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I know some of you boys are either in the deer woods or headed that way. I know it's a hard decision, but you're just going to have to bite the bullet (sorry for the pun) and choose.
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Personally, I chose crappie because the odds are better and I don't have to wear orange to keep other anglers from hooking me.
That's funny cause I'm an avid hunter. But I'm wanting to catch some crappie more than hunt. Nimrod being a flood control lake is messed up right now. Great catch there. Oh well might as well get started as the works began. I have a deer and a hog to process.:eek:
2 pound crappie hands down!
I deer hunted for many years, I do love hearing dogs run. I quit hunting. Handsdown crappie fishing is best. I'm in my 13th year of fishing.
Hey Pox, I'm so glad you've reformed!!!
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But if any of ya'll want to trade some game for some crappie, just let me know!!!
I used to love to deer hunt but things have changed for me i would whole lot rather catch a bunch of crappie than kill all the deer in the woods.
I love to crappie fish better than deer hunting, HOWEVER, my family had rather deer hunt than sleep. (Wife included). It's hard for me not to deer hunt so I can spend time with them, but even while sitting on the stand, deer in crosshairs, my mind is busy pulling a hook out of a papermouth.
Darryl,
Gimmie to the end of the season and I will do some swappin' with ya!
Can't eat fish all the time. My family loves wild game. Deer, duck, and fish.
As well as when we out duck huntin I am lookin fir new places to fish. Just love gettin out and away from the phone.
that's what it is for me, just getting out. that's all that's important.
Here is a couple for conversation..
This is my youngest daughter
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Firsthand experience with a kill:
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Thats the way I do it.Been fileting crappie and white bass the last month or so and passing them out.Starting to pay off.Quote:
Originally Posted by Darryl Morris
Have 2 phesants for dinner last week,a wild turkey for Thur.,and the deer sausage,jerky,and loins are starting to roll in.:D :D
Life is good.
Bobberwatcher that little cutie looks right at home in a deer stand. She looks like she is holding a Canadian buck in that photo she is so small it makes the deer look huge. You need to get a photo of her holding a 3 pound crappie now.
Cook you are on the borderline between worlds greatest salesman and theif if you are trading white bass for phesant, turkey or deer sausage. White bass is the kinda thing you trade for beans or rice not fine wild meats like that.
Finally in answer to the post. I would take a 12 point any day over a 2 pound crappie. I think the question should have been a 8 point or a 2 pound crappie. There are a ton of 2 pounders caught every year on just about every body of water in Arkansas. However a big 12 point is unusuall anywere in Arkansas. I would compare killing a 12 point to catching a 3+pounder here as they are not something you expect to harvest every year.
Agree'd with Gooch here....as much as I hate to say it....if someone offered me a chance to come out and shoot a big 12 pt buck off their land and someone else offered me the chance to come hook a 2 lb crappie out of their water? It's obvious where I'd be.....Deer Hunting takes up VERY little time, if you know where to go that is....Fishing is something I can do the other 364 days of the years....! However, if I had the access to the size fish you catch every single day Darryl, I would probably not even have time to think about deer hunting but when you have all that time sitting there waiting for coldwater bites, you cannot help but wonder what those deer are doing, haha.Quote:
Originally Posted by gooch
White bass for pheasant is an even-steven trade,not sure about the rest;) ;) :DQuote:
Originally Posted by gooch
I would take a full day of fishing, catching fish, over killing a deer...
AMEN Brother!!! And the first one that brings me a small sack of deer meat to put in my freezer, gets a warm seat in my boat. I'll even bait your hook for you and net your fish.Quote:
Originally Posted by TJ Adams
Say, let's see some pics of the deer too!
Man I've got the fishing fever ,but Nimrod is high and falling.
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Here is a hog I took.
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My son's buck.
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We taken 3 deer and a hog ,so we have been busy processing meat. I have plenty of fish in the freezer ,but that don't help the fishing fever. Ha! HA!:D
Man, great pics Nimrod, thanks for sharing. I know what you mean about the fishing fever. Just so you and everyone else knows, CRAPPIE FEVER is a legitimate illness and you can use some of those unused sick days from work. I'll even sign a note for you if you need one because it's all in how you move the pen -- DR. Morris (Darryl Ray Morris) -- and I know how to cure that fever, LOL.
There's no cure for fishing fever, Dr. Morris. Only thing will ease the symptoms is fishing.;) It's terribble when you have a double case, hunting and fishing fevers! Ha! Ha! I'm lucky to be so young and work at nothing all day. Well almost nothing, dang I work hard at my hunting and fishing.:D I may have to start guiding to pay for my illness if it gets any worse.:o
This is the first year I have missed opening day of deer season since I started hunting when I was 16, I'm 56 now. But I have a bad case of crappie fever and just couldn't make myself go to the woods. Caught some good crappie, but can't share any pics until my new digital camera comes in. Did go hunting on the windy and stormy days last week. I got a doe, had to get some deer meat. My vote is the 2 lb crappie which I caught a couple of last week.
Hey, that's what I mean. Let's go fishing!!! Call me to make sure I'm not booked already and if I'm not you can call in sick to work and come and go fishing with me. I never charge my friends very much except you'll have to listen to my BAD jokes, LOL.Quote:
Originally Posted by NIMROD
Isn't that the Razorback mascot? You must be an LSU fan!Quote:
Originally Posted by NIMROD
Nimrod thats some fine looking game harvest, some nice boats and good looking son. I didnt know they grew bucks that nice up in Perry county or hogs that looked just like my mother inlaw.
Take care and keep those picutres comming.
Any day that your going and just someone to go with you, give me a call, I'll definatley have a bad cough or something!:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Darryl Morris
Thanks ,my son was proud of his buck . I've killed some in the past that dwarf his buck , but not so far this year.My regular fishing boat is an Alumaweld 17' with a 70hp Yamaha. I got a canoe and small 14' waco for getting back in the woods with in high water. We are in Yell County 9 miles west of Perry County line.Quote:
Originally Posted by gooch
Here are a few of my past kills. I have a pile of antlers in the barn.:D
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For a reference that mounted Bass is 28'' long 11 lbs.
This one is not that hard, of couse i would take the buck over the crappie, lets see deer season is only a couple of months and fishing season is the rest of the year. Its alot easier to feed the kids with 120lbs of deer meat than it is with 2lbs of crappie.
yeah, but you only get that one buck (MAYBE) and at the risk of sounding like I'm from MS, I guarantee you'll get 120lbs. of 2lb.-ers in a year's time. Oh well, I have to admit, tenderized backstrap rolled in flour and black pepper fried in bacon grease sure is good.
I dont know why you and Jerry don't have a huntin honey hole on Greeson as much as your on the lake. You guys could kill your limit of 4 deer and not have to hunt 4 hours of the season to do it. I bet you could even parlay your deer innards into 120 pounds of catfish with a well placed trotline.
If I lived closer to Greeson I would plant one of those coves or mud flats in oats in September and by gun season I bet it would be a killin field.
I know they have the honkers on Greeson but do you guys get ducks of any ammount down there in the winter? I bet when the Grand Prarie and Delta freeze you pick up some birds.
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Originally Posted by Darryl Morris
You're right there are lots of deer in the Fall and turkey in the Spring havested out at Greeson each year.