PS, I forgot to mention I have a stocked pond, very large, we have some catfish that are 3 feet long. Grandson caught a two foot one last summer, and cleaned it, and instructed me on how to cook it, the little darling. :D I must say it’s good fish. We have some other fish in there too, but the catfish are just delicious.
They like to shoot squirrels, too, and we’ve had country fried squirrel (same dry-wet-dry method as Southern Fried Chicken). I would say that homemade bread is cheaper than storebought, but they eat it so fast I have to stock up on flour before they visit.
What fun, you won’t starve and that is good news.
A 3 foot catfish, will have all the fisher folks knocking on your door.
I have no problems with hunting for food, and lots of people think things are good that do not interest me.
A friend kept rattlesnake in her freezer, for feeding to company.
I made sure that I did not eat any of her fish or chicken dishes.
I am sure that my eating habits will change, if I ever reach the point that I don’t have a choice of what I eat.
There were many animals that I kept and did not eat, such as rabbits, it did not bother me to sell them to other people, right out of the freezer, but I only cooked them a few times and no one in the family would eat them.
It sounds as though you have a fine place, fruit and fish is a good start.
There was a time when homemade bread cost 25 per cent of store bought bread.....and I do not consider that white air bread to be bread, that stuff is good for crafts, makes a nice clay, when the crusts are removed and it is kneaded well with Elmers white glue, to make a dough/clay.
I have a pair of bread dough ear rings, a rose, that are almost 40 years old.
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Swampsniper has posted todays photos and they are fantastic, come and see what a real fisherman looks like.
Do you have them on your pond?