Ham

Panfish NEED to be harvested, but people could be selective about their harvesting and not keep the biggest ones they catch. I won’t keep a Crappie over 14 inches and prefer to not keep them > 13 inches. I love catching Big Panfish. Great job!

Officially jealous.

Heck of a deal. I’m rod poor, but I wish I could snap both of these up. Somebody needs to buy these quick and save me from myself.

Stockton is an amazing lake! Sounds fantastic.

Shhhhhh, people love a sale price.

Noted.

I’ll make honest fishermen out of you all.

I had two larger fish choke it down more than this one, but he was #50.

Crank it up

I love that Dirty Water

Fun little fish

19 inches

I love Bull Shoals. My deep affection for Bull blinds me to the quality of Norfork. I am trying to work on this flaw. I have gradually come to realize that certain areas of Norfork warm quicker in Spring than my spots on Bull and cool quicker in the fall than BSL. Yesterday, Bret and I had the run of the place. Today was crowded. Mostly striper fishermen and Crappie fishermen I think, but lots and lots of boats. 😕 I got a late start today. I wasn’t really fishing until about 11:00. I ran around hunting and pecking. Learning and looking. I wasn’t catching much, but I was having fun. I went north. Way north. I idled way up. I caught a small White Bass and while I was fighting him in a big Largemouth came up and hit him. I stayed in the area and my little rod loaded. I think the same LMB that hit the fish ate my swimbait. Nice fighting fish. I found a stretch of bluff that was loaded with smaller fish and sore mouthed a bunch with the Ned. A few keeper Spots, but not many. I tried to find some Crappie to no avail. I ran to a few spots I knew and they were covered up with boats. So I ran way up the other creek and then I idled further until it got too shallow to idle. Shallow dirty water and Shad ! Wind had come up and I tied on a spinnerbait and started burning. I missed a few bites, but I started connecting. Hard Strikes! I think my arms are longer now. Most were good chunks, but only a few keepers. I burned thru the fish that would eat a blade, but stumbled into another group that WANTED a square bill. I throughly worked a small area and caught 16 bass in a very short period of time. Final count was 51 fish in 5 3/4 hours of fishing. Likely the best SB and square bill bite I have ever experienced. I had a long slow idle out and then a fast run to the ramp to beat darkness. Awesome Day.

Little but it counts

I’m always down to catch White Bass

I do occasionally catch a fish on a jerk bait

Bret with a just short walleye. 17 3/4 inches.

Patience Grasshopper 🦗

Little Red Fisherman made the long drive over from the flatlands to fish Lake Norfork with me. We got started fairly early out of Red Bank. It was Bret’s first trip to Norfork and I was determined to fish the entire lake in 8 hours, Lol. We started catching fish right away, but not really the size I wanted. We actually caught fish everywhere we tried. One of my first few fish was a small meanmouth which was fun. I had hoped for a crankbait bite, but I did not find much of one. We caught a small number of small fish on cranks. ned rig and trd craw got bit all day from 5-20 foot deep. We didn’t fish bluffs very much. I kept dragging us back into creeks. We also found a few fish that ate jerk baits. I did my good with a McStik 95 in Blue Bandit. Bret used his signature Megabass 110 Jr. We would see fish herding Shad and fool the, with jerkbaits. Lots of big schools of big Shad too, but nothing was abusing those. I found a creek with lots of good brush piles and good Crappie numbers. I caught 3 small walleye in a row while jigging vertically for Crappie. Added a few waypoints. 😃 We were relocating when we stumbled into some mixed White Bass and Stripers. Some Big Stripers ate in front of us, but not for us. We did get a bunch of sow White Bass to eat. Swim baits, jerk baits, and WP 90. I did get one small Striper to hand. A rare day where I was having so much fun, but time didn’t fly by. I wish it could have been a 14 hour day, but I didn’t feel shorted. Lots of laughs and lots of fish. Don’t let Bret’s sand bagging fool you, he knows how to fish and always manages to catch his full share. This post has been promoted to an article

Are German Brown Trout native to Ohio ? I kid, I kid.

Needle value was gummed up. I wasn’t getting gas to the cylinders. Mechanic got it lined out today. I’ll have my boatback tomorrow. but I’ll be on the lake tomorrow

I used my trolling motor and fished for a little bit. I caught a 1/2 dozen rainbows in not a lot of fishing time.