fishinwrench

No points for the lowly Largemouth? 🥴

Man this is taking me back 😊 Remember the old Toro lawnmowers that you cranked up......then hit a button....and it started itself? 😅 (when you were lucky) The old peanut truck was the STORAGE SHED for that POS ! 😂 When I remember how PROUD I was when I was declared big enough to MOW THE YARD.......it confirms the stupidity and brainwashing that was going on in my family ! 😅 Because we had a BIG FRIGGIN YARD ! If I ordered one of my kids to mow the yard..... they'd throw me in jail for child abuse!

Well I think the tires on that old peanut truck were pretty sturdy.....but still ! I'll tell you what the rear tires reminded me of......They were like the heavy lugged tires that you see on those old Willy's Jeeps, but bigger. That old peanut truck sat on our property for YEARS. The first set of titties I ever touched.....and the first cigarette I ever smoked, both happened while hiding out in that old truck. 😅

On Texoma they might be! I still catch plenty of what I consider "Pure" white bass here on Lake O. But their days are probably numbered. In another 10-20 years they'll probably all be genetically modified to some degree.

When you are catching mutts you'll notice 3 things..... #1- The line pattern is dark and distinct, but different on every single fish you catch, similar to hybrids. And tooth patches are all over the place.....some have a single patch, some have 2-3 patches, and some don't have any tooth patches at all. #2- They often have weird spasms when you grab them, they actually vibrate like they are having a heart attack. #3- When you release them they don't recover and swim away very quickly.....and often go belly up within sight of where you released them. Might as well throw them on ice if you're keeping a mess because they'll die in a livewell immediately. #3 is the reason that bothers me the most, because pure White Bass are pretty hearty and aren't so easily killed. Mutts seem to die easier than a dang shad !

If they do that around here then they apparently go back down before daylight, because you'll never find any above a long stretch of extremely shallow water. What happens here is that when the lake is at normal elevations, and then the creeks get up and muddy, the gravel & sediment settles out over the flats.......So then when they pull the lake down low, like it is now, there is no more than an ankle deep trickle that might be 150 yards wide and 100-300 yards long that separates the lake from the creeks. You can't even float a kayak across it. I've seen gar try to snake their way across that, but nothing else. Little short stretches of shallow water 25-30 yards long, with some flow moving across it......Sure, they'll shoot right across that. 👍 Once the lake level gets above 657.0 then it's like OPENING THE GATES.

Oh everyone did! Who couldn't recognize a pair of middle class nerds in an old Tom's Peanut Truck with Peace signs, Pansy's, and Kilroy's hand painted all over it. 😅 The fact that the ol'man drove that inline 6 cylinder POS all the way there and back without so much as a flat tire, blown valve cover gasket, or clutch failure.....amazes me to this day.

A rather large number of White bass, Hybrid Stripers, and Mutts will run up the creeks immediately after a good rain, all year long. As a matter of fact I tend to catch better sized fish when they are NOT there for the purpose of spawning. September to November is when the juvenile Stripers show up, and I have no idea why they are seemingly absent the rest of the year. They will shoot right through a short riffle even if they have to swim sideways to get through.....But they won't even attempt to shimmy through a long stretch of shallow water. They seem to know how long they can expose themselves to hawks, eagles and ospreys, and get away with it. White bass are native to every river that feeds the Mississippi. As far as I know they've been here since the beginning of time. In my opinion they are the coolest fish we have, and that's why my hackles get raised when these idiot biologists go tinkering around with their DNA. They don't seem to care that they could do irreparable AND PERMANENT damage to a fish species that doesn't need any human assistance whatsoever to sustain itself. Actually does quite well in spite of humans (no length limits & overly generous bag limits). Stripers, and Hybrid Stripers are fun as hell to catch, and they are delicious table fare......but the inbred mutts of the ones that breed with native White bass are undeniably polluting the gene pool......and we don't know yet whether or not that's a desirable thing to initiate. Let's not pretend that biologists have never made an irreversible mistake before ! Hell, everything they've touched has had unforseen consequences.

My parents dropped me off at my great-aunts house, saying they would be back in a few days. Going on 3 weeks later they still weren't back. My aunt and grandparents were pissed, and there was all this whispering over the phone, and private conversations out in the driveway. I remember being sick with worry and nobody had any answers. I could tell that I was "out of the information loop". I honestly thought I'd been orphaned. My dad had a bird dog and I remember being extremely concerned about who was taking care of her ! Unsettling as hell for a little guy 😢 Plus there were gypsy's in town that always hung and camped around the railroad, that I had always been warned to stay away from.....and occasionally they would go sauntering by my aunt's house looking all sketchy. I was silently in terror ! Sad as hell when I think back. Poor little guy! 😢 They finally came rolling back into town in their Peanut Truck, looking like a couple of vagrants.....but acting all cool like everything was chill. Nothing was "chill" about it at all ! I had truly great parents.....but that little escapade left scars that have lasted my entire life. I always make sure my kids know exactly where I am at any given time, and never fail to answer their calls/texts/ect. Oh, and Lindy (the bird dog) was perfectly fine. One of dads hunting buddies was going by twice a day and taking care of her. 👍. Somebody could have at least told me that !!!! 😔 Because every time I sat down to eat I wondered if Lindy was being fed. Phuck Woodstock ! 🫣

Genetically modified, thanks to our beloved MDC biologists. 🙄

Yeah, and it's going to set even longer. 😅

I can't whole heartedly agree with this. If that many fish were killed the banks would b lined with dead fish from start to finish. I suspect that you are assuming that fish always float when they die. In reality very few actually do.

Thankfully I was concieved prior to Woodstock, so I think some Falstaff and Walkers Deluxe are the only thing clouding my purity. 👍

We're still at 655 lake level, and the actual run can't happen in my area until the lake gets above 657.... But I found a tiny creek inflow that they could access without risking getting picked off by a bird of prey. All males, and most are kinda small, but it felt good to get a few bites 👍 Got enough for dinner.

So can one of y'all explain to me WHY you expect to have all these organ failures? You expect your colon to crap out, you expect your heart to crap out, you expect your pancreas to go south, ect.ect. So you schedule all these periodic check-ups so that if any minor imbalance is detected then it can be rectified early, right? Before any actual symptoms are noticable? So anybody that comes down with a health issue is themselves AUTOMATICALLY TO BLAME for not being tested sooner? So don't expect there to be a quality physician available to help you ! It's your fault because you didn't take preventative measures! 🧐 Is that the mindset that all of you have adopted? Not trying to be a jackass here.....So please Ronnie, Marty, ect. don't get all up in arms here !!!!! Just curious. 🤔 There's one organ that nobody here ever seems to suspect a problem with....but that I'm rather concerned about. And that's your BRAIN. 😅 Let's face it....that particular organ has been fed more unhealthy crap over the past 30-some years, than all your other organs combined!