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Post by firstwd on Mar 20, 2023 17:30:54 GMT -5
I am having some issues with my trailer lights that I could use some help figuring out.
I have tail lights, but not brake lights or turn signals. Now, this is on the camper, dump trailer, utility trailer, and enclosed trailer. The only one I didn't check was the boat trailer.
Also, the brake lights and turn signals work just fine on the truck.
I had misaligned hooking up the dump trailer a while back and hit my plug, so I assumed I had damaged it. After a plug and play replacement plug has been installed, I still have the same issue.
Any clue?
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Post by firstwd on Mar 19, 2023 15:47:08 GMT -5
True. Then again, to legally run a camera on public ground here, you are supposed to have the property manager's permission. So, technically, they are banned here unless you get an exemption. That's not correct for Indiana. Trail/game cameras can be placed on properties managed by the Division of Fish & Wildlife, as well as on state forests, and state recreation areas as long as the camera is legibly marked with the owner's name, address, phone number or customer identification number issued by DNR. Placement of the camera must not damage a tree. Okay, thak you. I didn't realize that was changed last year.
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Post by firstwd on Mar 19, 2023 13:49:31 GMT -5
What gets me is they seem to be pushing the privacy issue more than the fair chase. Like was said earlier, if you want to stay private don’t go out in public. There’s nothing illegal about taking pictures of public places with people out and about. True. Then again, to legally run a camera on public ground here, you are supposed to have the property manager's permission. So, technically, they are banned here unless you get an exemption.
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Post by firstwd on Mar 19, 2023 7:03:01 GMT -5
This ^^^^^ I live 100 plus miles from where I Hunt. When hunting I stay roughly 10 miles from where I usually hunt. Not sure really relivent where you live or how far away? The question remains the same? Do cellular cameras give a unfair advantage to hunter during hunting season? IMO , in many cases yes. Knowing exact location of a animal in real time creates a "Fair chase" and ethics debate. I agree not all hunter's use this information to pursue or harvest the animal, but many do. If this topic wasn't about animals so connected to the all mighty dollar (big game) would real-time knowledge be such an issue. Take rabbits as an example. Does real-time knowledge give hunters an unfair advantage? Because if it does, then beagles give the hunters way more than just real-time knowledge of location. Under the idea of "unfair advantage" dogs and the vast majority of all modern hunting tools should be banned. How many deer die each year just because of tree stands? Now we have portable blinds, solid wall heated blinds, free standing gun rests, extremely high speed bows, food plots and mineral stations, scopes that range and calculate windage.... the list goes on and on.
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Post by firstwd on Mar 15, 2023 20:45:16 GMT -5
You know, John Anderson had a song that seems to fit very well. 🤔
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Post by firstwd on Mar 10, 2023 10:15:40 GMT -5
I remember watching a Tree Lounge show/advertisement video that was shot there.
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Post by firstwd on Feb 22, 2023 8:21:40 GMT -5
Open the map, zoom into Brown County,the yellow parcels are public. If you click on them it tells you what property it is. Not sure about any other areas around the state. Hey now, no reduction zones here in brown county. One would have to know what tree is in and which ones are out. With it only being the sections of the property within the 1/2 mile line, an extremely accurate GPS unit would be necessary to stay legal
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Post by firstwd on Feb 21, 2023 21:55:42 GMT -5
Open the map, zoom into Brown County,the yellow parcels are public. If you click on them it tells you what property it is. Not sure about any other areas around the state.
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Post by firstwd on Feb 20, 2023 13:22:42 GMT -5
Had a group of Tom's gobble their way through camp and into the bean field just after daylight this morning
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Post by firstwd on Feb 16, 2023 18:43:43 GMT -5
Nice. A now retired ICO for the area was checking fisherman one night and came upon a couple of gentlemen that may had killed more beers than caught fish. When he stepped out of the brush to talk to them, one of the gentlemen was startled enough to fall out of his chair and was screaming "the Crosley Monster is gonna get us"! Bill spent the rest of his career as the Crosley Monster.
