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  1. Smartmouthwoman

    Smartmouthwoman Bless your heart Past Donor

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    Same here. I can do canned tuna or salmon croquettes... but not fresh tuna or straight salmon. I got hold of a mud cat once that nearly turned me against catfish... but managed to overcome that awful experience. :fishing:
     
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    I collect rain for my hobby. I could use about 2000 gallons to get me through the dry spell we all know is coming. I put together a "tank" made from a pond liner and reclaimed lumber. I also rebuilt my filter pond. The new "tank" is about 535 gallons and my filter pond is over 400 gallons but it doesn't leak. The filter pond always leaked so I framed up a pond inside of it and used a pond liner. I have an old pool... about a thousand gallons with just plants. For now it will be a water storage/backup pond. It is about a quarter full and the water is clear. Got some Cabomba growing in it and I want it to grow. But can use it for water changes... bad water in... good water out.
     
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    I wish that I could remember the name. There is a place out your way that serves up some good catfish. I just can't remember. Sorry.
     
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    When I lived in Indianapolis I fried some White River Carp. OMG!!!!! NASTY!!!!
     
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    Don't want to eat out till I can enjoy it.
     
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    20200606_171213.jpg Red Swamp Crayfish. 20200606_171101.jpg Cabomba.
     
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    Somewhere, I have some late 1990s Super8 footage of my 2 oldest sons storming out of the Alamo with their pump action pop guns driving Mexican pigeons away. My oldest is 26 and in the military now.
     
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    The only fish I wont eat is raw fish. If its cooked, I will eat it. I will eat snails and eels too. Delicious stuff.
     
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    Have you ever tried cod or flounder?
     
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    Both are excellent. I prefer flounder as first choice and cod is a good second. Fresh gigged flounder is wonderful.
     
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    We use to catch flounders off the breakers. Snapper blues, blue fish, strippers all fresh caught. Then go home and clean what we caught and have an excellent dinner. All the guts we buried in the garden. We didn't waste anything. Fresh water we would catch, small and large mouth bass, perch, trout, catfish. We never took the sunnies. Such good times and great eating.
     
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    Yes, I like most all fish besides fresh tuna, salmon or swordfish (fish w the texture of steak. Weird!) My favs are redfish, snapper or trout. Although I had a memorable piece of mahi-mahi (char grilled) in Hawaii. Yum! :hungry:

    All this talk about fish is making me hungry for seafood. I baked some cod the other night, but I like fish better if somebody else cooks it. :alcoholic:
     
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    What I am doing... and have done for years is try to get the most food production out of the least amount of space, and sometimes people live in an area with little sun and poor or no soil. That is where the fish come in. The possibility of one pound of fish in 10 gallons of water means 50 pounds of fish in a 6 x 4 pond 3 feet deep. But I won't stock that heavy because I want the system to clean itself. That's where the plants come in and... You can eat at least part of the plants. What I didn't figure .... and that's where experiments come in.... the amount of food a bluegill will eat. I feed them by hand.
     
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    Oh, jeez. How I miss Lake Erie Perch. I'm going to have to find out if they're safe to eat yet.
     
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    We had them in our lakes in northern Indiana. Pretty sure if you buy yellow perch you will pay.
     
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    I don’t do a lot of tuna because of the pollution. I stick to creatures lower on the food chain. For instance, eating a few sardines vs eating a fish that has eaten thousands of sardines. The higher up the food chain the higher the exposure.
     
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    Ya but some fish are soooo good! I used to catch these Northern Pickeral I don't think anybody but me ate them. Clean white flesh and the backbone with all the bones came right out. Definitely a predator.
     
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    I totally agree. It’s just something to keep in the back of your mind. Everything in moderation.
     
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    We were shown how chemical pollutants build up in a predator by concentrating chemicals from prey. That was elementary biology.... but interesting. If I control the predator diet what then?
     
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    Hmmm. Interesting thought.
    I wasn’t looking to dive too deep down the rabbit hole over this. Just be mindful of what you eat.
     
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    We re getting some rain from Cristobal this morning, he sure is a sloppy storm. Orlando got a tornado that just missed some protesters around Lake Eola. They can keep the tornadoes don't mind the rain hate the tornadoes.
     
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    Think I got an ID on my other crayfish species. It is a common Appalachian crawdad. Notice the "horns" under the eyes. bill_hubick_47709548931_ed8593f302_b.jpg
     
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    Let me take a gander.Yer agin' Broccoli also.
    Possibly Cauliflower.And definitely Brussel Sprouts.
    And Asparagus ... Furgid about it { Italian saying }.
     
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    Agin' ... always makes for a good Sci-Fi Classic.
    Big Lobsters or Crabs or posters dressing up for Sunday Mass.
     
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