creekin bassnerd

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don't answer that.

FnF, You hopped on this thread with one intention, to try and piss somebody off, as far as I can see you have failed in that regard. But since your opening sentence sparked my curiosity, you have lead me try and understand what you mean. "Littlered, you should not feel upset for people elitist-self-righteous attitudes." My question: What in the world does bringing a bass to hand and watching it swim away have to do with elitism? Is it that c&r folks want to be the best fish releaser that has ever lived. Im so good at releasing fish, bass sometimes quick release on the way in.. I can't understand your statement at all. Please explain. Is it that you are so pissed off at our black President that youve got to think that anyone releasing a fish and not firing dual pistols in the air like yosemite sam has got to be some self-rightous elitist? Im just wondering, because as far as I can tell, nobody gives a sh!tt what you keep and turn back in beaver lake. This thread is about stream smallies plain and simple. LittleRed, take it easy. Im sure ole Crowbar is loads of fun to sit around with trying to decode whatever hes saying while yall eat a few cases of All-American (Belgium-owned) Budweiser beer. I don't 100% completely blame him for keeping all those huge stream smallies. Ive got friends who would do what crowbar does, except they don't because they don't have the opportunity and/or desire to do so. Its just a reckless tradition, and you CANNOT deny that Mr. Crowbar and all desciples who follow his teachings are a cancerous tumor to the south fork of the spring river.

very cool, thanks.

I've seen that scenario play out as well, its good to hear your 9 year old boy understood. Gives me some hope that the new generation of kids will grow up conservation minded and not just take whatever they want when they want it.

I've thought about this show idea before and although I too would enjoys watching a show on float fishing ozark streams, I don't want to bring anymore fishing pressure to these streams as there already is. What I mean is any j@ck@$$ with a camera can expose these fragile ecosystems to any amount of people that can and will unknowingly cause major harm to the health of the streams. I'm not saying Im good for the rivers and streams, I know that I am not, none of us are. But I'd rather we just keep our secrets to ourselves and let the rest of the world stay oblivious to our little treasures. I used to think, and still kind of do, that the ideal fishing show, would be raw footage. No background music, and like Al's saying, honest successes and failure in public waters. Ive never fished a lake like Bill Dance usually does in my whole life, so I don't get a lot o excitement out of watching his show. But I do see some value in diverting the viewers attention to the commercially accepted I gotta have a ranger bass boat and shop at bass pro shops paradigm. Those lake guys keep the pressure off me and I don't hardly bother them either. Someone mentioned lunkerville, thats a cool show. The host is not a good fisherman, and rarely catches the right species if anything while the local guy usually has some success. Its pleasing, gets you out of that cookie cutter fishing show. Im not much of a fly fisher but I think fly fishing tv shows, as long as they stick to the fishing, are very enjoyable to watch. All that said, I guess stream fishing is officially in season. I had to play leap frog this wknd with some guy and his girl throwin zebco 33s and lookin for supper. I saw him catch an 18" smallie and put it on a big metal stringer. Man my heart sank, he told me he never fished this river before, I wanted to tell him that 18" smallies on this particular stream are hard to come by and he should release it, but I kept my mouth shut because the last thing I need is to offend some redneck in front of his equally intelligent woman. So from that point on, my strategy was to stay in front of him, casting a big loud jerkbait to all the likely spots, with no regard to how loud my paddle sounded when I accidently hit it on the gunwales of my canoe..

This guy has been keeping big stream smallies for years, he's not the only one with this self imposed "god" given right to kill whatever they please whenever they feel like it. Its a tradition for poor locals to feast on the easy to target stream smallies, but dung man, get some food stamps, go to wal mart, load up on cheap groceries, kill the dung out of some deer, go trout fishing, trade one of your many guns or children for a pig that you can fatten up and eat in the winter. Hell eat the river otters this redneck and others in the area are trying to eradicate. There are a lot of ways to find some calories, but I suppose one of the easiest is to keep big beautiful stream smallmouth and turn em into turds and have a feeling of pride that this world and everything in it was put here for you. http://www.womenanglers.us/wanda_filming.html

Our heads were in the clouds that day so it seemed appropriate. Day started off nice and warm, then a few hours in cold rain and howling wind; senkos, jerkbaits, and rattle traps worked well enough for us that day.

Ah sweet, I see what youre talkin about. Thanks for clearing that up!

really? thats interesting. I guess I don't know the difference between the 2.

tis the season, every one of that kind sure do fight like monsters

Saw this nice smallie caught on a rattle trap in a river above a lake about 3 weeks ago.

The one thing the deniers have going for them is as long as they are alive, they will never be proven wrong, unfortunately their childrens children will end up having to deal with the consequences of their stubbornness, its that stubbornness in the dangerous form of tradition that will hold back any progress to make our planet a better place for future occupants. - until perhaps its too late... Another thought, how can you deny the science but, believe everything the con man selling the invisible product says?

thats awesome, Im glad to see the law is looking out for them poor giants.

nice, hope to catch me one of those in a couple weeks.

I'd hit the caddo river, spring rains are too unpredictable. If youre from texas, its closer to home and its also a smaller drainage so if all the other rivers are swelled up, theres a good chance that the caddo is looking good, and she holds piggies.

Thanks for your story Bry, I havent read this entire thread but I read your post and am glad you'd rather let a beautiful monster live than greedily kill it for an uppity record. I've always wanted to catch a state record fish, but if faced with your situation, and after reading your story, Id rather let it live and piss on the record books. Plus you got to catch it a few more times after. I bet that was an amazing feeling.

cool video, I like that you didn't cover up the sounds of nature with some new grass key of me type of music.

We stuffed ourselves with fried hog jowl, black eyed peas, fried cabbage, fried tators, corn bread, and cucumber salad...Jan 1st is easily my favorite meal of the year.

Chief, you should get back to posting your friday fishing fotos. I rather enjoyed them.

sweet

I usually catch drum on crankbaits as well, mostly on rattle traps, mostly in lakes, always a good fight, I like em!

Im interested, pm sent. thanks!

I used to throw em in corn meal, salt, pepper and fry in a skillet. But here lately, Ive been just pulling out the guts, cut out the blood vein, leave the head on, (because the cheek bone meat is sooooo good). Throw in a baking pan, and season em up and go crazy with the fresh lime juice. I'll even put sliced limes in bellies. Just bake around 350 for around 30 mins or until meat is flaky. Serve with white rice, good stuff.

louis ck is awesome,