MOPanfisher

I am starting to think that one day when she sends some onesent to "take care of you" they are gonna show up with a ball pein hammer and a backhoe.

That is the one!

Growing up Bona was all I ever knew it as. Always stopped at Tom's in the "town" of Bono buy minners. He sold minners. Heap and guaranteed the count. If you bought 3 dozen you usually got at least 6 dozen. But if you had to buy a dipper net ir heaven forbid a minnow bucket he would laugh and say "I got ya this time" candy bars were $1 each back in the 70s. But he also said if you rant out of minnows and didn't have a mess of fish for supper to come back and he would give ya more.

I love that song and album of CDB. I was never a music guy except for Ole CDB. When I was a kid about the only thing we listened to on the radio was baseball games.

I haven't seen any of them yet, however I can hear them. A very quiet hum that is a different tone than normal ones.

The whites we were catching on Pomme were like chihuahuas if they were as big as they fought they would have been huge. Of course we don't have wipers or stripers either but them whites are sure fun on an UL crappie rod.

I believe the lower end is still pretty clear, upper ends will be dingy at best and probably some floaters. They won't ground out until Pomme starts releasing and there is a wind to push them to the bank so they can ground out. The green slime that was doing well.earlier is now under 7 feet or so of water. With Truman's elevation being over. 720 it may be a while before Pomme can release.

I drove across Taylor Bridge on Little Sac. It is dingy and lake backwater now.

Haven't used stabilizing years, however I do occasionally run some seafoam or Lucas injector cleaner through my vehicles. It always increases the mpg for a while, don't know if it doesn't anything else or not. As for small engines I never purchase anything except ethanol free gasoline.

Many Many years ago I bought a set of the cardboard wheels that they used at Bass Pro. Was a little bit if a learning curve but I have sharpened more knives than I care to think about since then. I have considered the workshop ones but since my wheels are still going strong after many re-grittings I don't see the need. I have considered purchasing a Lansky Sharpener because they are old school and I like spending a little time on a good blade. I also have a couole sets of ceramic sticks and a diamond stick and a long ceramic stick that is the cats behind for keeping one sharp. I keep it handy when butchering and out of habit if I pause for more than a few seconds I give whatever blade I am holding a few strokes. One thing I found out long ago is if you put a thin razor edge on a blade it only takes one time of running it across a bone to roll the edge that's when the diamond stick comes into play. I have no idea how many whetstone I have around in places, I have a few of the ice pick shaped ones strictly for sharpening serrated electric fillet knife blades and it isnsurprisingly easybtonget them too sharp. I fully admit to being a knife slut. Heck I have bought 4 in the last month at least that I am willing to admit to and my wife is aware of only one I think. She no longer cares as long as I don't get too carried away.

842.39 according to the Rivers App. And still rising, gonna be big and muddy for a while. Will be a lot of debris on the upper arms only good thing is that with the water up in the bushes if the lake level falls slow it will be a hugely successful spawn.

To me guiding would be a tough way to make a living. Take something I enjoy doing for fun and make a job of it. Would completely ruin fishing for me, same as the only tournament I ever fished. But nobody ever considered me to be normal. There will be more days for me.to take a catfishing trip, right now if things work out I might get to fulfill a bucket list item and catch something in salt water, will see if that pans out or not.

Well any advice I might have had is gone now until it settles down, and with wind not supposed to drop below 30mph and lots of time above that until Tuesday or something I think I will just worry about other things. However if I get a call.from one of my buddies wanting to go well heck ya cant catch em at home.

There are more guides around here than I ever knew of before, I assume social media advertising and livescope have certainly made a difference. There are certainly plenty of folks willing to pay $300 for a day or half day trip for crappie. Heck I have considered taking a guided catfish trip on Truman, since I would like to get into a good one, catch a pile of eaters and maybe a slot fish or two. Never been a catfisherman so catching a bunch of blues sounds fun especially since they will clean them for ya.

Way back when I lived in Forsyth I never really figured out the whites except that a lot of the locals were fishing at night.

We have been catching crappie anywhere from right on the bank out to 10 for or so where the boat would be setting. Have been sorting through lots of shorts, and also getting some dang nice ones. Jig color hasn't been a big issue as long as there is some chartreuse on it. If wind is cal enough (unlikely) 1/32 Oz jig fished really really slow is a killer, or if a bobber fisherman that will work too. Some places have a fair amt of green slime, youbjust have to avoid it or deal with it. Biggest issues have been the wind speed and direction.

Our turn to cool.for our Sunday group supper. A fish fry was requested and I hv3 been lucky enough to be able to provide it. So some thawed out, and some never frozen. Will be a mix of some crappie, several white bass, 3 walleye, and one eater size blue cat that atta jed a crappie jig at LOZ last week. Old fashioned meal planning, big skillet of fried taters and onions (maybe 2 skillets worth), and I believe a corn casserole is also planned. I will get to be the one downstairs in the shop, where it is cooler, drinking beer and frying fish. I might even separate the different varieties so everyone can get a taste of walleye, or i might just tell them some of the white bass back straps are walleye, they won't know the difference anyway. Maybe I will remember to take some pics of it all.

I have had worse days.

Lucky they didn't just cover you with soil and plant Maters on top of ya. 😁

Me too but not because of the suffering angle, usually because I am just lazy and don't want to clean them. Don't eat as many fish as we used to so saving myself the mess and effort of cleaning them while still having the fun of catching them seems to be a win win for me. However I will keep a few and clean them for a very select few people.

Plain old soap and water with a plastic scrubbie is all I have ever used, except for a couple times I did the fine sandpaper trick, looked great until the first trip. I don't mind them looking a little dirty, kind if like the coloration on a good carbon steel blade.

PLEASE tell me he was married to one earlier in his life, or at the very least lived in the woods with her.

Flathead and channel cat love moving baits from crappie jig size to crankbaits. Just blind luck that a bighead sucked it in. But at least he made good use of it, fertilizer.

I have had to cut off some braid times, but the line on some of them is breaking below the knot in the mono. No issues with it last night bit I never got hung up bad enough that I needed to do anything more that give it a good banjo snap to get loose.

Yeah i saw that when 8 was looking for reviews. Tested this morning, hooked my jig to a solid point, backed off roughly the distance I might be hung up, wrapped the braid main several times around a piece of pex pipe, turned my back and started to pull. The GT Knot broke easier than I thought it should just abive the knot in the braid. So I took it all back into the barn and rollednon.a.quick double uni trimmed the ends and picked it up for a.test on it, jig didn't move, yep.i cut the main instead of the tag end, several loud curse words later I had it ready to go. Hooked it up again same test and pow it broke even easier, this time just below the knot in the mono. This time I didn't even go back.inside just threw on a quick Albright Knot and pulled it, it broke easily, again right below the knot in the mono, now I am ticked off, hands shaking so I just laid it all on the boat and walked away. Maybe I can weed some strawberries, or work up my double mineral tubs, something that doesn't require any skill or ability. Went back to it because I ain't too bright sometimes and this time tried an Alberto Knot, didn't do too bad, I think I am way overthinking it, just gonna tie the Alberto and go fishing tonight if I am up to it, see if old wally want to eat a jig.