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https://www.yahoo.com/news/case-didnt-enough-worry-now-043458568.html

cordin to the article these thangs can walk on land an live outta water fur four days...

now if stan can git erm to grow feathers an hold tight fur ah bird dog, den maybe wil bird huntin aint over in ga after awl...

course day do look more like turkies dan day do like quails...wonder how day tastes?

Upland game might be a stretch, Ed. While the DNR advises killing them they should be advising killing and eating them. The reason they're here is Asian immigrants releasing them because they missed the good eating fish from their homelands...Geo

If the DNR was serious about getting rid of snakeheads they should put a strict limit on them and a protected season. We'd get'em all then!

The Tegu lizard has been found not far from where I live. It's a South American lizard that grows to 4' and is a predator on ground nesting bird eggs--turkeys, quail, woodcock to name a few and capable of killing small dogs.

https://www.savannahnow.com/news/20190308/large-exotic-lizard-may-have-toehold-in-south-georgia

Back in Maryland these fish have just spread like wildfire in ponds and streams. DNR is hopeless for any real help. Know friends who have killed everything in their ponds in an attempt to get rid of them to only have them reappear in a year or two. They apparently eat everything.

I read today that they rival flounder, tilapia and cod in flavor. That's the snakehead fish now, not the Tegu lizards ...................

SRH

OK, Stan, but nothing (IMO) compares, in freshwater fish, with broiled walleye- maybe planked whitefish as a second choice--RWTF

My setter Bandit points tarantulas, maybe he could cross train to snake whatevers??

These tegus are legal as pets in Georgia, but illegal to be released into the wild. What d***a** decided to make it legal to have them as pets, but didn't have the sense to know that some would be released from captivity eventually?

We are living in a world run by idiots.

SRH

how bout ah bounty...seems to be workin in florida wid duh pie thons...

Pay hillbillies to fish. You running for Governor?


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No! If you start paying for them, someone will start raising them. I thought about starting a rumor that smoking kudzu makes you high, to get people to dig it up, but a friend observed that would make people plant more of it. It would be the same with snakehead.
Mike

well, duh gubmint awl ready pays lots o peeples not to work...payin erm to fish...sounds like ah step in da right di rection...

A late friend's dad was county agent in Tallapoosa County. He had the distinction of introducing kudzu and terracing to the county to control erosion. I read decades ago that the best way to rotate one's crop of kudzu on one's property was to sell it (the land) and buy another piece of land and not plant it again. Gil

Close to 20 years ago, we had a 5-6 foot caiman loose in our duck ponds. "Ponds" is a misnomer because it's actually big water behind a dam that collects drainage from the local mountains. The dam is an impoundment for drinking water downstream and everything is managed by the Army Corps of Engineers and the local water district. A water district employee was out in his truck doing regular maintenance and got a picture of the beast in the shallows where we hunt. That pic went onto a lot of bulletin boards but no further reports of sightings.

GLS,
If that was Tallapoosa County Alabama, it is the next county over from us and I sympathize with the feeling about kudzu. On the other hand, as boys, we "kicked up" a lot of rabbits and quail from the "edge habitat" created by terraces. Most of the terraces are gone now, but they left the blooming old kudzu.
Mike

Mike, yep, Alabama. Dadeville to be exact. Gil

Great
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Hear tell...

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Wish that elbow would have caught him.


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I believe it is Randall- Bo, down in Orlando FL--I have 2 of his masterpiece sheath knives, well worn, but made to be used. Any of you fellows ever read the older GSJ magazines, back when Ed and Becky Grey were publishers/editors? They had a great article on "Bo" and his craftsmanship--well worth the asking price for a genuine Randall Made knife. RWTF

Francis, here's a tribute to Ed and Becky Gray as well as Pat Ryan of SI who had some great writers of sporting literature back in the day:
https://stephenbodio.com/2018/03/more-toward-history-of-modern-sporting/
Gil

Thanks, Gil- I have almost all the older issues when Ed and Becky were "at the helm"--Bodio, Reed Austin, even Rusty Chatham, all cast in the Bob-Dylan-Jim Morrison mold of the 1970's.. Best two stories about pheasant hunting were in an older issue- "The Prairie Queen" by Jack Curtis, and "There's Always Tomorrow" by my USMC brother-- John Hewitt. RWTF

Francis, my favorite outdoors writing of that era (and for any era) was Chatham's short story, "The Great Duck Misunderstanding" which first appeared in the 1976 Waterfowl Edition of Gray's. Highly controversial at the time, but it has endured the test of time. Gil

I bought a used Hardy reel from an auction site years ago, once owned by Russell "Rusty" Chatham-- quite a hombre- great writer, and the duck carnal mix-up raised quite a few eyebrows back then. He probably still has his late father's 16 gauge M12-- He was, in his prime years, once of the best fly casters going- equal in skill to Joan Wulff and Bernard "Lefty" Kreh.

Our TU Chapter in Grand Rapids tried to get him for a Banquet guest speaker, we also tried to get John Voelker- but struck out, had to settle for Ernie Schweibert-- not too shabby either- RWTF