MOPanfisher

Almost every accident like this is a result of one or more bad decisions. It's a sad deal any way you slice it. If there is a positive note it is that they did not run over another boat and kill them too.

Dang I am so far behind it isn't funny. Was gonna get the Mayers intone garden today but mother nature opted to wah out that plan. Wife did make some freezer jam, but had to buy the strawberries, the huse patch is in a rebuilding year after being neglected badly last year. Are getting some to eat. All the spinach is slate to get picked tomorrow, dinner at a friends. Something about blanched, shocked, drizzled with sesame oil and didn't catch what else. Says it will be good.

Well I got rained out from mowing and gardening so I thawed out a big sirloin steak, jacardi tenderized it a while and dropped it into a bag with coca cola, soy sauce, liquid smoke and other spices that caught my eye, and set it aside to marinate. Took some taters and sliced them about a quarter inch thick, made a big foil pack added the taters, two onions sliced up, butter and again whatever seasonings I found. Put the taters on the grill to cook. After about 30 minutes of rotating the tater pack around I went out with the steak and turned the grill up to high. Gave the steaks a couple minutes to sear on each side and then cut them into fingers. All in all in was pretty dang good, had some fresh strawberries afterward. Life is good even if yiu get rained out. Was so full I had to take a nap. Ate like a coyote on a fresh gut pile.

Crappie will spawn before bass.

One of the most delicious things I remember as a kid was a skillet of fried crappie with a bunch of egg sacks all crsped up too. Course I like the crunchy tails too way back when we cooked them whole. Back in the days of the occasional fish bone in your throat was just the price of eating fish. I have tried a few times to deep fry but never ends well. Turns out the trick was to cover the egg sacks with a fish fillet.

Not sure on Stockton but elsewhere the spawn is basically done. There will still be a few coming in to spawn. That one definitely looks spawned to me. They won't shoot all their eggs and those are loose and runny. The tail is ragged too.

I bet you look exactly like you do in your photos.

Wait I thought baby carp were the super important food source that bass need.

I can say I have fished one bass tournament in my entire life, and have only left he house with the intent of bass fishing on a lake maybe 5 times. BUT, I can see why those that are into it really enjoy it. More power to them, maybe one day soon I will find myself at Stockton and target some smallies, that would make the hurt a little less.😊 besides at least it ain't golf, I don't feel sorry for bass fishermen like I do golfers.

Here every snake within 100 yards of water is a cottonmouth!

Find a bridge with some rip rap. Float a big shiner under a large bobber, channel cats are active and hungry. Bluegill shod be ramping up too, piece of a nifhtcrawler and a slip bobber set 3 to 4 feet deep. If you find a spawning area it will be fast and furious.

I got just enough raindrops to really make a mess of my windshield pollen collection. But air is cool and less humid after it has passed.

Actually I like a baked carp. Never thought abut microwaving one, I think the smell would stop me.

Heck that might not be too bad. Bet it would work with a bass fillet too!

Right now I am wanting to gouge out my imagination.😂

Never really liked red beer, but don't mind a shot of hot sauce in my beer. Usually when I break down and buy one I am so dang thirsty I don't even taste it much. Until the second one.

LOL, if I am setting there for very long I must be catching something, come on in. Nothing more fun than having someone crowd you and you keep catching fish while they cant. Even with specific instruction how to do it. I have had it done to me enough in the same boat that I enjoy giving it back occasionally. No doubt some fish are hooked deep, and killed due to poor hook removal skills. I used to use the Ned before I knew it had a name in the creeks but don't ever recall much trouble with swallowing it. Some days though fish will swallow a crankbaits whole too. I never worry about folks keeping fish to eat, on a small creek I hate to see it, although I have taken some nice stringers of black perch (green sunfish) out of small waters before. Am I biased toward seeing smallies released, yep, never denied it, just like MOCARP is biased toward seeing big carp released. And as much as I love goggle eye the waters I most often fish don't have a lot so hey usually get released too, but if I am fish hungry and legal largemouth bites and I have a good supply of cajun seasoning I will eat him too.

I was out trying to work in my garden spot, it is headed my way. Hope it brings some rain, getting dang dry here. Nice cool breeze came with it though. I was trying to call on some long dead skills and repair an old gardening row maker, it had been brazed by my day MANY years ago so I thought, pfft I got this, man do those skills get rusty without use. But the cool breeze was really nice about the end of it.

Hope it's mostly pictures and not big words.

My wife had been gone for almost a week, so I treated her to a Mother's Day treat. I left and went fishing. Managed some crappie and a nice channel cat. So tonight they got prepped and fried a golden brown, whike my wife fired up the cast iron skillet for a pile of taters and onions, and I added a wilted salad with spinach and lettuce from the cold frame. Had to make a quick run to town for some oil and found in the refrigerated section some stuff called Busch Beer, it was ice cold and I could hear it calling my name from across the store. Now I am too full to go put fishing stuff away and till the garden son i can finally plant stuff.

But what about fellers like me who often aren't sure what the final target will be. I certainly don't mind launching among bass guys, one thing they can generally do well is launch and be gone. It's the kayaks, pontoons etc, and old slow guy like me by their selves that eat up time.

I will receive a 30 year pin this year, and am getting closer to retirement eligible. However I don't see myself moving anywhere. From my house I can hit, stockton, pomme, truman, and LOZ in an easy day trip. I am quite happy on my little piece of rocks and brush. I have a sneaking suspicion that when I retire I will go from a 40 hr work week to 60 or more.

Haha, a bass to make the whites taste better, maybe the other way around.

Dang, I am happy when mine starts.

Exactly, those markers are mile markers. L for the Lindley Side, P for the Pomme side. You will see the same thing on Truman.