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Post by Paws on May 10, 2008 21:21:59 GMT 12.75
Hope they catch a big mess of them! Fried on the spot...don't get no more better'n that! Don't forget the hush puppies, grits, pork and beans, and a big vidalia onion! Yummmm yummmmm! You mumbich Toby! Four o'clock in the morning and sitting here starving for a fish sammie! (Fartslikabull indeed!) LOL (Private joke all!) Fug'em beans! Git yerself some KFC cole slaw and someudem corns onastik! Toby what's a stumpthumper; that a squealer?
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Post by Mars on May 11, 2008 17:00:27 GMT 12.75
They caught more then I needed or wanted to cook. The youngest caught one and went to the BBQ with my wife. Same as last year. The oldest caught 9 including 2 tagged fish.
Both won new fishing pole sets.
Started out with a bummer though. The youngest caught her fish and I put it on a stringer then rebaited her hook. Within a minute the other daughter caught her first fish. We put it on the stringer and an old man walked up and asked if any of the trout had tags. I said no then walked about 30 feet away with my daughter and rebaited her hook. The old man walked passed and we didn't pay him no mind. When I finished with the rebaiting we went back to the spot and both trout and stringer were gone. I reported it to a Park Ranger but the guy was gone. No great loss but it must take a real scummy person to steal fish from children during a kids fishing day! I told my daughters the guy must have been really hungry and they should be glad to provide him with a meal.
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Post by Toby Benoit on May 11, 2008 17:41:27 GMT 12.75
" it must take a real scummy person to steal fish from children" Ya got that right! At least you all had a good day despite the fish theif.
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Post by Toby Benoit on May 11, 2008 17:44:00 GMT 12.75
Paws, a "Stumpknocker" is a big old red eared brem. They go around knocking the snail eggs off of cypress knees and lily pad stems, and dock pilings. Good eating little scrappers! Heading back out tomorrow afternoon with the kids, dad, and my older sister Michelle and her husband. Gotta lay in a good stock. Ya know, after a sack of cornmeal, a big vidalia or two and a sack of grits, we can feed a family of ten for under ten bucks. Dad fries up about sixty fish at a time and we got plenty more for another fry up next week. Cheap eating and doggone tastey, too! (Phil, ya liked that sign on, huh?
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Post by Toby Benoit on May 13, 2008 16:40:20 GMT 12.75
Caught another sixty of them skillet fish and three cooters. I love them fried cooter turtles almost as much as I do the bluegills.
Another good day! ;D
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Post by Mars on May 18, 2008 6:50:32 GMT 12.75
We went to the Erwin Trout Fishing Kids Day. We will not be going next year! They had a prize for biggest fish and I think that ruined the whole event. My daughters hooked 3 trout only to lose them by having ADULTS throw their lines and try and snag the fish on my daughters line! Twice they broke my daughters lines and the third they snagged my daughters fish with a lure and it got off both lines. My daughter had the trout hooked in the mouth and an ADULT had her fish snagged after she hooked it and my daught wasn't about to give it up to them so she jerked it and pulled both hooks out. When they cast back out she cast and snagged their line and pulled it in and cut their line and threw their lure into the pond! ;D ;D She stood there with that knife with a "I dare you to say anything" look on her face. ;D She solved the problem and she wasn't messed with the rest of the fishing time. ;D
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Post by Toby Benoit on May 19, 2008 5:38:11 GMT 12.75
"She stood there with that knife with a "I dare you to say anything" look on her face." Atta girl! Ain't it a shame what adults will do to a kid??? I'm proud of that young lady for taking a stand!
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Post by Mars on Jun 1, 2008 9:56:59 GMT 12.75
Went to the Limestone Cove Kids fishing day. Only about 20 kids showed up instead of the normal 100-150. They recinded the 2 fish limit and my daughter ended up with 17 trout before she got completely worn out and quit. ;D I spent the time talking to the very bored forest service personel. There was more of them then children.Even Smoky The Bear was there, in costume. Small turnout but everybody had fun and a child caught a 13" native brown trout.
