I could have a fresh salad any day now. I could apply my dressing with one drop from an eyedropper. Mixed greens too as there is four varieties. Finall got the covers on one bed so that the dirt will warm up. May get the starts in the ground this week maybe . Right now they are safe in the shop under a grow light, BilletHead

Grilled Venison back strap today. When it hit 140 on the thicker part of the cuts I pulled them off. Worked real well as the thinner parts were on the done side and the thick ends were rare. Perfect! Right before pulling did drizzle on some hot pepper peach sauce and glaze, Had sides of garlic mashed taters, used roasted wild harvested I did up last summer and had frozen up. Sweet corn we put up from summertime too. Another drizzle of the hot pepper peach sauce on the meat, BilletHead

Hey Bill, Thanks for the info as always. Glad to have you in my "Network" but can I trust you ? . May be down your way late this week. Deadstream when Ness invites us up for the Clouser Summit and five course high class tablecloth feed I will bring you your Clouser. Todays Clousers. One is a Clouser ala Fishinwrench with a spinner blade off the tail, Wiggle minnows, some painted and some still needing paint, BilletHead