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Post by esshup on Apr 27, 2024 16:29:00 GMT -5
That's a good possibility. I said that because to me that's a lot of blue sky in the picture.
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Post by esshup on Apr 27, 2024 16:27:43 GMT -5
You guys that like seeing geese on the ponds, here's some thoughts for you.
1) They will poop invasive species (underwater weed) seeds. That gets expensive when you have to use Sonar A.S. to treat them so you can treat them at the correct dosage without killing any native plants.
2) If you have a filamentous algae problem, the geese make it much worse. Each goose every day will poop enough nutrients to grow 115 pounds of filamentous algae. ONE DAY, ONE GOOSE.
With that said, we will be stocking Tilapia in ponds in the next 4 weeks to control filamentous algae. LMK if you want to do that as they sell out fast. Stocking rate is 40# per surface acre, right around $20/lb plus or minus depending on how many you need
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Post by esshup on Apr 27, 2024 16:22:03 GMT -5
Looks like Hendricks is sponsoring Force now. Getting tired or NASCAR or just branching out?
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Post by esshup on Apr 27, 2024 16:19:01 GMT -5
5:20 now. get ready!!!
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Post by esshup on Apr 27, 2024 12:50:03 GMT -5
You may have it pointed too high and the jakes walked under the sweet spot where it senses to take a picture.
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Post by esshup on Apr 27, 2024 12:46:22 GMT -5
Got in the truck to go, and it wouldnt go! Tracked it down to a blown fuel pump fuse. Headed out now. 🙄 Aww jeez. If it ain't one thing!1 I wonder what caused it to pop?
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Post by esshup on Apr 27, 2024 12:45:09 GMT -5
Had a gobbler come into our lane about 150yd away. I gave a couple Yelps, and he froze for a few minutes. He finally moved and I stopped him again, but he wouldnt commit. It gave Luke time to get situated and perked him up. That was 45min ago, and nothing else since. Not a single gobble so far. Blind is filled with skeeters, and the wind is building now. Starke county Ya wannt borrow a Thermacell for the blind? I have a few.
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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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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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