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Post by octrophies on Oct 10, 2016 7:30:24 GMT -5
solid bow kill, congrats
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Post by octrophies on Jun 5, 2016 6:42:46 GMT -5
What area of Indiana do you hunt? I've got some good spots around Parke and Johnson County. I need to get back in it, for sure.
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Post by octrophies on Apr 27, 2016 5:41:17 GMT -5
Nice video and congrats Sam. Your "hooked" now
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Post by octrophies on Feb 16, 2016 9:20:40 GMT -5
Well, that just stinks. They close the one area there that has been upgraded with a concrete ramp, etc? And what the heck is "wetland mitigation?" Sounds like Peabody found a way to get some fed money to me. Hopefully they'll stock Airline with more trout or find another local pit to stock next spring. I work with an environment firm that does wetland mitigation for mostly private developers. At least in my experience, the developers are ordered to mitigate for ground they are developing in existing wetland or floodway fringe areas (so they pay for it all). So, they pay around $15k/acre to buy easements from private land owners to reclaim their floodway or wetland areas that are usually in crops (this area could be anywhere suitable). Then, the environmental firm does plantings and some minor excavation usually. I write the easements and do the staking for the extents of the mitigation area. I have one client (the private land owner) that has made a ton of money of his crop field next to a creek in the floodway. The areas are supposed to be maintained, but most of the stuff planted usually dies and the entire area ends up being second growth.
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Post by octrophies on Dec 10, 2015 9:05:20 GMT -5
looks like you learned from the best!
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Post by octrophies on Sept 27, 2015 5:30:09 GMT -5
that won't last long
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Post by octrophies on Sept 4, 2015 6:55:45 GMT -5
Good to know they are in there. I hunt about a half mile of the creek bottom. What else do you catch?
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Post by octrophies on Jul 6, 2015 18:16:31 GMT -5
I am improving my yard for quail and so happy to have them in my brush piles lol. See hilljack crap like this so sad
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Post by octrophies on Apr 27, 2015 13:09:45 GMT -5
they sneak in like that, it will be hard to top that one. My biggest is basicly the same bird from Owen county, I figured it at 4 or 5 years old. It wouldn't come in until the last weekend, though. I have it mounted gobbling from the roost and get lots of compliments, you can tell it is just huge, hoosier trapper did it. Congrats, Chase!!
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Apr 21, 2015 7:42:19 GMT -5
Post by octrophies on Apr 21, 2015 7:42:19 GMT -5
4-20 morning Johnson County
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Post by octrophies on Feb 26, 2015 8:46:52 GMT -5
I cut 7" yesterday and it was solid, but the snow had been blown off the middle. The edges had snow and were slushy but still alright. All I could get to bite were small gills, nothing big enough to fillet. I was by Nineveh (atterbury) in Johnson County. Nobody around me had crappie minnows. Was fun to get out. Pic is from a few years back at same pond.
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Post by octrophies on Jan 23, 2015 13:46:13 GMT -5
What were you trolling with and what depth. That is wild how they are all black crappie, almost like no white ones were stocked in that area.
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Post by octrophies on Jan 10, 2015 8:14:44 GMT -5
Are the bass biting? There are some hogs in that river. Those are some nice crappie, cool that they are all black it appears. What is the biggest so far?
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Post by octrophies on Nov 26, 2014 11:43:29 GMT -5
this is how I used to do it with a truck and tree limb, no hair on meat
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Post by octrophies on Nov 23, 2014 22:42:52 GMT -5
Used the golf ball method for skinning works well but did rip one yearling in half once wasn't pretty works most times
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