Off Season Work Weekend

We finally had calm winds for a couple days so we cut down some dead trees and dragged them to the burn pile and let it go all weekend.  I also filled all the feeders and cleaned out the deer stands.

Here is one of our clover patches looking pretty good.  The deer have not been in it much since there is green everywhere now with the mild weather.

We wrapped some willows at the beaver pond with wire to keep the beavers from cutting everything down.

The water had dropped about 4 inches since we had a big rain earlier in the week and here is one of the breeches in the dam.  I guess the beavers are not back in here yet.  We will let it drain for a while so we can plant groceries for the ducks before hoping the beavers show back up or we put in a water control device.

I also cleared out a spot for a protein feeder under a huge oak at Delrose.

I still had some time to get on the water and catch a few fish and incredible sunset.

Barry's Bass and Jake's Bream

Boats

I hauled my fishing boat back from SA after making a trip for business and to fill feeders.

Here are some before and after pictures of my boat.  Wet sanded with 600, 800, 1000, then followed up with a cutting compound, polish, and wax.  About 6 hours of work brought it back to showroom shine!

I picked up this NuCanoe for fishing the ponds and floating rivers.

This is a project I picked up for $125!  The transom is rotted but the deck, floors and hull are in good shape.  I put some pieces back together and got it cleaned up and ready for a bow mount foot control trolling motor.  It should make a nice boat to fish our main pond out of especially with the kids.  My plans for the trailer will follow...

Food

The major hunting seasons are over so we have been eating pretty good around here.

Crawfish are just coming into season.

My first homebrew!

Game hen and Quail on the BGE.