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@Ryan Miloshewski the water looked great in the photos. The fish were toads. You had a great time making memories! Just can't beat that!

They both are predators that are usually alone when you encounter them. They both have a mouth full of lure destroying teeth. They both fight very hard. They both can take quite a few casts to actually hook one or even land one. They both make bass fisherman curse when they get them next to the boat 🤣! I'd say the musky and bowfin (aka BowFun!!) have quite a bit in common. So I'm sticking with swamp musky which I am patenting for the merch potential😅

If I am still in MD next summer or the following - bring your kayak and we can spend a couple of days chasing northern snakeheads in Blackwater NWR or hit south FL for the bullseye snakehead. Still would love to get you out on the Tar river for american shad and the Neuse for Hickories.

Look at you using Fishmap 😁

Kiptopeke State Park Pier - Virginia 31 July 2021 We made the drive down to the southern point of the Delmarva penisula right before you need to get on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge/Tunnel. Pretty sure that this area is almost full strength saltwater. I headed down this way since we have had success in catching a variety of species last year. We were going to be fishing high/low rigs with bloodworms and fishbites. Hope was to catch some sea robins, maybe some flounder, lizardfish, etc. We set up near the pilings. Fishing started slowly. A couple of spot were caught. I was worried that we just wouldn't catch anything but spot. Sue was the first to break the ice on a new species by catching her first ever pigfish. Livie followed with a mixed double - a northern puffer and an inshore lizardfish! Then it was on with each of use catching a few different species. Sue caught the smallest puffer we have seen so far. We found that lizardfish do like strips of other lizardfish. Caught a bunch with that bait instead of any flounder which we were targeting at the time. Sue finally got a striped searobin with a face only a mother could love. We enjoyed the trip and the great weather.

Lots of things to consider that could effect the life-cycle of your net. Do you leave it in the car to experience extreme hot and cold conditions. Do you catch a lot of toothy fish. Do you drop it on rocks. Do you actually catch fish that need a net 😉.

That happens. I know that when I upload an observation in INaturalist the location can get skewed from what I put into the system. So I either ignore those spots in Fishmap.org or make a guessimate as to what the closest body of water might be if there are only a few collections in an area.

Check out Fishmap.org should have places id'ed where folks have caught or found bowfin. I think that there were some within an hour of you. I know someone that used to catch them near you but will see if I can conecct with them again to get information.

BOWFUN!!!😆

Ocean City Inlet - Oceanic Pier July 25, 2021 To be honest this was a pretty poor trip. The tide was falling hard which made it difficult to keep baits in position. Lots of pier googans crossing folks lines. Pretty limited selection of fish biting - we caught nearly all black seabass and spot croaker. These were not new species for Livie or myself. What made this remarkable was that my oldest daughter actually fished with us for the first time in over a decade and she caught fish! Even admitted that it was fun. 😉 Now she still may not have wanted to touch any. Dad's notable spot double. After a couple of hours we went to the boardwalk.

We did a seafood theme. Picked up two dozen littleneck clams at farmers market and fresh asparagus. Served clams with a tarragon brown butter. Baked the remaining seabass that we caught with black pepper, lemon juice and ranch dressing until flaky. Steamed the asparagus and also some fresh beans from our potted garden.

Swamp muskies are fun to catch. Powerful fighters. Especially when fishing with @Ham and catch one like this with a 1/32 jig and Bobby Garland body on a Crappie pole 😉

Great day @snagged in outlet 3 Too bad on the cheap hooks putting an end to catching more.. Did you keep any fish?

Based upon the title of the the thread this one should count. Even if it doesn't I had a lot of fun as it happened. I was fly fishing a small pond at the community that my dad lives in down in Savannah GA. Many of these pond interconnect. So you never know what might in any given pond. I had on a small sunfish bug and had been catching bluegill, redear and small bass. I hooked a smallish bluegill and while I was getting it in this largemouth inhaled the bluegill. It got stuck by the bluegill spines and the fight was on. I had a great time landing this guy. Once I got him banked the bluegill relaxed and came out of its mouth. Both were released.

A taxi passenger reaches out and taps the driver on the shoulder to ask him something. The driver screams and nearly lost complete control of the cab. He almost hit a bus and then just missed another car before coming to a stop just in front of a terrified woman with a stroller. The driver screams at the passenger " Don't ever do that again!" The passenger said that he was sorry and that he didn't know that the driver would respond so badly to a simple tap on his shoulder. The driver apologized and said "This is my first day driving a cab. For the last 25 yrs I was driving a hearse!" 🤣

That's a great double fish story.

Yeah a few years back they got caught dumping euthanized cats or dogs into corporate dumpsters. Those animals were supposedly picked from no kill shelters and told that the PETA folks would find them homes. I think those folks were charged with animal abuse charges. Just goggle PETA kills pets.

Cats around PETA folks die too. They just lie about it to the no kill shops as they pick them up. End up in someone's dumpster.

These look delicious😁

A woman didn't come home one night. The next morning she told her husband that she stayed at a friend's house. Her husband called ten of her best friends. None of them knew anything about it. A man didn't come home one night. He told his wife the next morning that he stayed over at a friend's house. She called ten of his closest friends. 8 of them confirmed that he had slept over and two said that he was still there 🤣.

Hey he has photos🤣

I can't see the pronouns bracelets.

Congrats on getting over 100 grass carp on a fly and happy BDay! Sounds like a great B-Day Dave!

I have had success running midge and scuds under an indicator at Taney. I have not used microjigs there, but do use them a lot at the trout parks. If I can see and reach fish with just cating the microjig (using 2# line of course) I will not use a float and will add action to the jig while watching the fish respond. If the fish are farther away or I cannot see them (too deep) I will use a float and may just let it drift or give it a little movement. I would think that both techniques should work at Taney as well. Good luck and post photos 😁.

Able to catch another favorable tide for some benthic oddballs. We were targeting blennies which I had caught from this pier last year. Livie figured out a way to catch the blennies without having to deal with this every cast 😉. Livie #90 L Crested Blenny, Hypleurochilus geminatus She caught a couple and even let dad try for one (#107)