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[619KGB]

You do not want to tangle with a tarantula wasp

 

[619KGB]

This has got me thinking of my old place where the birds were almost tame to me.
I could get right up on them for pics.
Sorry if I'm clogging up this thread with old shots......

They eat spiders and their webs!

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I have a some Chambeyronia macrocarpas that the hummers slide down the leaflets on.

 

[Deleted member 2835]

Hummers!!
It's been hectic around the feeder lately, makes it tough for clear shots.
Literally 2 seconds ago there were 5 of them there!
A few pics where they posed for me....
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I've always had hummingbird feeders around, love these little guys!

My grandmother was a huge fan of hummingbirds

 

[Tvanmunhen]

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You do not want to tangle with a tarantula wasp

so many cool things in your yard! We see those wasp here in CA sometimes.

 

[619KGB]

This lady has a hummingbird mecca going on in her yard. I think she is in Fallbrook. She has some good vids on different hummingbird hacks.

This is always a hoot when witnessnesing hummingbird courtship

 

[Big Terps]

Heres the mighty Mississippi that's 2 mins from my place... My kids and I also come here to fish for the man sized catfish that's in there...
That rattle trap of a bridge is coming down within next couple yrs with a new one... Right side I'm on is Illinois, left side is Missouri...

Just thought I'd share, hope it's in right
thread....

 

[Big Terps]

Here a branch I accidentally broke off of a plant.. I decided to throw it in a water bottle and see if it wanted to survive or not...

Well 18 days later, she wants to live...
Same water bottle sat in bottom of tent WITHOUT a dome over it too... Just straight water...
Kool stuff

 

[Tvanmunhen]

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Heres the mighty Mississippi that's 2 mins from my place... My kids and I also come here to fish for the man sized catfish that's in there...
That rattle trap of a bridge is coming down within next couple yrs with a new one... Right side I'm on is Illinois, left side is Missouri...

Just thought I'd share, hope it's in right
thread....

Nice spot! I want to see the man size fish now LOL.

 

[Big Terps]

Nice spot! I want to see the man size fish now LOL.

Ya dude I hear ya..... Lol
Never caught any YET, that big.. 30-40lb is biggest I've landed in there.. The blue cats and flatheads get the biggest...
The cool thing is you never no wtf u will catch outta there....
Thx

 

[FluffySquish]

Very nice, we usually hit the backwater sloughs off the Missouri and Mississippi when we were kids. biggest thing I ever pulled out was a grinnell cat the size of my leg, I'd never heard a fish talk before that.

 

[NoWaistedSpace]

Ya dude I hear ya..... Lol
Never caught any YET, that big.. 30-40lb is biggest I've landed in there.. The blue cats and flatheads get the biggest...
The cool thing is you never no wtf u will catch outta there....
Thx

When I was a kid, my dad had a cabin built on stilts roughly 400 yards below "Devol's Dam" on the Muskingum River at Lowell Ohio.
We ran trot lines and brush hooks and caught those big "mudcats".
Biggest one I was there for was 46 lbs.
It scared me to death riding with that big ass catfish in a 10 or 12' aluminum flat bottom john boat. I was 8 or 9 at the time. lol
The brush hooks were fun in the fall season.
You could tell when you had a big one on,
there would be leaves scattered all in the water.
During high water, you could fish right out the kitchen window. of the cabin.
Great memories at that place.
Dad was a member of K of P Lodge (Free Mason) and we were always going to fish fries when we went up there.
Dad was the "supplier" of the fish looking back on it now. lol

 

[Big Terps]

Very nice, we usually hit the backwater sloughs off the Missouri and Mississippi when we were kids. biggest thing I ever pulled out was a grinnell cat the size of my leg, I'd never heard a fish talk before that.

Hell ya... When u say grinnell cat, those are sum nasty buggers.... If we talking the same thing, we call those dogfish...
Mean as hell, put up good fight whole time, get em on bank they got teeth so u gotta watch em.. Usually find them like u said in sloughs, dead moving waters.... And ya they will bark at ya too.. lol

 

[Big Terps]

When I was a kid, my dad had a cabin built on stilts roughly 400 yards below "Devol's Dam" on the Muskingum River at Lowell Ohio.
We ran trot lines and brush hooks and caught those big "mudcats".
Biggest one I was there for was 46 lbs.
It scared me to death riding with that big ass catfish in a 10 or 12' aluminum flat bottom john boat. I was 8 or 9 at the time. lol
The brush hooks were fun in the fall season.
You could tell when you had a big one on,
there would be leaves scattered all in the water.
During high water, you could fish right out the kitchen window. of the cabin.
Great memories at that place.
Dad was a member of K of P Lodge (Free Mason) and we were always going to fish fries when we went up there.
Dad was the "supplier" of the fish looking back on it now. lol

Man them sound like sum good memories, I've shared just in different places... Sounds like u was brought up right, and had great childhood doing that stuff...
Them brush lines work great when water is high...
They are now illegal here these days but 25-30 yrs ago , we wood use what they called a yo yo...
A spring loaded rig that wood set hook once fish bit it.. hang 50 of those up flooded creeks, a couple doobies, drinks, and we had sum good fun nights...
Thanks

 

[Slowdrawl]

For any of you clammers out there here are a few pics...

A few years back from Netarts Bay Or.
Gapers and Cockles!

I know...strange looking thing!
They call them horseneck clams.....??

A limit of Razors dug this morning..

Nice meaty clams...delicious!

 

[treefarmercharlie]

That clam is HUNG

 

[Slowdrawl]

That clam is HUNG

That siphon will stretch 3 feet!

 

[Tvanmunhen]

For any of you clammers out there here are a few pics...

A few years back from Netarts Bay Or.
Gapers and Cockles!
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I know...strange looking thing!
They call them horseneck clams.....??

A limit of Razors dug this morning..
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Nice meaty clams...delicious!

Get out the fryer lol. Those are monsters! What's your favorite way to eat them?

 

[Slowdrawl]

Egg wash then panko coating, fry in hot oil about 1.5 min a side!
Then there is chowder which is a close second.
Can't forget the smoked canned clams.

 

[1oldfart]

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Heres the mighty Mississippi that's 2 mins from my place... My kids and I also come here to fish for the man sized catfish that's in there...
That rattle trap of a bridge is coming down within next couple yrs with a new one... Right side I'm on is Illinois, left side is Missouri...

Just thought I'd share, hope it's in right
thread....

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Egg wash then panko coating, fry in hot oil about 1.5 min a side!
Then there is chowder which is a close second.
Can't forget the smoked canned clams.

now you talk about good food!

 

[Fiddler's Green]

That clam is HUNG

And that one is female