Random picture thread

[BlueCollarBob]

While the family was out Sunday morning I looked after the new garden plants remaining. Squirrels and rabbits ate all the hollyhocks and some sunflowers.

Teddy Bear Sunflowers
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Mammoth Sunflowers
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Peonies are doing well.
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Something has been munching my sunflowers, too. I haven't done anything to protect them, though.

I have a couple new hollyhock I need to get in the ground. I've never tried to grow them before.

 

[Zen_seeker]

Something has been munching my sunflowers, too. I haven't done anything to protect them, though.

I have a couple new hollyhock I need to get in the ground. I've never tried to grow them before.

They say they don’t like to be transplanted. I usually grow them in the house until they are well established. No bigger than a one gallon soft pot. Lots of sun and water. If it’s happy it will end up over 6’. You’ll have hundreds of seeds for the next year. Plus it will come back at least one more year but I’ve had up to three for the same plant.

Watch out for bugs and rabbits. They only seem to eat the leaves. I failed to cover last years this spring and the rabbits ate them because they are early to come up.

 

[Star Dog]

We had a ton of rain on Fri the river raised around 4ft I was thinking there's going to be the chance of some salmon fishing this week.

I hooked and landed 1 salmon and lost 1 other after about 10/15 seconds of hooking it...it was still a good tug!

The tug is the drug!

 

[doublej]

We had a ton of rain on Fri the river raised around 4ft I was thinking there's going to be the chance of some salmon fishing this week.
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I hooked and landed 1 salmon and lost 1 other after about 10/15 seconds of hooking it...it was still a good tug!
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The tug is the drug!

What part of the world is that??? Pretty little river!

 

[doublej]

All this hype about the freak,......Guys sorry.....this is secretly where your freakie is coming from my

 

[Bandit420]

All this hype about the freak,......Guys sorry.....this is secretly where your freakie is coming from my

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Does it smell like pineapple?
How does it smoke?

 

[Franksta]

some sort of military ammunition I found recently

 

[Bandit420]

some sort of military ammunition I found recently
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Looks like an anti aircraft artillery round. Cool find!
My job in the Army was artillery and I've collected a few pieces like a timed fuse head, a spacer used in a nuke round, and flechettes from a beehive round but nothing for shooting down airplanes.

 

[Franksta]

Looks like an anti aircraft artillery round. Cool find!

Yeah that's what I thought also

 

[Star Dog]

Aphids are or were feasting on my apple tree...bad move.
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I covered it with plastic and smoke bombed them...star dog 1 aphids 0

The smoke bombs are only £3/4 each they're very effective on the usual suspects.

My apple tree has recovered its doing ok now.

What part of the world is that??? Pretty little river!

Hey bro, I'm in UK
I,m fishing again tonight targeting sea trout

Have a nice weekend everyone!

 

[doublej]

My apple tree has recovered its doing ok now.
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Hey bro, I'm in UK
I,m fishing again tonight targeting sea trout
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Have a nice weekend everyone!

More fish pics Please!!!
I haven't been out in a while, I do need to make time soon .

Curious...what kind of rigs you guys use over there, I'll dig out some stuff . I've have the fishing itch way to long...and it's about time I scratch it...

THE TUG IS THE DRUG....

Good luck brother

 

[Star Dog]

Curious...what kind of rigs you guys use over there, I'll dig out some stuff . I've have the fishing itch way to long...and it's about time I scratch ...

That's a lovely fish bro well done!
My rigs vary depending on the target and water height, in coloured water targeting salmon I use my spinning/bait rod with 9/10/13cm rapalas (Fin Minnow ) blk and silver are my go to option,

I sometimes use these called flying condoms, they're fairly effective and easy to loose in snaggy/unknown water they're only a couple of quid each.

When the river/s are running at normal levels I use my fly rod with 1 or 2 flies 1 on a dropper about 2ft from the point fly tied up with ± 8ft of 10/12lb nylon (for sea trout)

I also fish for brown trout ^^^ that's my best wild brown trout to date, I didn't have scales but I estimate 4lb ±.
Lol I didn't land any salmon that year but that trout did take the sting out of that, I was beaming with that one (8ft 4wt rod)

(can you spot venus?)
Rainbow trout are good for when the rivers are too low to fish it gives us somewhere to cast a line but tbh i feel more at home on the river.

