Cat tails in Pond

[TrapperBR549]

Chuckle chuckle, A different Boy Scout troop than I was in!

Agree. We learned how our leaders successfully hid a cooler of beer for the week. Learned a few other things I won't say or type out loud.

 

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[Dave M.]

I would think HE knows the difference between Cat Tails and phragmites.
Ever see a City folk eat phragmite? Cat Tails, well maybe.
They elected STUPID didn't they?

Why would you assume that. I live in Michigan and I commonly hear people refer to phragmites as cat tails. Not everyone can be as smart as you.

 

[Brians356]

Pull them up and peel the dirty outer layers of the bottom portion off, slice and eat. Tastes a little like cucumber to me.

I watch Canada geese pull up cattails and eat the roots in a pond 100 yards from my house.
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[Brians356]

Why would you assume that. I live in Michigan and I commonly hear people refer to phragmites as cat tails.

Michigan, huh? Well ... .
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[joshb]

 

[Brians356]

Wow, thanks. I could never tell the difference.
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[AWS]

The first shoots in the spring before they break the surface, cook them like asparagus and they taste a lot alike. They threw me out of Cub scouts, learned it on the spring beaver trapline. Muskrats taste better than rabbit and you get paid for catching them in the winter. They go good with cattail shoots and fried spuds.

 

[joshb]

I only went to one Boy Scout meeting. The Scout Master singled me out and tried to make me look like an idiot. I never went back.
I made extra money trapping muskrats in the farm ponds near our house. Walked the trap lines before school. Skinned them and stretched the skins after school.

The first shoots in the spring before they break the surface, cook them like asparagus and they taste a lot alike. They threw me out of Cub scouts, learned it on the spring beaver trapline. Muskrats taste better than rabbit and you get paid for catching them in the winter. They go good with cattail shoots and fried spuds.

 

[butchlambert]

What other problems?
My oldest is just NE of you in Commerce. They pull 12" snapping turtles out of their pond, ~70'x100'.
I told them to try introducing crappie. After seeing first-hand the tilapia farms in China (sewerage settling ponds), I have never eaten that fish since.

Just saw your post. In the 25 years that we have lived in Poetry I've only seen one snapping turtle. Several years ago 2 of my grandsons took aa bunch of Turtles out of the trap that I had and loaded them up in our Kubota RTV and drove about a mile away and were releasing them in another person's pond. Yeah, they got caught. Next time they just went down the road a little and released them on the side of the road. They said the turtles almost beat them coming back to our pond.

 

[MGYSGT]

What other problems?
My oldest is just NE of you in Commerce. They pull 12" snapping turtles out of their pond, ~70'x100'.
I told them to try introducing crappie. After seeing first-hand the tilapia farms in China (sewerage settling ponds), I have never eaten that fish since.

They grow them the same way here

 

[DiffEQ]

Just saw your post. In the 25 years that we have lived in Poetry I've only seen one snapping turtle. Several years ago 2 of my grandsons took aa bunch of Turtles out of the trap that I had and loaded them up in our Kubota RTV and drove about a mile away and were releasing them in another person's pond. Yeah, they got caught. Next time they just went down the road a little and released them on the side of the road. They said the turtles almost beat them coming back to our pond.

Here's the last one they caught. They also have big box turtles.

 

[Toddmack]

But the cattails are good. Pull them up and peel the dirty outer layers of the bottom portion off, slice and eat. Tastes a little like cucumber to me. I learned that in the boy scouts.

Simmer down hippy!

I couldn't help myself, all in good fun.

 

[Knotwild]

Simmer down hippy!

I couldn't help myself, all in good fun.

But I, in no way, even resemble a hippy.

And also, I will share another nugget - if you are fighting malria and run out of quinine, just make a tea from dogwood bark and it will work as a substitute.