Grizzly, your right when I was a kid I could go out after school and chores and kill quail, rabbit, squirrels, and droves for food we raised our food hog's, cow's, goat's and chickens but it was a good change for wild meat every now and then, raised all our vegetables and made lard out of hog fat had crackling cornbread (if anyone knows what that is) I didn't have all the new stuff that my schoolmates had new fishing poles, new guns, first time I got to go to my closest friends house 5 miles away and I went by bicycle and found out they had indoor bathroom (we had a outhouse until I was about 8-9 years old) and never told any of my friends.
soon after that we got a bathroom that daddy built on the back porch, still a lot better than going out to the outhouse at night,, but till today I have great memories of my childhood days.
Those days are gone can't hardly find a quail or rabbits now because of Coyote's, bobcat's and python's and never the least the people that are moving in to the wildlife's homes, and then when they find a gator in the pool or a black bear going through the garage looking for something to eat they are so upset WELL just think how the animals feel when a bulldozer comes through and push their home's up in a pile and set fire to it, they don't have insurance to rebuild like we do it's all on them to try to find a new home... it's really sad to see this happening all around me as long as my wife and I are alive their have our small ranch to live out their lives ( NOT FOR SALE ) and most of our surrounding larger farms and ranches feels the same way, so the north east of the county will have lots of wildlife, just have to step up the control of the python's 😂😂🙏
Hope you and everyone has a wonderful weekend, stay safe and God Bless you 🙏 Chuck

Well guys Ben and I got out on the water bout 0640 and were fishin by 0700.
The first place we wanted to try, some guy on a bicycle had beat us to the spot. So we left that one to him and went further up the slough.
Got to our next sopt and Ben hooks up 4 times and lands 2, both shorts, but not by very much.
I get out of the boat and walk to the other side of the levy and I land one over there, bout the same size as Bens was.
That's all we were able to get there so we went back down river. The bicycle guy was still there and as we went by we made the motions "had he caught anything???" He held up 1 finger and was very happy.
Glad we didn't get there before him . Other wise he would have had a long ride out there and probly not caught anything. Good for him.
Ben and I went on out to the flats and cast around all the places we usually fish but couldn't find any.
Started trollin and we went into 2 different sloughs but couldn't find any that wanted to play. Marked a lot of fish though.
Went back to the flats and caught 2 more trollin up there. Both keepers bout 18 1/2 inches.
Couldn't find any more castin but caught 1 more trollin bout noon. It was 19 1/2. So we have 3 in the livewell.
Trolled several different places after that but never hooked up again.
Called it a day bout 2:45 with just the 3 fish, but happy to have them.
By the time I got home, cleaned the fish , showered and rested a few min it's 7:50pm.
Now it's time for a late dinner.
Just the one pic of the fish before I filleted them.

Well Fredfish here's my contraption the conduit will screw onto the end of the pole and just a little electrical tape for good measure. It's got plenty of appendages to snag the Fish God's treasure . Total length of 11 feet and the water depth should be about 7 ish feet give or take . The long screws are sturdy and the coat hanger might snag something . God knows it catches enough on dry land just trying to work with it in my shop. Will give it a good going over and hopefully recoup both poles. 🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🇺🇲🇺🇲