carpers get ready

[Bill-B'klyn]

mulberries are on the trees now!

[quivira kid]

I was thinking more along the lines of getting the old bed sheet out and shaking those trees. Then we can make some PIE!

[Bluegill222]

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.

[quivira kid]

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.

[EdD]

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?

[AtticaFish]

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!!!