fun things

Went fishing yesterday at our honey hole. No pics as I never take my phone out in the boat. I've found that they don't float. The pond is 15ish acres and the fishing is crazy good.

Anyway the fun thing was this chair made from a wire spool.  

Sweet spot!

Looks like some "shore dinners" might have happened there . That chair is awesome hahahhha a rockin good time tribute to American ingenuity .

It really is --- it's about a  mile of hay, and cornfields before you drop down into the hemlocks then to the pond.



Our farm country here in CNY is some of the most beautiful country you could ever want to see.

I never take it for granted.

Yup, that sure is purdy Camp.

What kind of fish do you have in that pond?

raisingarizona wrote

Yup, that sure is purdy Camp.

What kind of fish do you have in that pond?

gonna ask the same question...bass'n is my thing

All bass. There are WAY too many of them. They've actually stunted themselves, anything bigger than 2 lbs is now a rarity. We've  strictly gone to catch and keep, or toss on the bank to feed the coons. It's literally catch one every cast --- you'll catch 5 to 10 fish in a row then have about a 10 minute lull before getting back into them. You can't even catch a buzz due to all the fishing action. No joke!

@Warp ---- 4, 5 gallon buckets of bass yesterday

JasonWx wrote

raisingarizona wrote

Yup, that sure is purdy Camp.

What kind of fish do you have in that pond?

gonna ask the same question...bass'n is my thing

You would love it!

Oh dang.

I miss bass fishing.

Some of my fondest childhood memories are of being on the lake, especially those summer nights when the place would really come to life.

so you will post the GPS coordinates?  lol

this gives you a better idea of the size of the pond

I like my life or I would

My son wants to get back into fishing.  We added a couple rods to the dip nets and clam rakes up on the Cape.  Fishermen we are not....but we’ll catch something, eventually!  Maybe a new rod to pond fish at home.

My youngest son hasn’t wanted to fish in maybe 5 years, since.....the incident!  Cub Scout camping trip, I’m breaking down the tent in the morning......sure, go fish, have fun, what could go wrong?  Well, he starts running toward me from the bank, screaming.....DAAAAAD, OMG!!!

Then I see the slightest hestitation as his hand pulls back toward the pond.....and he starts screaming LOUDER!

Seems after a cast he got the line stuck in some weeds.  He yanks it and the hook come flying back at him, actually catches him on the inside of the pinky. Freaked him out (he was young), but it probably wasn’t at all bad when he STARTED running toward me.

That brief hesitation I mentioned earlier?  Well, he had dropped the pole and stated running toward me with the hook in his finger, but the hook and line were still attached to the pole. Once the slack was gone....YANK!  Now the hook was really set in his pinky, bad.

Now, I was never much of a scouting parent.  I guess neither were any of the other dad leaders.  Sitting around we couldn’t figure out what the hell to do, so off I went to Urgent Care.  Well, the first Urgent Care couldn’t handle it so off to Emergency we go.

Yeah, someone probably should have thought to cut the back end off the hook and then pull it through his finger.  Glad nobody did though because us soon as they did that at the E.R. blood started spurting up from his finger.  Impressive distance, for the small artery in the pinky that got nicked!

That’s our fishing story, until we get a better one with the new equipment......

They did catch and release a bass before that all happened!

JasonWx wrote

so you will post the GPS coordinates?  lol

Seems sharing the locale with a couple trusted friends could only help the situation, if the over population is stunting the fish, no?

To catch fish on the Cape.. Buy some squid for bait. Small hook and weight.  you will catch something..

OUCH!!! Poor kid --- that will make you not want to fish, don't blame him.

JTG4eva! wrote

JasonWx wrote

so you will post the GPS coordinates?  lol

Seems sharing the locale with a couple trusted friends could only help the situation, if the over population is stunting the fish, no?

Good point

but trust me it ain't gonna happen --- lol

you need a big gas guzzling 4X4 to get back in there anyway

I don't mind peddling my mt bike..just need a rod and some top water stuff..
please please please