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Only 1 thing to do when it gets like this ……. 🎣
No problemo. It's about 7* cooler on the coast, definitely a big difference.

Got 8 crab traps out on the pier, too windy to put da boat in the water again. Waiting on the Laundry Fairy to bring down the charcuterie board for dinner. Currently enjoying a Wild Texas Kolsch Ale.

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No problemo. It's about 7* cooler on the coast, definitely a big difference.

Got 8 crab traps out on the pier, too windy to put da boat in the water again. Waiting on the Laundry Fairy to bring down the charcuterie board for dinner. Currently enjoying a Wild Texas Kolsch Ale.

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You are making it hard to sympathize with you & conditions. Shitz, I’d like to join you.
What kind of crab/fish do you catch?
My gulf fishing experience consists of catching flounder off Crystal beach around Galveston, when I was 14. Been a few years.
Around here, Crappie are my main quarry. Water levels are down, all the cover is high & dry. If the bait fish go shallow, the herons get them. If the bait fish go deep, the bigger fish get them. Most bait fish are history. Throw anything that looks like a minnow, you will catch fish.
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Around here, Crappie are my main quarry. Water levels are down, all the cover is high & dry. If the bait fish go shallow, the herons get them. If the bait fish go deep, the bigger fish get them. Most bait fish are history. Throw anything that looks like a minnow, you will catch fish.
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Pretty healthy looking Crappie. My favorite freshwater fish to eat.

Used to catch them by the hundreds on Grand Lake (Okla) as a kid.
 

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Pretty healthy looking Crappie. My favorite freshwater fish to eat.

Used to catch them by the hundreds on Grand Lake (Okla) as a kid.
I like Grand Lake, but really like Tenkiller Lake for Crappie. That had more to do with Dad was driving, I went where he went.
 

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You are making it hard to sympathize with you & conditions. Shitz, I’d like to join you.
What kind of crab/fish do you catch?
My gulf fishing experience consists of catching flounder off Crystal beach around Galveston, when I was 14. Been a few years.
Around here, Crappie are my main quarry. Water levels are down, all the cover is high & dry. If the bait fish go shallow, the herons get them. If the bait fish go deep, the bigger fish get them. Most bait fish are history. Throw anything that looks like a minnow, you will catch fish. View attachment 107207
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Winds have not been favorable for fishing/boating. My cousin and his friends went out this morning in his boat with not much luck, they came back to get more beer and grub and headed back out.
We primarily fish for reds, trout and flounder, but with saltwater there is numerous fish/sharks to catch.

Blue crabs have been plentiful though.
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Caught well over 50 crabs in 24 hours.

Returned all the females, and numerous smaller ones, even though they met the 5in minimum.

Kept 18 and 3 claws off the rock crabs.

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Located the trespasser I shot off the porch last night.

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Good Job!

Never ending battle! I shoot them, trap them, snare them.....but they just keep making more.

 
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Good Job!

Never ending battle! I shoot them, trap them, snare them.....but they just keep making more.

I plan on building a figure 6 trap, just needs to be 25 degrees cooler outside, lol
 

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Gotta have happy & healthy cows for great tasting steaks!
You do for sure. I get my beef from a ranch near Inman, KS. Lots of wild marijuana in the pastures. Those cows don’t get much happier😁.
 

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The Devil's Lasso: How Barbed Wire Shaped the Frontier
Before 1874, most settlers embraced a practice wherein cattle and sheep roamed freely on the expansive prairies, sharing pastures and water sources with fellow pioneers. These were the days of the "open range," when courageous cowboys undertook arduous journeys to transport cattle to markets in the eastern prairies when nomadic Plains Indian tribes trailed the vast buffalo herds, and when countless adventurous pioneers embarked on the Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails to reach the distant western territories.
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Not much excitement happening at the farm. Tomorrow I'm gonna start on 2 IBC totes and plum them to accept water hoses and then add a stainless steel waterer to the other end of the hose, the kind of waterer for horses and goats. Doing this for the wildlife, I'm sure my dumbass cows will use them as convenience also.


Coming back to the farm today, a trucker took a corner a bit to fast. The truck was loaded, not sure with what though. The driver was fine, but I bet he crapped his pants!! About every 2 months there are wrecks on this road, it has about 5 or 6 ninety degree turns on it. Dummies driving too fast, and it's not a well used road either, maybe 60 cars/trucks, on a busy day, if that.
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