Good topic as I have deer in my back yard right now eating corn out of a bucket. I add alfalfa hay, oats, and sunflowers to the mix, but that's just a band aid and not a solution. I kind of go by the following idea: Give a deer a bucket of corn and they will eat for a day. Plant a bucket of...
Greetings Big C and Welcome!! If you look closely at the pics from my thread "Bragging about Herc" or some such, you can see he has the usual snow balls on his hair. He was absolutely covered in them, but after each walk, I do my best to clear up the ones that affect his movement. Mostly in...
AMEN!!! Drove that road myself and I know how you feel!!! Now you wait on pins and needles for the results of the 6 mo check ups. I HATE that crap!!!!!
Taking the plunge will get you ridicule, harassment, insult, disdain, keyboard beaten, and laughed at. After that, it goes downhill from there. So Welcome to the JUNGLE!!! Armor up, answer the prerequisite 50 questions, and dive right in!!
Not much snow here in Valleyland, but BOY did we get rain. Was shoveling off the slush from the sidewalk when the rain turned to ice. Got pelted by "Horizontal Hail" for about an hour. That crap stung!!!!! Now we have somewhere between 3-6 inches of solid crust snow that doesn't even break...
For me it's the bite before the hook set. That "Electric" tic that sends a jolt of adrenaline through me is what keeps me dreaming about fishing. That moment when you have no idea if the bite came from a 35 inch 16 lb walleye or a bullhead is my drug of choice.
Saw a guy use a line on a home made wheel type thing like a rattle reel where the wheel was about a foot in diameter and painted red on the bottom half of the circle. Only the line went in the water and he put a blocking wall on the windy side of the wheel. When a fish took the bait, the wheel...
Nice House Wrecker you got there!! Should cost ya a bit in repairs and replacements and plow down some cat tails when NOT in the house. (Grin) Good Lookin' Dog!!!
Deck, Roads, Sidewalk, and everything else coated in thin layer of ice this morning. SUCK SANDWICH!!!!!! Have to be careful even going to the shop to keep from ending up on my arse.
Yep!! The links will get caught in the mesh and "Ping" a bit. However, the mesh in my Uncles atv trailer (that skinny diamond shape stuff) hasn't been mangled so to speak. You can tell where the links have gotten stuck and all they've done is dome the mesh right at the catch point. If you're...
I'll pass, given my choice. Thought I found a human body one spring in the Sheyenne while chasing early walleyes below one of the low head dams in Valley City. Saw a white hairless shape being rolled over and over in the back current right below the dam. Got a sinking feeling in my gut when I...
Ha!! I hear ya. Some friends and I were on a late season hunt and we had to pile up some birds and when we got back to the pile there was a hawk sitting on it like he owned the place. He didn't want to give'em up either. We were 5 feet from him before he took off. Ate the heads off two...
Well it's stacking up to be about the worst case scenario for the critters here in VC land. We had 35 degrees and it F'n RAINED here at the house today. We now have a nice hard icy crust on the snow. With a fair to middlin' chance to add a foot or so of snow on TOP of that crust, it's not a...
I've been known to hook a minnow right in front of the tail on a small jighead and lay it on the bottom with just enough tension to suspend one of those small pencil bobbers at a 45 degree angle. When a fish takes it the bobber tips down. Caught many a jumbo doing that, but you need a bottom...