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Look like twins. Mine felt like a hit then a log. Then it moved,had hopes of a big LM. After a couple hard pulls I knew I was fighting other than my quarry. A good fight though but hard to lip.

My big fish of the day at Table Rock yesterday came on a Kietech SB

Never know where you find them but if you don't have something in the water you what find out. great fish way to go.

we went in on the Canda side with Boy Scouts years ago. My boy Scoout is now 31. Great trip, Kevlar canoes for sure. If you're goin to fish I would not try to cover lots of water and try and do a layover in one spot so you get more fishing time less paddling.

I'm about the same. My Rapala knife is actually an Ozark Trail from Wmart. sharpens up just the same. Most of the time I make cerviche so everything gets cut to small cube so I use the lower section. fresh I'm not sure if the blood meat is nasty. If it is frozen for awhile it does seem to affect the meat.

With white bass season on or near just wanted to throw this out. Whats your feeling on blood meat. I love catching whites in the spring. They are the first to show up in numbers and they yeild a good size fillet. what to do if the blood meat, leave it be or cut it out. If so how?Personally I try to get as much as possible removed. I typically cut eah fillet down the lateral line and remove the red from the edge. That seems to get rid of the majority of it. It leaves one nice size piece but the lower piece is smaller. What about the thin film layer that covers more of the fillet. I'll try and skim it off with a fillet knife without sacrificing too mush white stuff. I know a master filleter who says he can tilt his knife at just the right angle when removing the skin the the majority of thr blood meat will stay with the skin. If I was just so gifted.I bleed my fish yesterday and that lightened the blood meat considerably.

Hope rain next week gives it a little bump and doesn't blow it out

Nice. Good to know bank fishing is an option

Put in around 9:30 at Twin Bridges. The parking lot was about full Went up Spring. Water is lightly stained not clear but not muddy. WT 50. Tried several spots without success. Got up near to 10 bridge. Started back down ran into a group of boat saw a few fish being caught. Stopped and took part. Quickly landed 4 and thought I was going to slay them rest of the day. Then it stopped for me other kept catching. 7 for me. 3 sows. Also snagged 2 nice gar in the morning. 1 kitty and 1 drum to round it out.

we went out the next day and fished just north of the causeway. Did well on nice sized reds and caught 2 18" trout. They lost some good ones but maybe not all of them

We just got back from Padre island. We had mullet in our canal not that thick but plenty. Went fishing 2 days. Went from JFK causeway to Baffin Bay one day with a guide didn't get one bite Lots of dead trout on the surface. Not many small fish mostly 20" and above. Lots of wall hangers floating.

Things went from bad to worse. Went out with a guide for sea trout and redfish. Once out in the bay the water was covered with dead Sea trout. Seems like the bigger one took the hit. Didn't see that many under 15". Lots of trophy ones This fishery may take years to recover Hope LA wasn't affected this bad

I'm on Padre Island and they have had a mullet kill. On the beach the tide line is covered with hardhead catfish as well

in keeping with the getting older theme

So if I eat the whole apple where is the tree going to grow?😵

Nice collections

Looked it up. Wine will freeze at around 23 F. Bourbon is good down to -17F. I grew up in Colorado. I remember up skiing the big thing was the leather wine skin that ,not me but adults would often carry under their jackets. don't hear of them anymore.

Thoses will catch a white. I 'll tie clousers on a #6 with dumbell eyes but if I'm fishing around some brush and getting hung up I'll use flies tied on plain leadhead jigs, cheaper.Not pretty ones like yours.

Back when I was in Boy Scout we would get are polar bear badge if we did that!

That sounds like fishing anywhere to me.

Not sure how you came up with the Osage. It has 20foot high mud banksit's whole length and little flow to speak of.That many days I would consider the Buffalo putting in at rush and floating to the White River. There should be some threads on here you couldfind. Where are you coming from?

I live right near there. I always like when it get this cold because springfield Lake attracts alot of waterfowl then. That was when the powerplant was putting warm water in. This weekend I'll go down and see what's there

I put a 2"gash in mine on the James once. Got it to the shore bailed it out. Luckily a 3" tube bait stuck in the hole and sealed it for rest of the trip. I had a guy weld it with aluminum. I/ve had other holes and I have used those sticks that solder to the aluminum and thety work well. Only need a propane torch for thoses.