fishinwrench

Going small/light, or deep has never worked for me on really slow-bite days. Moving to different water (dirtier or clearer) usually helps, but if you can't do that then your pretty much stuck with what you have to work with. Switching species can be a major savior. When the green/brown bass are in a major funk then the crappie, gills, cats, or white bass bite is often on fire. And vise versa. I can't tell you how many times I've beat my brains out all day bass fishing, then ran into someone at the ramp that had a stellar day catching crappie or whites all day. Fish species seem to take turns being the most active critter on a body of water during periods of time. Very seldom are they all biting good at the same time, so if targeting only one species all the time you are going to have periods where your catch rate goes down the tubes regardless of what you do.

Nice healthy looking fish. That's the MT I remember. Good job!

Hmm. In all my years I never even pulled in the driveway but the place always looked kinda cool from the road. It has sure been around awhile.

Firing up a charcoal grill inside your house is perfectly legal. It's also a really stupid thing to do, and I'll advise someone that I see doing it that it is best not to.

Anything from Proctor cr. on up might be a tad sketchy. (Winters Bone) I wouldn't worry too much about the boat....but wheels/tires, small outboards and anything small enough to be carried..... I'd worry about.

That Tom looks big enough to eat that propeller-headed Bambi.

Been eaten up and tossed to the curb before, and looking back I can say that the pain was bearable if blended with a good sense of humor. Someone once said: If you ever feel as if nobody cares about you, just miss a few payments. Truer words have never been spoken. There are people out there that care ALOT. What was this thread about? Oh yeah, Smallies.....Stop eating them !

As they should be. That's a perfect pond IMO. Needs no biologist type thoughts/actions. ENJOY IT !

Somewhere between the age of 38-41 I began realizing that most everything I had been taught, or had pounded into my head all my life, was total bullshit. I'm a way different dude now. Not necessarily better....just different. Now at 52 I am beginning to realize that most people (including myself???) might be better off (happier) living in that old dream world. How does one get back there ?

Well now wait a minute...... Maybe the reason everyone in the restaurants and grocery stores are jacking with their phones is because they are catching up on calls, emails, and texts that they couldn't answer earlier when they were driving. The ones in the restaurants that are NOT on their phones are likely the ones that text and drive.

I hate to see nasty car crashes but I'm not for any more "legislating". You can take away liquor and take away mobile devices and people will still crash into each other just as often. Only difference is the lawyers wouldn't get fat as quickly.

If the fish are running that size I don't think it needs population reduction. I'd say the balance is about perfect.

Nice one! What did it take to win?

That sounds about right. 3 beers gives me a noticable buzz but it dang sure isn't gonna cause me to rear end someone or drive my boat into a bluff. My step sister was killed in a head-on and they ruled it alcohol related, said the drivers of both vehicles were drunk. The thing is though, that both my sis and the other guy had just gotten off work 20 minutes before the crash. They MIGHT have had time to stop for one beer but there is no way either of them were truly intoxicated. I suspect most of the DWI fatalities are similar. They may have some alcohol in their system but it is NOT the cause of the accident. Stuff just happens.

Facebook has probably busted more guys than anything these days for fish/game violations. With that one though all he has to say is "my son was with me". There is a group of 3 guys that float the Little Niangua fairly often whose thing is to drink beer and do a gravel bar fish fry. The one I talk to fairly often claims that they don't eat the Smallies but I ain't buying it. There is nothing else worth eating in that river because the spotted bass all have worms and the sunfish are all stunted. I know darn well they are filleting 10" Smallies but what can you do? Regardless of what the legal limits are nobody is gonna patrol those smaller rivers, they never have and never will, and I can understand why.

Not wrong, just ghey.

Why the 2 swievels ? Just curious.

Dang that gives me the fever. I wish someone would feed me some waterfowl that didn't taste like boiled muskrat.

I would have bought him a fish dinner to see them released.

I just hit a shallow wading spot right before dark so I'm not sure, but I kinda expected it to produce either a few good LM or a school of Whites. Neither seemed to be there.....or they were and just wouldn't bite. Hope to have time to get a boat out soon and give a better effort.

Yep, must be our devices.

I hit a spot this evening that usually produces, but I blanked. Not even a dink.

Nice mess of eaters. Tough call on the wounded one, almost looks like a prop strike. Resilient bugger isn't he?

Atta boy! I love throwing a 1/2oz. Redeye Shad this time of year. I usually just beat the banks and do ok, those schoolies out in the middle are seldom keepers.

Whenever I ask my daughter what something means she tells me to "Wiki'. Pretty gay.