Thread: Is it over?

Originally Posted by TommyTwoRods

I’ve got a camp where you’re talkin about oldfisherman. I launch at McIntosh and hunt Hal’s Lake. Just a little bit of land out this past weekend but hopefully the river will continue to fall for the last weekend

In my youth, I thought Hal's Lake was the annex to paradise. I caught many a fine stringer of bass and bream there and in South Lake. The smell of that river bottom mud can bring back a lot of happy memories for me. My dad was one of the founding members of the club.

Originally Posted by Haywire

In my youth, I thought Hal's Lake was the annex to paradise. I caught many a fine stringer of bass and bream there and in South Lake. The smell of that river bottom mud can bring back a lot of happy memories for me. My dad was one of the founding members of the club.

One of favorite my places in the entire world... well other than the pier. Next time I run in to ya, we’ll have to swap swamp stories.

Well, it looks like this recent 'springlike' warm spell is coming to a screeching halt.
Monday and Tuesday (Mardi Gras Day) into Wednesday morning are going to be chilly!
https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClic...2#.XHfg2YhKjcs

Monday

A 20 percent chance of showers. Mostly sunny, with a high near 58. Breezy, with a north wind 15 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.

Monday Night

A 30 percent chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 40.

Tuesday

A 20 percent chance of showers. Mostly sunny, with a high near 54.

Tuesday Night

Mostly clear, with a low around 35.

Wednesday

Sunny, with a high near 54.

Originally Posted by chillinfish

At 3 litters a year with 6 or 7 piglets making it to adulthood it doesn't take long. Our property on the Tombigbee in Nanafalia was swarming with hogs. They headed for the high ground and most survived. Even the hibernating Timber rattlers made their way to a tree or log jam to ride out the flood. Our deer pretty much abandoned the river bottom green fields which turned to brown fields when the water receded.

I'll throw my hat in the ring if you ever decide that you have too many hogs. I've got some pretty good sausage recipes and i'm willing to share...

It's over for me, sad to say

Originally Posted by fordguy

I'll throw my hat in the ring if you ever decide that you have too many hogs. I've got some pretty good sausage recipes and i'm willing to share...

Sadly I haven't had access to that piece of property in several years. It sold to a company who is using it for the timber and their employees and guests hunt it. Most of the hogs we killed went to waste since no one in the area would process them and we didn't have the facilities to keep the meat very long. We finally made contact with a family that lived nearby who would take as many as we could shoot. One afternoon in late January of 08' or 09' we stacked up about 2 dozen anywhere from 40 to 150 lbs by the big red oak in the old dude's yard. They get really wise really quick. Once we started stalking them for a couple of weekends they would go nocturnal and hole up in the swamps during the day. Through changing laptops and what not I lost the picture I had of a big boar that got up in a feed trough one summer despite having the razor sharp guard all the way around it. The game cam lit up his eyes like some sort of demon and he was cut to shreds and bleeding from climbing in the trough. Needless to say I wouldn't want to run up on him without a 50bmg or flamethrower.

ROFLOL

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Punxsutawney Phil Arrested For Fraud

(Punxsutawney, PA) Western Pennsylvania was in shock today, in addition to being snowbound, after news leaked that Punxsutawney Phil has been arrested for fraud. This follows a lengthy investigation during which it emerged that he deliberately predicted an early summer despite knowing winter was far from over in order to manipulate betting markets. He did not act alone, but in concert with criminal elements out of Ohio who placed huge long-odds wagers on an early summer prediction.
To his credit, local residents say Phil had resisted such pressures for years, carrying out his predictions in a faithful manner despite the promise of huge payoffs if he were to fix the result. Sadly it appears he finally gave in to temptation and deliberately predicted an early summer when he knew almost for a fact that bitterly cold temperatures would still be arriving well into April and beyond.

Those close to him say they were not so surprised to hear he would be indicted as he had been on the decline for some time. Rumors of meth addiction, so often the downfall of those who feel trapped in rural areas, abounded – and there was also a string of dysfunctional relationships with questionable types who appeared to be more attracted to Phil the celebrity instead of the friend they knew.
He also felt under immense pressure due to the rise of a new generation of meteorologically-gifted rodents such as Staten Island Chuck, and was utterly despondent to hear about the growing popularity of Balzac Billy (a.k.a. the Prairie Prognosticator) in Alberta, Canada, who is not even a groundhog, but a man in a costume.
He is expected to be formally arraigned tomorrow once it’s warmed up a bit.

LOL!

I have a recipe for pit roasted Groundhog.