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#143,241
MCF said:
Now that’s a pond! Very cool. The best this Cali suburbanite can do is a small koi pond (that I need to muck out this weekend, Ugh). I’ll let a bird or two check it out when I’m done and post a pic.
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Our pond joins with a swamp during rainy season. I love koi but I don't think they would last with all the fishhawks but we do catch bass, catfish, sunfish and tilapia. My GF provides lunch to an ancient snapping turtle every day. He waits for her now.
 
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#143,242
gaffster said:
Wow. Nothing that impressive. The den/bar does have a replica Mahi, Snook, Tarpon and a Blackfin Tuna. I used to go offshore in a 17' open boat. *** was I thinking?, LOL.
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Lol...about three years ago we (my suggestion) took our 22' Reinell to Santa Cruz harbor and back from the Moss Landing marina (about 20 miles each way) and afterwards I decided that never again.....thought my wife was going to divorce me...:roflmao:..
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gaffster said:
Our pond joins with a swamp during rainy season. I love koi but I don't think they would last with all the fishhawks but we do catch bass, catfish, sunfish and tilapia. My GF provides lunch to an ancient snapping turtle every day. He waits for her now.
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We had a visiting sandhill crane some years back that did a few of the fish in. Only saw it a couple times that one year and haven’t seen one since.
 
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#143,255
gaffster said:
Just a three of four footer with three legs who took off during the last hurricane. Poisonous snakes are our main concern. A cottonmouth had me doing the gig one time. Turns out I can dance !
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I'd carry a small shotgun or large revolver (loaded with shot in at least three chambers). When we lived in the boonies out here, we didn't go far on the property without a rifle. Coyotes, bobcats, the occasional cougar, and large, aggressive dogs[1] were always possibilities, never mind poisonous snakes, rabid smaller animals, etc. Never had to shoot anything, but neighbors occasionally had to. I did have to scare a vicious dog off once by shooting at the ground near it. It had attacked our daughter and the neighbors were sloppy about chaining him up. They thought I was shooting *at* the dog (it was tempting, but that particular day he was just trespassing), and kept him on their property after that.

[1] A neighbor (sheriff's deputy) caught those dogs rampaging through his herd of goats. After he shot them (the dogs), he took photographs of everything, then hauled the dogs in his pickup to their owners' house, put them on the porch, and rang their doorbell. (They had been warned, as the dogs had gotten out and attacked people, pets, and livestock before.) He made it clear that they had (some number of) days to pay damages or he'd have them arrested and sue them to boot. They paid up and upped their fence game before getting more dogs. Sad.
 
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Miles_ONeal said:
I'd carry a small shotgun or large revolver (loaded with shot in at least three chambers). When we lived in the boonies out here, we didn't go far on the property without a rifle. Coyotes, bobcats, the occasional cougar, and large, aggressive dogs[1] were always possibilities, never mind poisonous snakes, rabid smaller animals, etc. Never had to shoot anything, but neighbors occasionally had to. I did have to scare a vicious dog off once by shooting at the ground near it. It had attacked our daughter and the neighbors were sloppy about chaining him up. They thought I was shooting *at* the dog (it was tempting, but that particular day he was just trespassing), and kept him on their property after that.

[1] A neighbor (sheriff's deputy) caught those dogs rampaging through his herd of goats. After he shot them (the dogs), he took photographs of everything, then hauled the dogs in his pickup to their owners' house, put them on the porch, and rang their doorbell. (They had been warned, as the dogs had gotten out and attacked people, pets, and livestock before.) He made it clear that they had (some number of) days to pay damages or he'd have them arrested and sue them to boot. They paid up and upped their fence game before getting more dogs. Sad.
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yep, back in the 70s you were a fool if you went across St Rd 84 “Alligator Alley” without some type of armament..
 
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