Johnsfolly

We have a couple 'lopes currently at softball size. Last year they didn't get much bigger than that size, but we are growing in pots. They were tasty.

When I lived in Missouri, I would begin focusing on trout fishing outside of the trout parks beginning in Oct and would fish for them through April in the blue ribbon areas like Crane. A lot was due to the stress of the fish due to the hotter water. Crane is so small especially up by the Wire Access points that I would be concerned about the stress this time of year.

We are having issues with plastics and resin based materials/supplies. So we are getting jacked pricing and forced to larger volume purchases to keep stock in house.

@Mitch f glad that you got out and congrats on catching a few!

I hope you catch some Pete! Make sure to post photos 😅

So sorry to hear about Bo. I feel for his family. Thoughts and prayers to them.

Rick I actually think that I received the survey because I am on the list of folks that get email updates from MDC. Not sure if others that recevied the survey request are on that list or not.

Smoked logpech on toast points, maybe with a little spoonbill caviar 😉.

I completely forgot sbout her poster. So didn't get this reference at first. Must be getting old 🙄.

One of my favorite darters!

Not sure where to go with this 🙄. Maybe best to let it go 😅.

What was in the filling?

That was even hard for me to take and you know how much I love dad jokes😅. FYI my high school physics teacher dated her.

I received.and completed my survey. Not a thing about darter management 🤔! Had to say that I was very dissatisfied😅.

Nice fish face😅

I haven't watched those shows. They may do it on purpose or again figure that the viewers wouldn't know the difference. I do remember when CBS got called out for dubbing in stock bird calls for birds from areas outside of those in their coverage.

Like @quillback did not read the whole article due to not subscribing. I would have liked that they used a whitetail deer photo instead of a roe buck from Europe, but who would have noticed🙄. I have not seen the same denisities of deer out in Missouri as there used to be in PA and NJ. Would often see browse lines where there was little to no vegetation below 5 ft as far as you could see in the PA forests. Would often see a dead deer every 1/2 mile for long stretches of highway. Often more than a hundred deer in 10 or 15 acre farm plots. PA took a hard line and really dropped their deer numbers by opening up doe harvest and issuing crop damage permits. It was to the point that most public land hunters complained that there were no longer any deer. However like the article points out that a lot of deer just moved to the suburbs where there are limited or no opportunites due to societal norms to harvest those deer. Food banks always need quality protein.

JF #96 Sheepshead minnow, Cyprinodon variegatus Been trying to use thin (1.5 to 2 mm wide) squid strips on a tango hook that I can trim easily once on the hook. The sheepshead just showed a total disdain for the squid. Switched to a small piece of sandworm and hard to keep them off the hook🤔. (swapped photo with the edited version)

JF #95 Lifer Eastern Blacknose Dace, Rhinichthys atratulus

I hear them calling your name... FiiisssshhhhhnnnnDaaavvveee!!!!! 🤣 @FishnDave

JF #94 River chub, Nocomis micropogon (Updated with edited photo)

That's one of the great things about traveling is that you can do it again and see different places and have new experiences 🙂.

Pallot's show were good but Jose had great shows.

Congrats buddy! Second or third largest darter in the state behind logperch and possibly Niangua daters. As you know can be pretty tightlipped.