Johnsfolly

@Ham I just couldn't help myself 🙄😂

Thought that this was hilarious!

One fat black perch buddy 🤣

I'd love to get one of the piebald deer that I have seen around us.

Genetics. Used to see the black ones in White Plains NY. The numbers increased in the 15 yrs that my dad lived there. Would love to have a mount. I mentioned on previous posts wanting a white and black one arranged as a ying yang symbol.

Next year is pretty booked already. Would have to realistically consider 2022.

You know that I am up for the squirrel slam. Just have to get out to AZ and other western states.

Foxes and grays are common throughout MO. Grays tend to be a bit more locally abundant than the foxes.

Now you're just rubbing it in . You have had a serious haul this year. Definitely the reward of the work that you have put in to growing them.

I have seen them previously and always thought that the 22/410 over and under would be a cool squirrel gun. I use 22 LR, 22 mag, 20 ga, and 12 ga for squirrels depending upon my mood at the time. Really love the rifle. I am looking to get into an airgun for the bushytails.

The Longear sunfish of the White river system minnows . Fun to catch that first one and some of them get nicely colored when spawning then you can't get a bait past them to catch a different fish.

Just a couple of kids hanging out on the bridge. You know one of them has its mother's voice in its head "Would you jump off a bridge if your friends told you to?!?" Nice clickbait Jeff.. got me to look.

Congrats! Just a few more to hit 30 species! MO is certainly a target rich environment.

Looking at that shell it's probably a three toed box turtle like the one below.

We use magic grits at our place !

It's not the lateral line scales that need to be counted. It's the number of scales across the top of the fish at the midline in front of the dorsal fin. Still fairly comfortable that you have a striped shiner.

Ness that looks a heck of a lot better than what I bought at a local restaurant. This place used to serve a spicy adobo style shrimp with cheesey grits. What I received was like a poor shrimp gumbo over two spoons of grits . Very disappointed.

My wife's striped searobin was the coolest fish that we caught all day. How can you call that a trash fish ?!?

Speak for yourself . Except for gizzards, shad and herring fight really well on lighter line.

Great looking longears! From Pflieger you need to look at the shiner from the top to see if there are any striping that converges behind the dorsal fin. Count the scales along the top of the fish along the midline in front of dorsal fin. 22 or less it's a striped. Also some darker pigment under the mouth. Commons don't have chin pigment nor that convergent striping. Also have 23 or more scales. Personally I have relied as much or more on distribution for these two species. The shiners in streams around Columbia were common shiners. Regardless of not knowing where you were fishing I would assume striped shiner if you fished any creek or river south of you.

Actually about as much as a chicken leg and relatively boneless.

Sue wasn't going to be outdone. She caught her first northern puffers with this double. She caught four more. Livie really wanted to catch puffers. I caught one and Sue five before Live finally caught one herself. Should have kept them for dinner. Didn't know that we would end up with 10 total.