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While at oldest grandsons baseball game yesterday I snapped a couple pics (now that my awareness and respect for birds is on a higher alert....thanks Garry & Phil) of an Osprey nest. In all 3 pics you can see one in flight.....
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Nice Osprey pics Scott!!! ::tu:: KOOL!!! John :D
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Good osprey photos, Scott. Look like a beautiful day for a gaime.
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Good shots Scott. How far are you from the coast or some other substantial body of water?
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Quick Steel wrote:Good shots Scott. How far are you from the coast or some other substantial body of water?
Well, dang close actually.....probably 5 miles. If you have my address you can google map it.
The location of these birds was close to a mile from the Gulf of Mexico, as I am about 5 miles from the same body of water.
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Caught this little bucket mouth yesterday with the younger grandson!
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NICE LMB there Scott.. That smile says it all!!! ::nod:: KOOL!!! John :D
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man now these boys are sporting..nice Bass 8)
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Very cool bass there Scott. Did a lesson in fish cleaning follow shortly thereafter?
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Colonel26 wrote:Very cool bass there Scott. Did a lesson in fish cleaning follow shortly thereafter?
No sir.....mostly catch and release here, unless I tag a Crappie!!!
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I'm wit chu, Scott ::tu:: Crappie is the only fresh water fish to eat ::tu::
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...bluegill is right up there, too, t. j.,and I have eaten a lot of bigmouth bass, too, they're all good to me!!!.......... ::tu:: .......................
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Scott - I bet that boy remembers that day for a while! I agree with Carrmillus about the bass and bluegills - excellent when fried!
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Dinadan wrote:Scott - I bet that boy remembers that day for a while! I agree with Carrmillus about the bass and bluegills - excellent when fried!
...they're all good!!!.especially if you eat 'em along with JOHN WAYNE hushpuppies(reg. hushpuppies loaded with diced jalapeno's)!!!!.................. ::tu:: ::tu:: ::tu:: .....................
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carrmillus wrote:
Dinadan wrote:Scott - I bet that boy remembers that day for a while! I agree with Carrmillus about the bass and bluegills - excellent when fried!
...they're all good!!!.especially if you eat 'em along with JOHN WAYNE hushpuppies(reg. hushpuppies loaded with diced jalapeno's)!!!!.................. ::tu:: ::tu:: ::tu:: .....................
I am a hushpuppy fan too! But while I can fry fish I have never mastered the art of making hushpuppies. Regarding the fish, if there is any freshwater fish native to my area that is not good when fried, I have never had it. Pickerel and gar I have never tried, but I like every species of sunfish and catfish, even the lowly and despised Bullhead Catfish.
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..........best way to eat GRINNELL is salt and pepper it, bake it on an oak board at 350 degrees for 30 minutes, then throw it away and eat the board!!!!!.............. ::barf:: ::barf:: ::barf::....................
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Well fellers if'fin you ain't never et sauger you don't know what you've missed, best tasting fish I ever ate period. Yore milage may vary
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.......I have a neighbor who fishes for sauger up at pickwick dam. he brought me some a while back, and they were very good!!!........... ::tu:: ............
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Pickwick use to be a hotspot for them although I never had a great deal of luck there. I limited out at Cheatham dam several times though. I always thought the reason they were so good was because they came out of real cold water. We fished for them on the coldest days we could, one time we went through Ashland City and the bank sign said it was 16 deg and it was was spitting snow. The three of us limited out before noon and we culled several smaller ones.
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Some years the woods are too wet to burn after hunting season and by the time they dry out the vegetation is then too green to get a good healthy burn. This year it has worked out pretty good. A late burn is not good as some birds will be nesting.
Burning every two or three years keeps the threat of wildfire at bay and helps the pine timber by eliminating some hard woods that compete for nutrients.
Controlled burns also keep the browse more palatable for the deer. So it's a win win all around.
We try to keep our burns small enough to manage if something goes wrong. We cut fire lanes with a disk and then start the fire burning into the wind away from the fire break. By the time we get the down wind side burning we usually go to the up wind side and let the two fires run together.
Within a couple of weeks there will be fresh green browse showing all over the burn.
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Lookin' east down a fire break, yesterday on right and today's fire on the left.
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Burning next to the grandson's food plot.
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Your burn practices are very well thought out and implemented. Well done.
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Very educational Philip!

Spring Break started yesterday so we went pond jumping...for bucket mouth's!
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Very good Scott.

Tommy, I'm with you. Here aren't a whole lot of fresh water fish I don't like. Catfish is a big deal here as are crappie. But good bluegill has to be right about at the top of the heap.

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Nice pictures and description Philip; the forester is burning off underbrush in one of my two most productive turkey hunting tracts now. Hope things are settled down for the opener on April 8th. Nice fishing pictures Scott, looks like you guys had a productive outing.

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Colonel26 wrote:Very good Scott.

Tommy, I'm with you. Here aren't a whole lot of fresh water fish I don't like. Catfish is a big deal here as are crappie. But good bluegill has to be right about at the top of the heap.

Fried fish, huspuppies, slaw, and fried taters. Law! It don't get much better.
........neighbor just up the street just brought me 3 big packages of filleted, skinned slab crappie!!...I told him I would dance at his next wedding!!!............ ::ds:: ......................
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