Strange But True Outdoor Tales

[BarryBobPosthole]

Memorable stuff happens, but when it happens outdoors the intensity level is turned up to 11.

One of the more bizarre events happened to my bro in law and I on Dogtooth Lake in NW Ontario. We were night trolling for trophy walleyes on a big mile long lake basin we call the Milk Run. It was about 1:00am and the night was crystal clear and there was a full moon you could read by. We were finishing up and the big cisco bait balls the walleyes were chasing had dispersed to chase whatever prey they go for. When we stopped to reel everything up it was dead quiet. A really nice summer night on a Canadian lake is like breathing air that was just invented. Anyways, all of the sudden big grasshoppers started dropping out of the sky and before you know it big yellow grasshoppers were raining g down all over the place. First thing did was grab topwaters and start casting. Strangest thing, not a swirl did we see. It lasted about five minutes . next morning there was no sign of any grasshoppers anywhere.
I still don’t know how that happened. But it did.

BKB

[Hombre]

How drunk were you?

[quercus alba]

Probably a warning that one or maybe both of you needed to mend your ways. You didn't happen to see an old grey bearded man in a robe with a staff hanging around did you?

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[Big Muddy]

I think somebody turned ya'lls water cooler into wine coolers.

[BarryBobPosthole]

How drunk were you?

No, that was the Night of the Two Moons!

BKB

[Big Skyz]

I have no explanation for that. I spend a lot of time outside and I can't really think of anything particularly strange that I have encountered. I hear and read about stuff all the time like Big Foot sightings, strange creatures, odd encounters, aliens, UFO's and such, but as of yet everything for me has been pretty straight forward. Granted I have seen a few things in the night sky that were unidentifiable by me, but that just means I didn't know what it was, but not necessarily a UFO to the rest of the world. Again, nothing that has really mysteriously spooked me or left me confounded though. I say mysteriously, because I'm adamantly against any snake encounter, but there is nothing mysterious about that I HATE THEM!!!

[Bwana]

I've never heard of such a thing, but then again not many folks chasing walleyes around in the middle of nowhere, long after dark either.

[airbud7]

I just had a fried bologna sandwich with mayo and tomato....God I miss back when.

[Thumper]

I’ve seen it in Vegas, but they don’t disappear overnight. I think they pile in for a few days (or a week maybe? Can’t remember.) My dad lived in Vegas for many years and a lot of times, he’d go to my place in LA for the weekend and I’d stay at his place! I have a buddy who still lives there. I think it was 5-6 years ago, he said they were piled so high, they could have bull dozed the streets to clear them out.


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[Big Muddy]

About 40 years ago, I witnessed a squirrel migration.....literally, hundreds maybe even thousands of them, were moving en masse thru the trees and on the ground.....they were totally oblivious to my presence.....I later heard that they will sometimes do that when they have totally decimated the food sources in their range of occupation.

[BarryBobPosthole]

One of my uncles witnessed one of those in Arkansas and told me about it. You were in the right place at the right time!

BKb

[Chicken Dinner]

I wish they’d migrate their a$$es out of my tomato patch. Last year I got one cherry tomato out of 8 tomato plants! They don’t even wait until they start to ripen any more. If they ever take a hankering to peppers, I’m going to have to take lethal action.


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[Penguin]

Muddy I have wanted to see one of those since I first read about them as a kid. I thought they were make believe for a while. I'm super jealous. Squirrels are an amazing animal.

Craziest thing I ever saw was that brawl between two deer herds a few years ago. I saw it and still don't believe it. 😊

[Chicken Dinner]

BM, I’m limited to a Red Rider here in suburbia. All that does is make them scared of me when I’m out there. Dog’s gotten so old he’s not much help either.


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[Bwana]

My garden nemesis are the always-reproducing cottontails, but have found the 12g to be a good deterrent. Last year I shot somewhere in the mid-30's of them. This year so far it is only about 5, but two of them were this week.

[Big Muddy]

One of my uncles witnessed one of those in Arkansas and told me about it. You were in the right place at the right time!

BKb

My encounter with the squirrel migration occurred in the Big Black River swamps southeast of Vicksburg, MS.....ask Thump about the weird happenings around the Vicksburg area; that was his stomping ground back in his wild youth days.

[BarryBobPosthole]

My encounter with the squirrel migration occurred in the Big Black River swamps southeast of Vicksburg, MS.....ask Thump about the weird happenings around the Vicksburg area; that was his stomping ground back in his wild youth days.

Interesting. The one my uncle talked about was near Monticello, Ark which isn’t too far from there. The best I could do about when wouldn’t be accurate. He was active in Ark in the early 60’s and hunted and fished a lot. Move from there in the 70’s to Oklahoma.
BKB