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Post by osprey on Mar 15, 2007 12:07:14 GMT -5
Bass are active! We feed the fish in my Dad's pond, call it the acre aquarium, and lots of bass have been active the past few days, few big bluegills too. Took a bucket of minnows out of the tide ditch trap and threw in to them, they hammered 'em like they hadn't eaten all winter. Great when it's still this cool - the water is clear enough to see them 12' down. Be time to get the pellet food out and start feeding the 'gills and catfish at dusk. Pretty neat to watch them all slurping on the surface in the twilight.
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Post by BIG FOX on Mar 15, 2007 12:16:14 GMT -5
i love pan fish
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Post by osprey on Mar 15, 2007 12:23:17 GMT -5
He's got some bluegills in there as big as pans! Looking at them from above they're about an inch and a half thick. Started a few crappies in there last year, and he had the second round of catfish put in last fall. Only two left, a blue and a white, from the first try 6 years ago. I think some got out during the Isabel floods. We had crabs in there after that, and there is still one white perch, too!
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Post by THE DEER HUNTER on Mar 15, 2007 12:34:48 GMT -5
I think aquariums are neat, especially big ones! I've got 4 or 5 at home, nothing that big though.
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Post by osprey on Mar 15, 2007 13:11:47 GMT -5
The bass are like a trained circus. Walk around the perimeter and they'll follow you all the way around, waiting for minnows or frogs. Walk up to the edge and you can see wakes coming across the shallows! When I was a kid we used to swim in there (well, I just held onto a raft, still can't swim) and you could put goggles on and they'd come look you in the eyes. Some years I've had them eating minnows out of my fingers - great fun when you've got a guest and they don't believe that fish will come up and grab them, I've heard some interesting shrieks!! - - - Probably about like Hardcore when he's attacked while shedhunting or noodling for groundhogs. ;D
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Post by busco on Mar 15, 2007 13:14:12 GMT -5
my buddy said he caught two bass in allens fresh yesterday.
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Post by BuckMaster on Mar 15, 2007 13:15:38 GMT -5
You live on the EASTERN shore and cant swim? Whats-up with that?
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Post by osprey on Mar 15, 2007 15:42:17 GMT -5
You live on the EASTERN shore and cant swim? Whats-up with that? It's a time honored Eastern Shore tradition. My grandpop can't swim (and he was in the navy), my Uncle can't swim, heck, most watermen can't swim. I've been on a 2 month, 400 mile paddle trip up the eastern side of the Chesapeake Bay in a 14' canoe and can't swim. Figure if I ever fall in, within 10 minutes I'll learn or it won't bother me after that...
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Post by THE DEER HUNTER on Mar 15, 2007 15:54:26 GMT -5
My dad can't swim either & he's out on the boat with me all the time. There's really not much to it though.....you just move your arms & legs.
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Post by THE DEER HUNTER on Mar 15, 2007 15:55:19 GMT -5
Do you ever try to catch any of these fish, or are they strictly pets?
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Post by branson on Mar 15, 2007 17:00:28 GMT -5
You live on the EASTERN shore and cant swim? Whats-up with that? It's a time honored Eastern Shore tradition. ...Figure if I ever fall in, within 10 minutes I'll learn or it won't bother me after that... Ain't it the truth. I swim like a rock and have been around water all my life. Heck, I'm even going to school for fisheries ecology. When I fall in I'll learn real quick...
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Post by Hardcorehunter on Mar 15, 2007 20:17:31 GMT -5
Deer hunter, I love your instructions to new swimmers "you just move your arms & legs". I keep thinking of a kid in a pool with the intructor telling him that while he is drowning. Thanks for the good chuckle Deer Hunter. Didn't have time to scream with the groundhog (but I would have)
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Post by THE DEER HUNTER on Mar 15, 2007 22:43:35 GMT -5
Thanks, Hardcore, but if you really think about it, that's all there is to it...... Just so good ole Osprey doesn't drown, let me clarify that one a bit. Just move your arms and legs in a fish-like motion; that is, pretend you are a fish and your arms and legs are fins moving through the water... Here are some more detailed instructions: "The human body is composed primarily of water, and thus has a very similar density to water. Roughly, 70% of the body is water; while the lungs are filled with the air, the body is slightly less dense than the surrounding water, which exerts a buoyant force on it. Thus staying afloat requires only a slight propelling of water downward relative to the body, and transverse motion only a slight propelling of water in a direction opposite to the direction of intended motion. This propelling is accomplished by using the hands and forearms as paddles, and by kicking the legs to push water away from the body (though kicking accounts for relatively little overall). Since salt water (e.g., the ocean) is denser than fresh water (e.g., most swimming pools), less effort is required to stay afloat in salt water than in fresh water." electronically accessed 03/15/2007 from: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SwimmingSounds like you'll have a better chance testing that out on the "Eastern Shore", rather than in a swimming pool.
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Post by branson on Mar 16, 2007 11:00:53 GMT -5
So Deer Hunter, if I jump in the water and I do that I'll live?
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Post by THE DEER HUNTER on Mar 16, 2007 11:32:12 GMT -5
I can't guarantee anything, but hopefully.
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