As I type this I'm enjoying a wild turkey (the drink, not the bird)and watching my fish Steve hunt down the last of the rainbow fish I put in his tank 2 days ago (12 went in, one left now ). Steve is a Sleepy cod I caught in a net when he was about 10cm long. He's now about 25-30cm and close to 1kg in weight. For those folk who don't know what a Sleepy Cod looks like, check out the link. He's a great fish that even eats out of my hand, however he'll be set free soon as I'm thinking of getting a file snake. I can't have both cause Steve would eat the snake

Reading about your fish eat the other fish in your tank. I am also enjoying a drink(Rum) or 15 and comtemplating my next shoot.

PS. Bakes is Katherine getting warn this time of year or not.

Doc1972.

Yes Doc very bloody warm. Days in the high 30's, nights about 27ish!

Well, I am lucky to be alive. I just survived a day and night of 72 mile an hour wind gusts. Thanks to that kind of weather there was no hunting (game does not move in that crap) and the electic power to the house was reduced to brown out. I spent most of the night worrying and trying to keep warm 50 two week old meat chicks. I sure hate to see an investment die.

I lost one bird.

I had to run my chain saw to get a tree off my pasture fence. The temps dropped fast and with no power= no lights= no heat, at least I have a wood stove and got a fire going to heat the house. Fortunately, there have been no other trees let down for me to cut. My saw needs some service and is not running the way it should. It was a busy day, I am rather sore today from my efforts.

Power is back at full strength and I am drinking coffee.

It's still ugly today but not nearly as bad. I will take my bow out and go see about sticking a deer this afternoon.

Bakes, I used to have aquarium fish. Many of them could be trained to jump out for treats. One of my brothers teased one big one once and he jumped out right at his face. He left the fish alone after that!

I'm on a computer on the internet.

John,

You need to expand your horizons.

Great minds and all that John! I was going to say "Reading" on the puter. derf

Bakes,



How big does Steve have to get before he is ready for the pan?



Regards,



Pete

And is Steve the fish loud and obnoxious , prone to wild gesticulation and says "crickey" with real enthusiasm...?

And more importantly - what will he taste like ?

Bloody assignment as well:
AN OVERVIEW OF PARTICIPATORY APPROACHES TO SUSTAINABLE WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT IN A RURAL DEVELOPMENT SCENARIO.
How to acheive equitable distribution of hunting rights. ITQ's etc.

Getting distracted by posts about Bakes Bum.
Also gazing out the window at the receding snowline, and guessing where the Chamois are feeding.

Right now trying to work out how to get my 6.5 wildcat back from mab it's been down there for nearly 4 months apart from that cleaned a few rabbits and going to make my wife honey and red wine rabbit stew.

Mate I haven't spoken to Dick for awhile. The wife was down that way but didn't get a chance to pop in. (hang on....that sounds bad hey you know what I mean ) Must ring him. When are you going up next for a shoot? There'll be a few foxes around there by now.

A file snake is an almost totally aquatic snake. If you've seen the odd doco about bush tucker, they're the snakes the black fella's find in the lilly pads. File snakes They go for about $250 for a small one. Steve will have ago at anything in his tank, even my hand so a small snake is just a worm to him. A fella up the road is mad about snakes (he has 4 carpet pythons) and he just got a file snake. I told the wife that they can't climb out of the tank so she gave the all clear.

Pete and Muzza
Hopefully the link will work now. They are good eating. Last year I caught one in a cherrabin trap on the Daly river, he must of gone in after the cherrabin.

Sleepy Cod

Ann
I'm flat out keeping cool!!

Thanks Mate, I'll drop Dick a line and see how he is. The snake stuff is interesting!

Piranhas are not very bold, only when they are in schools. There are meaner fish out there, trust me.

The fish I had was a large "oscar", a cichlid fish from South America. They kind of remind me of a large mouth bass. These are fairly smart fish as they can recognize faces and can differentiate between people gawking at them through the glass.

They are always hungry too. Mine liked grass hoppers and raw hamburger. At feeding time, which really was ANY time, this fish would swim with his mouth against the glass in anticipation. You could hear his teeth scraping on the glass as he did this. Kinda cool to hear that.