BilletHead

Yes and no. the gut hatch makes some big fish. Kinda funny watching a mob of fish chasing a carcass down the spring branch tearing it to shreds. All those salmon dying each year in the Alaska streams is what makes that a great ecosystem. It is critical component for it. I bet its nasty up there too.

That will blow them up. I used to use one. A Remington auto. It was recalled due to stove piping the case. You could literally head shoot one and destroy the front legs.

Nice! I like vice time. Need to get back with the program. Thanks Alex.

OK, ok blame it on me I can take it. You do speaketh the truth. I think my cast iron travels might be a push because I am saving the planet by salvage making the cookware useable for the masses. Now do your part by throwing those two smokers away when being brought in for repair. I know, I know you can tune them up to be non-smokers but there is still nasty stuff going into our atmosphere. I know, I know for each one you repair will keep a new one that has been made a non-sell and save a bunch of plastic and what toxins that was produced while being produced down. I jest you as you jest me buddy! 😁 Guys and gals this is an interesting discussion. Thanks for keeping it civil and we are able to learn things before it gets nasty and the thread gets stopped. Any way you look at this we are depleting our natural resources here on earth. We have a finite amount we are provided. When it is gone it is gone period. Earth will fizzle out someday like it or not. How long that takes is not up to us or is it? Ideas can be good, or ideas can be bad. History has shown us that. Earth has had hot peroids before changing the workd and man was not here to mess that up. What caused that? Ice ages with great glaciers encroaching from the north and probably from the South Pole too never read about that. Man was here but did he create that change? I don't think so. I'm along for the ride getting older now I will end up compost. Hope it helps and not making things worse from the chemicals we now ingest. Keep the ideas coming you all. Great discussion right here I say again.

Looks really nice.

Prayers from here to Oneshot. Cancer sucks!

Kind of mean, aren't you? I would think a squirrel hit anywhere would damage it enough It's going to die unless by a shotgun smaller shotgun pellet in a muscle area. I don't think a hit with a .22 is going to survive and make it back.

I bet it's against the law to fart in your neighborhood.😁

I have never tried this Dutch but have used pepper dust in bird feeders. No effect on the birds but did the job on squirrel, racoons and opossums. I do the lead poisoned deal with the pellet rifle now. Where I cannot watch the garden closely, I have an electric fence. Low wire for the short creatures and one above that for the deer. worked perfect. If I was closer, I would watch and take-home dinner. How To Make & Use Hot Pepper Spray - Stop Pest Damage Naturally! (thisismygarden.com)

Yep, you have it but it's always open if they get in your backyard in the burbs and damage something or attack you, Pete. 😀

Thanks for sharing your story. Makes one think what is lurking in the nocturnal darkness. I used to get the epee jeebeies walking in the dark turkey or deer hunting. Not so much anymore but that feeling may be coming back. There are giant river otters in the amazon. Up to six foot long and seventy-five pounds. UGH!

Would have been better if it was bled. 🤪

Look closely I am thinking it is in Montana?

It's a real thing Glen. Have you ever filleted a fish especially a big one that has been bled Out? Much cleaner and not bloody at all. I even bleed my white bass now. Hybrids for sure. Try it.

As do I but not to the part of mass extermination. There is room for everything just need to keep things in balance.

So Peta throwing red paint on people wearing fur had nothing to do with it? Peta trespassing and going into fur farms damaging things and turning loose all the animals had nothing to do with it? There were many things that had to do with the downward spiral of fur prices. Is PETA Ending 'I'd Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur'? | PETA With fur out of fashion, PETA sets its sights on wool, leather and down | CNN How PETA has changed the fashion industry over the last 40 years – and what's next (harpersbazaar.com) What Impact Has Activism Had on the Fur Industry? - Scientific American I could go on and on. Peta is dangerous and next Ronnie it will be your fly-tying material

Dang, I thought about passing this one around to folks on here but maybe not!

Ordered the DVD

Sort of Mitch, At first when season was opened otters were high dollar for trappers and there was actually a limit. Then no limit as the price went down. Now they are really not worth Diddley Squat. Most now are bought by taxidermists for mounting and resale. Feds still require getting Otter tagged when you get one. I think there are landowners with ponds and lakes who will pay trappers to trap them, Beavers and muskrats for damage control. Cattle farmers especially out west pay a bounty to trappers and hunters to work on the bigger Western coyote. Crazy. Man was given dominion over animals for food, clothing etc. Bunny huggers and anti-hunting, fishing anti-fur and others are the reason fur has no value. I am not about the wiping out of any native fish, fowl or mammal. We just need a balance like intended. Just my opinion take it with a grain of salt.

Sounds like a fan of no more Mr. Nice guy song.

Any gill cut or rip out when fish is alive will do it. Bigger fish like hybrids cut at base of gills and cut into heart area on fish at bottom gill intersection ant blood will squirt out.

Yep, seen that last week. Pitiful.

My son and grandson have tickets to see Alice Cooper in Springfield. I actually would like to see him but not too close. Supposed to pe pretty interactive. Quite the show I read.

I suppose I am too. They are very inquisitive. I had three young one's swim right up to me on a pond and just look at me. Heads way up above water. We had a stare down for several minutes. Finally, they turned around and went back top fishing. Catching small green sunfish or bluegill. I was not close enough to id the fish but close enough to hear them crunching the fish. ten yards or so. They did the stare down at five yards.