Random Picture Thread

[CKuhns]

Poppers for the win! Caught some really nice smallies and even a few walleye on a recent trip to Voyagers National park.

 

[day_trippr]

Fishing floaters - or other top-water lures - is always the most fun one can have fishing imo. Whether quietly drifting a small dry caddis fly or chugging a big popper, the anticipation of a surface strike gets the adrenaline going. I probably missed or unhooked as many as I brought to hand today but even those were a rush

Just learned about Ophelia. Hopefully she'll be burned out before Monday...

Cheers!

 

[Sailingeric]

I am not into fishing but the best time I had was learning how to fly fish on Allen's Cay in the Exhumas in the Bahamas and we were getting iguanas to go after the fly (it was hookless)

 

[BongoYodeler]

Poppers for the win! Caught some really nice smallies and even a few walleye on a recent trip to Voyagers National park.

Cool!! Our son takes his two boys fishing at Voyagers every year.

 

[day_trippr]

Random cool stuff I forgot:

Right as I was launching the boat there was a building roar in the sky behind me that eventually got loud enough to warrant a glance: I saw a pair of F-35s, presumably Vt ANG, playing tag in the mountains. Years ago they were doing the same with F-16s, often refueling right over our house.

A couple hours later I was in a hot spot catching-wise and kept hearing a rustling overhead but was focused on the catching at hand.

The ruckus finally garnered a moment of my full attention - whereupon I saw a mature bald eagle maybe 30 feet above me, hopping from tree to tree to see if what I was catching might be available for its lunch. The moment it saw me watching it took flight up river.

Baldies and Goldens are actually pretty common above Moore Dam - plenty of documented nesting - so I'm a wee bit jaded, but still coming eye to eye with a bald eagle gilded a pretty good day...

Cheers!

 

[ba-brewer]

This is Boris, he sets his web in the tree above my truck and tethers it to the fender. His backside is about the size of a cranberry, not that big but still startling when he drops down to face height working his web.

 

[BongoYodeler]

Who? Boris the spider??

 

[ba-brewer]

Could be Natasha, it is hard to tell with some spiders.

 

[BongoYodeler]

Could be Natasha, it is hard to tell with some spiders.

I thought she was off chasing moose and squwaaail.

 

[Erik the Anglophile]

Looks like around my parts.
You gonna have dinner sorted for a few days...
@day_trippr

 

[Erik the Anglophile]

Wife and kids are away at her sister's.
Getting some work done(and a few drinks in)

 

[Erik the Anglophile]

Managed to get stung multiple times by possibly the last surviving wasp of the year. It flew in under my T-shirt and hurt like a *****.

 

[Erik the Anglophile]

I am the master builder.
There Can Only Be One!

 

[whoaru99]

Hmmm...

 

[Erik the Anglophile]

I reject your argument.

 

[Erik the Anglophile]

But in all seriousness, not to brag or anything, but I actually am pretty good at my trade, wich I do for a living.
(Yes I have been working at home and can neither confirm nor deny if I am a little drunk).

 

[Rodent]

moonrise reflected on the river last night. great evening sitting and taking the beauty in while the warm air wafted and frolicked about like little kids enjoying the first day of Fall

 

[Rodent]

got the new solar driveway floodlight installed yesterday. not a small feat given it's atop a 20' pole.

Sure wish I had access to a JLG or bucket-lift truck, but heavy-duty extension ladders was all we had. Worked like a champ last night with regular 30% dim mode dusk-dawn, and full on bright when the motion sensor is triggered

 

[HBT_Admin]

I liked the sun on this barn.

 

[balrog]

moonrise reflected on the river last night. great evening sitting and taking the beauty in while the warm air wafted and frolicked about like little kids enjoying the first day of Fall

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What'd you use that got you the stars (Cassiopeia?) in there??!!

 

[doug293cz]

Managed to get stung multiple times by possibly the last surviving wasp of the year. It flew in under my T-shirt and hurt like a *****.

Hope you got your revenge.

Brew on

 

[balrog]

Never happen in my house.

 

[Erik the Anglophile]

Hope you got your revenge.

Brew on

That wasp on the pic is very dead, I located it and pinched it with my fingers.
But it left a few marks...

 

[balrog]

I hate the way wasps bite and sting and unlike bees, don't die after stinging once.
They just fvcking keep going.

[Edit: edited image to try and avoid The Wrath Of The Mods]

 

[bailey mountain brewer]

Put these on the grill for a little then turned them into hot sauce.. scotch bonnet and red jalapenos

 

[bailey mountain brewer]

Yielded 10 5.5oz woozies

 

[Rodent]

What'd you use that got you the stars (Cassiopeia?) in there??!!

it was just a quick grab-shot, so whatever auto setting my iPhone12 decided was appropriate.

I can check on what star that was tonight using a star navigation app, and report back

 

[whoaru99]

Light the way.

 

[Pkrd]

it was just a quick grab-shot, so whatever auto setting my iPhone12 decided was appropriate.

I can check on what star that was tonight using a star navigation app, and report back

I got a moon set on Thursday from my iPhone 12 too. Incredible what they can do.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

 

[day_trippr]

A partridge in a hop tree?

 

[balrog]

Tis the season.

 

[balrog]

I have many questions (like children often do)

 

[ba-brewer]

^The odds where a million to one Jerry.

 

[BongoYodeler]

What the duff?!?!?

 

[bruce_the_loon]

I have many questions (like children often do)

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The steering wheel was probably turned all the way to the right as the wheel went into the gap, then they tried to straighten out and the power steering winched it the rest of the way in.

 

[balrog]

 

[whoaru99]

Mmmm.

 

[BongoYodeler]

 

[Hophunter]

From the rooftop at Bar Bernard at St. Bernardus. They were just finishing hop harvest from the field bottom left.