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Walleyes dont live long in a live well unless the water is cold or you run the aerator a lot. Northern pike do a little better, largemouth bass quite a bit better. Smallmouth bass seem to live the longest in there, as the water gets warm, and the oxygen gets depleted. I usually toss a bag or two of ice in the livewell, if I have a long drive home. As soon as I get home, I put a garden hose in there. The cool water usually revives them, if they are starting to belly up. Bass are my favorite fish to catch and eat. They taste much better if the fillets are still twitching when you remove them. That don't happen if you put them in a cooler. That is why most folks dont care for eating bass.

I gave the turkeys 5 minutes this morning. I walked 100 yards behind the house and blew a crow call a few times. I didn't hear a gobble, so I went out on the lake. No perch bite again this morning and not as many bass, maybe 7 so far. The last one was my longest of the holiday weekend (18"). I pinched the barb on the 1/8 oz jig to make it easier to release them unharmed. None have thrown the hook since I did that.

I think I will give the turkeys one last try tomorrow morning. I think I heard a gobble behind the in-laws house, around 5:30 am. My arms are sore from "perch" fishing today. 40 some smallmouth and not one perch. Our daughters got in on the action this afternoon:

1/8 oz bucktail jig. That is my go to bait mostly because they are almost free. I just need to buy the hooks. The bass are on the bottom now. Usually, that costs me a few jigs on snags but I haven't lost one yet this trip. Next time we are up here, over the 4th of July, they will be suspended about 10 feet down, out near the center of the lake. In the mornings then, I look for minnows being chased to the surface. I cast the jig to those spots. The bass usually hit them a few seconds after the cast lands. The best parts then is: there is no snags out on the middle of the lake, and the bass fight the hardest in the warm water.

The problem was, I didn't bring waders, the water was quite cold, and the banks were virtually inaccessible, due to all the brush, blowdowns, etc.. At least the bugs were not bad in there yesterday. This morning, I am back out on the lake targeting perch. It was frigid at 5:30, but is warming up very fast. So far, I have caught 20 to 25 smallmouth, between 12 and 16" long, but not one perch. It feels like 80 degrees out here now and the bugs are getting bad, so I will be heading in for mother in law's big breakfast shortly. I will get back after them trout in October, up near the headwaters where there is more flow. There will be no bugs then, and a pair of waders should give me access.

I finally made it back up to my in-laws in the Adirondacks to get my little Imperial edc back. I lost it up there while ice fishing in Ferbruary. My father in law found it while he was putting in his dock this spring.

I tried the little Adirondack stream up at my in-laws this afternoon. I caught 6 or 7 chubs on a white nymph, but no trout. The stream is bordered by a thick, brushy swamp, making access tough from the banks. I will have to get a pair of insulated waders, prior to early ML week. Those would provide relatively easy access to the creek, and hopefully let me sneak up on a deer from downstream. My vest worked out ok, but I only had to go into the top pocket fly box once for a nymph. My 10" high rubber boots didn't cut it though. I gave up the chase for a trout, after a good soaker.

Happy birthday.

After I finished plowing, I cleaned all the dirt off the plow and parked the rig in my pole barn. The following morning, the right rear tire was settled down flat. It is up on a jack stand now. My current plan is to try and pick up a non-running Ford 9n, from a nieghbor. He claims it ran 2 years ago, but he can't get it started now. It still has a 6 volt battery in it, and it wont crank over. It has a loaded right rear tire, with some corrosion starting around the stem, and an unloaded left rear with a new rim. He is currently asking $1200, and said he will try to get it started this weekend. I told him I would give him $900, if he cant get it running, which he seemed willing to consider. If I end up with it, I will replace my flat right loaded rear with the rusty rim loaded rear from the "parts" tractor. That will likely get me thru a few more years of plowing. Eventually, some winter when things are slow, I will fork over $120 for a new rim, and $40 for a tube. I will put those in my old right rear tire and try to get that "parts" tractor running. That is plan A. If that dont work out, plan B is to get a new rim and tube now. I will run one loaded and one unloaded tire for a few years like that guy did. Breaking down those 70 year old tires/rims ain't that fun, so I hope plan A works out. I could use that tractor this year for some more corn planting, and I need it for cultivating and spraying. I cant adjust the wheel spacing properly on my larger tractor to fit between the 36 in spaced corn rows.

