CaptainMusky wrote:

When a lake initially gets zebras in it the population explodes exponentially at first, then it hits a carrying capacity and the numbers drop and level off. There was an extensive study done on Mille Lacs regarding this. I havent seen a recent update, but the numbers eventually fall but it first those buggers and spreading like wildfire.

Yup, I’ve watched our cabin lake go through this. When we bought in ’09 it was zeeb free, then they showed up in ’11 and they were everywhere within a year or two – noticeable changes in fish patterns, although water clarity seemed the same. Weeds got thicker and deeper, “green blob” filamentous algae increased in the spring to where it covered almost all the bottom near shore and then became floating bubbly, slimy mats by early summer. But in recent years, the zeebs are less prevalent. Weeds are still thicker than they used to be, but the Filamentous Algae isn’t as bad, and we’re catching fish in areas and frequency more like we did in ’09. I’ll have to look up the mercury levels but I think they’re about on-par with the average.

Yeah – gotta try the OTT chili at some point soon.

James Almquist wrote:

He is out of business and retired. Sucks because I liked buying his seasonings. I am waiting for my order from P & S to see if it compares.

DANG!!! I haven’t made anything from them in a few years, that’s too bad – I really liked their stuff but have been mainly doing my own maple and kielbasa recipes lately, was just thinking of doing bacon again this year. I’ve heard P&S is good, I will maybe give them a shot.

Anyway – back to topic – Yes, venison bacon is great!

I’ve made it a couple times, I bought the Venison Bacon mix from Curley’s Sausage Kitchen in Iowa (via the internet) – OUTSTANDING and honestly pretty easy to make. You mix it up just like you’re making summer sausage, but then I just lined a 9 x 13 baking dish with plastic wrap and formed it there, let it sit in the fridge overnight to cure and harden-up a bit, then removed the slab from the pan and plastic and smoked it the next day.

Tlazer wrote:

Which young QB’s exactly has KOC molded and developed? Just curious.

He’s getting more out of Darnold than anyone thought possible (short of the last couple games), and while not necessarily “young” he took an average Kirk Cousins in the middle of his career to the next level and made him one of the highest paid QBs in the league. I also give him some credit with helping develop Goff in LA. I could name some far worst coaches for QBs in our recent history – my point being is that in some Hypothetical situation where Rogers would come here, it would be a spectacular mismatch. But that’s probably the same everywhere, at this point.

Otherwise, straight up Lem breakfast sausage mix from Fleet Farm is really good, and you can add maple syrup or maple flavoring (if using syrup use real maple syrup, not corn syrup-based artificial crap). I make it 5 lb batches, patty them up, cook, bag and freeze them. Easy to warm up and throw on an English muffin with egg and cheese for a quick breakfast.

I have a smoked spicy maple sausage recipe (that I use for venison), that is LIGHTS OUT! But it’s a cured and stuffed sausage – I do it in rings with pig casings.

If interested, let me know!

HA! KOC wants a QB he can mold and develop, it’s his specialty and he’s good at it. Rogers is the antithesis of that. Signing Rogers would be like signing a second head coach and GM – and a really bad one, at that.

Yeah, neck roasts are awesome. Do you bone yours out first? I know some are weirded-out by cooking it with part of the spinal cord because of CWD, but it hasn’t hurt me yet.

The thing about shows like this is that they were recorded probably 6 months to a year ago. If they found something historic, you’d already know about it. I had a coworker who would always complain about her husband’s obsession with the “Finding Bigfoot” show. If they would’ve actually found Bigfoot, it would be the biggest zoological discovery in modern history. I think a network or two might break the story by the time the episode airs.

How poorly my very last post aged. I now reclaim my original post. Welcome to the Meineke Muffler Bowl. I hate being right.

tswoboda wrote:

Used to be superstitious when I muskie fished a lot. Like always had to have a banana in the boat…

WOW! this is controvesial – isn’t having a banana in the boat the universal harbinger of skunk-city when it comes to fisherman?

Don Carlisle wrote:

Buy a new blade

I’ll look harder but this is an old Gander Mountain brand slicer, which means it was an cheap import they slapped their label on. The bushing inside the blade is built into the blade, so not sure a replacement blade would be easily found.

TillrLife wrote:

Darnold is currently at the top of the sack list right now as well.

No surprises there, last year was a little better, but this team can never seem to figure the Offensive Line out, at least when it comes to pass protection.

Have one of the original Helix 5 portables for open water and ice – I switch out transducers with the season. Got to a point where I could no longer update firmware, called Humminbird and after a few failed tries to fix it over the phone, they had me send it to the Alpharetta, GA facility and I got it back in about a week, firmware updated and no charge. No complaints with Humminbird at all.

glenn57 wrote:

i’m pretty sure them polling people actually get paid…..not sure how much. my mom was a judge for many years…..

as always i could be wrong!!!!!

