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I do like muffuletta sandwiches and this looks delicious!

Lots of great head shots!

Looks delicious!

I thought that chicks loved the long ball😉🤣

More on the short sighted governmental stockings in VA and the impact now on the Chesapeake Bay. https://www.outdoorlife.com/fishing/maryland-invasive-blue-catfish-problem/

Still find these baby skits hilarious. I'm trying not to post all of the ones that I've seen. I love this movie and the way they toddle after each other made me laugh out loud😉

These crack me.up.

My BIL lives about 90 mins from Bellafonte PA. Due to the necessary travel realistically it would be tough to get more than ten species from their list and get back in time for the check-in. Though I do know spots where you can catch bluegill and the "other" sunfish, LMB, SMB, and brook trout. Should be crappie and rainbows as well. There are two sculpin species in that area, mottled and slimy and I do doubt that folks there would be able to tell the difference. 20 points if you could catch both 😉. I would love to do a tournament like this one, but with conventional tackle.

@Quillback Nice Stripers! sounds like a great time and decent meal!

Marty you know that we microfishermen only advocate the catch and cleaning of micros for streamside sushi😉😂!

This may get deleted by @Quillbackor @Terrierman for being political but I think this is hilarious and well done parody.

I'll see if see has any photos.

We got hit with the biggest and most violent Tstorm that we have experienced here in MD on Friday. Winds well over 60 mph. First time we have really had hail and quite a few pieces were golfball size. Livie went out and picked up a few hailstones that looked like the heads of a mace with large points everywhere.

Welcome to the forum. I went the opposite direction about 7 years ago, moving from Columbia MO to Easton MD. If you are willing to travel, there are great smallmouth and trout fishing opportunities throughout MO. Not sure how much time you spent fishing the wild brookies out in Western MD or streambred rainbows in PA, but you will find a number of challenging streambred rainbow trout streams, one of which is not far from STL, throughout the state. For stocker rainbows, MO stocks about 4 to 5X the number of rainbows througout the state than MD DNR does on an annual basis. There are many spring fed trout streams that offer year round trout fishing.

The Slovenian Beekeepers’ Association took the initiative for World Bee Day, which is now celebrated by environmentalists all over the world. On this day, beekeeping events are held to educate the general public about the importance of bees and beekeeping. There is a special emphasis on the role of bees as pollinators and how they help to revive forest cover. Because the bee population is under threat, World Bee Day informs us how to protect bees and other pollinators. To protect bees and other pollinators, the Slovenian Beekeepers’ Association launched a campaign in 2014, calling for May 20th to be designated as World Bee Day. May 20th was chosen as the day of celebration as it is the birthday of Slovenian beekeeper Anton Jansa (1734-1773), the forefather of modern beekeeping. In 2015, the initiative was co-opted by the largest international beekeepers’ organization, Apimondia. The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Food of Slovenia traveled around the world with a pavilion called Bee World, actively promoting the projects. Meetings with representatives of other countries and international organizations involved in environmental projects were also organized by the ministry. In 2017, the United Nations’ Economic and Financial Committee adopted a resolution proclaiming World Bee Day. The resolution was unanimously supported by the General Assembly of the U.N., and May 20th was declared World Bee Day. 115 countries including the United States, Canada, China, Russia, India, Brazil, Argentina, Australia, and all E.U. member states, signed on as major sponsors. Bees, as one of the most important pollinators, contribute to food and food security, sustainable agriculture, and biodiversity. Bees also play an important role in climate change mitigation and environmental conservation. I t is important to protect bees and the beekeeping industry to combat poverty and hunger, not to mention the significant impact on environmental health and biodiversity. Simply put, without bees, we may never be able to solve the widespread issues of hunger and poverty. These tiny insects are critical to our survival. Scientific studies have proven that bees are becoming increasingly endangered. Every environmentalist and concerned citizen is encouraged to help protect bees and their habitats on World Bee Day

@Mrs. BilletHead congrats on your successful turkey season😁!

Pete glad that you got to experience some of that white bass fake news😉

@snagged in outlet 3nice bass buddy😉

Nice smallies Jeff!

