Johnsfolly

@LittleRedFisherman good to see the positives in 2020. Some great fish and great memories. Your son is getting great exposure to the outdoors. Keep it up buddy! Like @BilletHead mentioned we were getting some updates on your successes throughout the day. I also noticed a couple of non-walleye in your keepers. A couple of nice saugers look like they came across the rail.

I don't know if other guys had seen this story. This kid is racking up the bucket list fish for sure! We were just talking about catching lake trout. 11-year-old closes in on record lake trout with second huge catch Tyler Grimshaw, an 11-year-old who lives for fishing, was testing out his new winter fishing bibs that he received for Christmas and very nearly nabbed himself a state record while fishing Flaming Gorge in Utah on Sunday. Tyler broke his personal best and came within less than six pounds of setting a Utah record for lake trout, catching a 48.16-pounder while jigging at the famous fishery. In June, it was reported he had caught a 41-pounder all by himself. Both were weighed in the net and released. It took Tyler “a solid 20 minutes” to reel in the latest trophy trout, his mother Vanessa Grimshaw told USA Today/For The Win Outdoors. “An adult probably could have done it quicker, but because he is so little, it took a bit longer.” The Utah record for lake trout is 53 pounds, 15 ounces caught by Chance Scott earlier in the year. The record before that was a 51.5-pounder in 1988 and then prior to that was a 41-pounder, according to Utah Division of Wildlife Resources. It gives you an idea of how close Tyler is coming to a record. All were caught at Flaming Gorge. Also saw this photo of Tyler with another bucket list fish.

What to do with leftover turkey... make a spaghetti casserole. Onion, garlic, broccoli, chicken stock, al dented pasta, sharp cheddar, parmesan, a little milk and spices. Oh and leftover turkey.

Congrats on a definitely picture worthy smallie!

Looks like a Great Lakes trout.

If you blow up the photo, you can see that the first number is an 8 and not a 4.

Sounds like a good day to me Jeff! Much better than working and a couple of nice ones on the deck.

That's a pig buddy. Nice!

Stinkin trout 🤣🤣!!

Great point @rps! I always try to mix a blend of burger and sausage when I make my meat sauce.

Mine too!

Hey I stuck it out and completed school. 8th grade was the toughest three years of my life 🤣🤣

Actually got a couple ! That's why I could show you Livie's first chain pickerel !

If you look in the background of this photo my daughter is fighting her first ever carp and it was at least 1.5 to 2x the size of mine. Well I lost that fish while netting it ! She gave me grief for a long time about wasting time on getting a photo of my fish or being a terrible net man….. She has caught a couple since that one and has since forgiven me. So @laker67 there is hope to be forgiven, maybe after you net her 12 lb trout !

Looks like a pretty decent day Dave. When I cleaned some of those urban trout, I would find a lot of weed and debris, like they were rooting through the weeds to find some aquatic insects. That is when they were not filled with corn or dough bait .

You and me both Pete! There are so few spring fed creeks/rivers and I haven't found a tailwater here in MD that compares to those that you mentioned. I hope that COVID gets to a point that I won't be quarantined after a quick trip to MO/AR for a trout fix . Though I did catch a few sunfish today. Felt good to release a fish.

I haven't caught a fish since the 15th of Nov. Bad water conditions, work, the holiday, etc. all played against me in being able to get out and catch some. I took a couple of hours to try and get a chance to catch some fish. I headed to Unicorn Lake spillway. At first glance the water was running high and fast due to the heavy rains that we had Christmas eve. The last time I was here, we had success dropping our baits into the slack pocket waters. It was going to be a challenge with the cold water and now the high fast water eliminating about 70 to 80% of the water that we caught them last trip wasn't going to make it easier to catch some fish. I fished a trout magnet mini-jig with an orange body. I had on a float. The current was tough to get a good drift. I found a small pocket and had the float go under and I hooked my first bluegill. Felt good to get the stink off after over 40 fishless days! I found a couple of other slack water pockets and caught a couple more bluegill. After catching a fat pumpkinseed, the bite shut down. I tried switching to a white jig body - nothing, then a couple of different spots still nothing. I ended the afternoon with a total of four sunfish. Still felt it was a good trip. I won't have any more opportunities to fish until Friday. So these are the last fish for me in 2020. I ended the year with 752 fish, 69 different species, and 18 new life list species. Even with the COVID crap, it was a decent year. Looking forward to a better 2021.

For a few years in Columbia we would get a cooper's hawk that would hunt the songbirds that would frequent our bird feeder on the deck. Every so often one of the birds would spook and hit the sliding glass door. Only a couple got killed when hitting the glass.

Did know that. We had a pair of broad wing hawks around. They don't stay too long. We also get flocks of tundra swans and we have seen quite a few in the last couple of weeks.

We've been watching different versions of A Christmas Carol. Yesterday watched the FX version from last year. Pretty dark in places which was not expected.

Good luck Pete.. It would tough getting through the second and third movie for me. Think that those and the last one were the worse ones in the series. I saw Rouge One and was done with the prequels and sidebar movies.

Rick have a Merry Christmas!

Most winters back in Columbia we would gets small flocks of robins come and eat the small fruits on our mock crabapple tree. Some years cedar waxwings would get into that action as well.