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What an absolute perfect weekend it has been. Left Friday around 1pm. Made it to the mountain road about 4pm and started up. Got to the peak and there were cars and people all over. It was everyone headed to fishing camp. They all arrived around noon and decided to stop and enjoy the weather and the view with some cocktails. We over enjoyed and made it down to the cabin to make dinner. We had marinated smoked venison backstrap and roasts, with homemade handcut French fries we cooked outside in the turkey fryer. Had midnight hamburgers at 1am and made it to bed at 2am. Woke up at 7 and found out a bear had visited camp between 2 and 7. He got into my cooler as I had brought a hash brown potato bake. Bastard ate the whole thing and all the oil in the fryer. Drug another cooler into the spring and another 32qt cooler was 35 yards into the woods. Cleaned up and had breakfast, and was at the stream edge by 7:57am. Waited 3 minutes and casted at 8am. First cast, fish number one for the day. The other 5 I caught throughout the day did not come that easy. Lost more than I caught and only kept my 5. Between 6 of us fishing, we caught 22 stocked trout, and several small brookies, and the trophy of the day was an 11 inch brookie caught by one of the local guys. Less cocktails on Saturday night and got up at 6:15 and to the creek by 6:30 this morning. Between my BIL and I we caught 7 to bring home. Great weekend and can't wait for next year.

I was just in Mifflinburg this weekend fishing. We took the back way from my area and it was mostly rt 220. Pretty country down there.

Rock that thing is wide, Holy hell. Congrats on a beauty.

Anybody going to PA for the trout opener this weekend? I'm headed down to Woodward, PA tomorrow with my BIL for the weekend for our annual trout opener trip. Can't wait to get on the road. Good booze, good food, good fishing, and great company. Should be at least 12 of us down there. Ill take plenty of pics to share.

I ran into a female on the nest last weekend trout fishing. Never even saw her to my left and I was looking in the water to my right. Scared the carp out of me when she honked and I was only 10 feet away. Great pics as always. Especially like the bird in the spruce.

I watched the quad bogey and then turned it. Was doing great up to that point to become only the 4th back to back winner. I feel his pain every time I play, sometimes multiple times a round.

My grilling beer of choice for today. I enjoyed the taste of this and was pleasantly surprised.

Happy Birthday Burt and Wildcats. Enjoy your day.

Awesome Grampy. Love the personalization you put into it. Looks great.

Another good choice from BP. Homemade Stromboli too.

$22.99 per 12pack for Ballast Point around here. What's it cost by you?

Starting my celebration now with a 90 minute IPA. Damn this is good.

We would plays "guns" and run around the woods. Lots of cool plastic toy guns back then. Lived on a dead end and plenty of woods to roam around in. Made BMX tracks out there too. Play in the creeks and swamps. Once it was winter we would play hockey on the frozen swamp. Neighborhood kickball games, manhunt, football with my brothers.Good times gone but memories for a lifetime.

Wife actually grilled chicken and made mashed and stuffing. Had to warm it up but didn't have to cook two nights in a row.

Chinese tonight. Haven't had it in a few weeks and it was good.

OMG I love carrot cake and haven't had any in a long time. I would love to try that ale for sure. And a doughnut one too? How the hell do you not have diabetes yet?

Larry better get that thing checked, it's turning green. Maybe a topical cream for fungus or something. The vinegar only makes it smell tasty.

Happy Birthday. How were the wings and what sauces did you get?

It has been inside near the heat since the 27th and it hasn't cracked any further, thankfully. The sheet metal idea is a good one. Even better is that my FIL is a retired tin knocker and has a beautiful shop to help me out with this if needed.

Check out the beer thread for tons of ideas.

F@$K Mondays!!

Sorry for your loss.

I fillet them and then roll them in Cajun breading and fry in a cast iron skillet. We did some in a turkey fryer last year. Best fish I've ever had.

Tasty

Fished for 4 hours hitting hole after hole covering 15+ miles of stream (not walking all of it) and no one was catching fish. Threw everything I had at them and nadda. Oh well, was nice to be out I guess.