Red Sky at Morn

[BarryBobPosthole]

....sailors be warned!

Birddog and I are still gonna fish today. Right now its clear and 34, but it’ll get to 60 today. We don’t get that many chances to fish in our typically grey February.

Besides, we’re taking his boat today so he has to deal with it. I’m just gonna point and laugh and make sure to log the Crazy Ivans.

BKB

[johnboy]

Hope you catch a bunch! :fishing

[Arty]

I bet the trip report lacks pics, but not good stories!


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[Thumper]

He might try to slip a pic in here. Prolly the same ol' pic of P-hole holding Cappy's bass. ;)

[Arty]

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He stole cappys hat, so I wouldn’t put anything past him.


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[airbud7]

glad to see Barry finally come around to his senses^....MAGA!

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[BarryBobPosthole]

Didn’t do worth a shit fishing. Purty day though. And Birddog only managed two Crazy Ivans in the wind. A pretty nice day except every time the sun went behind a cloud it seems like the wind kicked up and made us put our gloves back on. Its raining and a raw 47 degrees right now. But at least we got outside for the day!

BKB

[Chicken Dinner]

I got skunked Sunday as well and am zero for 2020. I did check February off my list and am still good on my New Year’s resolution to fish in every month this year. I did see a bald eagle soaring above me and a few small bass cruising the shallows. So, spring seems to be coming a bit early this year.


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[BarryBobPosthole]

Every time I see a baldy, I just can’t believe how well they’ve come back. They’re a common sight around here nowadays. And there are still people who will swear DDT didn’t have a thing to do with the raptor decline!

BKB

[Thumper]

As a kid who spent a lot of time in the woods, I never saw one around here. Now, they're very common ... in fact, there's a nest within walking distance from my house. Yep P-hole, not believing the DDT thing would be a hard argument IMO ... some people are just dense.

Same with alligators down here. Growing up, I could spot eyes on the lake in more remote areas with a light at night, but never saw one in the wild during the day. They had been hunted to near extinction when I was a kid. They became protected and hunting was banned when I was like 10 years old, but these days, we have a legal hunting season and about any mud puddle in town has at least one gator in it. The lakes and rivers are full of them and they're usually just layin' out sunning on the banks when you drive by.

[Arty]

Every time I see a baldy, I just can’t believe how well they’ve come back. They’re a common sight around here nowadays. And there are still people who will swear DDT didn’t have a thing to do with the raptor decline!

BKB

One of y’all tell me what DDT did.
I guess I’m not old enough to know.
I know ddt is an insecticide that’s now banned.

Before being a preacher, my dad was a bug man for terminex. He said there was nothing better in the world for termites.



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[BarryBobPosthole]

It thinned the egg shells so the nests failed.

There were a lot of folks who denied the science. Sound familiar?

Once it was banned the eagles made a comeback.

They still deny the science. One of those pesky regulations.

Oh well!
BKB

[Arty]

From the bugs they were eating?
I never knew that!


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[BarryBobPosthole]

I don’t know how many bugs they ate, but it got them. it was banned in ‘72 in the US but US companies continued to manufacture and export it for a long time. Its a killer and scientists and environmentalists had been warning about it since 50’s. Lasts 20- 30 years in soil and water.

We’d fuck up a wet dream for a dollar.

Now we’re doing it with phosphates. They stay for thousands of years in soil and rivers.

BKB

[Chicken Dinner]

It was hell on bugs though![emoji6]


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[johnboy]

Makes you wonder about the effects of the other ten thousand or so man made compounds that we smear on our bodies, ingest in our food and water, breath in our air and dump into the environment every day. We're awash in this stuff and nobody knows what the long term effect will be. Much more concerning to me than 'global climate change' but that's just me.

[BarryBobPosthole]

Yup. Purty much.

BKB

[BarryBobPosthole]

Yup. Purty much.

BKB

[Thumper]

P-hole’s still trying to get his post count up. ;)