Went over to my 60 acre tract to check on some eagle seed beans I had sprayed. Not yet the kill I had hoped for but its only been three or four days. Also checked my biggest duck hole and it is holding full water yet - with water still running through. It is usually starting to dry up a little by this time of the summer. No alligators seen - which is a plus.
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Went over to my 60 acre tract to check on some eagle seed beans I had sprayed. Not yet the kill I had hoped for but its only been three or four days. Also checked my biggest duck hole and it is holding full water yet - with water still running through. It is usually starting to dry up a little by this time of the summer. No alligators seen - which is a plus.
There is a quota permit system for them. No one in my family has ever been lucky enough to draw. Some nights while yoyoing,bowfishing or frog gigging - we might see 20 or 30. It is a little disconcerting for a twelve footer to swim slowly through your decoys when duck hunting. A lot more common than I would like to see. We have had them take a fighting bass off line.
A medium sized seven or eight footer.
Merle Hawggard
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The duck hole looks wonderful. I'm glad the gaters are few and far between here.
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We are starting to get a few bears in the vicinity. We have quite a few 70 miles north in the Ouachita Mountains and they are slowly expanding their range south. Will have to do something about my bee hives if they get more numerous down this way. I was fearful the hogs would bother the hives, but other than having a few rub against the hives, they dont pay any attention to them.
j-bird
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Ok - I'm an idiot so I'll ask.....what the hell is Yoyoing?
You tell me it's playing with a yo-yo and I'm gonna slap somebody! never heard the term before when referring to some sort of outdoor activity.
Your smart weed looks like my clover plot! I have a plot that holds some water and last year the smart weed got real bad. I slapped it with some gly and it seemed to help clear it up some.
Man - I must have lucked out....no gators, no bears, no hogs, no wolves......we do have snakes (cottonmouth, copperhead and timber rattlers) but I don;t even have run ins with those.....don't have the real big stuff that will get'ya!
Gator in the decoy spread....something tells me that isn't a confidence builder for the birds!!!!
You tell me it's playing with a yo-yo and I'm gonna slap somebody! never heard the term before when referring to some sort of outdoor activity.Your smart weed looks like my clover plot!
I have a plot that holds some water and last year the smart weed got real bad. I slapped it with some gly and it seemed to help clear it up some.Man - I must have lucked out....no gators, no bears, no hogs, no wolves......we do have snakes (cottonmouth, copperhead and timber rattlers) but I don;t even have run ins with those.....don't have the real big stuff that will get'ya!
Gator in the decoy spread....something tells me that isn't a confidence builder for the birds!!!!
Ok - I'm an idiot so I'll ask.....what the hell is Yoyoing?
Your smart weed looks like my clover plot!
Man - I must have lucked out....no gators, no bears, no hogs, no wolves......we do have snakes (cottonmouth, copperhead and timber rattlers) but I don;t even have run ins with those.....don't have the real big stuff that will get'ya!
Gator in the decoy spread....something tells me that isn't a confidence builder for the birds!!!!
A yoyo is a fishing device us southern folk use. Little bigger in diameter than a silver dollar with a recoil spring to rewind the line. Tie it to a limb, pull some line out with a hook on it - bait the hook, set the trigger, and put the bait in the water and move on to the next limb and set out another. We are allowed 30 yoyo's per person. when a fish bites the bait, it trips the trigger and the spring reels the line in. Fish fights the spring and it eventually tires and spring pulls his head up out of the water. We usually fish for crappie at night during winter or catfish during warmer times. Cant fish them during warm season at my place cause the alligators fish them too and will ruin all your yoyo's. Pretty low impact fishing. Tie the yoyo to the limb with a slip knot so when you pick them up you just pull the tag end of the string and it comes undone. My daughter is a yoyoing fool. She can tie yoyo's better than anyone I have seen. I just sit back and run the motor and she does all the tying, baiting, and fish removal. Just keep running them as long as you want. We build us a fire on the bank and roast weinies, eat some smores, and go back out and run them again. They will bite in the day some but not nearly like they do at night. I dont have a pic of a yoyo - but do have some pictures of the results. Those fish are laying on 6" wide boards.
Merle Hawggard
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J bird,
This is a yo yo when your fishing. You hang them from a tree or whatever you can find. Do you have those and just call them something else?
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This is a yo yo when your fishing. You hang them from a tree or whatever you can find. Do you have those and just call them something else?
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J bird,
This is a yo yo when your fishing. You hang them from a tree or whatever you can find. Do you have those and just call them something else?
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I think yoyoing is a sport reserved for us southern rednecks.
j-bird
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Well I learned something today! I can't say I have ever seen that. I have seen "jugging" before in rivers and large lakes where you use empty milk jugs, 2 little pop bottles or even sections of pool noodles as large bobbers/floats before (mainly for fishing for catfish or turtles). I have even seen "noodling" or "fingering" where you use just your hands to catch turtles and catfish before.....now that is some redneck stuff right there! And even a "trout line". But, nope - never seen yoyoing with an actual purpose built device like that.
Kwood
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Swamp, awesome thread. I'll stick to my Midwest without bears, lions, wolves,cottonmouth, gators, or hogs. Just big deer and turkey.
Love reading about yours though.
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Love reading about yours though.
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Nothing wrong at all with big deer and turkey. We don't have a lot of either - so something has to fill the gap.
Native Hunter
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Great thread. I love the looks of those crappies, but you can keep those gators and hawgs.
98 degree project this afternoon - instead sitting on the tractor - I elected to add some weight to the disk. Added close to four hundred pounds with the half cap blocks, or I can switch out to full 16"x16" and add over 700 lbs, or pull them all out if I want. Gonna see how it does tomorrow.
