Pond Boss Forums INTRO Questions & Observations Is 5000 Georgia Giants an acre to many?

Just kidding, have not posted in a while and just wanted to say hello to my friends. It has been almost two years since we sold the farm and I have only a few regrets. Bought a few acres in North Georgia to build a log cabin. Life is good. Grandbaby Ava will be two this weekend and Grandbaby number two is due in October.
Do I miss the pond, you bet I do.
It is nice not worrying about pine beatles and droughts.

Hi, Bill!!

When do I get my boiled peanuts?

and RC Cola and Moon pies?

Bill good to hear from you !! Is a pond near the cabin in the future plans?

Hey Bill, I was wondering about you a couple of days ago. Nice to hear that life is good.

Hard to build a pond on the side of a mountain

"Hard to build a pond on the side of a mountain"

We can make it happen.

Glad to hear from you Bill; love the thread topic!

Yep Bill without that title migh have not opened it, you got me. Good to hear from you. I might have to close down shop though since I have ceased selling you the 3 bags of fertilizer you bought every year, .

I had some bolied peanuts this weekend that were as good as yours. I think you need to come by and see if you can win me over with your batch. They were a big hit with the crowd. Glad to hear all is good, same here.

Bill has it been two years? Oh come on, surely not. Wow. Good to hear from you.

Just a real estate question. Have you figured out that you gave your place away, or not. Sometimes, in hindsight it seems that way. I recall you got a premium.

Congrats on the new place and enjoying life. I haven't posted in a long while, but thought I would. Good to hear from you.

Greg your profits went up without me as a customer. $10.00 profit for three bags vs. $15.00 gas to deliver.
Robinson, From a price standpoint the deal was to good to turn down. Georgia Power bought it and wanted it more than we did. They were good people to deal with. You and Deb still shooting spitballs at each other?

Bill haven't heard from her in years, probably about when you left. I did notice that a young boy had broken the "hogzilla" record with another bogous domestic pig this spring. Took 9 shots with a 50 caliber to bring that bacon down. At least they gave an honest weight of the thing. When I saw a picture of it, I didn't fall for it hook line and sinker, like I did when I read about Hogzilla in Progressive Farmer Magazine.

Kind of funny a fellow I was talking to yesterday told me he stocked his pond with bass and cat. Pretty soon he put hybrids in there. He said the hybrids ruined his pond, and he had all kinds of tiny sunfish in it. Of course, he wasn't much of a pondmeister and I'm sure he didn't take as good of care of it as many on this board would have.

I'm considering getting out of the pond business itself. It has been expensive, in the form of opportunity costs of other places I could have bought and sold for a profit. My place has cost me a fortune. The drought has not helped things, and it is depressing to watch your pond only go down. It was up to two acres and holdng and now is at one acre and dropping 1/4 inch a day. I am suppose to go get some F1 bass this am. If I ever get the pond to working, I think I'll sell lots off around it. All the dollars I've seen out has hardened me and now I want to see some dollars come in.

I think if I sell I'll go buy something on the Tennessee River somewhere in TN or Northern Alabama and forget about ponds.

The other pig was interesting, it was a "canned" hunt and the hog was pen raised and released just the day before. If you look at the pictures posted, there is some photoshoping going on, look at the tree in the background.
http://66.226.75.96/pig/

Some nice detective work at that website, Bill. Anyone who's done a little digital photo manipulation (and we know who we are) should recognize the signatures of that activity shown there.

NOTE: I am not thinking of photo manipulation as might be used to make fish look bigger; I don't believe we have had much if any of that here. I am referring to piranhagills, golden shriners, coonhoundellos, and the like, which ARE commonly found here on the forum.

Let's not forget the venerable Golden Shriner.

So I guess my "giant gambusia from the black pond" wouldn't fly here. Pfffft!

I see that I myself missed the Golden Shriner.

Lest ye forget

Back at you Bill...hello and its great to read how things have worked out for you.

If you ever travel to Texas, please put the East Texas, Lufkin area in your plans. You would be welcome at my place any time...and can fish for TGG's as long as you want.