MOPanfisher

Honestly I have no clue what I am having tonight, am seriously thinking about eating whatevwr it it and bolting for a little crappie fishing from the bank.

Wow, some good ones for sure. Why are they holding 2 others in the tarp/landing thing instead of just releasing them?

I am salivating just thinking about the mac and cheese.

Bring a crappie rod!

Me too.

Hey now, that hurts to find them in my playground and you not share.

Might have been a little slow with the pic tonight. Fresh Crappie fillets from last night, taters and onions from the cast iron skillet and some generic salad. You how sometimes your meal mix just comes out perfect, and the deep fry goes just right, well that was tonight. Absolutely nothing special about it except for the taste.

Usually the tournament guys are pretty good here. Occasionally there will be a jerk, but seems few and far between, at least that has been my experience with them.

We went way up river this evening, they were tough but 3 of us managed 38 and more than that shorts. If you find the right spot you can really work them.over seems like. The ones I just cleaned are not spawn ready yet. LOZ always gets good first. But if I can go 15 minutes from my house and catch a dozen vs going to LOZ for 15 I will stay closer to home. And there a ton of guys who are more knowledgeable than I on fishing, I am just very familiar with the lake area. My fishing buddy put a serious beating on me tonight.

Crappie are hit or miss right now. Upstream where it's warmer seems to be better. Get a couple warm days without a north wind or cold front and it will just get better. Some good fish and plenty of shorts too. Little bass were the big annoyance for me tonight, couldn't keep them off the jig. Did get a reliable report that LOZ is going strong right now, it always starts first there, but it on the other side of the world from my house.

2 day viruses are for wimps, I am feeling a week long virus attack coming on!

Oh man I want to be 12 again and make comments! Shepard Pie, chili on eggs now you are all speaking my language.

Wow, that's a good one. This week with the rain and warmer temps it will all get better. Early sites get lots of sun later spots will be more protected as weather warms up. Morels gotta have warm and wet to really get after it. Turkeys, morels, crappie. Gotta love spring!

Good looking chili rps. My wife is going make home made lasagna this afternoon for supper at friends house. Not sure what else will be there except there a couple big bunches of romaine hearts, so I am expecting to see them charred on the grill.

Dang Chief, I would eat myself to death.

Them dang things have taken many a crank bait away from me, braid or mono. I saw one come by the office, guy had it in a live well wanted to know if it was a musky. Not only was it a musky it was a dang nice one too, caught on a plastic worm, mono with no steel leader. Sometimes I just shake my head and hope that somewhere under a log, the muskie population has a museum where they display crankbaits they have stolen from me and others over the years.

Noone really seemed to know why the whites dies off, I know of at least 2 major die offs ad a couple smaller ones. The last 3 years or so those small whites have been thick, keep thinking they will grown into bigger fish. Do catch a few nice ones while crappie fishing but just can't seem to get a bit going on decent sized fish. Heck I am ready for MDC to import some wipers. (Sorry Fishing Wrench).

Larger whites are few and far between, whether due to a die off or whatever. If you went up the Pomme as far as it looks lie in the photo you could catch them little whites all day long. Oh you didn't pick the wrong year just came a few weeks early. Well for crappie anyway, bass I have no clue. But looks like you did well considering.

Well other than my one cold frame I am just now starting. The cold frame didn't germinate for squat either, but always eventually fills in enough to make a few wilted salads. Planted some zucchini, little yellow squash, and cukes in trays this morning. Might even go start the tractor and rip up the garden spot before that rain. Not worried in the least about tomatoes yet, every time I have olanted early and it is cool they seem to stunt and it take a full soup can of fertilizer poured around each one and worked into soil to get them to pop out of it and grow. Garden is downsized again this year to a small patch that really isn't big enough to warrant using the tractor on. However since I have it, I dang sure ain't gonna do it it by hand. Well the old garden was HARD, except where I had turnips planted. Ripped it with the spring tooth cultivator as best I could, hoping for a little rain to soften it before I put the rear tine tiller on the tractor and make it purty. Amazes me that each year for over 30 years I pull up some BIG rocks that were not that shallow last year, pulled up one on the first pass that was all I could do to lift it the tractor bucket. Hauled so many rock out of there over the years that it needs about 3 dump truck loads of good dirt to bring it back up to grade. The other old abandoned gardens are the same, below grade but I just let them go back to grass/weds and mow them now.

What gets folks in trouble in boats or canoes etc. is fishing above the boundary and keeping undersized fish, which is perfectly legal there. They then boat/float downstream across the boundary, suddenly unless those fish have grown they are now illegal to posess. Don't know how big of an issue it is in those places but others it happens a lot, as the only useable boat ramp is located below the boundary.

People who park like that really get under my skin. Fortunately after a minute or two of contemplating a multitude of vile things to do to them I usually calm down and do something more like what you did. But sure is fun to think about doing those things! It reinforces my oft repeated statement that it only takes one person to park wrong and screw stuff up, others will follow suit and make it worse.

Golf is like carp fishing but for snootier folks.

It would be the upper crooked creek area. I believe around Yellville it disappears. Been a while and since I was there but was thinking we put in at Harmon? And took out at a Conservation area near Pyatt? Lower part of float on a weekend is not isolated though, would be plenty of other folks.

Problem on upper Pomme is that there isn't much of it. If you go very far up there are not many accesses or places to camp. Crooked Creek is another option.

Dr. Appointment today so I got to go to the big city. Picked up a rotisserie chicken, some parsnips and carrots and amish potato salad. Nothing home made unless you want to count the whop biscuits I am making to go with it. I mean I did open the can myself. AND we did consume my tiny supply of 6 morels last night, so now I have no morels/morals.