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cannabineer

cannabineer

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MICHI-CAN said:
LOL. Being a trout and salmon fisherman. I once made 5 gallons of cold fish emulsion from fresh caught salmon. I emptied my stomach and lungs upon opening the steel drum I buried 8 feet down. Wife threatened to divorce me and my nice neighbors were pissed. Just bury the fish in the whole like your first grade pilgrim stories teach you. Or else. I earned that space and hope I saved you from sharing it.
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Back when I was employed and married, a coworker of my wife, avid fisherman, had a freezer failure. I had a big beautiful compost bin that was mostly horse exhaust that had cooled down. The earthworms were in decline, since most of the quarter-ton of half-done compost had already made it through a million tiny guts at least once.
I offered to dispose of the fish in the compost pile. She came home with two BIG coolers full of spoiled salmon.
I buried an easy sixty pounds of fish in a layer a foot under the surface.
It smelled fine except whenever I lifted some compost to check on it. Hot diggity it stank, and it stopped stinking as soon as I covered it with a bit of fresh compost.
After two months the fish was entirely digested, and the pile smelled good and healthy.
What surprised me was the earthworm population explosion. Seems they don’t restrict themselves to fallen leaves. The pile was even more alive than when the horse poo had fermented to happy worm stage.
 
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MICHI-CAN

MICHI-CAN

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cannabineer said:
Back when I was employed and married, a coworker of my wife, avid fisherman, had a freezer failure. I had a big beautiful compost bin that was mostly horse exhaust that had cooled down. The earthworms were in decline, since most of the quarter-ton of half-done compost had already made it through a million tiny guts at least once.
I offered to dispose of the fish in the compost pile. She came home with two BIG coolers full of spoiled salmon.
I buried an easy sixty pounds of fish in a layer a foot under the surface.
It smelled fine except whenever I lifted some compost to check on it. Hot diggity it stank, and it stopped stinking as soon as I covered it with a bit of fresh compost.
After two months the fish was entirely digested, and the pile smelled good and healthy.
What surprised me was the earthworm population explosion. Seems they don’t restrict themselves to fallen leaves. The pile was even more alive than when the horse poo had fermented to happy worm stage.
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Where and how do you extract the fish emulsion for later use? Bury it if you don't want the smell. Peace and.....elbow bumps until we can all re engage. PEACE
 
Aeroknow

Aeroknow

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MICHI-CAN said:
LOL. Being a trout and salmon fisherman. I once made 5 gallons of cold fish emulsion from fresh caught salmon. I emptied my stomach and lungs upon opening the steel drum I buried 8 feet down. Wife threatened to divorce me and my nice neighbors were pissed. Just bury the fish in the whole like your first grade pilgrim stories teach you. Or else. I earned that space and hope I saved you from sharing it.
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This beast was just caught not really that far away.
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Fisherman Nearly Breaks California Record with 25-Pound Rainbow Trout on Feather River

Joshua Giordano landed a 25.5-pound rainbow trout just below the Oroville Dam, which taped in at 35 inches in length and 25 inches in girth.
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Salmon opener on the feather opens july 15. I’m prob not going to be doing much fishing this year either but next year i should be back to fishing almost every day during summer.

I fucking better be
 
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MICHI-CAN

MICHI-CAN

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Aeroknow said:
This beast of a steelhead was just caught not far from me.
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Salmon opener on the feather opens july 15. I’m prob not going to be doing much fishing this year either but next year i should be back to fishing almost every day during summer.

I fucking better be
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`That's a HOG! Camera angle helped. 18#'s is big here,but, common. Fall froze too fast and springs waters are still rocking the Grand and Muskegon rivers along with tributaries. 003.jpg
 
cannabineer

cannabineer

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MICHI-CAN said:
Where and how do you extract the fish emulsion for later use? Bury it if you don't want the smell. Peace and.....elbow bumps until we can all re engage. PEACE
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No fish emulsion. The compost improved the Peninsula soil. She grew ten-foot sunflowers with seed heads the size of Beetle wheels in the front bed.
I grew my first grow in bags of that compost without any added soil or amendments. They grew very nicely from seed to harvest.
 
MICHI-CAN

MICHI-CAN

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cannabineer said:
No fish emulsion. The compost improved the Peninsula soil. She grew ten-foot sunflowers with seed heads the size of Beetle wheels in the front bed.
I grew my first grow on a bag of that compost without any added soil or amendments. They grew very nicely from seed to harvest.
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My bad. Didn't get the jist. Bury fish. Grow beautiful plants. Don't bury fish in vented 5 gallon drums for a year. Unless fully prepared for the sensory assault upon opening. Love you more. Nah Nah.
 
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