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Everybody calling Dibs on fishing with Jake at Jigfest!

I hear you MoCarp, but I rarely put that much effort into making food for myself much less making fish food.

I'll trade trips anytime. White or Norfork for Taney or Upper Bull Shoals. I'll still buy the Boga.

If you really want to sell your Boga, please let me know.

I'm not sure I want to catch suckers any more.

In case you missed it earlier, here it is again. #re-runs

No need to wait my brother, I posted about that weeks ago. Genes Fishing Archives I think. i'll find it and do a TTT thing. Check it out by looking at unread posts

I'm ignorant of the mollusk in our waterways. Hopefully, no zebra mussels to be found.

I wish he would have paid a little more attention to the child that wanted to pet it. That would have been cool. it would be cool to catch one of those giants, but maybe in a better setting

I may develope an invisible rabbit drinking buddy IF BSL goes up significantly

I think it almost has to be a worms and small hook fished stationary near bottom. I can't keep non targeted species off of it long enough to get bit by suckers.

I had planned to try to get to 4000 fish this year, but life said NOPE. Not enough opportunities and my timing was just off on some of my trips. There was real life terrible sad drama and mundane road blocks too. I'll likely get to 2500 fish, but 3000 is a real reach. Sooo, when you realize that you chosen a unattainable target, switch targets. I decided to go for my 52 species in a calander year goal again. I was blessed with a chance to go fish in British Columbia. I added 9 new fish to the life list and put myself back on track to get to 52. I got another shot in the arm when John came for a micro trip. So, I'm up over 40 species which was my old high water mark for species. I hope to head south in October and take Dear Old Dad out and catch some La/Tx fish. but I flat need help figuring out suckers on a hook and line. I know some guys manage to catch a few. Please help a brother out. It will be C&R only. If I can get a couple or three species of suckers to hand, that may be enough to put me over the top. Thanks

Yeah... Big Eye Shiner ?

Dusky Striped Shiner (?)

Ive been about all species for quite a while, but I needed to wise up and use tiny hooks and natural baits. John is the man with fish ID.

Please help me understand what you're saying here. What fish do you want eradicated? What fish do you want protected?

Hurry up with the next episode! I'm dying to read how Friday afternoon turned out.

I blame myself for her carp getting away. I broke my medium sized net and failed to put the big net in the boat. We were using my regular trout net and the circle hook that caught John's carp lodged in it. Livie had her carp on for a long time and it could have been landed with the bigger net pretty easily. Sometimes the fish win. I was really fired up by a double on carp though. stayed tuned sports fans. John has told y'all about the DRC part of the day, but there is a micro fishing afternoon on Crooked Creek yet to come in this Marty like epic.

It's interesting having a shot at all four species, but honestly, it would be hard for me to argue for them to be stocked in Taneycomo. the Cutts want little bugs on the surface. We don't have well established hatches. Cutts seem to struggle getting to 12 inches. They put a token amount of Brookies down here. They stay closest to the cold water. Their colors aren't great and the get loved To death before they get very large.

Man, I had totally forgotten about the Chestnut trees until earlier today. I've got to pull it together. Yeah, Marty we need to make it happen. FTR, I encouraged Olivia to use the fly rod. What are the odds of that?

Wait just a minute John, she caught a couple much larger than 13 inches out of that tight spot with two outflows. She sure did have a lot of looks, but I understand that it is difficult when you haven't done much tightline fishing in flowing water. I hope she can come back down and hook one of the monsters that live there.

I've said it before what a blessing OAF has been to me. I have a lot of friendships that likely would never have happened without OAF. A big Thank You to Phil and a tip of the cap to others that post.

That is a fantastic hopper pattern in your pic. Very lifelike.

I had no idea the Fremont people were such Klaus Nomi fans.

The Brookies weren't real large. The Warr was off color so the fish were a little washed out looking too. I was really surprised we caught 4 of them though