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Post by esshup on Apr 27, 2024 6:12:05 GMT -5
No turkey hunt for me today unless it's this afternoon. I'm going bunny hunting this morning. The limit is 100. Bunny shoot at Back Forty Sporting Clays. This weekend and next weekend. Hopefully the rain will hold off.
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Post by esshup on Apr 27, 2024 6:06:06 GMT -5
Like usual, they lied. It was 27°F when I left for Freedom, IN this morning. You stocking that pay lake down there? No, it was a 2 ac private lake that had erosion issues and an overflow pipe that was too small with the emergency overflow set too close to the level of the primary overflow. Enough water washed over the emergency overflow to move boulders that were approximately 3'-4' diameter. I will be stocking the pay lake in Noblesville before Memorial Day with 1,000# of 2#+ Channel Cats. Southard Pay Lake or Southard Gravel Quarry, I don't know exactly what name they go by. Husband and wife run it, well, husband now. The wife passed away last month due to liver cancer. In the 200 mile one way trip, I only saw 2 turkeys out in the fields. Pretty country, it reminded me of Virginia. The route took me along the White River. It was North of Freedom, actually not that far away from Spencer but still a Freedom address.
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Post by esshup on Apr 26, 2024 7:06:20 GMT -5
WTH? Did you use rusty steel shot to kill it?
Nice bird and good going!
Come on up here and show me how to do it. I'd ask Deadeer, but he's had 3 strikes this year already. ROFL.
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Post by esshup on Apr 26, 2024 7:02:00 GMT -5
It's just as much your property to hunt as his. Ran into the same thing hunting MFL lands in Wisconsin. The neighbor thought the MFL lands was his and his alone to hunt. Even stricter than HNF, all stands have to be removed at the end of the hunting day. He put up a ladder stand where my buddy has sat in the woods for 25 years. So my buddy didn't hunt that spot, I set up 200 yds away for the first 3 days of the season and the stand was never used. Warden was called, he removed the stand. I agree, call the office and report it and if it's still there in a week, call the local warden and report it. I am perfectly fine if everybody plays by the same rules, I am NOT fine if they don't. It's public property, not private, and we all own a piece of it. Same with the park hunts. I figure it's first come gets the spot. I will gladly move if someone is there before me, but if I'm there and someone puts up a stand after mine is there, too bad, I'm hunting mine. I put flagging tape on mine so it's visible and lock it to the tree. So, they can't say "I didn't see it." My last park hunt info letter said you now have to put your contact info on every piece of flagging tape you put out there. Could you imagine that? Lol. That's so they can track you down when you don't remove it all after the hunt. I'll do that if I do a park hunt again. I'll use a gel pen. Not my problem if rain washes it off. As you know I yank all that stuff off the trees/branches when I yank the stand at the end of the hunt.
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Post by esshup on Apr 25, 2024 21:28:32 GMT -5
You know how I know those are Bluegills? Those faint black lines in the fillets. I've never seen that in any other fish, and I honestly don't know what causes that.
I should have some pictures next month at this time. A customer wants me to come over and fish his pond. It will be interesting is all I will say. It's a VERY unique fishery. He spent 2 years re-doing the pond, first year cleaning out all the muck and stuff, 2nd year putting in a bunch of rocks and wood.
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Post by esshup on Apr 25, 2024 21:23:55 GMT -5
I just am not a fan of Mossberg, even though I own one of their rifles. I don't think I know of one person that has one of their shotguns that hasn't had a problem at some time or another with theirs, and they aren't high volume shooters.
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Post by esshup on Apr 25, 2024 21:16:34 GMT -5
Dad had it and he could see a green dot much better than a red dot. Squiggly lines or not, if the turkey is between the squiggly diamond, it's a dead bird, right?
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Post by esshup on Apr 25, 2024 21:14:21 GMT -5
With the work schedule, it might be Sunday before I can get out. Maybe some time next week, not sure - it's fish moving season!
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Post by esshup on Apr 25, 2024 21:11:08 GMT -5
My buddy was finally able to connect on a gobbler yesterday. The majority of the day was birdless but, finally around 3pm we were hearing lots of gobbling and we had several encounters. When we were giving up and heading out, he spotted a red head in a tall wheat field. Then another one. These two toms were bedded in the field. Just popping their heads up occasionally. They were in the middle of the field and a good 150 yards from us. He decided he wanted to try and stalk them, which he did successfully. He got within 20 yards, stood up and the toms got up and bolted. Only one made it to safety. Fun to watch! That's cool. Congrats to him!!! Gotta be super stealthy for dang sure. A buddy a few years ago did the same thing, but when he popped up the birds got up and flew. He shoots a lot of clay birds, so he led the bird by about 2 feet and dropped it.
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Post by esshup on Apr 25, 2024 21:09:22 GMT -5
Saying 30deg in morning. Feels more like deer hunting weather than turkeys! Like usual, they lied. It was 27°F when I left for Freedom, IN this morning.
