Posts by Aaron Proffitt

  • Bar-b-Q

    Quote from monster slayer

    Aaron, whats your favorite meat for grilling?


    Tony,


    I don't have favorite, hermano .



    Snipe( my girls love grilled snipe for breakfast covered with orange marmalade....the earthy swampy flavors marry well with the citrus), bison( less fat than chicken), waterfowl, bobcat loins , racoon/bear ( very similar to each other...if I had to eat one red meat the rest of my life, it'd be bear), feral hog ( taste like where it cam from ,East brings a taste of pine and acorns , out here it's sage and wheat grass) , fish( carp take a completely different turn when placed one the grill...I could take a gar and dip it in butter and you would swear it was lobster) and so on and so on.


    Point is,hermano, a well collected species will give forth it's bounty....all the more likely when coaxed forth over mesquite .:)

  • Rattle Rattle

    Quote from monster slayer

    Something like a big PVC rattle snake taco!! <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x">


    Exactly !Be a real hit at parties ...


    To dispatch simply plug one end of the pipe then run a long hose from your vehicle exhaust into the open end and pump exhaust into that bad boy until rattle no-mo.

  • Rattle Rattle

    Quote from LunkerBuster

    good thinking..maybe he could shield them with brush and at the same time make them appear more attractive to the little bastards as hides/ dens


    Got it.... take 6' PVC pipe that's about 8 feet long. In the middle of the pipe ,place one of those chemical handwarmers ( rattlers are pit vipers, they find prey via special organs that detect their body heat) then place your glue boards in the pipe . Wah LAH !! Pipe o' snakes !!!Then drown the bastards.

  • Rattle Rattle

    Quote from LunkerBuster

    .commercial snake traps use sticky adhesives and hold the snake till it dies or you destroy it- animal control in AZ recommends burning or drownign the snakes while still in the traps to avoid bites


    I had thought about the traps, but I am afraid the fine dust and sand in the open desert would render them useless pretty quick.

  • Rattle Rattle

    In the words of Indiana Jones " Snakes .... why did it have to be snakes ?".


    I have to confess ,fellas...I have a deep, almost crippling fear of snakes. Probably almost phobic . I once refused to accept a copperhead skin backed longbow as I knew I wouldn't shoot,touch or even look at the damn thing. Beautiful bow, too. It's gotten better as I no longer egress dive spots because a sunning water snake decided to go for a dip ( My God ,Alissa used to get so mad at me...here we had cooridnated our schedules ,caught a perfect day with great vis and traveled into Arkansas only to have me with-in a couple of hours go " I'm done. Outta here. Fuckin' snake..."). But while working around my property , summer dog training, early season teal and dove season... my head's on a swivel and snake chaps are worn damn near year round. I used to have a really sadistic german shorthair that would occasionally point a rattler.Rattlesnakes are still somewhat common during the first part of Nov. quail season during the day. Incidentally, I have heard of ALOT of GSP guys whose dog would point rattlers.Not setters or English pointers and not hog snakes, king snakes, or rat snakes. But shorthairs and rattlers are the maddening combo.


    Now that I have divulged my handicap and reptillian fear resume .....Tono, if I knew what to do I'd be doing it force around here. Short of paving your property with anti-personnel mines that are set to blow with 8 oz. of pressure , a moat filled with close knit razor wire and mongi ( plural for mongoose ?), and putting your house on stilts with the stilts covered in super-sticky tar pitch...I really don't know.


    I have heard that donkeys are hell on snakes . Kill every one they come across.I've heard the same thing about pigs.


    I just really don't know.

  • The F word ?

    As a 14 year military man, correctional officer and tac officer....I pretty much use 'phuq' in all it's forms and meanings thru out my day. From a conjunction to an adjective to a verb to a noun . Very versatile acronym 'phuq' is . Alot like the nautical acronym that we know as 'shit'.
    But in the wrong company it makes me bristle. Hate to hear someone say the need some phuqin' 3-d glasses to watch Toy Story 3, ya know.

  • Record 130-pound catfish caught in Mo. River

    Massive fish !! I had a guy on another board ask me what the result would be if you were to run into this sucker while handfishing "aka noodling"; and I said it would most like completely dislocate your shoulder and break your arm Blue cats, even small ones, have a very unsavory habit of biting down and then spinning like a croc. Ones that are as small as 10-15 lbs. will sprain wrists and fingers. You can always tell the guy that got ahold of blue while noodling....he'll come out of the water with a wrist as swollen as his calf and it'll look like he ran it over a metal grinder.


    Flatheads just clamp down and shake you like a dog.