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Maybe... not diving to find out.
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Maybe... not diving to find out.
greybeard
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Don't need to. Just wade off in it, you'll probably find out quick enough, as the depth won't seem right as you slowly sink down past your knees. My brother nearly drowned trying to seine an old duck pond for fish bait... minnows and crawfish ..before the owner was going to have it filled in. He was stuck nearly up to his waist in the poopmuck.
Maybe... not diving to find out.
Bruce
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Sounds like the stuff I dug out of my pond. My one attempt a few years ago to wade to the middle (in chest waders!) with a stick stopped after I put my second foot down. The first one sank to mid boot, the second to the top of the boot. If I didn't have that stick to push with I might still be there and if I had just been wearing boots I am SURE they would have been there until I dug the pond.
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Baymule
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I have a few muscovies, a big white male with blue eyes, a chocolate and white male, chocolate and white female, a black female with 2 ducklings that are chocolate and white. I wish I had a pond for them! I am enjoying your fall pictures, they are very pretty.
On the neighbors dog, is catching it and taking to animal shelter in town an option? What about catching it and spray painting a target on it's sides?
On the neighbors dog, is catching it and taking to animal shelter in town an option? What about catching it and spray painting a target on it's sides?
Wehner Homestead
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I read somewhere that someone was having similar problems with a neighbors dog. He took a magic marker or something like that and put targets on the dogs sides and head. He never saw the dog again after that. Think the neighbors got the point.
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The dog hasn't been back again.... so maybe it's ok. 
Blasted storming and nasty today.
Blasted storming and nasty today.
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So... remember I let kid #3 take off from school and go hunting for 2 weeks.
This is the boat he slept in... beached so he and our neighbor could go hunt for deer.
Deer are only native in the SE area of Alaska, but have been transplanted to Kodiak and Cordova. Our deer are more closely related to mule deer than whitetail.
Photo is from the Cordova area.
Kid only got 2 deer, but made new friends and had loads of fun.
The new friend owns a small fishing fleet, him and a boat each for I think 2 sons. Anyway, they were impressed with my kid, enough to ask my just turned 15year old to go commercial fishing with them.
Awesome money potential.
And kid#3 is very practical/hands on/Alaskan. Might be a good fit... but a temporary 3 year job would make me happier than this being a career choice.
This is the boat he slept in... beached so he and our neighbor could go hunt for deer.
Deer are only native in the SE area of Alaska, but have been transplanted to Kodiak and Cordova. Our deer are more closely related to mule deer than whitetail.
Photo is from the Cordova area.
Kid only got 2 deer, but made new friends and had loads of fun.
The new friend owns a small fishing fleet, him and a boat each for I think 2 sons. Anyway, they were impressed with my kid, enough to ask my just turned 15year old to go commercial fishing with them.
Awesome money potential.
And kid#3 is very practical/hands on/Alaskan. Might be a good fit... but a temporary 3 year job would make me happier than this being a career choice.
only got 2 deer? 
I'd say that's pretty danged good! How many was he supposed to get? If he does the fishing thing for 3 years, he might be able to cover the cost of his college education... if he plans for that course.
I'd say that's pretty danged good! How many was he supposed to get? If he does the fishing thing for 3 years, he might be able to cover the cost of his college education... if he plans for that course.
