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Crocs with Socks Buddy !

Quick story. There is a public archery range in Columbia at the VFW hall. We were out there shooting one evening. Probably about 12 guys. A blond haired woman pulls up in a pickup truck with camo trim along running boards edged with a little pink. She get out and is wearing a baby blue satin miniskirt dress with lace collar and trim. Also a pair of dark blue cowboy boots. She pulls out her bow and three arrows from the truck. Takes a spot on the 30 yd target, puts one arrow on the string, uses her right boot as a quiver for the other two. She then shoots all three within a 2 inch circle and goes down pulls her arrows and then leaves. I can't remember, but she did have a bumper sticker like I'll kill them you grill them. Many a man on that line were questioning their life choices in mates at that time .

Never tried cowboy boots, but have had those same issues with knee high rubber boots. I just stopped wearing them.

Another lifer from the brine . JF 19) Red or squirrel hake (aka ling), Urophycis chuss. Soon to be featured in the What's cooking thread

JF 18) Also a lifer for me. Spiny dogfish, Squalus acanthias

Livie 17) #98 Lifer) Spiny Dogfish, Squalus acanthias caught of the NJ coast.

Nope 🤔

Food for thought.. how do cancer survivors feel about someone who experienced any emotionally traumatic experience being called a survivor?

We've had this discussion previously from another study. The worrisome part of this study is the lack of young fish indicating poor recruitment probably for decades. That makes the population vulnerable of being lost. These fish can't live forever.

That's all a load of carp if you ask me ! I always thought that the mirror and leather carp were genetic morphs and not true subspecies or species.

They all look surprised that you caught them 🤣🤣

Certainly a well thought out plan 🤣🤣

We get a yellow perch run in Feb/Mar and now a white perch run in the local creeks. My daughter tends to catch the excited males if you know what I mean .

SHHH!! We don't want to open the "now we need to regulate" for trophy carp conversation .

What a football! Surprised that one didn't pop when you held her !

What a toad of a yellow perch! That one has been eating well and looks to be loaded with eggs. Jefferson County angler catches new state record yellow perch The 2-pound, 7-ounce fish is the first state record of 2021. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) congratulates Sharon Christopher of Cedar Hill for catching a new state record yellow perch. Christopher was fishing at Bull Shoals Lake March 7 when she caught the 2-pound, 7-ounce fish. “I got lucky because I am not an avid fisherman,” laughed Christopher. “My husband and I were out crappie fishing with some friends of ours when I reeled in this big fish. I wasn’t quite sure what it was, but luckily our friends immediately recognized it as a yellow perch. The funny thing is, they were in a separate boat pretty far away from us and could tell how big it was.” Later that evening, Christopher said her husband was cleaning the crappie they caught and saved the perch for last. “My friend stopped him just in time and said, ‘Don’t touch that fish!’,” she recalled. “That perch was about to go under the knife, but my friend just said, ‘I think she’s got something.’ And sure enough we put the fish on our scale and saw that it beat the current record.” After getting in touch with MDC staff, the perch was weighed on a certified scale at MDC’s Shepherd of the Hills Fish Hatchery in Branson. It’s the first state-record of 2021. “I’m super excited,” Christopher said. “Again, I got really lucky. I’m a nurse and work a lot of long hours. I use fishing as a way to relax and enjoy myself, so when I caught this, I was showing everyone I work with the pictures!” The previous record was a 2-pound, 3-ounce fish caught from Bull Shoals Lake in Jan. 2020. Christopher said the fish is going to be mounted. “The funny thing is I do not eat fish! My neighbor’s son is a taxidermist and he is mounting the fish for us,” she said. Missouri state-record fish are recognized in two categories: pole-and-line and alternative methods. Alternative methods include: trotlines, throwlines, limblines, banklines, juglines, spearfishing, snagging, snaring, gigging, grabbing, archery, and atlatl. For more information on state-record fish, visit http://bit.ly/2efq1vl. CAPTION: Sharon Christopher of Cedar Hill is the first record-holder of 2021 after catching a 2-pound, 7-ounce yellow perch March 7 from Bull Shoals Lake. Find this and other MDC media releases in our MDC online Newsroom.

I upload to the site. It looks like all uploaded photos before the update were lost. Phil is looking to see if those could be recovered.

Dave it looked like your photos survived the purge . I went and uploaded those photos of our fish again into the thread that became lost after the site upgrade. Fortunately I use descriptive titles 😎.

Nice day to be out regardless of the number of fish landed.

Livie 16) Flier, Centrarchus micropterus. This is her PB and will be tough one to beat. One of three target species for the day along with fallfish (caught) and warmouth (none seen). I lost one close to this size but it broke off when I beached it with my 2# line .

JF 17) Rosyside dace, Clinostomus funduloides. My nicest was a breeding male (photos of same fish)

Livie 15) Rosyside dace, Clinostomus funduloides. While Livie was putting on the microhooks we used to catch the mudminnows, I found a pool with lots of minnows. I was using a standard trout magnet jig with worm, but could not hook these minnows. Had to put on a TM minijig hook with worm to catch them. Livie caught the first one and said that she thought that they were a bleeding shiner.

JF 16) Eastern Mudminnow, Umbra pygmea and a lifer for me as well 👍! 2nd one

Livie 14) Eastern Mudminnow, Umbra pygmea and a lifer. Livie scouted out the creek downstream from where we were catching the fallfish and found a small pool with what she thought were darters. Actually much better than darters since this was a species that were found throughout our area but not locally abundant making it hit or miss to find them. Serendipity for sure today !

Livie 13) Fallfish, probably her PB for this species. Also on White/Chartreuse TM