Swampman

If was my dad I would just paid in full!!! When he is gone you will miss him.

Still can happen but not as easily as once was due to people becoming more intelligent of land/timber values. You would need a cruise of timber before buying the land/timber and then make sure you can get a logging contractor to cut it. If it is a very small acreage then usually they wont fool with it due to cost of moving machinery, etc to sight.

Yes, I work there. Could have been a lot worse with only 2 lives lost.

When was younger was fishing Toledo Bend one night with 2 buddies. The old fashion coleman lantern fell off seat and gas in bottom of boat flared up. We all bailed out thinking we was fixing to get fried. I went out of sight and when I came up my buddies was standing in about waist high water on the other side of the boat. We were in the middle of a old road bed and I was the one that picked the deep side.

Legal in north la. Used for limb lines, trotlines, etc

If he truly wants to use your stud dog he will do what you want.

Flathead fishing on Bistineau is a hidden secret. Have a friend who at one time would catch over 500 lbs a year on drop lines-then he go to old to do it. You will have to fight the moss now!!!

Wonder how much the refs/family had bet on the game?

That is one thing I have noticed for years. Bama and LSU recruits come in basically same size, etc but when they leave there is a tremendous difference. Who is to blame-dunno.

I remember the first ones "turned loose" in North la. around 1959. My father stopped by house and picked me up to go watch. I was about 8 years old at that time. He told me something I remember to this day. He said he would not live to see it but that I would when they would become a nuisance and he was correct. I don't remember when we could legally hunt them from the date they were turned loose. Some of the old timers who had to go to Tensas to hunt before then would run them with there coon dogs shortly after they were turned lose in parish. Killed my first one the first year it was legal with a 20 gauge with a slug in front of dogs. What still hunting was done was setting on ground up against a big tree after finding where they were eating acorns. Actually a lot easier than someone would think.

I tried 30% beef fat with deer this year for hamburgers. It seems to be great. Might could get by with less though. The beef fat is easily obtained at local grocery stores. Hog fat is a little harder to get since deer processing usually keeps it bought up.