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38 minutes ago, smurfy said:

this is actually the first time its happened in a whole lotta years.  

I thought you were a welder?  Make a bear proof bird feeder! 

Get a 8' foot, 5" inch pipe. Bury 4 feet of it,  fill the rest with cement, weld a cage within a cage out of rebar with a tray in the middle so the birds can fly in and feed! Setup the trail cam and watch the poor bastard try and get the seed!  🤣🤣

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Oh, if he rips that out improve on the design.  10' foot 8" inch pipe! 😆

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🤣🥴 yea..............NO......he'll eventually move on or bear season is coming!!!!!!

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On 7/11/2024 at 11:59 AM, smurfy said:

OK.......Leech......Wanderer......which one of you took the chair from the landing? 🤣 the dang nabit ankle biting blood sucking flies made an appearance up there. so did the deer and horseflies.

 

had Yogi wreck the hello out of the birdfeeders too! so there done for a while.  

in reality pretty sure when the DNR was working on that landing last fall...........i'd guess they removed it!!!!!!

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3 hours ago, smurfy said:

🤣🥴 yea..............NO......he'll eventually move on or bear season is coming!!!!!!

Dang, I give you an idea for the first Bear proof bird feeder, you could have made millions on.  And you wuuus out. I knew you weren't no welder! 😒

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4 hours ago, leech~~ said:

Dang, I give you an idea for the first Bear proof bird feeder, you could have made millions on.  And you wuuus out. I knew you weren't no welder! 😒

🤣 HA....i can weld a couple 2 X 4's together ..........no sweat!!!!!!!👍🤪

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🤣🤔 I can't believe you didn't try blaming me.

 

It's been a while since I stopped there... to check the landing  🤭

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17 minutes ago, smurfy said:

🤣🤔 I can't believe you didn't try blaming me.


Blame you?  You needed it there and I knew you couldn’t change your, um, *stretch?* time.

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kettle, ot anyone up in the north country.....last time up i dint think the skeeters were all that bad, them sand flies, you know them blood suckin ankle biters where starting to get annoying and the deer and horseflies were starting to make there presence known........ how are they now????/headed up a week from thursday!!

 

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Was out yesterday, plenty of deer flies and some black flies. I think we'll have mosquitoes until it freezes. So much standing water in the woods. Good news though, already seeing a lot of grouse. Lots of fawns and yearnings running around 

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4 hours ago, Kettle said:

Was out yesterday, plenty of deer flies and some black flies. I think we'll have mosquitoes until it freezes. So much standing water in the woods. Good news though, already seeing a lot of grouse. Lots of fawns and yearnings running around 

👍 thanks bud!!!!!!!!

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my brother is up there right now..........he's been lippin off via text........which isnt unusual!!!!!!! 😆 but hasnt said anything about the bugs.......yet!!!!!

 

mayhaps with the vodka he drinks he dont notice!!!!!!🙄🤣

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Maybe his blood is not as tasty as mine? Just got back from a run, the deer flies were thick, I do have hair of a Greek god so they get lost in there 😅 

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Skeeters are big and nasty at vermilion.  Any bigger I might start a chocolate covered deep fried mosquito for state fair food. 

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  • 2 weeks later...

Kept two for supper, caught an accidental 19" bass 🤨

Also my electronics setup. Have the livescope ducer in my transom trolling motor as the only correct way to fish is backwards 😜 

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👍 i think you might need 1 or 2 more locators!!!!!!!🤗🤪

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24 minutes ago, smurfy said:

👍 i think you might need 1 or 2 more locators!!!!!!!🤗🤪

They cannot hide from me 😆

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The bass is more impressive than those bottom feeders.

 

Sincerely,

 

A bass angler 😎

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On 8/2/2024 at 8:56 AM, leech~~ said:

Bass are over rated. You can throw a door hinge out and catch a bass! 🤭

 

But you do need to pick the proper hinge and know where to cast it and how to retrieve it.

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6 hours ago, Wanderer said:

 

But you do need to pick the proper hinge and know where to cast it and how to retrieve it.

You need to watch YouTube a little more.  There is video after video of little kids smashing big bass on their snoopy rods off the dock!  Bass are easy! 🤭

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When I do watch YouTube, I don’t watch videos of little kids with snoopy rods - lol!

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5 hours ago, Wanderer said:

When I do watch YouTube, I don’t watch videos of little kids with snoopy rods - lol!

Well some old dogs, just can't learn New tricks!  :P

Maybe a Barbie rod will help yeah?  ;)

 

 

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9 hours ago, leech~~ said:

Well some old dogs, just can't learn New tricks!  :P

Maybe a Barbie rod will help yeah?  ;)

 

 

Cute kid…. In her dad’s $60k bass boat…. “Finally catching one!”

 

Pssst…. I have grandkids that catch ‘em too. 😉 

 

I saw Neighbor guy once let a 30+ walleye flip off his measuring board and back into the lake that he reeled in on his  daughter’s Barbie rod.  To this day I only have to mention Barbie rod to get an eye roll out of him. 

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On 8/2/2024 at 8:56 AM, leech~~ said:

You can throw a door hinge out and catch a bass pike.

 

FIxed it for ya

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2 hours ago, gimruis said:

 

FIxed it for ya

Oh, oh Smurfy thems fighten words!  🤣🤣

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7 hours ago, leech~~ said:

Oh, oh Smurfy thems fighten words!  🤣🤣

🤣 got that right..........took him long enough!!!!!!!!🙄 at least i can eat them pike!!!!!!🤗

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