I could also be wrong, but I think there’s a small number (could be as low as 1) at each site that get paid – they’re in-charge. But most people like sticker guy or gal is a volunteer job. I should do it sometime and find out – I’m kinda geeky about the whole process.

Polls were busy in my precinct but operating very smoothly, everyone was smiling and I was in-and-out in 10 minutes. As I was waiting to sign the log book I looked towards the voting booths and noticed a young lady who obviously just didn’t roll out of bed, her hair and make-up were on-point. But that’s not why I noticed her, what caught my attention was that she was taking a selfie in the voting booth. I hope that makes her feel good, I’m sure she’s an inspiration to many on social media.

Man, practically does itself, hey Randy?

Kidding– I’ve always been fascinated by the tanning process. Maybe when the empty nest days are here I’ll give it a try on a raccoon or smaller furbearer.

weedis wrote:

Speaking of projects, the hwy 10/23 project in St. Cloud is done and open. I’m still not seeing how they made it any better. They actually added two sets of lights on 23, the on/off ramps to/from ten. Instead of subtracting lights, they added. That’s all St. Cloud needs is more lights. Good thing I can avoid that area pretty much.

Yeah, I don’t see the improvement either, perhaps the timing on those lights will be different and more traffic funneled to the overpass routes? But sure doesn’t look like it makes any sense when you drive through it.

For the life of me, I can’t understand how we’re not getting more pressure on the QB like we were the first few games. If you want to show blitz and back out of it, fine, but then don’t give the QB 6 seconds to stand in the pocket like a post and find guys all alone in that 20yd gap in the zone. Feels like rushing 4 is like rushing zero. All our sacks came basically in garbage time when the colts more or less had given up.

On the flip side, I know Indy has a pretty dang good front four on D, but it felt like the Vikings offensive line of 2021 last night. Darnold got abused. The guy on the o-line that had the best game just showed up 2 days ago – so at least that was a good get.

Yeah, Badgers looked terrible against Iowa. So that will be a fun Thanksgiving weekend game. And that Wisconsin team hung about a half-hundred on this Rutgers squad earlier this year…

Maybe the bowl prospects are looking up, who knows – like I said, I’d be happy to be wrong…

Happy for Kirk. Was a bumpy start of the year but he’s settled-in nicely in Atlanta – I’m not looking forward to playing him.

Yeah, Stroud was my keeper in FFL and THANK GOD I finally gave up and benched him this week.

Not Vikings related, but I’m almost speechless watching the pathetic display of Football that is Jets vs. Texans. Loving every minute of Rogers being utterly inept, even with his best bud Devonte. And Corley doing the most Jets thing ever, dropping the ball as part of a celly, before he actually gets in the end zone, ending up in a touch back for Houston. Michaels and Herbstreet almost asleep in the booth.

Edit… and they still might win because Houston is that bad. I’m not going to stay awake to find out.

I admit, I was the early guy one year. Sitting in the woods in complete darkness thinking man the sun is taking a long time to come up. I think I was asleep in my stand by 9:00am

Rain for me, but my mom and dad say it’s snowing at their place 30 min west of me. Must be coming this way.

Obvioulsy the engagement is the headline here – but get ready for the longest winter of your life! Maybe it’s a 4 season place, but we bought our cabin about the same time of year back in 2009, just in-time to shut the water off for the winter. Waiting for that spring was like waiting for the ice age to end!

Looking ahead to this weeks contest – Should be interesting with Grandpa Flacco out there – he proved last year that he can still ball. We’ll see if he has anything left in the tank. Not sure what the Colts O-line is looking like compared to LA – If we can get any pressure on Flacco, it will be hard for him to escape. I do think the game will be closer than it should be – again, we always play to our competition. Unlike Detroit who beats bad teams by +30 points – which is what good teams do. Like the great Jerry Burns put it – You gotta have killer instinct!

AWESOME NEWS! CONGRATS!

Groundhogs day with this talk (or should I say gopher day). Coulda, woulda, shoulda, blah, blah, blah. We’re heading for another thrilling Mieneke Muffler Bowl and you all know it.

As a life long Gopher fan, I’ll HAPPILY take the criticism if I end up being wrong and they spontaneously decide to play consistently good football and end up with a lower national ranking a half-way decent bowl. But I don’t think I’m going to be wrong.

Perich is unreal and Brosmer does seem to be settling-in compared to the start of his season. PJ’s doing a lot with what he has, but I don’t foresee any vastly different outcomes than years’ past.