wonderful day in western md

loaded up the boat today and took off by myself to yough lake to see what i could do all my friends call it the dead sea . well today i came home with 23 crappie nothing less than 9 inches and two nice gills all caught on minnows . some had eggs in them still .
i throwed all back unde the 9 inch mark all told i caught 36 crappie that is the most i have ever caught in a day. and i would have stayed longer but did it ever rain and i had to play music for a prom . just wanted to tell someone noone hear will listen to me lol.

thanks,
Scott

Good job glad ya got into some crappie!

Scott,

It's about time you got out. Nice catch. Get any ramps yet?

Mike

just a couple mike they are pretty well dying off they were up and gone this year all that rain and then the hot weather turned them on bigtime but a fella could still get a bucket or so yet .

Scott

Better go get your share.

Nice catch. Congrats.:)

I work with some West Va. guys there always talking about ramps and going gensinging.

ive never went after ginseng but boy do i like them ramps on almost everything.

Scott

I didn't know Gingseng grew around here in the wild.

Yea the guys I work with's familiy up in west va. sell alot of it. I had someone tell me there is some around Prettyboy Res.

That's close to me. I'll have to look up some pics ans see if I can score some.

Good job with the fish, and no one in the area beleives you???? Better yet I would try to keep it that way then you would have the lake all to yourself, perfect!

you are right gduck another one of marylands best kept secreats lol.
just to let you in on some information mike if you plan on hunting sang in md make sure you get a licence . used to be everyone could hunt it or i should say harvest but now adays you need a licence for that or if you do find some you would need one to sell it . it all of a sudden became a big thing with the state wanting thier share .lol
i have never hunted sang and most likely have stomped it down while roaming the woods in the day and night hunting but couldn't tell ya . and also thier is fools sang that looks just like the real thing but there is a differance i guess that just a trained eye to c the differance in the 2 .

but best of luck ,

Scott

and did ya get any turkeys mike ?

Scott,

No turkeys this year. I didn't know you needed a license for that. Seems like they got one for everything.

wats ramps?

Now im curious to, whats sang and ramps? im familur with ginsing with sushi and such but didnt know that grew in the us either?

here is a small thread to ramps that may give ya a lil idea of what to look for and like the site says you can get them all year but the longer ya wait the more potent they get , lol

Ramps

and here is some info on ginseng . my buddie grows his own and havests it and sells it once in awhile .

http://www.sfp.forprod.vt.edu/factsheets/ginseng.pdf

but as with the ramps either you find it or you don't i've seen ramps grow in an area as large as a football feild and in some of the dangdest places but go one football feild over and nuthing at all .

but with sang you will find it mayb e a plant or two at a time mostly never in large bunches .

but it's just like fishing all about being out there doing it lol.

Scott

Dang G-duck we coulda had some ramps with that perch supper me you and crappie dude had tonight LOL.

oh i just had some of that a couple of days ago on them great crappie i caught the other day and when you cook fry or bake the ramps they lose alot of thier bad breath attack on ya . heck i have even made them in scrabbled eggs .
they are awsume on or in anything .

Scott

Good to know that cooking them reduces the bad breath. I don't think my wife would kiss me if my breath was kicking like Bruce Lee.

heck mike it's the same as eating raw garlic they are great raw with a beer or two but as with garlic it will come out through the pores also when ya sweat but you have to eat a good many for that to come into play . but like i said if they are fried cooked it seems to take all that away and ya just end up with a small bite of flavor and not the bruce lee kick lol..
heck i even can some from time to time and pickel them and they are awsume .

Scott.
heck i even cook the leaves . fry up some bacon crispy take it out slice up some potatos into the grease let them cook a small while then in with the leaves they will swell up then srivel up mix with a lil salad and sprinkle the bacon leaves and potatos on and yum yum .

Scott

Bet theyed be good to eat down here to keep the gnats away when yur in the marsh.

either that or drawem in real bad tearem up lol.

Scott

Thanks for the info Scott. You still have them skis? I was thinking the same thing as Tear em up but for ticks. Seems like I'm pulling at least one off me a day after walking the dog.

Mike

yep they are they still here sitting in the garage and i have had a tick on me once so farthis year god i hate those things

Scott

I swear by taking a couple of unscented garlic capsules every day, I work outside and in the woods and tall grass everyday and I really think they help with keeping ticks off you and bugs in general away from you, not to mention its good for you health wise too.

I think I will give it a try. It sure can't hurt. I'm getting tired of these ticks. Gnats put a hurting on me out on the boat the other day.