Pygmy

Welcome aboard, NH !! We may have crossed trails previously on another forum...

You have quite a selection of garden tools, WR...I assume your wife knows how to USE them all ??

Cool, WR....That is a big kitty...Can you tell what the fox is carrying ? Looks like a bone to me...

Happy Birthday, you young stud....Hope ya get lucky !!

PUUUUURTY, Chef...Reminds me of the wild leopard rainbows that I caught on a few of my Alaska trips.. They were also the best TASTING rainbows I ever had...Never been too fond of rainbows caught here in NY and Pa, but the ones I ate in AK while moose and caribou hunting were wonderful... Of course, given my surroundings, probably a carp would have tasted great....Hehehe...

My favorite tool for scaling fish is a tablespoon....Don't know how well it works for bigger fish, but it works well for me on bluegills and sunfish.. My daughter-in law is Phillipino and prefers her fish headed/scaled...I cleaned up a few bluegills for her a couple of days ago..I used my pocketknife because that was all I had with me at the time.....It worked OK, but I could have done them quicker if I had a spoon...Also, using a spoon eliminates the possibility of accidently cutting yourself...

Bluegills are wonderful scaled and pan fried...That is how my Grandpa did them....Scaled them gutted them, headed them , dusted them in pancake flour and fried them butter...I have seldom eaten fish before or since that tasted that good....That skin has flavor too, and helps keep the fish moist while you are frying them...I still do a few that way every year, just for old time's sake and because they taste so good that way.. However, I can filet skin and debone a dozen in the time that it takes me to scale, gut etc. about two fish...They are also very good that way, and if you cook them on the skeletons you DO have to deal with the bones..No problem for me, because I kinda like picking the bones, but 95% of the people that I share them with would rather not deal with the bones.. So if you want to put in the effort to scale, etc. I would say go for it....They sure do taste great that way....

My buddy Mort and I just finshing cleaning 42 bluegills, taken in about 2 hours from another friend's pond...We kept nothing under 8 inches, and many of them were were 9" to 9 1/2"... I got two and a half pounds of filets from my share of 21 fish...Those are some pretty chunky bluegills, and IMHO some of the very best tasting fresh water fish...

No chance..His electronics are 1964 vintage also.....

Thank you, AL....WET CLEANUP IN AISLE PYGMY !!!!... I also enjoyed " Hang on Sloopy" which came on after it...Reminds me of my first true teenage love ( not counting the 4 legged ones, of course)…. That was her favorite song....She had green eyes and she broke my heart....The first of only TWO women who truley broke my heart...

Rancid Crabtree was Milo's second cousin twice removed...They were very close.... They were both prone to statements like " Thar's a GOL-DURNED BEAR nestin' under mah BRUSHPILE !! "

Another very simple way to do it is to place the bucket about 1/2full of water with a layer of sunflower seeds on the surface of the water... Place a ramp from an old scrap 1x2 or 1x4 leading from the ground up to the rim of the bucket.. Bait the ground around the bucket and the ramp with SS seeds and maybe a smear or two of PB....Chippie goes up the ramp, sees what he thinks is a solid layer of sunflower seeds and jumps in for his final swimming lesson... Works great if bears are not an issue in your area...Also works well on pesky red squirrels and mice...Grey squirrels are big enough to get out if they take the plunge, but they are not the pests that chipmunks and red squirrels are...

All this reminds me of a story.....When I was growing up in the rural wilds here near Dogpatch, we had a neighbor who lived a couple of miles away, Milo Fernbender… Milo lived by himself, never had a woman as far as I know, but he made his living on a hilltop hardscrabble dirt farm, and he had lots of animals... Somebody turned old Milo in for a crime...We never knew who it was, but even here there a few commie pinko democrats who still thought that FDR had something to do with us winning WWII... Milo was brought up before the township judge, Tink Stewart, on a charge of bestiality... Tink told Milo.. " You have been charged with the crime of bestiality, which means having sexual intercourse with animals, such as dogs, goats, sheep, pigs, cows, horses, chickens.."" At this point, Milo jumped up and said " CHICKENS !!!???".....

Thank God for that....Can you imagine..?....Well..... Let's not go there....< Pygmy rolls his sexy brown eyes>….

Oh Shucks, , I can do that right up the road at my Amish neighbors....They even promote safe sex....They spray paint an " X" on the sheep that kick !!

Yeah... I know how he feels....

She;s beautiful...!!… Must take after her Mom.....

People said that about me when I turned 21....Except for the FIRST part......

Check out the USGS for the Cohocton last night....

Employ the bucket of death..Works great..Unfortunately, the last few times I have tried to use it, a bear finds it within the first few days..After that you're dusted...They'll come back every day, tip over the buckets and eat all of the sunflower seed...

We didn't get a drop here in Dogpatch....In Campbell, right over the hill, a buddy of mine got 3/4" in his rain gauge overnight...

Happy Birthday, Born !!….

It would be pretty handy if we could get "domestic use" models....When there is no rioting occurring, we could use it to grill our hot dogs...

Looking good..BTW, I painted my tower stand dark brown.." Downtown Brown"....You would amazed how well it blends in with the mixed evergreen/hardwood background....