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jsut got back from Sturgeon Bay on a vacqation with my wife. She let me fish 2 days. I went with a guide. the weather can really effect your ability to fish. Even a 10mph if coming from any northly direction is going to keep you off Green Bay. We had one day of 20+ winds and had great difficuly finding anywhere to fish. The second day we fished out on green Bay I had probably 30 most in 2-3 1/2# range Had a couple in the 4+ Most of them on a jerkbait which in July I think is kinda cool.As @Bill Babler said wiht any big water weather can kill a fishing trip. That includes Mille Lacs, I live ther for 3 year and the wind could whip that lake up. If you gobetter have a strong trolling motor with Spotlock If your'e looking for something off the radar and easy to get to Galcial Lakes region in NE South Dakota. I go there each May. Had 4 fish one afternoon go 18# my best was 5.8# The 2nd picture is the state record from one of the area lakes 7# 2oz only 19 3/4"

My partner, (fishing), caught this yesterday on the James river. This is the first year that I have seen them in the James.I have seen schools of them and I first thought they were large shad but later saw the large scales and the mouths. I'm not much on fish idenification but inquired to @BilletHead. He gave me his answer. after googling some I felt there were 2 possible choices. Thought I'd taike a poll of the OA experts.

That's a nice bike you have the @dan hufferd. Biking is one of my main pursuits as well. I've found that many times I can pprovide my own shuttle easier with my bike. Luckily I have a fairly large river boat. don't try this with a kayak🤣

Kills germs too!

There's actually an app for catch and release tournaments called Fish Donkey. Looks like you register your tournament with them and then fisherman you the app to record their catches by length.

Suppose the one without the mask isn't so fond of their spouse.

Doc, You're starting to sound like a broken record but I love the song!😘🤪

I've had some of these for some years. I use to fish carolina rig alot. The other day I was fishing a split shot with a finese worm. I always have trouble with the splitshot moving down the line despite my best efforts to crimp it on. Put one of these on and it worked great.

i believe the creek through Busiek is called Camp creek. It runs into Bull just below Busiek. Interestingly, in the summer Camp creek has som flow as it enters Busiek ;it then diasappears and comes out in the creekbed further down.

it will cost you $25 pretty expensive shad bait

Use to float that section of Beaver Creek. Never saw or caught any large fish in that stretch. I figured the locals probably kept anything of size.

I'd say it a tie but I'll leave it to the judges

some times they just get in the way I should get a bonus for 2 on the same bait

Caught this onelast week in a different state. 19 1/2" 5.8# Here's the state record from a nearby lake 193/4" 7#2oz

Right now Ozark Beach at powersite is 702 and Bull shoals is at 695. might want to go down could be interesting watching stripers try to get over the dam.

Lots of duck still in the freezer. Cooked Duck Bigarade from Hank Shaw’s Duck Duck Goose. Risotto, did it out of a bag less time. Asparagus steamed topped with duck fat not butter

Send some to Jimmy Baker and tell him it will kill the virus.

695, I thought that was the top of the dam on Bull Shoals. better keep dumping the water since TR opened up the flood gates at noon today

It is an interesting area to explore. First year up we fished only at Roy Lake. Now we probably have a dozen or so. We'll usually fish 2 lakes a day. The lakes in this area appeared after several years of heavy snowffall and rain. You can see it when you see barns in the middle of lakes and many of the roads have been raised after flooding out. Up till 2018 the levels were dropping but the last 2 years have raised the levels to new heights. The main hiway north has now flooded. It was about a foot over the road, they closed it to cars but not trucks. It's getting some attention from bass fisherman. Used to be you'd rarely see a bass boat or anyone fishing for bass. This year one day on a trophy bass and walleye lake where it's pretty much catch and release there were 8 boats, all bass boats. Flooded hiway

typically small ones. they get some bigger ones through the ice.

amazing

If it was lenght plus girth I know I would have won. I know the rules were public waters but I still feel I would have been cheating . I lost a LM at the boat that definetely would have won.

Tried that on Mother's Day. Didn't have an Griswold ,shame on me. Put it in a glass pie pan, think I used too much flour. It didn''t rise like yours. Tasted more like a bisquick pancake, still good.

Waht started as a long Memorial weekend tripin 2013 has morphed into 11 days of fishingin NE SD. Galcial lakes area contians over 30 lakes within a short drive of our campsite at Roy Lake state park.This year my brother and I stayed ddown south at LYNN LAKE LODGE for 4 days and then moved up to roy Lake for the remainder. WT were lower than hoped when we arrived, 52degrees and warmer weather that the weatherman had promised didn't materialize. That combined with several days of 15-25 mph wiunds made the first few days tough. we managed to find some nice pike for the frying pan the first day. We found a small bay with shallow water that had warmed and found some post spawn walleyes. All but 3 were too big, had 2 @ 6.5# nad one 7#. mostly we targeted bass which means you could easily pickup some walleye or northern. Finally by Friday it WT hit the 60's and we started finding bass up on the beds. The smallmouth typically will spawn on rock reefs and 3 lakes had big reefs to fish on.several others joined us for the weekend so we had 2 boats with 3 each. we also ha 6 tents in our campsite which the junior ranger in his uniform complete with mask said was 5 over the limit. He checked with his superviser and we never heard back from him. Best results 4 smallmoth in one afternoon total weight 18# Our 3 walleye 19# plus 3 for the pan 3 hours fishing on the reef for 3 of us 38 smallmouth 2 1/2- 3 1/2# my best smallmouth 5.8# 19 1/2" Didn't enter him in the contest put a tape on him but didn't photo it.