Good Mornin' NTOWS - Friday

[William H. (Bill) Barham]

ZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzz, Ahem, er, ugh, cough, cough.... Good morning everyone.. Boy, another full nights sleep. geeezzzz it feels good. I'd still be sleeping if the dogs hadn't barked at some mysterious thing. Gonna be about 82*, muggy and isolated t-storms here today. That makes it look like a good lunch and Keno day. I have to mess with my trucks ignition today too. Yesterday the key would not turn in the ignition. So I got out my usual tools, a hammer, heavy screwdriver, block of wood, etc.. After beating on it for awhile all was ok but I figure I better do it right.

Everyone have a great and safe day.



Uncle Billy

 

[Steve Hutson]

 

[Steve Hutson]

Good morning Bill and everyone. Glad your sleeping through the night Bill. Kind of strange not having you around at 0300 or 0400. I mean strange in a good way.



I'll need a pass for Saturday and Sunday. Cheryl and I are going out of town for our anniversary and my birthday.



See ya sometime Sunday evening.

Steve

 

[TOMMY RICH]

:blink:

 

[JAMES MOORE]

Morning, cloudy and suppose to rain here all day.

 

[JR F]

Morning all

 

[fatrap]

Morning

fatrap

 

[JD Johnson]

Good morning a more good news from

Bill. That's great Bill, enjoy your day.

I'm headed of to work in a little bit, I managed to put in about 5-1/2 hour yesterday.

Y'all take care and have great day

jdj

 

[TrepMan]

Good morning Bill and everyone. Just spend an hour or so driving to a lot of baitshops/gas stations putting up flyers on the Tracker, Gotta sell Tin!!



Glad you're sleeping well Bill, its ABOUT TIME and you DESERVE IT!!

 

[Dan J.]

Morning all! We finally have a front due this afternoon after 15 days of a steady high barometer. These fish have been waiting too long to explode on top!!

 

[TrepMan]

Dan - So help a brutha out, tomorrow AM after the Front, where should the fishies be??

 

[Rich D]

Afternoon all!

 

[Dan J.]

Trep - (re: Lanier) With the overcast prediction they should be roaming/surfacing just off secondary points and humps, half way back into the creeks. I'd fish (have been fishing) main lake to half way back in the creeks up river hunting schoolies. (Between G'ville Marina and Thompson Bridge / Ada and Sardis are loaded!) Biggest today just over 4lbs. on a jigging spoon slung into busting fish. The Splash-it (Pop'R) caught several solid keepers early, then it was spooning time! We're catching a mixed bag, to say the least. Stripers, whites, crappie, spots, largemouth....even catfish! Using your graph, find a blob of bait/fish and jig a spoon just above where you're marking fish. (They're feeding up to the surface.) I've been in 60-100' of water jigging a spoon as shallow as 15' deep above active fish and catching them. Threadfin are beginning to belly up everywhere! The wonderful time of year is upon us!! Good luck!

 

[TrepMan]

Dan - Thanks brutha! Not making it up to Lanier this time but i can use the basics and some reports i've seen from Triton Mike to put together something. I'd love to hook up during the week, heck maybe THIS TIME we'll take my NITRO instead of your TRACKER on Lanier during the day! Next 2 weeks are out, next week is (for a work at home stiff) a nightmare - 5 days 7am - 5pm meetings in the OFFICE down I-75 just inside the perimeter, and 4 out of the 5 nights I have night/dinner meetings! Then the following week is the week BEFORE Eli's 6th B-day (Sept 30'th) so every free moment I have when i'm not working or getting my mom and her boyfriend at the airport, is getting the yard ready for his FIRST fishing party!!! Any ideas are welcome!! I'm taking his B-day off since the party is 3-6pm on Friday 9/30!



Hope the Boys and wife are doing well, we'll hook up soon!

 

[Dan J.]

Sounds great! This pattern should hold on 'Toona as well as the upper end of Hartwell. We're heading out for Joey's soccer game then hitting the big gun show here in town. I'd love to hook up with you soon. My weekends are full with soccer and family, plus deer season started last week. (I've got to get to the cabin and unwind!!) I'm going out next week and see what's moving and make something not. (LOL!) Holler when your schedule frees up and let's play!

 

[JD Johnson]

plus deer season started last week.

Dang I about forgot, I guess I'd better get my bows out and turn the recliner toward the back door.

 

[TrepMan]

JDJ - I know the deer hunters around here hate my house, we have quite a few regularly come through my backyard, but its all Corp. of Engineer land with no Hunting allowed!! When I mean my backyard, I mean sitting at the kitchen table eating breakfast and watch a 12point buck walk w/in 20ft!! Of course we FEED the deer, so they will come by and the kids love it!!!



Only thing I shoot them with is a camera!!



Dan - see my other post, found 3 but they were tight to wood!

 

[Dan J.]

I've got a slew of deer behind my house as well that I can legally hunt, if only the boss would let me. (LOL!) Her winning argument is, "If you want to hunt these deer, I guess you don't need the cabin and land in Greene county!" That kinda trumps anything else I can grumble on the subject. I'd also hate to traumatize my little boy by gutting a deer in the back yard. Joey likes to help put out an apple lick and corn so we can watch them in the evening. I guess they're in the pet category now, especially since it would be an illegal baited hunt by every description. They make nice "eye candy" at least that get's me looking forward to the real deal!

 

[TrepMan]

We're in the same category, Dan, with the bait! What's an apple lick and where do you get them? We do the corn at this point.



Trep

 

[Dan J.]

Trep - BPS has 'em in a bunch of flavors and mfg's. (In the hunting dept.) They're basically a salt/mineral lick that's flavored. You can get corn, maple, apple, etc... for under $10. ($7-$8 on sale) They last a long time. I put one out around August each year and what hasn't been licked makes a nice scrape/rub area, year to year. It leeches into the soil well (all natural) and does fine with a yearly renewal. I use about a 50# bag of deer corn out back a year via a 4' piece of 4" PVC pipe strapped to a tree. (2" doghouse cut at bottom) I fill it once a month (give or take) and it keeps a variety of wildlife, especially deer, very happy.



I enjoy watching the critters almost as much as dropping one on occasion. (Almost! LOL!!)