bigugli

Leave it to the intellectually challenged

Well done fellas.

As ChrisK was saying, tmost of your pond plants are perennial, except for the floaters. Water lettuce and hyacinth need to be purchased each spring. Only need 2/3 of each. They spread like wildfire. A hanful of cabomba or parrot feather strands as well. Pond should have an insulated bubbler. I have seen much larger ponds freeze from top to bottom with the loss of some very expensive large Koi.

Have to admit I've always been partial to the Black Fury.

Aluminum any day. Less weight and less maintenance, especially if it an older boat.

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Ain't it the truth

Hoping to make it there.

Took me a minute to clean off the screen

Love that dog, Holdie. Of course, I love most rambunctious little dogs.

Well done guys. No white stripe and some healthy fish iced. Looks like a good day to me.

Need higher deflection wall.

It is not considered safe, nor legal. Likelihood of being caught, next to nil unless something goes wrong. Just as illegal as pumping gas in a bleach bottle.

Sharp pair of scissors, snip off the head, snip the belly, strip the entrails, rinse and bag. I've found that the fastest way to clean the tasty little buggers.

 

We get an assembly line. One person snips the head, one slits the belly, one scrapes and one washes and bags.

 

This is the first I've ever heard of anyone catching them with hook-and-line though! We net them in the spring and that pretty much satisfies the craving for a year.

After doing the shoulder to shoulder thing It is a lot nicer jigging for them. No bumping, jostling or fists. No CROWD. It's a real hoot getting them to the bucket before they can wriggle off the hook.

Should of got a pic of me walking up the hill.My hut,auger and rods went for a ride into the drink.The little open soft spot.The sled stayed with me.All good and laughing about it.

D'OH!

Why cook, of course.

Heavy rain and blowing wind makes for horrible fishing let alone anything else outdoors. Sitting in front of the VDT all day is just wrong. So I spent most of the day in the kitchen Time for some old fashioned goodness.

Now my family does consist of picky eaters. That means I have to modify recipes to suit the peanut gallery. They want to smother everything in ketchup

part 1, bread. They don't like molasses so we substitute and make honey oatmeal bread.

For dinner I wanted a treat. The tree huggers can have their soy(lent) and greens Tonight we were having quail. Slow cooked and stuffed with fresh fruit to sweeten and tenderize the little darlings to mouth watering perfection . Mmmm Mmm!

The sweet gravy was a perfect topping for the baked turnip.

Try not to drool too much on your keyboards folks.

Looks like a very successful weekend

bahhhh!!! netting smelts is a blast but the aftermath is horrible, hungover cleaning a 1000little bugger for an afternoon is not fun at alllll im just gonna go out get a couple scoops and head home for a meal. if anyone wants to net them contact me this spring they run for about 3 weeks mid april and die out at the beginning of may up here in the sault. just need waders, smelt net, buckets and a light. yippppie!

I remember the spring runs along the Huron shore and the St Mary's. Every available Holsteiner from Sudbury to the Sault would be on crowd control along the shoreline. Used to be some narsty brawls over who got what stretch of shoreline.

Back as a boy. TV was for winter time. Too much going on outside in the summer with fishing, swimming. exploring, building forts, catching tadpoles, torturing frogs, etc......

A time when girls played house and boys played........WAR.

And when was the last time our government was honest with the public. Just means another shuffle to create more pencil pushers.

Sorry to hear the Mrs health isn't doing well with our climate. You will simply have to join the flock of snowbirds (I know, easier said than done!)

I would find all that air traffic annoying for about 2 weeks, then it becomes background noise.

I was waiting for you to post some pictures of that day.

There wasn't much action to take pics of The fish were kinda camera shy

Got to admit smelting is like being a kid in a candy store.

The netting season runs late March to May, not sure of the exact dates.

I hear you Steve. Today was just a teaser, but while I was there the holes were getting wider and wider and the ice softer and softer. Besides i need a few days to get the kitchen ready

love the happy camper.