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#71
Freshwater / Re: It's Time!
Last post by nastygunz - April 28, 2025, 09:09:09 PMI don't think I've ever seen anybody eat a bass up in these parts.
#72
Freshwater / Re: It's Time!
Last post by nastygunz - April 28, 2025, 09:08:44 PM #73
Freshwater / Re: It's Time!
Last post by Okanagan - April 28, 2025, 08:22:35 PMSome pretty good sized ones there. I sure loved to catch small mouth back in my day. My favorite of the fish available where I grew up.
In those days we ate every one we caught.
I'd have thought someone was weird if he released a fish.
In those days we ate every one we caught.
I'd have thought someone was weird if he released a fish. #74
Freshwater / It's Time!
Last post by FinsnFur - April 28, 2025, 07:22:09 PMThe Smalleys are movin in.
Havent found the Hawgs yet but they're groupin up.
Havent found the Hawgs yet but they're groupin up.
#75
The Tailgate / Re: 'Skavator at the birthday ...
Last post by FinsnFur - April 28, 2025, 07:04:17 PMHe knew what lap to crawl up on for results
#76
The Tailgate / Today in history 4-28
Last post by remrogers - April 28, 2025, 09:14:29 AM1862
April 28
Union captures New Orleans
Union troops officially take possession of New Orleans, completing the occupation that had begun four days earlier.
The capture of this vital southern city was a huge blow to the Confederacy. Southern military strategists planned for a Union attack down the Mississippi, not from the Gulf of Mexico. In early 1862, the Confederates concentrated their forces in northern Mississippi and western Tennessee to stave off the Yankee invasion. Many of these troops fought at Shiloh in Tennessee on April 6 and 7. Eight Rebel gunboats were dispatched up the great river to stop a Union flotilla above Memphis, leaving only 3,000 militia, two uncompleted ironclads, and a few steamboats to defend New Orleans. The most imposing obstacles for the Union were two forts, Jackson and St. Phillip. In the middle of the night of April 24, Admiral David Farragut led a fleet of 24 gunboats, 19 mortar boats and 15,000 soldiers in a daring run past the forts.
Now, the river was open to New Orleans except for the ragtag Confederate fleet. The mighty Union armada plowed right through, sinking eight ships. At New Orleans, Confederate General Mansfield Lovell surveyed his tiny force and realized that resistance was futile. If he resisted, Lovell told Mayor John Monroe, Farragut would bombard the city and inflict severe damage and casualties. Lovell pulled his troops out of New Orleans and the Yankees began arriving on April 25. The troops could not land until Forts Jackson and St. Phillip were secured. They surrendered on April 28, and now New Orleans had no protection. Crowds cursed the Yankees as all Confederate flags in the city were lowered and stars and stripes were raised in their place.
The Confederacy lost a major city, and the lower Mississippi soon became a Union highway for 400 miles to Vicksburg, Mississippi.
April 28
Union captures New Orleans
Union troops officially take possession of New Orleans, completing the occupation that had begun four days earlier.
The capture of this vital southern city was a huge blow to the Confederacy. Southern military strategists planned for a Union attack down the Mississippi, not from the Gulf of Mexico. In early 1862, the Confederates concentrated their forces in northern Mississippi and western Tennessee to stave off the Yankee invasion. Many of these troops fought at Shiloh in Tennessee on April 6 and 7. Eight Rebel gunboats were dispatched up the great river to stop a Union flotilla above Memphis, leaving only 3,000 militia, two uncompleted ironclads, and a few steamboats to defend New Orleans. The most imposing obstacles for the Union were two forts, Jackson and St. Phillip. In the middle of the night of April 24, Admiral David Farragut led a fleet of 24 gunboats, 19 mortar boats and 15,000 soldiers in a daring run past the forts.
Now, the river was open to New Orleans except for the ragtag Confederate fleet. The mighty Union armada plowed right through, sinking eight ships. At New Orleans, Confederate General Mansfield Lovell surveyed his tiny force and realized that resistance was futile. If he resisted, Lovell told Mayor John Monroe, Farragut would bombard the city and inflict severe damage and casualties. Lovell pulled his troops out of New Orleans and the Yankees began arriving on April 25. The troops could not land until Forts Jackson and St. Phillip were secured. They surrendered on April 28, and now New Orleans had no protection. Crowds cursed the Yankees as all Confederate flags in the city were lowered and stars and stripes were raised in their place.
The Confederacy lost a major city, and the lower Mississippi soon became a Union highway for 400 miles to Vicksburg, Mississippi.
#77
The Tailgate / Re: 'Skabador at the birthday ...
Last post by KySongDog - April 27, 2025, 10:31:30 AMGood times. Your golden years are truly golden.
#78
The Tailgate / Today in history 4-27
Last post by remrogers - April 27, 2025, 10:24:49 AM1813
April 27
Explorer Zebulon Pike killed in battle
After surviving two dangerous exploratory expeditions into uncharted areas of the West, Zebulon Pike dies during a battle in the War of 1812.