Maybe before my fall early ML week trip, when I hope to be up there for 9 days. I should have plenty for this weekend. I also got to get a pair of waders before then.

I put in a 1/4 acre pond at the lowest spot at my place. It took me almost a week to dig it with my Ford 8n and a pond scoop. The tractor needed a valve job when I got thru. Deer do seem to like it. I have caught does with fawns back there swimming a few times, on hot summer afternoons. Mortally wounded bucks have ran directly towards it a couple time. One made it to within a yard of the water line, before dropping dead in sight from my stand.

No rust and all still pretty sharp.

I would guess 55 to 60.

I found my old fly box. I hadn't seen it in about 15 years. Everything inside looked ok but I had to repair the cover with electric tape. I see at least 6 nymphs on the left so it is good to go in my vest top pocket: Grampa's old Garcia-matic and 7 ft fiberglass rod are ready to go to:

I am going with a vest with my fly box in the top pocket. I will carry a rusty bucket for fish, and needle nose pliers in my pants pocket. I will treat the top edges of my rubber boots with Sawyers and try to stay out of deep water. That's my plan for this weekend up in the Adirondacks. I found a few weighted nymphs. Hopefully, a Brookie or two will cooperate for campfire snacks.

I would also recommend leaving the soybeans out of your spring corn planting. If you add them to the mix in the spring, deer and other critters will mow everything down, long before hunting season. Many have got decent corn plots by broadcasting and dragging as you mentioned. Save your soybeans for planting until Sept 1 or so, and add to a broadcast mix of wheat and white clover. Since global warming kicked in, we have been getting later frosts, so those sprouting soybeans might add some attraction into early bow season, if you hold off that long to plant them.

I couldn't think of anything prior to starting this thread but Joe scored 2 since then. First, I was able to walk into the local produce market, without wearing a mask, and pick up a 12 of Ruby red. Second, Joe broke from the radical left wing of his party and threw his support behind Isreal and against Hamas in the recent conflict.

And yet there is at least one here (vh) who seems content with the way things are now.

I planted a half dozen each summer squash, zucchini, and cucumber seeds on Saturday, along with 1/4 acre of sweetcorn. In about 2 weeks, I will put in about 6 tomato plants and another 1/4 acre of sweetcorn. I hope to have ripe sweetcorn from August 2 thru October 1. Usually the coons end up getting most of the first batch to ripen.

I once found a big dead one in my barn, that had its head pinned under the loader bucket of my tractor, and a big salmon net tangled around a toe on it's back paw. I wonder how long it dragged the big net around before getting pinned. My cousin tanned the hide for me. He said it also had some birdshot in it. They certainly are not the brightest of furbearers. One night, I took 4 out of my sweetcorn, with a single box trap baited with a peanut butter coated marshmellow. I looked out my bedroom window at daybreak to see the fat momma seated on top of the trap. I stalked in on her and double lunged her with my 10/22. Two half grown ones inside each caught one at the center of an x formed between the ears and eyes. Another young one popped its head up from behind a downed corn stalk and got similar treatment. They picked the wrong corn patch to wipe out that night.

Go with a cocobolo.

Do you remember a time in US history when inflation was higher than it has been since he took office ? How about illegal southern border crossings ? Have you been to NY city lately, or downtown Rochester ?

Not loading the tires will make that old tractor better at a few jobs, including dragging logs out of my wood lot (less rutting), and operation on soft sod, so I won't bother. Plus that stuff is very expensive. I will use my other tractor for plowing. It lacks hydraulic draft control, so it is tougher to maintain uniform plow depth. It does have loaded rear tires, 4wd, and about double the weight and hp, so it does ok on the plow.