Yes, the front has really stalled out west of us. What was supposed to be getting here about 5-6pm is now backed up until 3am. Panhandle weather…..
If this front stalls and/or slows it might make the weather less intense. With all the rain we have recently gotten in the Gainesville area there is a strong possibility of localized flooding. Are the wild fires over in the panhandle?
Well, we’re heading up to Jasper, Ga., to see Alan & Abbey and Kayla & Magnolia in the morning. Alan’s cooking Friday for their Ducks Unlimited banquet and I will be helping him so the chances are strong that I will miss our Friday game for the most part. We will celebrate Magnolia’s 4th birthday on Sunday. That being said we chose to keep the kitchen clean and the refrigerator free of leftovers. We picked up sandwiches from Fire House tonight. Packed and ready to head out in the morning. A tumbler of 1792 makes for good sleep tonight. Life is good in Gator Nation!
Making chicken tinga for tacos tonight. It is really cool that Americans are now starting to think that tacos are not just Taco Bell. Tacos are fantastic and diverse. And "hard shell" is not non-authentic. There are authentic hard shell tacos.
Well with the other ones you need to make sure that all of the shot is accounted for. Nearly cracked a tooth once.
My older cousin on my father's side was married to a hunter. He specialized in duck hunting. He had Newfoundland dogs and they were big and strong and crazy, but they could bring a duck home with a very soft mouth. Those dogs were never in the house. They were hunting tools and not pets.
Speaking of dogs for hunting and dogs for pets we had a wonderful American Foxhound as a family pet. I was suspect about bringing a hunting dog into our house as a pet because they are not bred to be pets, but my son was doing service at our local Humane Society and this dog needed a home and my son liked him and nobody else was willing to take this dog on. He turned out to be a great pet to my surprise. I do have a way with dogs.
Quite different in flavor too. I love duck hunting, but not very fond of the meat. Wild duck is very dark red meat and very gamey. Farm raised is not as gamey. Way more greasy though. We usually smoked our breasts. Occasionally made poppers, stuffed in a jalapeño with cream cheese and wrapped in bacon. No doubt on the cracked tooth! I always warn to take small bites and chew gently. Lol. I only remember a pellet making it all the way to the plate once or twice though.
Farm raised is less gamey for sure. But I don't mind meat tasting gamey if it was game meat. It is part of the deal. I actually like wild duck. It doesn't need as much smoke.
I had a few buddies whose dogs were kennel all the time, working dogs. Had a few that were house dogs. And had a few that spent the offseason in the house, but duck season in the kennel. Best one I ever hunted with was an inside the house, went EVERYWHERE with the owner, dog. She won her fair share of medals in field comps too. She could mark multiple downed birds without breaking a sweat, and she was amazing at finding one that had made its way to shore and found a good hiding spot. Went with a dog one time that slept the whole hunt, and would look at you like an idiot when you shot and woke him up. No interest in hunting at all, and the poor owner had spent about 5k having him trained. Lol
I’ve eaten my fair share. I had a lady who had a son with some kind of food allergy who I gave a ton of meat to over the years. I haven’t been hunting since moving back to florida. The old duck rig is an inshore fishin machine now, and it works out great cause I like eating fish a lot more!
Depends on the fish and the bird. I am more of a fan of cold water freshwater fish than warm water fresh water fish. Florida bream is OK but Wisconsin cold water walleye is as good as grouper.
Saltwater inshore. Reds, trout, snook, snapper, flounder, drum, sheepshead, etc. I don’t do much inland fishing for fresh water fish. Don’t know why, just doesn’t interest me as much. Lot of diving ducks around here, and I don’t like cleaning or eating them, or a merganser, them things are nasty. In texas, we got a lot more puddle ducks. Mallards, teal, wood ducks, they’re all easy to clean and have better tasting meat, imo.
Some dogs are outliers. I had a Dalmatian that in obedience training had everything down before the class was over. The guy running the class had competitive field trial dogs. He told me that I had a very special dog and could kick ass with her. She was special. Well she hated traveling by car so that would never happen. She almost always puked driving to the UF campus for her classes. Good and smart dog, though.
All great eating fish. Way back in the 60's I used to catch a lot of mangrove snappers for eating. Not a lot of meat on each fish, but very tasty. I used to fish in Estero Bay for them and they were plentiful back then. Drum was not high on my list for good tasting fish, but it was OK. Sheepshead was always under appreciated. I would fish for them near pilings hoping to land a cobia. Not disappointed in landing a sheepshead. Back in the 60's reds were considered as trash fish. Then that damned NOLA chef blackened them and it was game over. And snook is a delight to eat and catch. I always used light tackle as a personal challenge.
I like all the drums, small ones anyway. Prefer the reds closer to the bottom of the slot than the top. Black drum are fine, but only when they still look like sheepshead. Whiting eat good too. They all taste about the same to me. I like blackened if we only catch one or two, but more often than not, we do a fish fry and invite a crowd. Interesting fact I didn’t know until recently, sea trout are actually a drum. More closely related to a redfish than an inland brown or rainbow trout.
