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If that's where I think it was, you should'a stuck a bigger hook in it and let it swim a bit.

I heard they're like copperheads in that the little tiny ones bite is as bad as a big one. 200-250 per hatch equals... carry the nine...lots of deadly fangs.

Since the question infers no rules... 2" softshell crawdad with a pea-sized split shot.

The shiner varieties you mentioned all spawn in gravel bottom shallow/fast stream conditions, so I'm unsure if you'll ever get a satisfactory self-sustaining population in a pond unless the stream is spring-fed and stable year-round. The red shiners can be pretty year round, but the others only color up for the spawn. With a hand net or hook you'll be forever catching enough to establish a breeding population. Like JD said, a seine could do it. I've caught lots of various local shiner varieties with a small cast net, but I did it during the spawn in Feb-April when large numbers were gathered below an upstream migration obstacle like a pool below a culvert at a low water crossing. The easy route would be to buy a few pounds of rosy reds (fathead minnows) from a live bait dealer. If you can maintain a plankton bloom in your pond and have suitable substrate for them to spawn on you could do really well with them.

I think Oneshot has just proven he can successfully troll from the bank. Well played! Caught some bigguns too! 🤭

^^^ Yeah, ~20 in the day and shallow at night. For drifting, I add a small float about 2/3 of way from sinker to hook so you hang up less. Just enough weight to tick bottom most of the time. If there's shad around, follow the shad. If not, look for places to get hung up.

I'll have what he's having.

This one's for Bushbeater. In the wind brother.

Thanks for posting. I always enjoyed his posts, especially in the "what's playing": thread.

Cool! Way back in a previous life I got towed in a leaky 12' jon for what the map says is around a 1/4 mile. 1/8 out, 1/8 back to the starting point (Piney Creek). Got my net under it and the Woodchopper that was hanging by a thread got hung in the net... hook & fish parted ways, hook stayed in the net and the fish was gone with one kick. 40+. Still sick over that one, but I did get a suitable net.

Yum!

Snakehead trivia from an AGFC article; "Biologists first documented northern snakeheads, an invasive species from Asia, in Arkansas in April 2008 when a farmer near Brinkley reported one wriggling along a gravel farm road near a shallow ditch. The species is similar to bowfin, and has a primitive lung that allows it to gulp air for oxygen and survive for a short time out of the water." That 25" is impressive. There's a record snaker out there with your name on it.

I'm a sucker for orange on our bream sunfish too. That iridescent turquoise too. When I caught 'em for bait, I always let the real pretty ones go. 🐟 Which reminds me. My first boxed lure was a green/orange Lazy Ike. It worked. 😉

I think Ham's been sharing his orange soda with the fauna...

Cool! This time of year the last 2 hours of dark can be as good as the dawn bite, gotta be stealthy if it's calm, shad flipping gives them away. Good luck!

I was born broke. Hasn't changed much since then.

If the Mrs doesn't have your phone reporting your every move to her, she's slackin'. Leave it broke, you ain't missing nothing.

So many good ones gone or going. Thankfully, others are going strong, like Willie (90) and Keith (close behind);

Now that the dust has settled, I have a story to tell. Last evening I was reading this thread and enjoying the great pictures while "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" played in the background on the TV. It was bedtime, so I closed the laptop and assumed my snooze position. I dreamed Ham & Dave were the main characters in the movie, first flying to Florida upside down in a ragged biplane, followed by several stops and incidents (involving pretty-colored fish) along the way. They finally reached their goal, only in the dream Ham landed a 5ft tarpon.

Thanks for sharing guys. Too bad you can't live sell some of those for aquaria, that's a $750 Oscar.

Have any of you guys seen Cocaine Bear yet? It's a hoot!

Hang in there. 24 years ago for me, I'm still not back to normal. 🤪

I'm not a flyfisher, but I do love frogs, especially peepers. Your creation is A-OK by me. ☺️

Cool, thanks! "But I knew it was large for its size.” 😆