Outdoorsman Thread

[bestgear]

Tight lines Scott - wish I was joining you.

[Colonel26]

Other than the mowing and various chores, not much else going on, except the honey flow! All this rain has kept things blooming strong. Here's my good hive. I had to add another deep super. I'm 5'10" and it over my eyes now. The girls are working hard.

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[treefarmer]

Colonel,
Don't see many hives with that many supers.
Y'all must not have any bears in the area. We don't have a problem around here but just a few miles south and east the bee keepers have a terrible time keeping the hives protected. Same thing with deer feeders, the bears totally destroy them in some places.
Our bee keeper didn't place any hives on our farm this year. Going to miss the rent, usually a case of tupelo honey.
Treefarmer

[TripleF]

Very cool Wade!

No luck fishing but we found a couple painted rocks as we walked Starkey Park ....

[tjmurphy]

Sure looks like a fun time, Scott.

[Colonel26]

Thanks guys.

Today I pulled the tater onions. Year before last all mine drowned out. I was very upset since I'd gotten all mine several years ago from an uncle of mine. Bad thing was his all drowned out the same year. But last year I had a few that survived and came back volunteer. I pulled them last June and last November I planted all 18 of them.

I got 98! I'll save most of these to plant this fall.

Potato (tater, multiplying) onions grow under ground and form clusters of onions. You plant a mix of big ones and small ones. The little bitty ones make two to three large onions and the large ones make several littl ones. Once you have them, you'll always have onions as long as they don't drown lol. They are the most delicious onions you've ever had.

[Dinadan]

Scott - looks like a fun outing even if the fish did not bite.

Colonel - I eat honey almost every morning but I have never tried bee keeping. It sure looks like an interesting hobby. One of my Great Uncles was an amateur naturalist and when I was a kid he had a bee hive in his study that was kind of like a window AC unit. The side facing into the room was glass so he (and me) could watch the bees doing what they do and the other side was open to the garden so the bees could fly free.

Regarding the onions, I hate it when plants that I got from a special place or person die out. I still have some plants in my garden that descended from plants I got from my mother fifteen to twenty years ago, and one of my sisters and I still sometimes exchange plants when one of us has something that the other likes. Nice that your Uncle's onions survived!

[bighomer]

I too love honey but have never had a hive, got some friends and neighbors that keep them, so I have a supply chain, my Dr.even has bees. I have several different plants that belonged to my mom, I have rose bushes that belonged to my grandmother and morning primrose that belong to my aunt that I've had for over forty years. My mom had those onions when I was a yonker she never dug them up or replanted, every spring we'd have green onions, I think they finally died out after I was grown.

[Colonel26]

Valerie fried up some squash and a couple of those tater onions yesterday. Mighty fine eating.

Today after eating a watermelon the three crumbcrunchers went playing in the creek, them and a couple of our English Shepherd dogs. Here's the three drowned rats in all their muddy glory.

[TripleF]

Good stufff Wade!!!

[Brumbydownunder]

Scott love seeing the pics of you and the young fellas
We only have two grand kids and both a bit too young (just coming up 2) to do too much out doors just yet.

Colonel26 first time I heard about 'potato' onions was on a local radio station just the other day .... got to get me some.

Had a visit from these two yesterday ... Wedge-tailed Eagles can have a wing span up to 8 or 9 feet. Very majestic!
The white rocks in the back ground are my 200 yard marker (From the veranda)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedge-tailed_eagle

[TripleF]

Thanks Brumby!!

Took 9 boys and another adult to MirroLures fishing lure facility in Largo, FL yesterday.
The boys loved .....so did I.

Taking them fishing in a moment to catch the world record!!!

[Black Lion]

Always wanted to attend one of those lure demos but never got around to it. Caught my first northern on a Mirrolure Bassmaster back in the 50's. Bought it at Sears and Roebuck after two weeks of pop bottle scavenging. I might still have that thing in one of my tackle boxes somewhere.

[treefarmer]

Scott, that looks like y'all had great time!
I've got a bunch of L&S Mirro-lures in my dad's old wooden tackle box. He loved to fish for speckled perch (crappies) in the late winter with a tiny little jointed Mirro-lure. That was way back in the old days on Lake Jessup in Seminole County, Florida, 1955+/-. We'd rent an old cypress boat at Black Hammock Fish Camp, put his little outboard motor on it and motor up the canal to the lake. Pop would let me run the motor and being a kid I would want to goose the throttle every now and then while we were trolling on the lake. To begin with we were going very slow and speeding up just a little and backing off would quite often result in a fish hitting the little green and white Mirro-lure!
Just some thoughts from days gone by.
Treefarmer

[TripleF]

Thanks for sharing fellas.....love stories from the old days!

Heading out to make a fish fry from today's catch!!

[royal0014]

Awesome, Scott !!


I've not been fishing since the first of April . . .

[Quick Steel]

A great event for the kids and great photos.

[jlw257]

Took off from work to take 3 of our Grandkids fishing , had tons of fun and a caught lots of bream

[TripleF]

Good stufff Larry

[Quick Steel]

Good to see this kind of activity with the young'uns.

[TripleF]

Good to see this kind of activity with the young'uns.

[#goldpan]

I went fishing this morning with my granddaughter and caught one small rainbow trout.

I cleaned it using the knife that Mike (XXCASEXX) gave me. A nice little Kissing Crane sod buster. Man that's a sharp knife! Made very short work of cleaning my fish! Thanks again Mike!

See didn't fish but took the pictures for instead! All in all it was a good morning!

[TripleF]

Knice Randy!!!

Got to have the fish fry for lunch today!!

[jerryd6818]

I didn't want y'all to get a headache from standing on your head.

[#goldpan]

Dang Scott! That looks good Glad I have a trout dressed for dinner Looks like a good time for everyone at your fish fry!