Originally posted by ewest:
ML :
BTW how is the Kid's pond (little Theo,ewest... and the rest) doing? 
EWEST,
Back somewhere in this thread of Dunn�s bashing and snake oil peddlers selling HBG, you asked about the Kid�s pond. I�m most happy to report the Kid�s pond is going great. We have purchased some outdoor furniture, planted the BOBAD and Theo Catalpa seeds, and have done everything we can think of to make it a great place for young �ems to learn the art of perch jerking. The HBG are growing at an amazing rate, especially for winter cold water conditions.
I�m completely confident now that the kid�s pond(s) will be a total success�success measured by smiles per hour. Inspired in part by Norm, I�m thinking of expanding the concept to another small pond and inviting in neighboring families with kids who also would like to perch jerk and have some fun. I grew up in total poverty in the Ozarks and one of the most fun things we could afford to do was go to my grandfather�s pond for some perch jerking. I have since had the great fortune to experience the exotic fishing that this world has to offer including 200 pound Tarpon, one of the largest speckled trout ever taken from the Texas coast, a magnificent 38 inch Alaskan steelhead, and numerous adventures and lifelong friendships. Within the next month, I will return from the Bahamas to write an article for a national magazine on the bonefishing on Crooked Island.
I hope I never forget my roots as a perch jerker. I�m proud to have started as one and will try my best to show the joys of catching them to my grandkid�s and the kid�s in neighboring areas around the ranch.
It turns out that now I know that the little fish we were catching at my grandfather�s pond were what this Forum calls greenies�a trash fish now peddled by snake oil fish trucks.
Not all fish trucks are snake oil peddlers and one man�s trash may well be another�s treasure.
My kid's pond is stocked with HBG from a fish truck. I�m not sure what that makes me in this Forum�s eyes, but it�s the eyes of the Kids I care about. If you are ever in my neighborhood, come see us and fish my new high performance ponds�but first you will have to prove that you can perch jerk. Thanks.
p.s. Calais, take it from me, if I were you I would not answer Ric�s question on where you are located.