I've a few random fishing pics to share.

Omg I can still feel the thrill of that one ^^^, I'd fished for like 6hrs caught nothing then landed two salmon in 10 minutes

It was like 3 in the morning I'd fished from darkness not much was happening then this mother grab grabbed my fly woohoo!!

Late season sea trout ^^^

Atlantic Salmon.



Have a nice weekend everyone

 

[Star Dog]

I put a drop of run off under the microscope.

There's a short video here if that interests you, coco dtw it's heaving with life forms.

Dates, notes and things of interest.

Hello everyone, I hope you're all well, I've been messing around with dark field methods. It's a drop of coco dtw run off, fed salts 3x daily + 4/5 ppm of chlorine.

www.thcfarmer.com

Peacock butterfly.

Take it easy folk's

 

[Star Dog]

Are there any other anglers out there besides myself and Doublej ?

Fishing appears to be popular amongst us stoners?
I'm guessing the the peace and tranquility it offers attracts us, deep down stoners crave peace, I think fishing is therapeutic it's an opportunity to forget problems for a while, fly fishing in particular demands lots of concentration and/or observations.
On the other hand you can go and drown a worm and enjoy the weather, banter and sit back with a few joints or/and beers whatever floats yer boat

The USA is a angler's dream it's got most species of fish most folk's would want to catch, the downside in the USA is absolutely fricken massive you might need to travel a couple of thousand miles to target a particular species lol.

I like the USA and how patriotic you guys are, that's something to be proud about, props to the US patriots

 

[stonemason]

Are there any other anglers out there besides myself and Doublej ?

Fishing appears to be popular amongst us stoners?
I'm guessing the the peace and tranquility it offers attracts us, deep down stoners crave peace, I think fishing is therapeutic it's an opportunity to forget problems for a while, fly fishing in particular demands lots of concentration and/or observations.
On the other hand you can go and drown a worm and enjoy the weather, banter and sit back with a few joints or/and beers whatever floats yer boat

The USA is a angler's dream it's got most species of fish most folk's would want to catch, the downside in the USA is absolutely fricken massive you might need to travel a couple of thousand miles to target a particular species lol.

I like the USA and how patriotic you guys are, that's something to be proud about, props to the US patriots

 

[stonemason]

I fish allot we have hundreds of lakes here in north eastern indiana.bass ,blue gill, crappie mostly.

 

[stonemason]

we have a spill way we hit in the spring .you can fill a cooler with gills in about 3 hours. Like fish in a barrel.

 

[stonemason]

Rescued this guy Wednesday. Him and all his brothers and sisters got thrown out of nest during storm.they all died on impact but him. Put him in a pot in the aple tree the mother is still feeding him.he just started jumping out of pot today.hope he learns to fly before the coons get him. Its a robbin.

 

[stonemason]

Rescued this guy Wednesday. Him and all his brothers and sisters got thrown out of nest during storm.they all died on impact but him. Put him in a pot in the aple tree the mother is still feeding him.he just started jumping out of pot today.hope he learns to fly before the coons get him. Its a robbin.
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Put the metal rooster at the bottom of the tree to scare the coonys off

 

[doublej]

Timing was perfect last summer on vacation to Idaho, river was full of them!,
Must of caught 60-70 fish in 2-3 hours as fas as i could cast..all pretty small 1llbs.
this is one of only a few large mouth..

This small mouth bass was one of the funniest one very light gear...

I've got some old fishing pics around here somewhere....couple Derby Fish money winners.,!!

 

[Zen_seeker]

Wife’s succulent is flowering for the first time. She’s proud, asked if I would be interested in posting her pics.

 

[Zen_seeker]

Son got a vid of our one visitor sunbathing.


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[doublej]

Son got a vid of our one visitor sunbathing.


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Flop Flop...

 

[Zen_seeker]

Flop Flop...

Right. Dog was doing the same that day. Don’t think any chasing was happening until after the heat wave.

 

[doublej]

Right. Dog was doing the same that day. Don’t think any chasing was happening until after the heat wave.

Yeah the heat can suck... really for the furie type critters...cool vig,don't see that all the time...

 

[Star Dog]

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You mean raccoons?

Are they scared of chickens, do the chickens chase them lol, I feel I'm missing something here?