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Manhattan, IL
Quoted from punkin:The only fish i want to chase if i come to the States. I have a mate in Florida too.
If i went to Alaska or Canada it would be Halibut.
You should visit northern Norway for good halibut too.
Quoted from RWH:You going after one of those Tarpon Jay?
My cousin grew up down here and he laughed when I asked about Tarpon, “I only tarpon fish with the tourists, I’ve caught about 1,000”, he only likes to fish for what he eats now. The largest Tarpon tournament in the world is about 1 mile from Useppa, George HW fishes it every year.
Quoted from RWH:Well at the very least fish for some of their hybrid largemouth, they are huge down there like the ones in Texas. Your cousin probably fishes for grouper and redfin to eat.
Snook is what he’s usually after
Quoted from Frogman:Orleans, MA.
That is a very well composed picture - looks like it would make a great 500 piece puzzle!
Quoted from ReadyPO:That is a very well composed picture - looks like it would make a great 500 piece puzzle!
Thanks. That’s a great idea!
Woolgoolga
Quoted from TractorDoc:Running a new piece of conduit to upgrade the garage wiring. . . making it a more "pin-friendly" environment.
This is just the first section(s) -- I had to dig another 50 feet beyond.
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Ugh... I rented a trench digger to run a line to my shed. Over 100' and 20+ feed of solid roots. Went like butter until I hit the roots...then a buried metal fence, rocks, etc...Fun times
Quoted from Irishbastard:Ugh... I rented a trench digger to run a line to my shed. Over 100' and 20+ feed of solid roots. Went like butter until I hit the roots...
I hear you. Shortly after the pic I started catching the roots from a large maple tree and that really slowed my progress. I have a trencher attachment that would have been great for this project but they always tear the ground up so much. . . with the shovel approach I was able to drop the grass plugs back in after backfilling and hopefully have the yard back to normal in a month or two. Add in the fact that the original wiring to the garage is a single piece of #12 romex buried somewhere (powered off while digging) -- I did not want to get that all tangled up in the chain.
I kept thinking that I'm getting too old for this sort of stuff while shoveling -- Oh wait, that is for another thread. 
Quoted from zombywoof:This just struck me as so absurd. Acres of parking lot, but this guy has found his spot.
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Thats his spot.
Quoted from golfingdad1:Tuesday night at the range again .
Let me guess, you're a Kolar guy? Perhaps Krieghoff? 
Quoted from bssbllr:Everyone wishes they had a private lake.
Atleast I do. And it would've been been full of fish.
Quoted from Spyderturbo007:Let me guess, you're a Kolar guy? Perhaps Krieghoff?
Well, not exactly.
I call it my Rat Rod Gun , its a borrowed pieced together modified pump 12gauge. Like a $200 gun, but I usually score as good or better than the guys with those spendy guns .
Quoted from Jaybird815:The most chill puppy I’ve ever seen
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You got yourself a water dog right there.
Our neighbors growing up had a big ole golden , Teddy, He literally lived in the pool. Well one day the neighbor Cathy calls my mom to see if we had seen Teddy . Mom responds , well no the boys are sitting in the jacuzzi . Come to find out an hour later ONE of the boys heads in the Jacuzzi was actually Teddy the neighbors dog . He just came over and hopped in with us, and mom looking from the kitchen couldn't really tell who was who .
Quoted from zombywoof:This just struck me as so absurd. Acres of parking lot, but this guy has found his spot.
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We had a female that began nesting at our shooting range at work. She was on top of the berm.
When we would head out to the firing line, the male would fly away. We would begin shooting and the female stayed there to protect her nest. When we were done shooting the male would return. Pretty impressive to see a goose hunker down 50/25/15/5 yards away from rifles, handguns and shotguns being shot.
I'll have to get a picture next time.
Mother and her two fawns.
Mom is just heading into the trees with babies following behind.
We live on a fairly busy street in center of town.
2 acres behind us, used to be empty lot with meadow & a few trees .
but now currently has about a dozen townhomes going up, (lots of racket);
so surprized they still found their way into our yard.
Not the best photo but subjects would not co-operate and hold still.
deer and fawn IMG_20200810_095848 (resized).jpgQuoted from pinwiztom:Mother and her two fawns.
Mom is just heading into the trees with babies following behind.
We live on a fairly busy street in center of town.
2 acres behind us, used to be empty lot with meadow & a few trees .
but now currently has about a dozen townhomes going up, (lots of racket);
so surprized they still found their way into our yard.
Not the best photo but subjects would not co-operate and hold still.
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Sucks that every inch is getting developed 
Quoted from punkin:We had a good hailstorm a couple years ago. 50mm is 2", so they are 2" across.
Damn hail that size could kill you. We have hail here in the Cincy area but rarely anything nearing that size.
Quoted from RWH:Damn hail that size could kill you. We have hail here in the Cincy area but rarely anything nearing that size.
Everything in Australia can kill you.
Golf balls are the usual description you hear so often, but you rarely see them actually that big. This was one of the rare ones.
Quoted from punkin:Golf balls are the usual description you hear so often, but you rarely see them actually that big. This was one of the rare ones.
Only seen ones that big once, unfortunately it was while I was out biking. Got pelted a bit before I was able to run up on to somebody's porch. Very nice people in a fancy neighborhood. They even brought me a towel and offered drinks. Storm only lasted probably less than 5 minutes and I was on my way.
This was @JoshODbrowns post a few months back in Calgary. Every few years a massive storm rips thru the city with golf to baseball sized hail. Rips apart siding, smashes car windows, destroys crops.
The area between calgary and red deer is known as hail alley. Just last week there was reports of tennis ball sized hail by the Alberta/Saskatchewan border.
hqdefault.jpgAnd they happen so fast. Passes in usually just few minutes. Here's our lawn a couple years back. Avoided the huge hail balls. The wife just finished growing and planting all her flowers. Destroyed everything in minutes. All our vegetables and plants were toast.
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