That's not why. Tournaments and tournament fisherman made it taboo to eat them. They didn't want their prize money being taken from the lakes. Bass are a game fish like many others and have good white flaky meat. They are not my favorite, but the are still good.... Eat up people. Bass from lakes are probably a lot healthier for us to eat than a lot of the junk we buy at the store.

I live close by there, the estimate I've heard is roughly 9 million gallons per day. I'm not sure how its discharged though.

There's a lot to this change that is unfortunate for some of us that actually trap fisher/marten in any number. An opening day in the southern zone this year on thanksgiving morning (second busiest deer hunting day of the season) will undoubtedly cost folks private access and further increase the crowding and issues on public that anyone that traps much knows exactly what I'm talking about. Maybe half of the years seasonal roads are completely inaccessible at this time in November through much of the state. Certainly tug hill and central ADKs will be extremely limited more years than not for much of the open season. Not to mention fisher are pretty well satiated with gut piles and deer carcasses 10 days into the southern zone rifle season. A chunk of beaver probably wont be the attraction it usually is. Sure the pelts will be a bit heavier, but now we will catch 1/4 of the fur and have 4x the competition in the same areas. FHA seems quite happy to auction many of my "early/blue/unprime" fisher off for top dollar every year. Overall this is a poor change for NY trappers that do anything in numbers. This only benefits the folks running a couple traps behind their house or on their way to work each day. Tough change for the ones that run a couple hundred miles and run 75+ traps a day. It'll be interesting to see how it plays out this fall.

I went with a HVAC install of a Mitsubishi in my new shop. It did not come pre charged. Took two guys about 5 hours to set everything and run all the lines. The electric had already been run so they just had to hook it up.

I use solar glass hot bed dirt cover over a black background. 1/2 to 3/4 hour to make 1 gallon

Regardless of the set, step down or standard, I like them rock solid. I haven't tried standing on the trap like Ray Milligan but I started doing the cone like Paul Antzak, digging out just enough to set the trap into with solid, undisturbed ground supporting the contact points. It sped up my setting time and I spend way less time trying to repack the dirt I took out. And I have been covering a little deeper than I used to. I noticed a couple years ago a couple times where a coyote stepped on the jaw and it only had a 1/4" of dirt over it. The trap was solid but I could see the jaw edge in the print. I think he felt the cold edge of the jaw and left the set.

Might try a spray bottle on the flesh side only. Then tack out however you like.

You say exotic, we say.nuisance. lol

Lee, yes, I have one table left and you are welcome to it

Les isn’t attending this year, so we had a few spots

See you in August !

John

Dicing up and freezing has become our preferred way. Freeze the cut up pieces spread out on a cookie sheet first, then put in freezer bags. That way they don't clump together, and its easy to grab a handful and put in soup or whatever.

Yay! I have one of those little spritzer fans you put ice water in the bottom of.
We also have that mister station out in the yurt.
I wish we had some bomb pops…