Kaboom Today! Played Hooky from Work

Well, woke up to Crows trying to eat my pecans out of the trees. After I ran them off I picked a gallon of pecans out of the trees, set up the Scarecrow, and went Crappie fishing.

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As I suspected the design dockshooting rods worked fantastic. I ran Varivas Super Trout Sight Edition in 5# test on one and Varivas Infinity PE 7.5# test Braid on another. Shout out to Alphahawk, the Surgeon's Knot fixed my problem. I tied 2ft of 5# Super Trout as a leader and as they say "The Rest is History"!

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For Casting & Shooting I prefer the 5# Varivas Super Trout Sight Edition line over the 4# test. The little bit heavier line drove the hooks home and the only break off was on a tree trunk. Same for the 7.5# Varivas Infinity PE X8. Sign me up for More! My mistake was trying to fish the Infinity tied directly to the hook. Jourdan River is going to take a second hit from the increased salinity as Speckled Trout are in small schools with the Crappie. Could not keep the little beggars off my hooks. We need rain. Southern Pro's Hot Grub in Albino Shad Delivered it Home for me again.

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I vertical jig fished one of my custom blue jigheads with a Jason's Jigs Crappie Shad in Monkey Milk. Jason's uses a firmer plasticizer so they last. The Crappie & Specked Trout loved them.

Great post!

Awesome job. The crows have destroyed the pecans at my mom’s. Does the scarecrow work good for you? I’ve picked them up several times but most have been ruined by crows. Probably seen close to 30 one day.

I have a dead on 25-06 I blow em out of trees with @ 100 yards. = feather dust

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Originally Posted by SuperDave336

Awesome job. The crows have destroyed the pecans at my mom’s. Does the scarecrow work good for you? I’ve picked them up several times but most have been ruined by crows. Probably seen close to 30 one day.

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A single crow can eat 5#'s of pecans a month. That's University AG Data. They do work, hang a dead crow in the area and let it rot. The one I shot a while back, it has kept them out of my yard till today.

I must be a crow!

“A single crow can eat 5#'s of pecans a month.”

I think the damage is done for this year but I’ll remember that for next year.

Hate crows!! The ones here are po'd that their 3 favorite trees are gone!! LOL They had to come down cause they were rotted.

KABOOM on the fisheez ,,,, there was a heard of dem crows in my friends pear tree the other day …they left rather quickly when I drove towards them
We don’t have lots of crows to speak of , Texas doesn’t like varmit’s very much ….
I think the only protected 4 legged varmit is an otter and of course the federal folks and the cormorants and pelicans ….everything else gets KABOOM ed pretty quickly in deez parts
Heck we ain’t even got no season or limit on mountain lions either …:yikes:Rofl

That deer camp we visited over your way, as the wife & I left, driving out, heading home a longtail cat walked right in front of us. We told the camp owner later and he replied in all the years he had the place no one else had seen one. Had a black longtail cat walk across the road in front of my truck here in south MS back in 1991. They are scarce but when you hear one scream at night in the swamp it is un-nerving to me.