My buddy sent this spy to see how I'm training in the shed gym. He's jealous of how this 50 year old is putting on muscle and strength. 😁

Healthy herd around the ranch

17 hours ago, FishTank said:

This little attack ninja saved me yesterday while I was kayak fishing.  He swooped down out of nowhere and killed a wasp that had been bugging me for hours.  It was cool to watch. 

 

Yikes. Think I’d take my chances with the wasp and im

allergic to bees 😂 

My three legged Doodle, Willa Mae. 

Always striving for that Perfect Cast ~ 

A-Jay

On 8/11/2025 at 10:26 AM, FishTank said:

This little attack ninja saved me yesterday while I was kayak fishing.  He swooped down out of nowhere and killed a wasp that had been bugging me for hours.  It was cool to watch. 

 

 

That's pretty cool, what is it????

Some great photos!

 

Not sure if I posted this one before, but one of my favorite feeder tributaries to the St. Johns river in central Florida. When the water level is normal bass boats cannot get to this location. It is way back up in the jungle. Jurassic park like jungle, but with white sandy beaches perfect for camping and cookouts where no one will bother you- except the gators. Some big bass back in there!

 

When I am out there fishing and I hear something in the woods, I am reminded of the movie Jurassic Park and kind of half expect to see a T-Rex coming out of the woods for me. Love it out there though... so peaceful.

 

My boy’s 10th birthday today 

Frankfort, Michigan 

Double trouble.

 

 

From last years deer season.

I'm trying out a new image hosting site...

 

This image shows hidden U.S. history many may have never heard of before. The gutted mansion is called Dungeness and was built on Southern end of Cumberland Island, Georgia by Thomas Carnegie. The empty decaying mansion was burned by arson in 1959.

 

Do you see that small house to the left of Dungeness? That is where Revolutionary war Gen. Nathaniel Greene lived out his life. Its called the Tabby House.

 

This house is significant in U.S. history because a signer of the Declaration of Independence died in there. General Richard Henry Lee was sick and doctors told him to go to the Caribbean islands for more suitable weather. On board ship off coast of Georgia his health took a turn for the worse.

 

The ship turned west and made for shore and landed on Cumberland Island where Gen. Richard Lee was carried to the Tabby house. At that time Dungeness had not been built yet. (That came later because of this site.) General Richard Henry Lee died inside of General Greene's house and was buried on the island originally, but later exhumed to Richmond to lay in state along side his son General Robert E. Lee.

 

 

As a small boy I was taken to this island by Dr. Hilliard a descendant of the family who owned extensive land on the island and had a house near these ruins we stayed in. He was the man who instituted the golfing merit badge into Boy Scouting. I was in Boy Scouts camping on this island until we were run out of the woods by wild pigs and into his house for remainder of our trip. Back then it was all private land. Today it is federal land and a National park.

 

I dangerously climbed through these ruins of the mansion and have photos of me standing in second floor windows. Today it is fenced off from the public.

 

From these ruins I walked to the beach randomly walking through the woods. No paths. No markers. Just head east. In the woods I came across a small walled in cemetery. Gate was rusted shut and so I jumped the wall to look at tombstones. I was a 14 year old kid out in the middle of nowhere deep in the woods and I came to realize I had stumbled onto a hidden grave of a signer of the Declaration of Independence! I was stunned. An exciting moment for me. I had no idea at the time the second stone in front of his tombstone mentioned the body exhumation and removal. But the original tombstone was still there.

 

I am preparing now to take my own sons camping on this historic island still with wild horses roaming the island.

 

 

I would read in books decades later that I had followed in the footsteps of General Robert E. Lee who took time out from his efforts at war to go visit his father's grave for his only time. He docked on westside of island and walked literally the same path I did to find the grave. First to Tabby house, and then east to his father's grave. Today's dock is in same location as it was then. Its a strange feeling walking in the footsteps of history. Made a big impression on me as a kid.

 

Cool photos and story @FloridaFishinFool! My great great (not sure how many greats) grandfather James Cooper signed the watauga treaty, an early version of a Declaration of Independence 

 

he then violated it and was shot and scalped by Cherokees. He was building a fort with Jon sevier and others when they were supposed to be only leasing the land

Thanks! You have given me some new hidden history to research.

 

"On July 16, 1999, John F. Kennedy Jr. died when the light aircraft he was piloting crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. Kennedy's wife, Carolyn Bessette, and sister-in-law, Lauren Bessette, were also on board and died."

 

They were flying from their private residence on the northern end of Cumberland Island same place they married.

 

"In 1996, Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy and John F. Kennedy Jr. got married outside a peeling white log cabin chapel on Cumberland Island, Georgia. With no paparazzi and no media present, it offered the pair a brief moment of normality before they re-emerged into the world as one of the most famous couples on the planet."

 

Looking up "Watauga treaty" now. Thanks!

My mom has been to Cumberland island (or one next to it). She said they close it down and let people kill wild hogs there every year and they get like 500 

Walked up on this drama unfolding on our property a couple of years ago. Proof you don't need to kill kingsnakes. 

I shot up a mess of these when I was a younger.

 

On 8/7/2025 at 9:19 AM, Don Harris said:

Imperial Moth on our car at home. 

 

I found my recent moth photo. This one was flying around in my garage. It was the largest moth I had ever seen. I estimate it was around 4 inches wing tip to wing tip.

 

3 hours ago, Bazoo said:

I shot up a mess of these when I was a younger.

 

Tens of thousands. 

3 minutes ago, GreenPig said:

Tens of thousands. 

Not quite that many through my .22's - mainly cause I used CCI Mini-Mags for hunting.

1 hour ago, MN Fisher said:

Not quite that many through my .22's - mainly cause I used CCI Mini-Mags for hunting.

I still order 5K at a time.

50 minutes ago, GreenPig said:

I still order 5K at a time.

Those are round-nose....Mini-Mags are jacketed hollow points.

30 minutes ago, MN Fisher said:

Those are round-nose....Mini-Mags are jacketed hollow points.

Yes. They're accurate out to 300 yards and quiet with my suppressor. 

Back on topic please.  There's another forum here for firearms.

 

https://www.bassresource.com/bass-fishing-forums/forum/37-gun-forum/