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Post by esshup on Apr 25, 2024 21:06:03 GMT -5
One thing they taught us in firearms training is to never RIDE THE SLIDE shut always let it slam shut. That's why I use a semi-auto.
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Post by esshup on Apr 25, 2024 20:58:21 GMT -5
It's just as much your property to hunt as his. Ran into the same thing hunting MFL lands in Wisconsin. The neighbor thought the MFL lands was his and his alone to hunt. Even stricter than HNF, all stands have to be removed at the end of the hunting day. He put up a ladder stand where my buddy has sat in the woods for 25 years. So my buddy didn't hunt that spot, I set up 200 yds away for the first 3 days of the season and the stand was never used.
Warden was called, he removed the stand.
I agree, call the office and report it and if it's still there in a week, call the local warden and report it. I am perfectly fine if everybody plays by the same rules, I am NOT fine if they don't. It's public property, not private, and we all own a piece of it.
Same with the park hunts. I figure it's first come gets the spot. I will gladly move if someone is there before me, but if I'm there and someone puts up a stand after mine is there, too bad, I'm hunting mine. I put flagging tape on mine so it's visible and lock it to the tree. So, they can't say "I didn't see it."
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New toy
Apr 25, 2024 20:45:31 GMT -5
Post by esshup on Apr 25, 2024 20:45:31 GMT -5
Never had much luck with a sonar finding fish. But good for finding structure. Mine shows fish too. Structure, depths, and I can change the width of the beam angle. I can also use it for ice fishing without having a line in the hole. My neighbor uses his that way and has a tablet to wireless hook to it for a much bigger screen. He can see his ice jig in his and fish coming to the jig.
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New toy
Apr 25, 2024 16:12:27 GMT -5
Post by esshup on Apr 25, 2024 16:12:27 GMT -5
I just got a Vexilar castable sonar. It sends to your phone. It is handy! I have been curious about the depth of some local ponds. I have a Deeper chirp 2+ I have mapping capability with it - make a savable map of the pond. The Chirp 2 does NOT have mapping capability so I had to buy mine from a guy in Japan.
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Post by esshup on Apr 24, 2024 21:12:56 GMT -5
Cold weather drove them off.
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Fire!!!
Apr 24, 2024 21:08:31 GMT -5
Post by esshup on Apr 24, 2024 21:08:31 GMT -5
Good thing they caught it when they did!
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Post by esshup on Apr 24, 2024 21:07:16 GMT -5
I buy this to spray outside. www.keystonepestsolutions.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=426I don't spray around any flowers because it's deadly to bees. But there is a residual if it doesn't rain for keeping skeeters at bay, and it also works on ticks, etc., etc. 2-3 fl. oz. in 60 gallons of water. For the clothes, I buy the 20 oz container at TSC. Search on here, there was a thread a while back on how to use it for clothes. Spray on, let dry, then wear them. I believe the ratio was 1 oz of the permethrin to 19 oz water. The drift of the spray can kill hives 30 feet away. I few landowners have been sued and and some arrested for using it to kill neighbors hives. That's why watching spray drift, wind direction, etc., all come into play when using pesticides. I am leery spraying in above 7 mph winds, and won't spray anytime the wind is over 10 mph. A client's not so nice neighbor who is known to be sue happy that is across the street to the West tried to say that me spraying Glyphosate on the customers driveway caused his garden to die. His garden is approximately 75 feet off of the road with a lawn between the road and the garden, plus the road is 15 feet wide. I have a hand held weather device that tells Humidity, barometric pressure, wind direction, wind speed, wet bulb, etc. I took notes and pictures, knowing how he is. I got a letter saying that I owed him "$" for his garden and lost veggies or I'd hear from his attorney. I replied back basically saying go fly a kite, let me hear from your attorney. So I got a letter from his attorney. I replied to the attorney with all the data that I had from that day: what I used, at what rate, spray nozzle size, spray boom pressure, what dye I used to mark the spray pattern, and data showing that the wind was coming from the neighbors to my customers at 4-6 mph, etc., etc. I included pictures showing the neighbors lush green lawn and the dead garden. I also sent data from the National Weather Service for that location and date. I asked the attorney if he could explain three things to me. 1) How spray drift will go upwind, and 2) Please explain to me how his grass didn't die but the garden did. 3) If the overspray killed his garden, why wasn't the grass and garden blue like the areas that I sprayed? I never heard another word about it.
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Post by esshup on Apr 23, 2024 21:56:28 GMT -5
Male Redears. Looking good!
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Post by esshup on Apr 23, 2024 21:54:59 GMT -5
That's cool. On my trip today I saw a few ponds that had pairs of swans on them.
How much did the fire burn??
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Post by esshup on Apr 23, 2024 21:51:38 GMT -5
I agree, good luck to everyone! I will be delivering fish tomorrow and Friday, Thursday I have a pond consult to do in Freedom, IN.
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