Ham

Your little man certainly seems bright eyed and bushy tailed. Enjoy him. They grow up very quickly. Try to plan some big stuff for him. I regret I got so caught up in the day to day and didn't do enough big adventures with the kids. Doesn't have to be expensive BIG just "big" deal trips.

I struggle to properly ID suckers and chubs etc. I need to really try to get good photos of the suckers mouth, tail, and dorsal fins. I'm going to have to carry a bag or clear box to photograph the little guys in the water.

If it was me, I don't remember it either. Getting older is a female dog.

Do you know who DMX is?

Look flatlander!, I've all ready played this game for months where my fishing is impacted by a crazy rain event. I'm ready to just have normal weather. I just want to catch my fish and do my thing.

I hope, I hope, I hope. I'd love for us to ONLY get 5 inches of rain. I'm legal to fish Taneycomo until 2-28-17 so I might have to head that way again.

Whatever works for you Al. For me, I have to catch them on a hook and line via some type of fishing rod. ie for me, jug fishing and trout lines would not count.

ok what's a "Sideline"?

Location, location, location. Table Rock and Bull Shoals both can have parts of the lake where the bite is impossibly tough and other parts of the lake where the living is easy. If Grand is anything like our lakes, I can see guys struggling to find the fish in the short practice with the lake changing quickly. Surprised somebody didn't throw KVD a bone so he could catch a few fish though.

That's really weird. My Dad has met him on and off the water and just loves him. He talks about how friendly and polite he was (is). You've bumped into him three times and had a bad impression every time. First impressions are huge and hard to overcome IF you frost someone from the get go. I've never met him and I don't at all mean to discount what your saying. It's just interesting the difference between the impressions you each took away after meeting him. I agree completely that it was locations and technique more than the particular lure. I always fish better when I have confidence in a bait, but it catches fish better if I throw the bait where some fish are.

I'm hoping for less than 5 inches. And I'm hoping Little Red Fisherman and I get to fish together sometime this Spring.

I'm already pretty bummed out about it. No need to pile on.

If I put in an 8 hour day, I'm gonna push for 100. Of course, you need good water for than and wind < 10 MPH.

7000 CFS is night and day different from 23,000 CFS. I can easily drop a 50 burger on them at 7000 CFS.

topwaters. lots of different designs

Nope. Not yet, but it's on my list of things to try. I'm hoping for a Big, Bad Brown on top. Not gonna be fairy wand time either. Gonna be a bait caster with fairly heavy line. Rare for me to go hunt just big fish, but that will be a time.

I would imagine that it is a combination of the two and that natural select has favored fish that spawn at a certain photo period which is correlated with the best temp on average for that area. I caught post spawn fish at a power plant lake in Texas (Montecello) when fish at nearby Bob Sandlin and Cypress Springs lakes had not begun to think about spawning. That pushes me pretty hard to think water temp is involved.

White Bass, Yellow Bass, Channel Catfish, better RB pic. I've caught a few Browns but too large to get a good picture by myself.

So...fish spawn first in Florida because they like a shorter photo period than Canadian fish?

I guess I can use a box cutter and trim them down to size. I'm gonna get me some.

IMO, One of the things that really helps bass populations be more stable than crappie populations is that the spawn is spread out. Some fish come early and some come in much later. I have seen small largemouth spawning in July in Louisiana. I would guess that the late spawners are less successful as a whole than the fish that make up the main wave, but it protects the population from a random bad weather event or in Bull Shoals case a rapid rise in water levels. With the weather we are having, the April fish may be the late spawners.

John, I'm interested in getting my hands on some Berkley Gulp Euro-larve. small little chunks of scent laden goo to put on tiny hooks for tiny fish. I'm hoping it would hang in there for a few bites. I have read where ppl use tiny amounts of squid for a natural bait. stinky and tough. Gets bit and hangs in there for micro fishing.

I really, really like the Browning Air Stream 7 foot "UL" rod. It fishes a lot more like a "L" to me. Very sensitive. Slings 1/16 and 1/8 oz jigs very well. It would do a Ned, but ion the light side. I like a little slower rod for a grub, but it could do it.I think the larger hook of a tube might be an issue, but who knows.

IMO, kinda a lot to ask one rod to do all those different jobs. You're either going to be too heavy for trout and crappie or too light on the bass end of things.

No Koi for me. I'd love to catch one though. I did get a mirrored scale carp though. I don't think I've caught a Quillback either. I'd love to all the carp and suckers.