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@FishnDave You’ll get your chance My Man.

Well, I think that it’s time to admit my failure. I am not going to be able to get to 100 species this year. There will be no Fishmas miracle. my failure to add more species on the Big Piney Trip, the Mayo Ditch trip, and the trip to North Carolina kept me from getting at trouble and home and work because if I had gotten to 90, I would have driven south to salty water in Louisiana to add species and stopped to get a few more push overs in fresh water. fishing is so quirky. Normally, I get a Long Nosed Gar w/o much trouble. I hung a half nosed and lost some boat side, but I did not consider them “caught” . Normally, I get a few Northern Hog Sucker, but not this year . I have a couple more chances, but no chestnut lamprey yet. I can’t get my poop together enough to get with @LittleRedFishermanfor a Flathead. weather and distance cost me a shot at a Striper with @Quillback while none of those fish where gimmies, that’s five species that I’ve got to have to get to 100. still too early for me to roll out my fishing goals for 2021, but I promise 2021 is going to get my FULL effort to get to 100 species. Then, I will be done with trying for total number of species and just sprinkle in obsessions over individual lifer species and locations. I will clean up this thread and add scientific names (before they change again). I’m going to fish today, 12/25, and 12/28 so I might still add a species or two but if I get stuck at 83 and match @Johnsfolly’s high water mark that seems pretty fitting to me. Merry Christmas Everyone! Happy New Year! Let’s Hope 2021 is Better than 2020 has been.

Gravel moves c2 around a little and the new minimum flow is a lot more than the old days

I feel like I have fished from the ramp down to the first hard rifle before the camps/ trout docks on minimum flow.

Dumb to shuttle when you have an outboard. There FIFY.

Shuttling was dumb ; that was Hoglaw’s idea

Below Shipp’s Ferry

It was My Pleasure Rick.

Thank You! Come down and fish from it

Phil has some pics

More troubling is what they are doing on the White. The reporting has been screwed up so who knows what is really happening, but they are showing that they are only running a trickle of water. Way less than minimum flow. Thag would definitely mean waders and the long rod for me. I need to prep for that,

The short answer is Maybe If you have waders and you’re willing to get out and work the boat around the bigger rocks. you can yak it on minimum flow and only drag a few times. a better solution would be to watch water levels Super closely and work you way down with the falling water. I probably won’t abuse Waldo that way. I’m not sure why they won’t just run water at 1/2 unit for a 6 hour block. That would be AWESOME.

Ok Phil and Guest are with mE on Friday. Phil leave your boat at home. It won’t hurt to bring waders.

You’ll fish Norfork , IF they run some water

We might want to do a little pre-Planning. i will not know where I want to fish until I see what the water will be doing on each day waldo will be running the River Friday, Saturday, and 1/2 a day Sunday. I have 2 open spots Friday and Saturday. I have one open spot on Sunday.

Man, John stealing My Thunder. I believe they are well established in the White River. I have caught them from a half a dozen places from within sight of Gaston’s to below the Buffalo River. I anticipate catching them in the Buffalo and Crooked Creek eventually, but I have not done so yet.

83) Blue Cat pardon the distortion. I caught four baby Blue Catfish below Bagnell Dam. I was surprised at the number of Bluegill I caught while cat fishing. Makes me think flatheads might prowl There at night. I wish I had been able to fish a full day there. Waldo would do well there.

Gee Whiz. Peterson Guide Book didn’t do me any favors. I can’t use my Fishes of AR book since they decided we don’t have Ozark Sculpin. Thanks for the update John!

82) Bighead Carp (Hypophthalmichthys nobilis) An invasive species that I wish wasn’t here. Silver Carp and Bighead Carp are going to become a large part of the biomass in the waters they invaded. Lots of taxpayer dollars will be used to reduce there numbers. It would not surprise me if we had to start buying a Carp stamp to generate the revenue they will need to fight them. but if they are here, I might as well catch one of each.

81) Ozark Sculpin (Cottus hypselurus) I had to drive, but I got it done.

I got my Bighead Carp (Hypophthalmichthys nobilis) Today. I drove to Bagnell Dam and got it done. I saw a Silver Carp caught, but time ran out. Next time

Are you just trolling John at this point ?

I’d love to do the same. Lengthy trailer for me to get there.

9 foot 5 wt. I tie in a tippet ring once it gets down to 7.5 foot or so and then you can add whatever length/strength you want.

Just you and Landon?