@fisherlady that is an awesome looking fish. I do not know how to fish but would like to learn.
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Thanks.... fishing can be very simple or very complicated... both can achieve results but I much prefer keeping it simple.
If you are in the Mid West you should have access to good catfish water, I love fishing for cats and it is a great way to start into the hobby. It can be a relaxing evening activity and fighting a good fish can be an addictive thing!
Check around with folks you know to see if anyone fishes and tag along a couple of trips to see if it is something you can enjoy. Along the missisippi corridor there are many cat fish guides who offer a great experience for a reasonable price and if I ever travel west you can bet I will be looking a good guide up to enjoy some of the great cat water available. If cat fishing is too slow paced then check into fishing for crappie or bluegill (very fun, simple and a bit quicker paced) and maybe bass fishing, but I have found bass fishing to often become overwhelming with all of the different techniques people try to teach new folks.
Striped bass and walleye are great but often require more intense gear and unless you have a chance to do it often it is one of the fishing styles which you may want to invest in a charter to experience.
Catfishing is really popular here, and bass and crappie are what most fish for here. There are a few locations that do trout but that seems much more complicated. I have gone a few times w/ someone (my gpa) who was unwilling to learn to fish here and was interested in fishing like he did "back home" trouble is that was in Maine, and we are in Oklahoma, those trips I only got turtles eating my worms off the hook.
Fisherlady - all I can say is
on both chicken harvesting and fishing!
Kassaundra - I wanted to let you know that at 4am, I was thinking of you as I needed some mental telepathy support in harvesting my 2nd rabbit. I researched pellet guns and got myself a break barrel one. I used it this morning for the first time and preferred using it to the broomstick method I used on the first rabbit. Thanks for sharing your insights and the support you didn't even know you were giving today!
Kassaundra - I wanted to let you know that at 4am, I was thinking of you as I needed some mental telepathy support in harvesting my 2nd rabbit. I researched pellet guns and got myself a break barrel one. I used it this morning for the first time and preferred using it to the broomstick method I used on the first rabbit. Thanks for sharing your insights and the support you didn't even know you were giving today!
Fisherlady - all I can say ison both chicken harvesting and fishing!
Kassaundra - I wanted to let you know that at 4am, I was thinking of you as I needed some mental telepathy support in harvesting my 2nd rabbit. I researched pellet guns and got myself a break barrel one. I used it this morning for the first time and preferred using it to the broomstick method I used on the first rabbit. Thanks for sharing your insights and the support you didn't even know you were giving today!
The break barrel is exactly what I use. Glad it helped you, I thought I felt a disturbance in "the force" this morning.
Tomtom I have three toms and they are like watch dogs every time they see a big loud truck or some of the guys at the feed lot across the road they go off like crazy. My turkey are better watch dogs than my dogs. lol But I love them and they are very gentle. I have two bourbon red hens that wait for me to bend over to get the eggs to jump on my back so I can hold them! They don't hurt me they just want to be held.
Mine are pets mostly. I did send two to freezer camp last year.
Here is the one and only we cooked last Thanksgiving.
Here is the one and only we cooked last Thanksgiving.
Tomtom I have three toms and they are like watch dogs every time they see a big loud truck or some of the guys at the feed lot across the road they go off like crazy. My turkey are better watch dogs than my dogs. lol But I love them and they are very gentle. I have two bourbon red hens that wait for me to bend over to get the eggs to jump on my back so I can hold them! They don't hurt me they just want to be held.Mine are pets mostly. I did send two to freezer camp last year.
Here is the one and only we cooked last Thanksgiving.
That looks delicious
I've been seeing/hearing that eggs, chicken and turkey will all be going up in price with the results of the bird flu.
Baked goods too as eggs become scarce. There is also pressure from the cage free rules in California.That looks delicious
I've been seeing/hearing that eggs, chicken and turkey will all be going up in price with the results of the bird flu.
We're in Alabama, no cases of it yet. There's A LOT of poultry agriculture here. I think locally the prices wont be too affected yet.
I do know this state is very much against changes in rules. 'Cage free' is such a freaking sham anyway. Commercial production 'farms' will never be a humane practice.. not for the prices poultry and eggs sell for. But so many folks are entirely blind about what it takes to put food on their table. They just want it cheap.. (and frankly, being a lower income family, I can't say I haven't been there... but we've made a serious effort to get to know our food) Talk about butchering a chicken yourself to a lay person and woah, they go nuts... but they will gladly eat chicken raised in miserable conditions.
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