Country Boyz Can Survive ;-)
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Smidge34
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There's plenty of crawdads (damn, that's what we call them in KY too) in the streams in our area GB. The smallmouth on KY Lake actively feed on them at night and if you get out there after dark, you'll hook a monster here and there.
Yeah, I've got a bumper crop of blackberries too and since I love to grow where the blackberries grow, I've already been chowing down on them for breakfast on my morning visit to my patch.
Yeah, I've got a bumper crop of blackberries too and since I love to grow where the blackberries grow, I've already been chowing down on them for breakfast on my morning visit to my patch.
Garden Boss
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We got some mediocre fishing out west... mostly private bass ponds or fishing off the coast, Rock fish and ling are my fav's
Do you mid-west mofo's recognize this delicacy?
Smidge34
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No idea Boss. Closest thing to that around here are mussels.We got some mediocre fishing out west... mostly private bass ponds or fishing off the coast, Rock fish and ling are my fav's
Do you mid-west mofo's recognize this delicacy?
Garden Boss
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Sadness... It's my favorite thing from the pacific.
Abalone. My family and I dive for it. It is rare even for CA...
jbird74
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Shit on a shell???We got some mediocre fishing out west... mostly private bass ponds or fishing off the coast, Rock fish and ling are my fav's
Do you mid-west mofo's recognize this delicacy?
Garden Boss
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So Sad...
Midwestern Country Boyz
jbird74
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GardenBoss I bet they are delicious and I would love to try them. I'm big on just about anything out of the water. Can't think of anything I don't like of which I have tried. Diving for good food? I can dig that brother. I have a tendency to wade chest deep or use a john boat to gig frogs. Trying to scrounge up some pix. I'm getting ready to do some gigging any day now. Season is well underway and growing up if you didn't get out a month ahead of season all the ponds were already cleaned out. But I've got some hidden jewels to gig that haven't been gigged in quite sometime. Been noticing a lot of big frogs in a couple of those jewels. Frog legs, fish, homemade chips, and blackberry cobbler is coming up soon. With an afternoon of redneck golf and pitching horse shoes in the back yard. Knock down a few cold ones. Nice bon fire roaring through the night.... Not only can a Country Boy Survive, he can flat out fucking flourish as demonstrated by Smidge and I. Thank you for chiming in GardenBoss. You might be a fucking west coaster but I'd venture to say that you would fit in seamlessly out here in The Midwest. 
jbird74
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The bat is funny as all get out. I don't have a pic but at the age of about 16 I was on our lake lot with my cousin and was running a buzz bait trying to get a bass(hard to believe I know) and there were some Mallard Ducks taking off one by one from quite a ways from me. But using a bait caster(and actually knowing how to use it) I can cast a country mile. So I told my cousin I was gonna catch one of them Mallards in the air. I made my cast and shit house luck ensued. That lure wrapped right around the leg of that duck. It was prob 15-20 seconds before he came back down on the water. My cousin was fucking rolling...said it looked like I was flying a live duck kite. Hell I was working the drag and everything..hehe... Good thing is the duck was fine and unscathed. He let me unwrap it from his leg and went about his business. Those ducks knew me pretty well though always coming up for pieces of bread off of the dock.
Damn Smidge I've never had the joy of being on Kentucky Lake but I have friends who have. I would love to fish it. Especially crappie fish when they are schooled up spawning. Makes me smile from ear to ear just thinking about it.
Damn Smidge I've never had the joy of being on Kentucky Lake but I have friends who have. I would love to fish it. Especially crappie fish when they are schooled up spawning. Makes me smile from ear to ear just thinking about it.
Smidge34
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I hear ya on the frogs being cleaned out if you didn't get on them quick. We were pretty hardcore on gigging or shooting them with a .22 when I was a teen and young man. I've kinda slacked off on wading chest deep around cottonmouths, in my middle age.
Shit, we have had so much rain, they would have been tough to kill in the ponds around here, what with the water up in the grass
Shit, we have had so much rain, they would have been tough to kill in the ponds around here, what with the water up in the grass
Smidge34
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To be honest, the very best slab crappie come out of KY Lake in the winter months in 18-25 feet. No way I'm fighting through the damn tourists here when the spawn is on in the spring. We spider rig 6-8 rods, per two fishermen and generally claim our limit of 20 ten-inch keepers per person.
jbird74
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That's funny Smidge...had countless nights in a John Boat growing up shooting them with a .22 as well. Throw in lots of beer by the age of 16 maybe some at 15 hehe and it's amazing no one got hurt. People don't gig around here like they use to so I might check a few ponds out that would have surely been gigged pre-season back in the day.
Garden Boss
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NorCal is full of rednecks and tough ass white boy's... I've acclimated accordingly.
Smidge34
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Same here Jbird. These pussies these days ain't gonna wade titty deep in no pond for a bullfrog.
GB, I'm fascinated by the prospect of living in NorCal, particularly up in the mountains in the Triangle one day. I know it was a bunch of fiction, but that pot reality series that was on for awhile turned me on to just how redneck they are up there. I think I'd fit right in.
GB, I'm fascinated by the prospect of living in NorCal, particularly up in the mountains in the Triangle one day. I know it was a bunch of fiction, but that pot reality series that was on for awhile turned me on to just how redneck they are up there. I think I'd fit right in.
Garden Boss
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Truly I think you would. Especially in them hill LOL... but seriously NorCal is a way WAY different beast than SoCal.