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mulberries are on the trees now!
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mulberries are on the trees now!
I was thinking more along the lines of getting the old bed sheet out and shaking those trees. Then we can make some PIE! :)
I think you've got the right idea, Zac, but it's true the carp do love those berries. THey,ve been in full swing here for about two weeks now.
Oh I know, Tim! I'm just sayin.... this fat kid thinks PIE ala mode right off the bat when I see mulberries. Grandma can whip up a dang good one.
Do y'all use the native, red mulberries or the imported purple or white species?
Ed
P.S. Do the carp up there go for hackberries when they fall, or do the birds eat them all off the trees?
Cottonwood (basswood?) is flying here too... when it stacks up in eddy pools the carp are not far and will willingly take drys as they are slurping up the fluffs - if you don't spook them in the process that is. ;)
My kids love picking berries off a few bushes (i think it is called bushberry - but not positive) in my yard and throwing them in my pond. This would be about mid-summer when the berries turn red. After they throw a few hundred in, the catfish will come in and gorge on them!!!
I have one tree that's available to me near the water, and it's been a consistent producer 0f carp on dry flies for many years. I've been watching it for two weeks. The birds are on the green berries already! I love having to be stealthy to allow the birds and the squirrels to knock berries in the water (my animal chums) , then cast to the swirling carp. Not quite cheating....
Charlie
Ed-- we've got all three around here so it usually winds up a mixed bag. I also like to throw in some gooseberries to add a little tartness to the mix since the seasons overlap here.
Hey Bill,
Thanks for the post (s) on carp. I hate to admit this to anyone but the last time I was skunked fishing (two years ago) was in my attempt at carp.
I am now sidetracted from fishing but the fish that calls to me the most is....yep carp. It's the one fish that I haven't caught in my home waters.
Sometimes at night when I am driving along the river I hear them laughing at me...taunting me.
Got to go the Yanks are playing the Tribe. They cleared the benches last night.
Thanks again
Sean
My dog must think she's a carp! When I take her outside to go to the bathroom, I can't get her out from under that tree!
After they have been on the ground for a day or two they start to ferment. If she eats too many of them she will get drunk. All animals just love them in that condition.
George
Fortunately, I have not seen that! Herding the dogs inside from under the mulberry tree has been an annual tradition in our yard in June for a number of years - since that stupid tree started dropping berries! We've always had labs......they'll eat anything.....doesn't matter if the berries are a nice ripe dark purple or if they are still white, if we don't pay attention, they'll gorge themselves on those berries.... now I need to find one on a stream bank!Quote:
Originally Posted by Old #art
Hackberries, which have a lot of sugar in them, will do the same. Older generations attributed repeated freezing and thawing in the autumn to enhancing the effect. Seeing a flock of robins so drunk they couldn't fly more than 4 feet, before 8 am, is a memory that I cherish. I have to wonder if they suffer from hangovers.
Ed
I saw a Nat Geo special about the Okavango Delta once. A bunch of elephants and baboons got drunk on some kind of fruit.:tieone: Those critters definately had hangovers.:(
Many years ago a fishing buddy and I came upon a flock of cedar waxwings feeding on berries. The berries had stayed on the bush all winter long. Those birds were so drunk some couldn't even hop let alone fly. We weren't 20 feet from them and laughing so hard it hurt but they didn't care. I'll never forget it.:lol:
I knew that birds got drunk feeding on fermented berries, but never thought about fish......wonder how one can tell if a carp is intoxicated? :-)
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Originally Posted by Lake Erie High Ball
There is an old gypsy poem that reads: "Even a man who is pure at heart and says his prayers at night, may become a Carp fisher when the mulberry blooms and the summer moon is bright."
Bill