Priceless !

We rolled up as a pit stop at my friends lake Sunday on the way back from our country place to our home place in ft. worth , H was in his truck and the 3 of us in ours ....
The women folk hit the clubhouse and H and I went straight to the crappie dock .
To say the bite was good would be a seriously wrong understatement ....
The crappie bit like wildfire and the lake had rose to almost full ....
Anything that went down got bit and the fish ran really nice size , everyone hammered em and we let them all swim on .
Probably hit around 150 or more in 2 hours from 2 to 4 pm ..
if you like to ketch fish and eat and enjoy the beauty of west Texas with your family and best bud .....
then the word in this particular case is "Priceless" !:highfive
and of course followed closely by ....
KABOOM :Rofl
p.s. the morning started out on our place as an eye opener , a few wild friends visited with me while I had coffee , the scorpion bout got me and the rat snake was really friendly ....both went on their way after we took a picture or 2 ...
....good times yawl :cheers2

Looks like good times... well except snakes and scorpions. :Rofl

What a day, except the snake!:yikes Mini Ketchn and everyone really had some nice fish!
Bob

Looks like everyone had a great day, certainly priceless. Never have seen a scorpion here. That's a big snake, around 5' is my guess. I quit handling them, they would always poop on me.

Great times for sure are priceless...

That's a lot of snake

All good bro…I’ll pass on the scorpion.

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Originally Posted by BuckeyeCrappie

All good bro…I’ll pass on the scorpion.

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we call them "stinging scorpions" kuz that is what they will for sure do to ya .....:yikes:Rofl
the sting is a strange one for sure , hurts like a wasp at first , then pretty quickly 15 minutes or so , it begins to feel a bit numb , then an hour or so and it's like it never happened .....and it leaves no visible mark on your skin to speak of ....
will for sure wake you up better than coffee by about 27 miles ...:biggrin

I'll trade that for these dang fire ants at my parents house. Got me good the last couple of days doing work around their house.

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Originally Posted by JUNGLEJIMJIGS

Looks like everyone had a great day, certainly priceless. Never have seen a scorpion here. That's a big snake, around 5' is my guess. I quit handling them, they would always poop on me.

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we think it was well over 6 , about a foot was above my hand and it was inches from the ground , wife sure don't like em much , but it was about as friendly as a wild one of them get , we call them "chicken snakes" and it is NOT because they are chicken , they typically go to town when messed with and get right not nice , striking and biting and rattling their tail and standing up like a darn cobra .....one of the more bad attitude snakes we have in these parts , but not her ....go figure :dono

Never a dull adventure with "The Ketchn". Good it was a Rat not a Rattler, I had to do a double take on the post after seeing the picture.

Amdro - best ant killer out there. Use a grass seed spreader, cover the area you want them dead and watch the mounds disappear. heavy infestations take a couple of applications. Keeps my yards ant free all year. Sam's Club has the best price.

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Never a dull adventure with "The Ketchn". Good it was a Rat not a Rattler, I had to do a double take on the post after seeing the picture.

Amdro - best ant killer out there. Use a grass seed spreader, cover the area you want them dead and watch the mounds disappear. heavy infestations take a couple of applications. Keeps my yards ant free all year. Sam's Club has the best price.

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ants are not an issue at our place , the local critters likely eat them as snacks is my guess ....
kinda like roaches , none of them live in the way out there country either ....
it's a tough environment for sure ,rainfall is sketchy for years sometimes ....
and if anything , them biblical grasshoopers like flocks of locusts are pretty bad at times ....
they even go up in the pecan trees and eat the leaves and the pecans as well ....
and rattlers along with a few other things native to the area are long gone ....
humans killed all em off long ago and the hogs finished off whatever was smart enough to avoid the 2 legged snake killers ,,,,,just saying

That comment about the ants was for SuperDave. Texas has stuff that bites you, sticks you, or otherwise all around just hazardous. Get past the brown line, that hwy going north & south Stephenville is on :dono. It's brown on the west side & green on the east side of the road. I never seen anything like it. Well if the Texas outdoors is in a brown part of the state us Green-landers need to be extra cautious. We are not used to looking out for all the harmful stuff you have to deal with.

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Good fish, I’ll pass on the snake. I lived in Lawton , Oklahoma for ten months back in the seventies. I’d been raised in the east where it’s green. Most of the time it was brown and I didn’t care for it. I got my taxes back, put a clutch in the Plymouth I had and drove beck to Florida. I really missed the green. It’s a very different way of living out west.

Glad y’all had a KABOOM kinda day of it.

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Good fish, I’ll pass on the snake. I lived in Lawton , Oklahoma for ten months back in the seventies. I’d been raised in the east where it’s green. Most of the time it was brown and I didn’t care for it. I got my taxes back, put a clutch in the Plymouth I had and drove beck to Florida. I really missed the green. It’s a very different way of living out west.

Glad y’all had a KABOOM kinda day of it.

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Skeetbum gets what I'm saying. We don't do well in all brown geography. Fun to visit, especially shooting White Wings south of San Antonio but I say too many undesirables around while doing that. Seems everything that crawls or slithers gathers around those tanks.

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That comment about the ants was for SuperDave. Texas has stuff that bites you, sticks you, or otherwise all around just hazardous. Get past the brown line, that hwy going north & south Stephenville is on :dono. It's brown on the west side & green on the east side of the road. I never seen anything like it. Well if the Texas outdoors is in a brown part of the state us Green-landers need to be extra cautious. We are not used to looking out for all the harmful stuff you have to deal with.

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we are west of Stephenville at our country place and even on the way home still west of there at my friends place , we are not at the line where it turns to just catus, rocks and rattlesnakes and basically desert , that occurs a little bit west of us another 50 miles or so .....
one thing for certain about everything will sting you , bite you or poke a hole in you out there , some worse than others , but being aware of them helps some .....
cow killers and horse killers abound and both are nasty pcs. of flora and fauna in them parts , but there is a rather long list of not so fun stuff .....I particularly have a dislike for the big bull nettles myself , them are not fun for sure either :banghead
we have a number one rule at our country place if you visit ....PUT ON YOUR BOOTS before you step out of the truck please :Rofl