Ham

The Taxonomy Nazi has weighed in. Thank you for the clarification.

God Bless you guys going way up the creeks in glass boats with props. Fiberglass repair and lower unit replacement costs prohibit me from trying such things.

The world changes every day it seems, so that puts a dark cloud above everything these days. I want to upgrade trolling motor on the Bass Cat to an Ultrex First. Then at some point, I have to decide when to replace this Bass Cat with another Bass Cat. I think I'll need to keep the boat at least two years after getting the Ultrex. The next Bass Cat will also likely be a gentley used boat. That Bass Cat will get whatever version of LiveScope is out. I'm really curious if anyone is using the LiveScope to help isolate White Bass when they are doing the Spring push up creeks.

I know you. I can’t imagine you thinking a snake in the boat is a good thing.

I think I had 6 baitcasters and 6 or 7 spinning rods. Traveling light. Dummy me forget my crappie jigging poles on The day I needed them the most.

A guy in a Bass Cat Cougar was further up than where I caught these. He said he had 5-7 foot the whole way. Look at google earth to get a feel for the channel and run above the bridge. Find the end of the harder flow and stop right there. With any luck, the lake will have creasted and lots of the debris will drop out on the bank.

Inches

First Bass of the day

Temporally, the most important fish in the world.

I’m gonna get you Sucker

Poor Ole Bessie

I had errands to attend to, but I was determined to get back out on the water. I knew I could abuse a bunch of trout, but this is crappie and White Bass time. I knew BSL and Norfork had both come up a bunch lately, but I was determined. I mentally arm wrestled for a while, but decided to load up Waldo and head to Norfork. I had a short day, but was gonna try. I launched pretty far up the creek arm and ran up lake. I stopped in a cove that I have a little history in. It was muddy full of floating debris and water temp was 56. I tried for panfish, but got no love. I tried for bass and got one jarring strike, but no hookups. I did managed to dip up a floating herbicide container, a boat bumper, a Keystone Light can, and a floating tennis shoe. There was a large, bloated cow floating too, but it was too large for my net. I ran to some transition banks hoping to crank up some bass. I really believe it would have worked too, but you could not complete a cast with all the floating wood. So, I decided to run way up Bennett’s Bayou. Since I have a jet, I ran up until I was absolutely out of water. Inches of muddy cold water that had a lot of current. Perfect! I had run past a guy out fishing with his kids on The way up river. He claimed he was catching a few small fish which was encouraging ; I was starting to think I would zero. I re-rigged a couple of rods. Black and blue Ned on one. Black and Chartreuse 1/16 oz Zig Jig on another. I already had a little swim bait one rod. I started fishing little areas with less current very slowly and deliberately. About the third little place I tried, I got a sharp tap on the Zig Zig. That small male White Bass was the most important fish to me in the world right then. A minute later I got a short LMB and then another. another area and another few bites. Whites and LMB. I did finally get one lonely Spotted Bass. My 9 th fish was a 16 plus inch “Yellow” sucker. That thing pulled in the current. I kept fishing , refining lures and location. I got tired of fighting wind and currents. I found a good root-wad to tie up to and a good concentration of fish. My fears of zeroing quickly changed to hopes for a 50 burger. My first fish was caught at 2:25 pm and I was ending my trip at 4:45 pm. I had real steady bites from male whites, but the girls were not playing. A few LMB but too. Sadly, I lost a couple of lures to fish ( I should have re-tied) and I missed some bites of course I had a few pull off too. I caught one on my last cast. My alarm went off as I was releasing a fish. I finished up with 61. It was a Good Day and a Good Mental reset from current events.

What a Spotted Bass!!!

If it’s texture you crave crazy man, eat Walleye.

The bream that Richard Cross caught and Brett and he cooked were Great, but crappie is just better. #JustTheFactsMaam

Blasphemy

Cajunangler had success with other lures. I saw no need to change what I was doing. Z man stuff worked. I tried Topwater and only got one swirl behind my bait. I tried multiple walk the dog baits. johnny threw a jerkbait and the fish broke the treble hooks off of it.

Take Care Rick

I caught 11 (or that’s how many I remembered to click) in about 2 hours. 2.8 Keitech on 1-4 oz Guppy heads. That’s a tough little hook. I used up 8 bodies catching multiple fish on most of them. I had 2 at the most that I only caught one fish on before they were toast. I also had a Big White Bass and a Big Spotted Bass in the mix.

Sitting at 31 species and 500 or so fish so far. 6 lifers so far.

Dang Covid-19 is changing things daily. I hope my plans aren’t dashed on the rocks of public safety.

😍

I feel like Gaspergoo are really prone to barotrauma

Influenza can be rough. It really does kill a lot of ppl. Get Vaccinated ; it’s not 100% effective, but it’s something. A young lady I work with is determined to not get vaccinated and she won’t allow her kids to be vaccinated. All three of her kids got the flu. She got the flu. Her Mom got the flu.she has missed a ton of work and we’ve had to scramble to cover the schedule.

I have hopes and dreams