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Post by Paws on Jun 4, 2008 0:28:11 GMT 12.75
Sorry your turn out was so lousy Mars. Damned gas prices to blame I expect. Going to really take their toll on tourist activities this year I think. Great time for foreign visitation though. The dollar is weaker than it has been in decades and everybody from abroad is already accustomed to paying our current prices for gas. Maybe we should set up roadside booths and sell trinkets!
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Post by Mars on Jun 5, 2008 3:19:39 GMT 12.75
They invited us to this weekends Kids Fishing Day at Dillards Place over by Greeneville. About a 15 minute drive from here. It will be pond fishing with 3-4 ponds being planned for stocking. It's an old farm that was donated to the National Forest by the family of the owner after his death. There are many places like that around here. Families rather see the land preserved then put into housing. Talked to them about a local area known as Rocky Fork. It's a 10,000 acre section of private land that covers 2 counties and owned by a logging corporation. It's for sale, 42 million dollars and no dividing of the land. The Fed wants it to add to the National Forest to preserve the wild trout stream it contains along with the 10% of the black bear denning areas in the State but the local goverment is keeping it in Court. The local goverment wants it sold for development. With 50% of Unicoi County as National Forest they don't want to lose more land to it and loose the tax it could bring in. What they want is a gated development for the rich.
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Post by Mars on Jun 16, 2008 3:12:04 GMT 12.75
Passed on Dillards Place but we went to Steele Creek Lake yesterday. Caught 3 channel cats. Daughter caught 2 and I got 1.
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Post by Two Tales on Jun 17, 2008 2:17:05 GMT 12.75
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Post by Two Tales on Jun 25, 2008 2:31:47 GMT 12.75
We have a company owned stream feed pond behind the shop at work...employees are allowed to fish during lunch, brakes and after work hours...well at lunch time yesterday I decided that I should give it a try...the pond is stocked with trout of various size....there are also native brookies, bass, crappies and bluegill...several nice bass and brookies have been caught in the last couple of weeks..so figured I might catch a nice bass or even one of the trout..wasn't really expecting to catch one of the largest stocked trout in there...a rainbow trout just over 21 inches long....we have seen this fish swimming up under the bridge in the deeper part of the pond quite often ...I shot a top water stubby minnow up under the bridge, jiggled it a couple of times, pulled it deep and started a slow retrieve and bam he was on....he setting in a vacuum pack bag waiting to go into the freezer this afternoon
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Post by Paws on Jun 25, 2008 3:41:56 GMT 12.75
Hey, get him frozen and packed in dry ice then send him out here so I can give you my opinion of him!
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Post by Two Tales on Jun 25, 2008 8:34:58 GMT 12.75
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Post by Paws on Jun 25, 2008 13:31:37 GMT 12.75
;D
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Post by Mars on Jun 27, 2008 5:50:51 GMT 12.75
I cannot stand to eat LM bass. I worked with a guy that did the bass tournament trail thing and I remarked that every LM bass I caught I tossed on the bank so it couldn't eat anymore bluegills.He got red in the face and said that was illegal. I told him the regs stated that I had to throw them back but it did not specify "back into the water". He's probaly still PO'd. ;D
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Post by Carter Northcutt on Nov 11, 2008 11:57:10 GMT 12.75
Guist Creek Lake is down five feet. Have to b careful loading/unloading the boat. Back too far down the ramp and the trailer will drop off into the scour hole created by us boaters when loading the boat. You know, when we try to push it up the last foot or two with the engine
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Post by Paws on Dec 25, 2008 2:19:40 GMT 12.75
Hey Carter, if you still got a boat please put that somabish in one of your boy's names before you meet your "next" blondie!
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Post by Carter Northcutt on Dec 25, 2008 5:04:07 GMT 12.75
She weren't no blonde Phil she were a brunette.
I wouldn't mind a blonde but I think What I would really, really like is a redhead with emerald green eyes and the bod to go with it.
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