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How many got turned into bacon?


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Originally Posted By: highflyer
How many got turned into bacon?


None. We have been kind of busy and it has been a while since I have had the opportunity.

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Just need a corral! Get them used to coming in for feed and have a remote gate closer and pen them up.

It is easy for us guys that don't have problems with them to give advice! laugh


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I’ve been setting out at nite shooting them in our 5ac food plot...... 3 so far but hasn’t deterred them from rooting up the fresh planted seed..... ugh

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We had the electrofishing survey done over the weekend.

Will be interesting to see the data.


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Dialing them up......



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Pretty neat!

Nice looking LMB and RES.

Are you happy with the fish you saw?


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Originally Posted By: Tbar
Dialing them up.....


That's always an interesting and informative day.


Fishing has never been about the fish....

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Another big sow down. 200 yards placed right behind the ear. DRT. Doesn't get much better than that. Regret I did not get a video of it. I am still impressed with this 18” IWT 6.8SPC and IR Hunter Mark III 60mm.









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Best laid plans last week.......

A friend and I were going to do some load development work for one of my rifles at the shooting range below the spillway but it was underwater. The weather was bitterly cold too. So that was a bust.

Shooting range under water. Pond releasing lots of water.


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Nice hog! Keep up the good work.

That's a lot of water. Are you getting a good flushing?


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Originally Posted By: highflyer
Nice hog! Keep up the good work.

That's a lot of water. Are you getting a good flushing?


Yes, we have had over 5" the last couple of weeks.

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Lance nice hog! It's crazy the rain we are getting....when I got to my place on Sunday the top of my fixed dock was missing. WTH? We could not find it. We assumed it might have came loose and sunk. After more searching we found the Trex dock walkway floating in shallow water at the other end of the pond. It was obvious that sometime last week the pond water came over my fixed dock. Partly my fault because I told the dock builder I wanted the dock as close to the water surface as possible and didn't care if it got submerged ever few years. I guess once the dock was submerged it popped the attachments holding it to the braces which he now admits were "not heavy duty" attachments. We'll try to re-attach this coming Saturday. Supposed to be sunny and 61, but will be cold in that water...lol

Dock when first built:


Dock support braces missing walkway:


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Oh no Mark......I hope you can get it reattached.

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Oh no Mark......I hope you can get it reattached.


He says he can do it....but that thing once we get it back over there is going to be heavy as hell out in the cold water. He says he has a "trick" that will do it. We'll see.


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That trick ought to be interesting


It's not about the fish. It's about the pond. Take care of the pond and the fish will be fine. PB subscriber since before it was in color.

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Mark, take pictures of the trick. Heck Video might be better...


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We had the electrofishing survey done over the weekend.

Will be interesting to see the data.


Well, I don’t know where he was during the electro-fishing survey back in the fall........but he sure was AWOL.

7.2#’s which I guess isn’t bad for a farm pond. Still trying to break 8#’s though.


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If he has, or he can rent airbags that can be inflated under the dock and hoist it up to a higher elevation float it over its posts and let the air out of the bags lowering it to the top of the posts to be fastened back down.


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Lance,
Nice looking fish! How long? Did you get the RW and gape for Bill?


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So I set a game camera outside the farm house as a make shift security measure and look at the crew I found casing the
joint. shocked










Actually they were after the acorns under the tree outside our bedroom window. grin

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Best thing I have seen on one of your game cams in a long time!!

Looks very Healthy for sure, and I get to say, Nice Rack!!


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Live and learn. 5 years down the road and erosion has eaten away at the banks under my bridges necessitating they be reworked. Original Build


Bridge one has had rock added under and around it, 10' added to the length and it has been raised 12"....more like 18".

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Bridge two has had rock added under it and around it as well as the center boards replaced. The cattle didn't do me any favors either walking down the sides of the bridge creating channels for rain water to carry away the dirt.

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Bridge three has rail road ties and rock added as well as 10' added to the length.

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I hope these repairs will last a little longer.

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Hard core!!!!!


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I think they will last more than 10 years. Good going!!!


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