Got back up to the dam Thursday afternoon. Found low flow. Tried using the spoons with a 1/4 oz inline sinker instead of the 3/8 oz sinker we use with a higher flow rate. I started with a white and green Neugasser spoon and caught a hickory shad on the first cast. Was great to be on the board, but also maybe set some unrealistic expectations🤔. We struggled with snags and kept switching out weights to try and get good long casts with the spoons but not get hung. After 90 mins or so they opened a few of the gates and the fish got active with the higher flow. I switched to 1/8 or 1/4 oz jig heads (yellow or orange) and added cajun cricket and electric chicken Bobby Garland crappie jig bodies. I caught another 4 hickories in the 25 mins or so that they had the higher flow. Livie was only able to snag a gizzard shad and Sue was skunked on the day. After a couple of hours we headed to a tributary, Octoraro crk, to try for suckers, particularly quillback. I found what looked like a decent hole and I saw a couple of larger fish swimming in it. We soaked some worms for about an hour. I placed my bait into the seam down near the bridge pilings and got bit by a channel cat. I put the bait in that spot again and caught another after 5 mins or so. Livie cast into that spot and caught another. By this time it was close to 6 pm and we needed to find a spot to eat and head home. Never did get a bite by those bigger fish. Will get up there again this spring with hopefully better results.

Thanks Pete! We had one of the photographers keep asking if we would keep any of these fish (pretty much after we landed each😒). I kept responding that the state of Maryland does not allow any harvest of American or Hickory shad or river herring, aka alewife and blueback herring in the rivers or tribs of the Chesapeake bay. I thought about keeping the gizzard shad for catfish/gar bait but did not want to deal with a stinky fish and no cooler with ice.

I took off last Friday and Livie and I went up to the Conowingo Dam on the Susquehanna River to try and catch some shad during their spawning run up the river. Those of you that know me or have read my posts over the years know that I love shad fishing. This year has been tough weather wise with heavy rains in late March and early April. That plus the need to catch up on work commitments after our trip to FL have not allowed for a shad fishing trip earlier in their run. The parking area was pretty well packed when we got to the dam. The concrete platform, aptly named Fisherman's park 😅, that we would fish from was also fairly packed but not with fisherman. Most of the space above the water was occupied by photographers lining the fence and the same down by the water. These folks come to the dam to photograph the many bald eagles that frequent the area. Many get there early in the morning and stay all day just to get that one shot of an eagle fishing or soaring above. I have no problem if they were all up along the fence above the water, but on the platform they were taking up the best spots to effectively fish😒. Livie and I found a spot to fish. We had on a 3/8 oz inline sinker with 18 inches of 8 Lb Pline fluoroclear line and a Nuegasser flutter spoon. I started with yellow/green and Livie a white/red. At this spot the best way to fish is to cast slightly downstream and let the rig drift down in the current while you give it a pull and drop. Once the line is directly below in the current you continue to give the spoon a slight upstream pull and let it drop/flutter back downstream until you get a bite or about a minute or two and then repeat. Often you will feel a fish swiping at the bait. These fish are not actively feeding but are just reacting to the baits. First cast for me ended up in a quick hook up with an American (aka white) shad. I didn't zero😅. We have fished here in the past and have caught up to 30+ fish in a couple of hours. I was hoping for another one of those days. Turns out we really had to work to catch them. I did snag this big gizzard shad. Caught a couple more Americans and a couple of nice hickory shad. Including a PB 17.75" hickory shad. Livie did not have much luck, except for a few snags, with the white/red spoon (which she ended up breaking off; she also broke off one or two more spoons). Fortunately there is a liquor store and bait/tackle shop not far from the dam that sells all of the spoons we would use. She switched to the yellow/green and got some strikes and eventually got a few to the net😁. A nice female Hickory loaded with roe. We tried to do our best to get quick photos and release these fish. Over the four hours that we stayed we only landed just over a dozen shad. Not a great numbers days but good to be back fishing. I hope to get a couple more trips to the dam and the spawning creeks in the area before the run ends. Note: a couple of quillback (and not @Quillback) were snagged while we were there and I know of a guy that caught one on powerbait in a nearby creek two days after we were up that way. I definitely want to try and catch one of them 😉

@Ryan Miloshewski Congrats on a nice gobbler!

@BilletHead and @Mrs. BilletHead congrats to you both! Some good eating with those two gobblers!