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Post by firstwd on Feb 16, 2023 8:53:05 GMT -5
Watching a Youtube video on Indiana monsters, and it says you guys have ghoul snakes, Loch Ness Monsters, giant man eating snapping turtles named Oscar, gators behind every stump, pig heart eating black panthers, and pukwudgies. What the heck are you people doing out there anyway!? Don’t forget the Crosley monster Hey now, be nice. The Crosley Monster retired several years ago.
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Post by firstwd on Feb 15, 2023 14:28:07 GMT -5
Same thing is happening in Montana. Bozeman and Missoula are killing the state. College towns...imagine that. Only reason I go to San Diego now is to get on a boat and chase tuna and yellowtail. OK, time for a U turn. What boats do you go out on? I lived in Oceanside for 10 years and went out about once a month during Tuna and Wahoo season. I've been on Spirit of Adventure (10 day), Qualifier Excel, pretty much every long range boat that was out of Fishermans Landing in the early to mid 1990's on 3-5-7 day trips. Was on the Red Rooster out of Oceanside down by Guadalupe Island too, that was a bear getting back - a storm blew in and it took us 22 hours just to get from offshore of TJ to the Oceanside harbor. I still have all the gear, I keep saying I'll drive back there and go out again one of these years. I went on a number of 2 day trips that Western Outdoors sponsored too. Giant metro areas and the control the have over state politics is a great example as to why we were not created as a democracy and why Senators were originally chosen by the States and not the public voters.
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Post by firstwd on Feb 10, 2023 20:24:33 GMT -5
I have a D9 H.E. instructor meeting Sunday. I'm going to mess with my favorite Martians a little and test their identification skills. 🤪 I'll see Larry next month and ask the other questions. Ask how many times they have wrote a ticket for over limit sunfish……guessing probably none. Probably not real common, but when bluegill had a limit of 25 I remember a couple guys getting caught with over 100 between them.
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Post by firstwd on Feb 8, 2023 20:40:54 GMT -5
I am guessing that the reason for that is that Redear Sunfish only spawn once a year, typically around the full moon in June. Bluegill will spawn every month that the water temps are above 72°F, again right around the full moon. As to questions 1, 2, and 3, maybe those are questions that can be directed to Morrison in "Ask the Conservation Officer" thread. I have a D9 H.E. instructor meeting Sunday. I'm going to mess with my favorite Martians a little and test their identification skills. 🤪 I'll see Larry next month and ask the other questions.
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Post by firstwd on Feb 7, 2023 21:10:55 GMT -5
Now I have questions.
Indiana lists Bluegill and Redear Sunfish in the regulations. Bluegill do not have a limit and Redear has a limit of 25.
1. Does that mean all the rest of the sunfishes identified in this video do not have a limit?
2. Can our ICOs identify all the sunfishes to not write a ticket?
3. Is there a field guide to show the CO or the Judge if necessary?
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Post by firstwd on Jan 30, 2023 11:13:19 GMT -5
A cousin of the walleye. They are smaller but just as tasty Then there is a Saugeye, which is a female Walleye crossed with a male Sauger. Come on now, just because it's Kentucky you can't extend the mating cousins joke to the fish too. 🤪
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Post by firstwd on Jan 22, 2023 14:53:03 GMT -5
Did you get the correct bill? That one is about a climate solutions task force. Sec. 6. The task force shall study the following: Increasing nature preserve designations for state forests, state parks, or areas within state forests or state parks to prevent timber extraction. I would assume if they designate portions of state forests nature preserves no hunting would be allowed. Can the hunters in the state sue these people for stealing the land we helped pay for and excluding us from using it? I mean they have already caused the near extinction of the grouse in Indiana
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Post by firstwd on Jan 22, 2023 14:46:43 GMT -5
Being the inclusive guy that I am, several years ago I took my Girl Scout troop up it before we came home from a weekend of flat water canoeing and camping on the lake.
There was some apprehension, but all the girls made it to the top.
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Post by firstwd on Jan 20, 2023 14:21:19 GMT -5
Okay, someone needs to explain this because I'm just not understanding the why.
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Post by firstwd on Jan 20, 2023 9:06:57 GMT -5
Ours went up a couple days ago.
March 18th, 8a to 6p, at Tri-County Conservation Club in Batesville
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