Wild Turkey Farms: WTF News- April 5, 2013

Friday, April 19, 2013

WTF News- April 5, 2013

Happy Friday!!!

We really have enjoyed the bit of warm weather that has been teasing us lately. The boys have been out on spring break this week and working really hard at helping around the farm so I decided to reward them with an afternoon fishing trip to our pond. I'd noticed that our boar Arnold has been spending quite some time bathing in the shallow end of the pond recently, even despite the cold weather we've had. It was almost as though something really had his attention but being busy with other things I really didn't pay it any mind and just wrote it up to having a stupid boar. Well after fishing for a couple hours we'd only managed a few small bream and a small bass. Then all of a sudden Rosty hooked something that fought like mad. It was really weird as each time it would get near the shore if would just dive right into the mud along the bank and root its way along. This was quite the fight for his little fishing rod and ended up taking several minutes to land. It finally got tired and gave up the fight and you can't imagine the surprise on our faces when we saw the fish up close for the first time (see pic below). So I ended up putting 2 & 2 together and now it's apparent why Arnold was so eager to go swimming despite the freezing temps. We weren't sure what it would be like but we took it home, found a good Paula Deen recipe, & fried it up for supper and man that was good- tasted allot like bacon for some reason......