Pictures of Miscellaneous Stuff & Things

[royal0014]

they make a neat looking knife handle when stabilized with resin and sliced up

Caleb, are you referring to the wood, or the 'balls' ?
I would love to see some examples !!

[junebug]

SOME STABILIZED PINE CONE IS COOL LOOKIN.......
https://images.search.yahoo.com/search/ ... =yfp-t-901

[junebug]

MAGNOLIA POD
https://images.search.yahoo.com/search/ ... =yfp-t-901

[ken98k]

I have seen this old photo several times in my life. It popped up in one of those "Amazing Photos" links that appear at the bottom of our computer screens while browsing.
Fish was caught at Catalina Island, California, on September 3rd, 1903.
I haven't researched it to see if this record still stands....
I find it interesting that the fisherman was credited with landing the fish alone.
I wonder if such fish still swim our oceans.
Charlie Noyes

Here's some bait for big fish.

[jerryd6818]

It's #10 at the bottom of the page. http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/10-more- ... 1531869656

[carrmillus]

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[QTCut5]

A little Hawaiian tradition of rock stacking (cairns)...not the best examples I have seen, but happened to have the camera at the time.
I really wonder what made that perfectly round hole through the top rock and for what purpose.
~Q~

[FRJ]

I would say it was drilled at some point in time. The walls of the hole appear to be smooth.

[koldgold]

As a diamond driller when I was much younger, I would say that is part of a 20’ lone hole.
After drilling a number of 20' long holes in a rock or granite wall; the holes have a small explosive placed at the bottom of the holes – and then the holes are filled with diesel fuel.
When the charge and fuel ignite, the wall cracks and the wall is then transformed to rubble.
That hole looks like some of that rubble. Ken

[FRJ]

The Enterprise Manufacturing Co. produced an astounding number of fishing reels in it's time not to mention thousands of other assorted fishing items.
Here are two of their better quality reels, the Pflueger Templar.
Also a very unusually small Pflueger Capital.
Thanks for looking.

[carrmillus]

....love the old pflueger's!!....I have 7, but all of mine are freshwater reels...I have 2 supreme's, 2 akron's, and 3 summit's............I still use them!!!.......... ...........................

[Dinadan]

As a diamond driller when I was much younger, I would say that is part of a 20’ lone hole.
After drilling a number of 20' long holes in a rock or granite wall; the holes have a small explosive placed at the bottom of the holes – and then the holes are filled with diesel fuel.
When the charge and fuel ignite, the wall cracks and the wall is then transformed to rubble.
That hole looks like some of that rubble. Ken

I agree. I have seen many rocks with holes like that while looking for geological specimens along road cuts. The wires behind the cairn indicate that some utility work was done in the area. Maybe it involved some blasting. By the way, Ken, now that I know you were a driller, does your user name refer to kobold?

The Enterprise Manufacturing Co. produced an astounding number of fishing reels in it's time not to mention thousands of other assorted fishing items.
Here are two of their better quality reels, the Pflueger Templar.
Also a very unusually small Pflueger Capital.
Thanks for looking.

Very fine looking reels, Joe. I remember as a boy my dad and I partly disassembling reels so we could clean and oil them after a fishing trip. That was fifty years ago. Now days I just use a cheap Zebco and wash the salt off of it. Great photos!

[FRJ]

Now days I just use a cheap Zebco and wash the salt off of it. Great photos![/quote]

Thanks, Mel. At least you washed the salt off of it. If others had taken the 7 minutes to do that we would have a lot more great old fishing reels to enjoy.

Thanks Tommy, I thought you would like them. You've got some good old classic reels there.
It's really neat they're still being used.

[carrmillus]

.......I get some weird looks at the lake when I pull out my pflueger steel rod with a summit(spooled with the old braided line) on it and start fishing with a heddon basser!!!!............... ............I guess they're thinking, "look at that old geezer"!!!!...........

[FRJ]

Fish with pride, Tommy.
Apparently there are a lot of guys fishing with vintage gear these days.

[RobesonsRme.com]

The world record Bluegill was caught just outside Birmingham in Ketona Lake on a cane pole with black braided line, by a man fishing from the bank. I've seen that fish. It used to hang in a local hardware store. Unbelievable fish.

The world record largemouth bass, a record virtually unequaled for over eighty years, was caught around Waycross, Georgia, on a wooden lure made by the Creek Chub Bait Co. on a level wind casting reel.

Keep plugging with that steel rod, Tommy.

Charlie

[carrmillus]

.........Charlie, I've still got the crumpled, dogeared articles from field and stream about both of those catches!!..saved them all these years. I also have a copy of the book "remembering George perry" by bill babb. several years ago, a photo of the fish finally turned up and was published in "bassmaster" magazine......makes my 11 1/2 pounder look like a sample!!!.......back in the mid-eighties, we were driving to parris island s.c., for my youngest son's graduation from boot camp, and I was , as usual, staying off the main roads, and we stopped somewhere in ga. and I asked the guy in the store if he knew if we were close to Montgomery lake, and he told me we were 20 miles from there, so I drove down there and found the marker on the highway, but the turn-off road looked so bad, I didn't try it. went back to the store and the old guy said the lake was about dry, the river over the years had changed course, and the lake wasn't near as large.........wish I could have seen it!!!........ .............

[carrmillus]

.....btw, Charlie, I've also got a creek chub "wiggle-fish" like the one perry used!!...got it at a flea market 35 years ago, pretty beat up and the box was in tatters, but it's the same color as the one perry caught the world record on!!!.one of my treasures!!!!............... ............

[RobesonsRme.com]

I wonder whatever happened to George Perry's Wiggle Fish?

I now wonder if you might not have it......

I'm trying to remember a story I heard years ago re' his death. He became a pilot and was ferrying a small plane to somewhere and crashed onto a golf course or something.

Seems like there was a strange twist to the event, something weird. I just cannot remember what it was.

I wish you could have seen that Bluegill. It was truly one amazing fish. Must have been three inches thick.

Charlie

[carrmillus]

I wonder whatever happened to George Perry's Wiggle Fish?

I now wonder if you might not have it......

I'm trying to remember a story I heard years ago re' his death. He became a pilot and was ferrying a small plane to somewhere and crashed onto a golf course or something.

Seems like there was a strange twist to the event, something weird. I just cannot remember what it was.

I wish you could have seen that Bluegill. It was truly one amazing fish. Must have been three inches thick.

Charlie

.......Charlie, PM me your mailing address and i'll send you a copy of the article, it has a great picture of the fish!!!.......... .............

[RobesonsRme.com]

The "weird" part of George Perry's death was that he crashed right here in Birmingham.

I've seen the photograph of the fish. Impressive.

Charlie

[Mumbleypeg]

While out and about on the ranch the past few weeks I took a few pictures, sharing some here. Spring and early summer is a beautiful time to be outdoors! Hope you enjoy.

Ken

[Dinadan]

Nice photos, Ken! I agree that spring and early summer are beautiful times. Here along the Gulf Coast it is getting really hot now. I guess, or perhaps I should say, hope, that tropical storm Bill is not dumping too much on you right now.

[Mumbleypeg]

Thanks Mel. Hasn't been above low 90s here yet, but humid. Only about 80 today and Bill has dumped about 4 inches of rain on us so far. Wind blowing 27 mph with gust to 40 so it's raining sideways


Ken

[FRJ]

Great pictures, Ken. It looks like you live in a beautiful area.
Is that your horse?