It’s been another moist week here in Central Missouri. That’s good news for the pond but bad news for getting garden work done.
My buddy Nick and I ran the fyke net in both of my ponds over the weekend. We sent a couple hundred bluegills from my bait pond to his quarry lake Saturday morning and re-deployed the net in the front pond Saturday afternoon. After that was done we pulled out a couple fishing rods and some cold beer and sat on the dock catching fish for a couple hours. We wound up fileting 25 >7” bluegills and one 12.25” yellow perch (right at 4lbs. of filets all told) and had a nice little fish fry for supper yesterday.
In between all of that I managed to slop around in the mud long enough to get a couple cattle panels installed on the sides of the new hoop house. I need to put another seven or eight panels up and frame in the ends to be ready for plastic sheeting. Also got the grass mowed and replaced the grow tubes around three of my chestnut trees with wire cages. The dang deers have started chomping on the tops of the ones that have grown out of the tubes. I ran out of 6’ welded wire before I finished so I need to grab a roll of that when I go to buy cattle panels.
The fun never ends around here...
SO jealous of those Yellow Perch! We used to catch them by the bucketful when I was a kid on Big Silver Lake, Waushara County, WI.
We always had a Fish Fry on Summer Friday Nights at my Grandparent’s cabin on the lake. I was so lucky to have had a lake of my own as a kid. So many adventures, so many Leopard Frogs to catch. So many Perch! :)
The squall that rolled in off the prairie last night brought another .8” of rainfall to the Middle of Misery and put a couple or three inches of new water in the pond.
Lots of lightning and thunder. We had to give the poor dog a tranquilizer.
I’m glad I was able to get the grass cut over the weekend. It’s a muddy mess out there now.