Today I decided to give up on putting the boat in the water any more until after winter. I guess because I am not expecting it to warm up enough for me to get out there in the cold. not even sure that the river wont start freezing up within the next couple weeks anyway. I might try to bundle up and cast a little in the pit from land and keep myself close to a truck that can quickly warm me up. I don’t want to imagine what it would be like to be in the boat and have the motor not start. Burrrrr

Its too dark to add any Pix.

Maybe I will take some tomorrow when I take the motor off.

I took mom to one of her MRI appointments at Summit. I wouldn’t normally post about something like this but while sitting in the waiting room I decided to take a picture to send to some friends and family. I thought the picture of mom turned out really good so here it is.

Mom really likes this butterfly that she ironed on her purple sweater. She wanted me to take a picture of it not really sure why but anyway hehe I did take the pix of it for here so I thought I would share it with all of you.

On our way home mom and I decided to give Mel a call to see if she wanted to meet us uptown for lunch. So we met and took a few more pix. It was a good time and a nice lunch. Taylor was sure full of smiles she was happy she got to sit next to her Grandma. I think we should try to do lunches like this more often.

I snapped this pic of mom getting ready to go out. She had some Dr appointments this day. I thought it was kinda unique because of the way i took the picture of the mirror so it also caught my cellphone taking a picture of itself.  might sound goofy to you reading it. but o-well. I can be goofy when I want to.

After her appointments and a little shopping we went out for lunch at Old Chicago. We took these pictures to intentionally tease Doug and Grandma. When mom and I go out for lunch we like to take pix and send them to a few people. Its a lot of fun sometimes to see their replies.

Doug responded to the pix I sent to him with a picture of his lunch an apple. It was pretty silly and gave both mom and I a smile when I received the image from him.

I finally am back trying to get some posts written. I have more then 100 pix I would like to publish for all of the readers of huntpix.com. I am sorry about neglecting the site and not posting as often as I should have. I have been busy with many things and huntpix.com just hasn’t been my priority.

I have done a lot of fishing and i have several pix of fish my boat and some modifications i have made to the boat. I have also been experimenting with some different lures and good stuff like that.

I hope everyone will start sharing the site with others and posting comments again. I would really love it if someone out there wanted to make a post. Just let me know and i can walk ya through getting your post made here.

This pix is of the biggest sucker I have caught this year. The picture really doesn’t show the fishes true size well. But anyway it was a lot of fun to catch and actually one of the few fish I have caught this year that ran my drag out. it isnt exactly the most desirable kind of fish to catch but at least it keeps my fishing energy level up.

Tonight I decided to run into town to get an iced tea from Mobil and i noticed there were no cars at the boat launch. So I decided to try fishing for a short time since there was a full moon.

I tried to capture the full moon in the first picture it was so beatuiful. The seccond picture is one of the sheep heads i caught while i was out there.

My camera is not so good at taking pictures at night as you can probably tell from these pix. I am hoping to get a new one soon. Just need to make a decision to which one.

Today I mowed the lawn. Not sure why I am posting this pic I just saw it in my pix and thought what the heck. LoL It started to rain a little while I was mowing but I got lucky and it stopped before the grass got too wet.

Guess it is just fun to make posts! !

Maybe one of you reading this would like to have some fun and make a post on here sometime. If you would just ask I would love it if someone else would share pix and post friendly.

I am preparing the boat to go out again. Doug decided he was willing to go out in the boat with me after he finished with his eBay stuff. So These pictures are of me taking the boat to get gas and bait so that as soon as he finished we could head out.

We had a good time once we got out and the boat ran great. it did get dark pretty quick and my camera didn’t take good pix in the dark.

I asked doug to send me the pix he took while we were out. After he sends them to me i will get them published for all of you loyal viewers to view.

Jason and I were able to do a little boating and fishing this morning. We started out around 10:00 AM trying to decide if the boat motor would run. I decided to dry pull it and make sure it wasn’t screwed up and it fired off first pull. So we loaded the boat up and connected it to my truck put it in the water and all went great.

We headed upstream so that if the motor decided not to work we could use the current to get us close to the boat launch. I really didn’t want to paddle it back AGAIN ! ! !

We decided to stop at a spot where the surface water was smooth and glass like. Then we dropped anchor and tried to decide what bait to use. I set up my first pole with chicken liver and cast it out. Then I cast for a few mins with a twister but with the current as strong as it was casting was not working well. So I baited that pole up with a worm.

It didn’t take long and both Jason and I had bites. I caught the first fish a good sized catfish you can see it in the first picture kinda. Jason is as good at taking pictures as he is at catching fish. So the pix didn’t turn out the best. hehe.

Then after I knew the liver worked I wanted to try some stinky shrimp that has been sealed up and sitting in the garage for about a week or longer. Wow, was that shrimp rank ! ! ! We both did have bites on the shrimp but i think it was the smaller cats just nibbling or something like that maybe they couldn’t fit their mouths over the shrimp.

When we used worms it seams that the sheep head gobble them up so i prefer to not use worms at all.

After fishing that spot for a couple hours we decided we wanted to try a spot in calmer water near what we call the PIT. On the way to the PIT we headed under the train bridge and we both knew it was shallow but didn’t realize how shallow in some places it was. I was driving and the boat was at a slow almost idol and it jerked up. I knew right away i had hit a rock or the bottom or something so as quick as I could think I tilted the motor up so it was just barley in the water.

Well that didn’t do the trick the damage was already done. We had sheered the sheer pin. Jason has delt with changing the pin in the water multiple times but it was my first time to replace one without dry land under my feet.

We accomplished it ! ! It wasn’t as difficult as it could have been but it still wasn’t all that easy either. So after all that we decided to head back to the boat launch and take the boat out for the day. I think we will try to go again very soon.

I Never imagined a praying mantis actually being this big. I don’t know if you can really tell its size from the pix i took but i think with the size of the toe of my shoe you can at least guess. I wish I would have taken a picture of it next to a tape measure.

I have found a few of these in the past but never one anywhere near this size. I also think this might be a different kind. I did a little research and I found that there are 20 or so different kinds of Mantis that live in the US. I didn’t take the time to figure out details as it really isn’t that important to me. But if anyone knows please post specifics as a comment.

I was walking in the backyard and noticed this mantis on the bush. I wanted to show Austin and Taylor so i considered catching it with my hands. Then after looking at it for a few seconds. I wasn’t sure if it could maybe hurt me. So I used a plastic container to avoid touching it.