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aart said:
She wants you to eat her. :D
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We can't, keeping a bass bigger than 12 inches is illegal (bass tournaments are a big tourist draw here), and at this point it would be like eating one of our cats (she's pretty tame, a kid's been feeding her perch under the dock), plus I'm kinda famous around here for catching her. You don't kill the goose and all that.

DP has hooked her once plus both of us have had her hit a perch we were reeling in.

I'll have to get started on the cover for the rabbit hutches and the chicken coop and run soon. As a stop-gap, here is a picture of my DP driving a Bobcat.
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NewBoots said:
We can't, keeping a bass bigger than 12 inches is illegal (bass tournaments are a big tourist draw here), and at this point it would be like eating one of our cats (she's pretty tame, a kid's been feeding her perch under the dock), plus I'm kinda famous around here for catching her. You don't kill the goose and all that. DP has hooked her once plus both of us have had her hit a perch we were reeling in.
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Ahh...OK....don't really get catch and release fishing realm...their lips must get scared up...and don't they smarten up and not bite?(probably not-just musing)
What/who is DP?
 
We catch trout up to 17" so far (well one 20" years ago) (keep and can), yellow perch of assorted sizes (introduced species so we kill all we catch and eat the ones big enough to fillet), crappie (usually catch and release), blue-gill (usually catch and release) and large-mouth bass (all of those get put back alive). I know there are catfish here too but we've only caught one and that was a long time ago.

DP is my Dear Partner of more than 30 years.
 
be careful in that Bobcat. use the seat belts every time. the owner of one of the lumber companies was playing with one and it flipped him forward and he broke both legs.
I drove on for a day back filling a foundation.
I had a lawn mower that had pedals for forward and reverse, the pedals on the bobcat were for controlling the bucket.
I can't tell you how many times I almost ended up down in the hole with the bucket flipping up and down.. LOL
.......jiminwisc.....
 
you throw back all the kinds of fish that I keep.
bluegills are one of our favorites.
Perch are good , too.
Crappies are good if you skin them and remove any colored meat and the line down the sides. when you have nothing but white meat left, then it is ready to cook.
Even the small perch are kept. I skin them, remove the bones. then get some water boiling and add salt to the water, not quite brine, but salty.
Then drop the perch pieces in and cook until they turn white. just a few minutes.
Take them out and cool them off under the faucet or dip them in ice water.
Get a bottle of Hoffman House shrimp dip and eat the perch like shrimp.. You will never throw a perch back again.
I treat crappies like the Sheepheads down in Florida. bleed them before they die.
we cut their gills.
....jiminwisc......

 
Oh we love the crappies and bluegill, actually, they're our favorites! We toss them back mostly due to wanting to encourage them to breed (both are scarce due to competition with the perch).

Also the bluegill were what originally got me keyed in on the Tenmile lake system. We used to catch huge ones by the bucket full back in the day, now I'm kinda trying to pay some of that back for future new fishing men and women. We use ultralight gear (4 & 6 lb test) and we still get a thrill from bringing in a big bluegill.

I am going to try your method with the perch though Jim.
 
erlibrd said:
:sick sorry but toilets are not cool yard ornaments IMHO
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like all art, it is beautiful in the eye of the beholder.
I could not eat anything bbq'd in one.
At a picnic I had a half barrel of beer in a plastic garbage can packed in ice.
DD's mother in law thought it was disgusting. It was a brand new never used garbage can,,. didn't make any difference to her..
 
a bunch of cattle men were at a meeting.
when it came time to order their meals, they all ordered a nice thick beef steak. except one rancher. he ordered lamb chops.
a few of the cowboys said, how can you support those sheep herders ??
Waall replied the cowboy, I figure if we eat enough of them sheep we can eventually get rid of em all..
 

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