LittleRedFisherman

Love it! Thank you for your service

Hey guys just now seen this. Have not been on much during the harvest season. I'll probably stay Thursday and Friday nights for sure. Can bring the cooker again with some catfish as always. Will also have my boat if needed. Looking forward to it.

Told my wife it’s the best money I didn’t need to spend I ever spent. Lol. Anyone running one of these yet?

Good to be able to give a report! I’ve done worse on my old boat but breaking th new one in properly lol Hope to see The BilletHead again at jigfest!

Went fishing wensday and took a friend of mine from Church the hadn’t chased any smallies in almost 30 years. I had a meeting that morning, and after that we went to the river and got there round noon. When we got there I had some of my plethora of poles I bring tangled and I was setting up a camera. Mr JD kept it simple with two poles one with a gitzit and one with a Ned. He said he loved gitzits 30 years ago fishing current river. While I was untangling my mess he nails one on on the first cast. Then another, then a goggleeye, he chuckled and said the ole gitzit still gets it done. Ha ha. Once I got goIng finally I started catching some on the 3 inch craw, plus a 21.5 inch walleye that was a treat instead of a treatment as my grandfather used to say. Only negative was the low river gave navigating a little pucker factor, and I nailed a stone going back down steam miss reading an old stone dam you have to navigate properly when low, so got the first battle wound on the new boat. Great day all in all. I have most of JD’s fish on a video camera as we didn’t take a lot of pictures. He’s still got it, quite an angler.

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Thanks my friend!

The wife and daughter had some college stuff going on, so my son and I took a trip to the cabin. We lived like kings for a couple days! Ate well and fished well. Took my son trout fishing for his first trout trip, he managed to catch a trout in his first cast with his zig jig. We caught 30 or so together in 4 hours before the storms rolled in. He came close to matching what I caught, fished steamboat shoals. They grow up fast, moguy just had a new one I saw up the threads and before you know it they will be grown up. Spend the time with them whenever you can, especially in the great outdoors. Side note : the Georgia Peach coke is awesome

Congrats for sure a keeper!

Yes they go on some good runs when they get close to the boat. Big gear yes for sure.

Thursday we could have it was a little slow… Wednesday about the time we would sit up and wait I was already taking it, they were biting fast.

We did not they were all alligator gar, we did also see some actual alligators that are also in the river… We were using bait it weighed about 2 pounds

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Haven’t been fishing a while this summer and farming with irrigation in a drought has been tough on fishing time. However, Max and I had a trip planned months ago down in east Texas to try out hand at an alligator gar. I had watched Doug Stange on Tv on Saturday morning 10 years ago fish with this guy named Kirk Kirkland, they boated a 240 pounder which is the largest recorded while filming. I never thought years later I’d have the chance to fish with the same guy. Trinity river is not much bigger than the 11pt I love to fish in the Arkansas stretch. It’s unreal to me the amount of fish these sizes in this river. Fished for 2 days and boated 12 fish, one of which was 167 pounds and another that was 135. Bucket list checked and got it on film as well, I’ll try to share some of th footage when I have time to edit it. It’s not in the Ozarks but since I haven’t been fishing much this summer thought I’d share! All these fish are caught and released. He tags them for the TDC and routinely catches fish he has released years earlier. They have interlocking scales and are air breathers with two set of nostrils which make Picture taking pretty good. When they swam off they meant business, absolute freshwater beast. Pretty cool. I wouldn’t swim in that river. Ha ha

Most of these bass you think being the water so warm?

Yes sir busy time of year However I do need to get on here more often

Hit the river early yesterday morning at daybreak with the intent on the success Scott had below on topwater. That Didn’t prove to be true, so tried some different things and did not have any luck until I picked up a crawdad pattern patterned square bill crank bait, That is when the action started. My partner immediately picked up his jig with a crawdad pattern and started hammering them, then I picked up a tackle HD crawl and started hitting some as well. That bite on the craw pattern Lasted for a couple hours then it shut down. Picked up a few more finessing around with Stick worms and Ned’s. Turned out to be a great day on the river…Turned out to be a great day on the river…

The topwater king! Way to go Scott!

Just one of those days Rick was blessed to experience it!

Yes sir it was. Show will be in fox 5 next fall!

Haha thanks John. I did catch a couple on jerkbaits but I had what they wanted. For a couple hours it was on.

It was just good timing I’m no smallie whisperer like some on here, glad i got to experience it! one of those days you tell your grandkids!

Ever have one of those days you were there at the right time and the right bait? Today was one of those days for me, one I won’t soon forget. They were all over the Tackle HD craw today, after catching another 18 incher I noticed the craw in its gullet was much like the Craw I was using, by luck had matched the hatch! Been awhile since I’d been out after the smallies, guess made up for some lost time! Water temp was 55 and they were caught in different places from current to holes! My best 5 averaged 17 inches, for me that will be hard day to top! This post has been promoted to an article

I had a hog trough in the boat but all we did was weigh it. Was a river beast for sure!