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earthwalker
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posted July 13, 2019 05:01 AM
A late night is 10:30..
Love watching lightning but the staying up to do it.
Looks like another night of it coming in.
Watching a big cloud growing down by Burns Junction already this morning.
Vale district has 3 fires down there from last night.
Shoshone district has a couple 3 and we got one little tiny thing that the local rural's jumped on then called us.
a tenth of a acre and I was trying to look through a rain storm for it.
I'm not a night person I prefer mornings. ![[Razz]](tongue.gif)
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NVWalt
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posted July 13, 2019 05:20 AM
When we had lightening shows in Nevada the wife and I would go up into the Pine Nut range and watch the BLM boys go chase the fires that started from it. Good show from both parties, BLM and lightening.
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Paul Melching
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posted July 13, 2019 07:58 AM
On a good night when we got our party on we stay up till way past 7:30 !
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earthwalker
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posted July 13, 2019 08:48 AM
I can make it to 9:30 but 10:30 is pushing it. LOL
Had a nice cell move through left a stace of precipitation. Cooled things down. Nice for now.
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Kokopelli
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posted July 13, 2019 09:24 AM
Still waiting for a proper lightening / monsoon storm to come thru. All around us so far but nothing to speak of yet ………….
This time of year; up early, 4:a.m.-ish. Nice and cool outside and the sunrises...……. oh the sunrises !!!
Middle of the day; It's flat out hot. The Mexicans got it right; Siesta time !!!!
Evenings it cools down a bit. Time for a sundowner on the patio under the misting system watching the sunset.
Life is good !!! ![[Cool]](cool.gif)
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Leonard
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posted July 13, 2019 10:12 AM
I've been fortunate to spend time down along the southern border and watching the monsoons coming up out of Mexico. Especially at night, the light shows are awesome. To me, it's just exciting, it's visceral, it's elemental. You might get rained on and you might not. If you do, it's no big deal but stay out of the washes. And, I love the frogs, it's magic to see them suddenly hopping all over the place, some by piggyback. By the next afternoon, they are all gone. And, you might need a few "go arounds" blaze a new trail.
Good hunting. El Bee
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Paul Melching
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posted July 14, 2019 03:15 AM
Always up by four sometimes a little earlier fraid I'm gonna miss something ! Not much monsoon as yet maybe Aug.
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Leonard
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posted July 14, 2019 06:44 AM
I think you deserve to sleep in, once in a while! If anyone needs a beauty sleep, it's you! I'm kind of amazed at the things you do. Take it easy!
Good hunting. El Bee
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earthwalker
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posted July 14, 2019 07:16 AM
Another long night. Was up until 10 on the clock then raced down to take a quick shower and fell into bed. Kept waking up about every hour until just before 0100. The thunder rolled me out of bed it was on top on the mountain. Raced around shutting windows. At first couldn't tell if it was cloud to ground or cloud to cloud. Had some dumb idiots standing out in the parking lot. One gal screamed at the lightning/thunder. It was that close. Was going to yell at them to get the hell out of here! They took off. Stood and watched the storm until it passed.
As for the monsoon season it sounds like it might be August or it might not happen at all. According to Greg Soule~ on the farm weather report.
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Cdog911
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posted July 14, 2019 05:53 PM
I kinda feel bad for them cajuns in Looz-ana. They're getting all our shit from way back to January. Started with that bomb cyclone up in Nebraska. All that melted and started running down the Platte and Kansas Rivers when the rain started on us and caused all kinds of flooding across Kansas that flowed down the Smoky Hill, Kaw and Republican Rivers to the Kansas that then went into the Missouri where it flooded out those border ruffian, Show-Me, ne'er-do-wells and on into the Mississippi (you know you sang it) River just in time to run headlong into the first hurricane to ever make landfall at the mouth of the Mighty Mississip. Talk about shitty luck. ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
Mu neighbor runs a spray rig for the local ag cooperative. Big assed machine. Said he got sent to do a burn down spray on an uncut wheatfield that had so much green weeds - sunflowers and amaranth - coming up that the combines couldn't cut it. Said he got to going and the machine was pulling so hard that he thought he had hit a wet spot and was fixing to get stuck. Black diesel smoke rolling out as the spray rig bore down on its ponies. He dismounted to find a solid way out when he realized that the bindweed in the wheat had entangled his wheels so badly that it had all but brought him to a stop. That's a lot of bindweed.
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Kokopelli
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posted July 14, 2019 05:54 PM
NO !!!! ………………… Do NOT take it easy !!!!
You take it easy too long and they put you in a box & bury you.
Make plans.
DO something.
Repeat.
This morning I won a Traditional Archery Shoot.
This afternoon I was paddling my canoe thru white-caps on Roosevelt.
You can have excuses or results …………………. not both.
