Ham

The number of people that take and take and take without contributing concerns me. You are certainly free to do as you please with your information going forward. I do believe you would be doing yourself a favor to add people that are OBVIOUSLY trolling the catch and release folks with photos of fish that they are keeping would be to add them to your ignore list. Very nice feature. We can hope that after trolling for a while that they will find something better to do with their time, but even if they do not, you will be blissfully unaware of their silliness.

It helps in current to point the rear end of the trailer downstream a little bit as well. I prefer a little bit of bunk in the water. My little 20 HP jet needs a little help. I love my BassCat, but the BassCat folks build their trailers different from every other trailer that I have ever used. It has been a difficult transition for me. I've been driving boats on boat trailers for over 4 decades and the BassCat made me look like a rookie. I think I have it now though.

Ahhh but the current seam at the mouth of the creeks.

I'd love to have easily access to some lakes with a 12 inch minimum on LMB. I'd much rather keep 12-14 inch fish and release the larger ones to see how large they can get.

I am a little confised by the fish photos on the dock though. Illegal to possess Brown Trout under 24 inches.

Nah, I saw that one and it was not about bass fishing.

John Wayne made a movie about bass fishing? Dang I missed it.

Drum have a spawn. That may be going on right now. I would think it foolhardy to think fish populations are out of balance based on the results of a few fishing trips.

That's great! I appreciate you spending time with your son. It is most def doe/twins season. I have seen a lot of does with twins running beside them the last few weeks.

I have a rubber net that is round. Baits can't hang in it. I'd have to measure it, but I think it has about a 28 inch diameter. I have a smaller rubberized mesh that has measuring marks on it to get a quick and dirty guess at length. They make that one in various sizes so you could get a big one if desired. The one I have would handle a 30 inch fish.

I've just seen too many times where well intentioned sportsmen get group think about species interaction and decide to tip the scales in favor of their preferred animal.for example, "Kill the Road Runners, they're killing our quail" when it's often a habitat issue.

I'm a relative newcomer to the area, but I tend to agree with Al that the heavily spring fed systems don't impede growth, but rather enhance it. The fish get to eat more year round than the feast of summer and fast of winter fish in flows without majority spring fed. Even the White River with its significantly cooler water fosters better quality. EVERY smallmouth I catch on the White is fat and Happy. NOT everyone is long, but every one is a thick burger. Not at all the long and lean look you see in the Buffalo or Crooked Creek.

Lol

Nope

It looks like good eats to me.

Thanks for the intell. Getting crazy high, again.

I looked for that bite and never found it, but it may have just been the wrong day or the wrong creek. Sure sounds like fun though.

Excellent work my man! I'm jealous.

I've got a bunch of DD22's I need to sell and some 20+'s. I dont think I ever bought any of the 30+'s.

Nom Nom Nom

You're lucky Phil reminded us of the no curse words thing. I got a whole lot of unhappy I would express inappropriately.

I didn't like the hammer I had so I learned to drive nails with my crescent wrench. It's doable if you try hard enough.

Groundhog Day

So, this year we are having to deal with higher than normal water (again), but that's not so bad. We should get great numbers of most gamefish some where down the line to offset of inconviences this year AND I'm gonna guess that the aquaifers are getting nicely recharged. Maybe our temps won't get crazy high this summer and maybe our fall won't be bone dry. Hopefully, we can all find some time to fish with family and friends and not spend all our time woried about making ends meet and day to day craziness. I appreciate that we have not had the flooding of TX, OK, and Louisiana. The high water has altered my fishing plans a little bit, but nothing that really matters. Try to stay safe y'all.

Seriously jelly my Man. I just can't get away with it and stay married.