By the time he became a general in 1812, Pike had already faced many perilous situations. He joined the army when he was 15, and eventually took various military posts on the American frontier. In 1805, General James Wilkinson ordered Pike to lead 20 soldiers on a reconnaissance of the upper Mississippi River. Expecting to return before the rivers froze, Pike and his small band departed up the Mississippi in a 70-foot keelboat in early August. Slow progress, however, meant Pike and his men spent a hard winter near present-day Little Falls, Minnesota, before returning the following spring.
Less than three months later, Wilkinson ordered Pike to head west again. This time, Pike and his men explored the headwaters of the Arkansas River, a route that took them into Colorado. There, Pike saw the towering peak that now bears his name, and he made an ill-advised attempt to climb it. Grossly underestimating the height of the mountain and dressed only in thin cotton uniforms, Pike and his men struggled with deep snow and sub-zero temperatures before finally abandoning the ascent.
During this second expedition, Pike also became lost and wandered into Spanish-controlled territory. A Spanish patrol arrested him and took him into custody. Although Pike had indisputably lost his way, he had also hoped the Spanish would capture him so he could see more of their territory. This risky strategy paid off. Failing to recognize they were providing Pike with a golden opportunity to spy on the territory, the Spanish obligingly moved their prisoner first to Santa Fe and then to Chihuahua, before finally releasing him near the U.S. boundary at Louisiana.
Impressed with his daring and his reputation as an efficient officer, the military promoted Pike to brigadier general during the War of 1812. Having survived two perilous journeys into the Far West, Pike was killed on April 27, 1813 while leading an attack on British troops in Toronto. He was 34 years old.
April 27
Explorer Zebulon Pike killed in battle
After surviving two dangerous exploratory expeditions into uncharted areas of the West, Zebulon Pike dies during a battle in the War of 1812.
By the time he became a general in 1812, Pike had already faced many perilous situations. He joined the army when he was 15, and eventually took various military posts on the American frontier. In 1805, General James Wilkinson ordered Pike to lead 20 soldiers on a reconnaissance of the upper Mississippi River. Expecting to return before the rivers froze, Pike and his small band departed up the Mississippi in a 70-foot keelboat in early August. Slow progress, however, meant Pike and his men spent a hard winter near present-day Little Falls, Minnesota, before returning the following spring.
Less than three months later, Wilkinson ordered Pike to head west again. This time, Pike and his men explored the headwaters of the Arkansas River, a route that took them into Colorado. There, Pike saw the towering peak that now bears his name, and he made an ill-advised attempt to climb it. Grossly underestimating the height of the mountain and dressed only in thin cotton uniforms, Pike and his men struggled with deep snow and sub-zero temperatures before finally abandoning the ascent.
During this second expedition, Pike also became lost and wandered into Spanish-controlled territory. A Spanish patrol arrested him and took him into custody. Although Pike had indisputably lost his way, he had also hoped the Spanish would capture him so he could see more of their territory. This risky strategy paid off. Failing to recognize they were providing Pike with a golden opportunity to spy on the territory, the Spanish obligingly moved their prisoner first to Santa Fe and then to Chihuahua, before finally releasing him near the U.S. boundary at Louisiana.
Impressed with his daring and his reputation as an efficient officer, the military promoted Pike to brigadier general during the War of 1812. Having survived two perilous journeys into the Far West, Pike was killed on April 27, 1813 while leading an attack on British troops in Toronto. He was 34 years old.
#79
The Tailgate / 'Skavator at the birthday part...
Last post by Okanagan - April 26, 2025, 02:42:05 PMLast evening at supper a bunch of our family got together for a birthday party. Good food and fun on a son's big patio, and as things started to slow down, a two year old great grandson of mine crawled up on his grampa's lap and said "Skavator."
I didn't have a clue what he was saying but with several repetitions my son figured out that the toddler was saying "Excavator." My son's excavator machine was parked within view and the little boy wanted to fire it up and drive it again, on his grampa's lap, as he has done before. Within another minute or so the two of them had the machine going and were out there working the bucket and grading the gravel driveway.
How many little boys want to drive an earth moving machine--- and actually get to- immediately!
Wish we had taken some pics of that as well as the birthday cake.
I didn't have a clue what he was saying but with several repetitions my son figured out that the toddler was saying "Excavator." My son's excavator machine was parked within view and the little boy wanted to fire it up and drive it again, on his grampa's lap, as he has done before. Within another minute or so the two of them had the machine going and were out there working the bucket and grading the gravel driveway.
How many little boys want to drive an earth moving machine--- and actually get to- immediately!
Wish we had taken some pics of that as well as the birthday cake.
#80
The Tailgate / Re: I tawt i taw a puddy tat.
Last post by nastygunz - April 26, 2025, 11:31:31 AMTough old hombre!