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I was able to remove several hundred bg today. Wasn't able to pump the water down completely because bluegill kept plugging up the intake screen on the trash pump. I had the screen in a five gallon bucket to keep out algae and packed deer fence netting around the screen to keep the bluegill out. Unfortunately that didn't work well and when I pulled out the netting it looked like a Christmas tree with bluegills as ornaments. LOL
I missed a lot of fish but gave it my best. The pond started freezing back over before I cranked up the trash pump this morning. My dip net would freeze if kept out of the water more than about 20 seconds.
I have three to four size ranges of bluegills that I will take a pic of. Good example of a rolling spawn. All are robust in shape but different sizes. Obviously spawned at different times even though there were only four females in the pond.
If pigs could fly bacon would be harder to come by and there would be a lot of damaged trees.
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I'm back and it must have been windy here. There was stuff scattered about all over the place. Had to retrieve the garbage can from the neighbors.
I've been trying to get lime delivered to spread, but the pile is still froze, and it's inside a building!!
Maybe next week......
24" of snow on the ground up North and no deer.
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Yeah Scott we definitely got some wind! I took the flag down because I was afraid it was going to rip to shreds! 2 feet of snow and no deer? They're probably yarded up somewhere. It would have been like shooting fenced deer!
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If pigs could fly bacon would be harder to come by and there would be a lot of damaged trees.
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I think I know where they were hiding out, but there was no way I was going to walk there and shoot a deer. I would have camped there and stayed until the whole thing was eaten before dragging it out of there. Hills and valleys, 1700 acre property and no motorized vehicles allowed. Unfortunately I don't know anybody up there with horses either.
How bad was the wind? I didn't get a chance to look in the woods, nor did I look at the barn roof (I forgot). The pond is ice free on half, and the rest of the stuff around here seems to be in it's place. Up north they said 20-30 mph there, but I saw where they were callling for 40 mph here.
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We had at least 50 mph gusts and the wind warning was for up to 60 mph.
If pigs could fly bacon would be harder to come by and there would be a lot of damaged trees.
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Thanks. I'll be out tomorrow morning early looking for any trees or limbs down.
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On the ponds this weekend trying a new approach for night fishing crappies. 12V Green Light, sunk through a hole in the middle of ice house All holes lit up from underneath. We thought maybe it would attract more fish....Nope, it didn't work. But it was a cool look and we did manage to boat 14 of them. Very cool!
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. ~ Henry David Thoreau
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Looks like that hard water is on the way big time here. Freezing rain and snow forecast for us tomorrow and then the bottom drops out of the thermometer on Sunday. Subzero temps forecast for all next week. Wednesday they are saying high of -3 low -13!
Right or wrong, I started the aerator yesterday to blow a hole in the couple inches we already have and will keep it open until after the freezing rain/snow event. Will shut it down before the subzero stuff gets here. Raising the level 6 to 12 inches as well while the water is open. Hopefully, this will leave me with a nice area with no snow cover.
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I am in the east central part of IL and we are in the ice/rain part of the weather system... I was going to drill and measure ice yesterday, but spent the day at the inlaws.. Hopefully after this system we get to making ice so we can enjoy some of the winter activities of the pond...
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