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Leonard
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posted July 15, 2019 07:36 AM
Lake Roosevelt! I have driven along the east side many times and looked at all the nice coves. Makes your mouth drool! Also, from the air, it's an impressive piece of water, it must be teeming with bass?
Good hunting. El Bee
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Kokopelli
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posted July 15, 2019 07:46 AM
Never fished it with rod & reel. Just bowfishing for rough fish. The catfishing is supposed to be very good with some huge flathead cats & decent channel cats.
They've made it such a pain in the ass to get the Tonto Pass though that I doubt I'll go back anytime soon. We have a lot of lakes to go to believe it or not.
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Paul Melching
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posted July 15, 2019 08:18 AM
I used to just stop at the Quick Trip for a tonto pass on my way up. Nice flatheads up where the Salt river empties in over the rapids. Channel cat bout everywhere , great crappie also !
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Leonard
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posted July 15, 2019 11:19 AM
Never been interested in catfish, I cut them off if I happen to snag one. For the size of that lake there has to be largemouth bass. We have a few lakes, like Isabella, that has huge crappies, over 2 pounds! Lake Skinner, I think that's Riverside County? has red ear blue gill over 2 pounds, if you can yank them out of all the submerged tree branches, not an easy thing.
What the hell is a tonto pass?
Good hunting. El Bee
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Paul Melching
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posted July 15, 2019 02:42 PM
Its like a parking pass for the tonto ntl forest any improved site you need one. I park on the side of the road and hike in to fish the salt river no pass needed. Catfish is great eating Leonard People bitch about skinning and cleaning them I make two fillet cuts and toss the rest quick and simple not to mention delicious !
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Cdog911
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posted July 15, 2019 07:04 PM
Best eating around. Of course, those blue gill are great table fare, as well. 2#'s would be a blast.
We just filet cats with knife and a pair of pliers. My grandma used to do it easy. Toss them in the kitchen sink and pour boiled water over them. Makes the skin peel right up. Grandma didn't even bother to make sure they were dead yet. LOL More than once, we had flopping catfish on the kitchen floor. She was salty like that.
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Leonard
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posted July 15, 2019 08:18 PM
If it weren't for the bones, I'd guess fried bluegill, pumpkinseed, sunfish are just about the tastiest fish there is. I'm from Minnesota and all they talk about up there is Walleye, walleye, walleye! But i used to like to eat what I would catch and that was yellow perch and sunfish. I was just a kid. But we never had two pounders! Even a one pound sunfish is a scrappy fighter.
One time I had a bunch of people over for a fish fry and we had Large Mouth Bass and Calico Bass. The Calico were preferred over the Largemouth by a wide margin. For you folks in Flyover country, Calico's are a very common local salt water fish, off the coast.
Good hunting. El Bee
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Paul Melching
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posted July 15, 2019 11:15 PM
As a young man we would launch from the beaches of So. Cal.in a little aluminum boat we called the S.S.
Reynolds wrap and venture out to the kelp patties for calico bass. not the smartest move in a 12ft, boat but loads of adventure . One weekend we were fishing off Malibu upon returning we heard the news of two kayaker's being taken by a great white sent chills it was only a few miles from us l
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Kokopelli
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posted July 16, 2019 04:33 AM
Small world, Paul.
A co-worker & I once rented a skiff at Malibu and spent the day drifting the kelp beds with bass rods casting for mackerel. We were using our least favorite freshwater lures & the fish didn't care.
I'm here to tell you, one doesn't just rip the lips off of a mackerel and reel it in like they do in the bass fishing tournaments. Quite sporty on freshwater spinning gear. Every once in a while the rod would get hit really hard while fighting a fish & the line would go limp. Jerry would just casually say "Shark" and we would tie on another disposable lure.
We got funny looks bringing back mackerel but Jerry's cats loved 'em.
Ah, the memories. Used to hunt deer up in the mountains above Malibu, too.
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Paul Melching
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posted July 16, 2019 08:38 AM
On a bad day we lose as many as we caught to seals !
Lots a deer up there in them hills !
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Leonard
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posted July 16, 2019 11:57 AM
Yeah, aren't they, (deer) collared? I know the lions are.
Targeting mackerel instead of calicos? I assume Spanish Mackerel?
I never fished that far north. Mostly Davy's Locker, Newport, Corona Del Mar. They rent fiberglass boats with a bait well, and give you a half a scoop of anchovies. You will catch something! Using razor clams or mussel changes the yield completely. We used to tote an ice chest, maybe a few beers? All in all, a quiet fun day on the water. And, never crowded.
Good hunting. El Bee
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Kokopelli
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posted July 16, 2019 07:46 PM
Been a few decades since I was up there. Didn't see any collared deer & it was before the Mt. Lions took over. Did see quite a few bucks between Pepperdine & the old MASH site that would make the 'Book'.
The fishing was just a couple of guys out goofing off.
Good old days gone by.
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