Johnsfolly

The owner was the head chef and he had to have been in his late 60's. Definitely was family run. They also own the asian market in the same complex.

That is a great idea. Have the tournaments be required to have a certain number of processers or else they can't have the tournament.

I don't know Mitch.

That's true but the photo that you posted at the top of this thread was not gar nor even close to 1000 fish.

I used to use that dish and their fried dumplings as a gauge of how good of a restaurant it was going to be. I'm dying to find just a really good chinese restaurant out this way. I'm sure if I headed into Baltimore or around DC that there are some, just don't like to deal with that traffic and tolls. PF Changs in Annapolis is probably the best and that is just standard chain restaurant food. ABC Cuisine restaurant out in Columbia - was the most authentic and served absolutely delicious food. It was sold after a burglar died in the kitchen a few years ago. It became a Korean place and now even that has closed 😒. So we can't even go back there when we are in MO.

Haven't had one spool me completely, but a couple of close calls lately where I was close to the mono backing. Never saw either of those fish since the hook pulled on the one and the other cut off. Was using 15 and 20# at the time. Now those rods have 30 and 50# braid.

Water flows would likely be more consistent and conducive for trout spawns.

Better hide those Pick-A-Nick baskets🤣

@Foghorn Sounds like a great way to spend the holiday. Congrats on finding the fish and the pattern for what they wanted to eat!

Looks like a winner. Now I just need that griddle AND everything else 😅.

Not an inaccurate statement 😅

I have processed fresh road kill deer in the past and would likely do it again. So I would definitely call the MDC to see about collecting the meat from a cow elk if I knew it was fresh.

I agree Marty. We all live in a watershed and this is a great tool to demonstrate that fact. I was looking more on how this could be tied to explanations of fish species distributions and why I can't fish for buffalo or yellow bass in any river that flows east of the Applachian mountains. Or how west slope cutthroat are isolated from other subspecies.

Very cool site Marty! thanks for sharing. I had one travel over 3380 km.

I would think that potential for growing man boobs due to soy would be a skinny dipping stopper and that was the reason 🤣 Willing to share recipe for your bleu cheese dressing?

Looks freaking delicious!

Sounds delicious to me. I will have to try that one.

To me not much different than growing the next world record deer being raised on a small high fence hunting operation. Not a fan! Any record under those conditions seem like an asterisk is needed.

Agree not a competition, but is a self driven goal. So that as you know is a big part of the grind and frustration. Weather has stymied all of us this year. You know the fish are there waiting but the conditions prevent you from catching them sucks a lot. Locations with high numbers of the target species help a lot. So not trying to fit a square peg in a round hole situation. Research only goes so far until you have boots on the ground or boat in those locations on our ability to catch those fish. If they aren't there or in low numbers or just the effort to figure them out leads to that frustration as well. Fortunately there is still half a year ahead of us and remembering that this is a marathon goal and not a sprint helps my mind set.

Looking forward to that my friend😅. I hope that you do. Now if you did that when the weather and high water was keeping me from catching fish like earlier this year, I was in a very different place then.

I have a spot located out here in MD about 90 mins from the house with a feral goldfish population. Decided to go to VA last weekend instead. Will get out to that spot sometime soon.

Hopefully this isn't an implication that the grind is any easier. You just need a trip with lots of targets. We'll get you a bunch in Sept with weather and wife permitting.

I do and only have caught five different species. Still need a nice male steelcolor and blacktail. After Livie's catch I now need a male spotfin 🙄. Even with the tail bite, this one is still a favorite (yes rubbing it in a little maybe). I have only caught one, but he was a good looking fish.

Congrats Dave! I know where you caught those guys. Seems like the goldfish are biting better or have you found a pattern that will get them less tightlipped?