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Please keep more Longear Sunfish! Please shoot or catch and keep the biggest you can find. There are literally 10’s of thousands of them ; Almost no one keeps them. I kind of feel like if there were a lot less of them, we would have larger individual fish. I’m not sure anyone if fishing for trophy long ear Sunfish. The large number of LES and Green Sunfish combined with the lack of shoreline cover reduces the effectiveness of the natural Walleye spawn. Eat some Sunfish, Save a walleye.

This one ate a Ned in Bull Shoals this Spring, but I think his momma had a BlueGill in the Woodshed. Nice Fish!

I won’t kill a Redfish to eat. Lots of better options out there. Love to catch them ZERO interest in eating one again. 🤮 The Black Drum I have caught were beasts to subdue. Gotmuddy caught a mammoth one that I can’t imagine the pull from.

And I still think I was happier you caught it than you were. I still owe the Current river Goo some payback. Way too often they turn down my offerings.

Heck Man, I love catching Drum. Gaspergoo are a fun fish to catch. I’m not disappointed at all when I catch one.

I think it is mostly because of local tradition and the large number of boats that were set up as guide boats that would have 3 or more customers on board. Both work. I’d love to have both.

Let’s make it a date. 12/7/2018

I do ok.

I saw a few Caddis coming off and midges. I was watching for sulfur’s, but never saw any. The fish being greedy close to the shoreline would eat the jig before I could close the bail on the spinning reel.

You’d better be fishing.

Not at all. He’s been wearing them out all year. I need to fish with him. It’s to my shame that I have not worked that out yet. Soon maybe.

For a variety of reasons, first trout trip in a long time. I thought I might struggle a little bit, but I didn’t. I put the boat in the water at 0635. I pushed off the ramp at started fishing. First fish on the 4 th cast. I planned to fish 3 hours, but I cheated and stayed 10 minutes over so I could get my 50 th. About 2300 CFS. Water clear. Water cold. Foggy. Good morning for Browns. I caught 6 of them. I had a 17 inch +, 18 inch +, and one just under 20 inches. 1/32 oz Zig Jig was clearly better. I force fed a few a 1/16 oz, but it was costing me fish to throw it. I even made one fatty eat a Bobby Garland Baby Shad on a 1/32 oz jighead, but that was just me being goofy. I was using 4 lb P Line CX Premium in Moss Green with that 1/32 oz jig on one of Richard Cross’s Crossfire Rods. It was a prototype so I’m not sure how that relates to what’s actually for sale. Early in the day, I was fishing by feel and watching the line. Later, I saw almost all my bites happen. Pretty fun to see those Browns eat. I had a lot of other chances. I lost 15-20 that I had hooked and got lots of other looks besides those. This post has been promoted to an article

American Eel. Never caught one. Hmmm

My Dad is going they a terrible stretch. He’s at a Nursing Home. Too sick to get better and too well to die. He has almost zero quality of life and it breaks my heart. I love my friends, family and life BUT I’ll Gladly give up some years to avoid being in my Dad’s situation. I really, really don’t want to linger. So I’m very aware that we all have an expiration date. I’m trying to make a point to live better. Enjoy the time I have. Eat better. Fish more. Make sure friends know I value them. I’m holding out hope that John isn’t always going to live states away and that in the meantime with some effort and planning, I can still manage to fish with him at least once a year.

He must show sorrow better than he does happiness. #stoic

Love that Hen.

John is the Pro, but I think it is a Golden Eye. Look at the mouth.

Dang! Super jealous of the Golden Eye!

I loved Scotland. The weather was crazy, but I loved being rained on in Full Sunshine. Scottish remind me of Ozark Natives. Always finding ways to make a buck.

Wish I was there!

Well, since I grew up in Southern Louisiana , “Goggle Eye” = Warmouth ; Crappie = Sac Ca Lait ; Drum = Gaspergoo ; Bowfin= Choupique ; Red Ear = Chinqupin i never got into calling Bass “Green Trout”, but I certainly did know ppl that reffered to that that way.

Your “Google Eye” looks like a Northern Rock Bass to me, but I will defer to the Pro. I’m proud if you for getting out and catching fish. I wish I did so more often, but my life limits my fishing sometimes.

Well , he got a Brown Fish anyway