Johnsfolly

Looks like a nice saute in the making buddy! We have only picked lettuce from our patio plants. Mostly geared towards summer harvests.

Congrats on your CO social distancing! If they have been in the river a long time, trout are fine table fare. Stocker trout are a taste challenge at times.

I could imagine a Ying/Yang but with a white and black squirrel mount. I know I'm a sick guy .

She's not worth ten million... five maybe, but not ten! I love the line "what makes you think that I want to inherit King's business!"

Just had the hook and line state record for spotted sucker be broken with a fish caught at Duck Creek CA. Now the Alternative record for that species also comes from Duck Creek CA. Must be the place to find those fish! Wayne County bowfisherman shoots state record spotted sucker CORRECTION: The angler's hometown is Williamsville, not Williamsburg, as stated in the previous release. John Garver of Williamsville shot a 3-pound, 6-ounce fish at Duck Creek Conservation Area. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) congratulates John Garver of Williamsville for shooting a new state-record spotted sucker while bowfishing. Garver, whose record falls under alternative methods, shot the 3-pound, 6-ounce fish at Duck Creek Conservation Area north of Puxico May 1. His record beat the previous record under alternative methods by more than a pound. “I was out with some friends and family bowfishing when I just happened across it,” recalls Garver. “I got to looking at it and thought it might be a state record. So, I took it home and later called my conservation agent.” The fish was weighed on a certified scale in Wayne County. It’s the 7th state-record fish caught in 2020. While not his preferred method of fishing, Garver said bowfishing is definitely one of the most fun. “I really enjoy bowfishing and it’s always a good time,” he said. “Especially at Duck Creek. The water is so clear you can see the fish so well. The fisheries are amazing there. It’s something else.” Garver noted his spotted sucker is currently in his freezer as he decides whether he’ll mount it. Missouri state-record fish are recognized in two categories: pole-and-line and alternative methods. Alternative methods include: throwlines, limb lines, bank lines, jug lines, spearfishing, snagging, snaring, gigging, grabbing, archery, and atlatl. For more information on state-record fish, visit http://bit.ly/2efq1vl. MDC congratulates John Garver of Williamsville for shooting a new state-record spotted sucker. The 3-pound, 6-ounce fish was shot May 1 at Duck Creek Conservation Area north of Puxico. Find this and other MDC media releases in our MDC online Newsroom.

Jeff they are a melanic form of gray squirrel. My dad's neighborhood in White Plains NY had quite a few black ones. Went he moved to Georgia, there might have been a 50:50 ratio of the black form versus the normal gray forms. I always wanted to have on mounted.

Reminds me of the neighbor scene in Dangerfield's Easy Money film .

Since we have been in MD, I have seen two piebald deer. One was a fawn that was probably 90% white that was about 2 miles from our house. Then two weeks ago I saw this doe about four miles from the house. Sorry about the poor photo. We also have been seeing black squirrels and a bearded hen close to these same spots.

Not a great photo, but thought of @Gavin when we go by Crabs to go!

@Quillback nice stripers buddy! I also like when you get a double with two fish fighting over the same bait.

Over the last couple of weeks a few things occurred. The Gov allowed us to use masks to go out an fish for food at first then recreationally. The weather began to favor warming up the local lakes and the rain held off for a couple of days each week. So we got out and did chase some sunfish. Mostly using microjigs, like a John Deere from Weaver tackle shop, trout/panfish magnets, and even a redworm on a 1/64 oz jig head under a float was employed. The fish below represent a few different trips and a few different locations. At our local lake we were able to catch the three predominant sunfish, bluegill, redear, and pumpkinseed sunfish. Not in the numbers that I have caught in the past, but enough to feel like you had a good day of fishing. Livie did lose what looked to be a fat 16 to 17 inch bass right at the bank, but that another story. This bluegill (mine) and redear (Livie's) hit the John deere microjig. The redear in this lake really get dark in coloration during the spawn some much darker than Livie's fish. Lately I have been taking the family down to a place called Porter's crossing on the Pocomoke river. This spot has shad and some striper run past this spot to spawn. Due to COVID we were not able to travel here for the main shad run. On our first trip another gentleman caught three while we were fishing there. None for us. Though we did land bluegill, redbreast, and pumpkinseed sunfish. Livie's largest redbreast sunfish. Livie's nice bluegill (my hand for size comparison ). One of Livie's pumpkinseed sunfish. I was trying for mud sunfish and redfin pickerel at this location. No mud sunfish. I did catch this small pickerel and was somewhat disappointed that it was just a chain pickerel ( I caught three others on another trip while fishing for the sunfish). Livie has not landed one, but she had one on for a while. We will go back armed for pickerel and get her that first one ! After our last trip to Porter's we drove to a park downstream where we have caught a variety of catfish on past trips. I was fishing a trout magnet under a float in a boat access channel off of the main river. After one cast I had two hits on my float. Thinking that there should be pickerel and may be snakeheads in this area, I switched to a special bait sent to me by a good friend. I also let Livie fish it first. This bait is better cast with a fly rod, but we only had the spin gear on this trip. Livie did get the cast length that she needed to have the bait go past where the fish hit my float. She missed the first topwater bite. Made a second cast and this fish pounced on that topwater bait. Never would have expected a black crappie on a @BilletHead French fry!

My line managers/supervisors often lack empathy when they feel that their voice or thoughts are not being heard to their specifications. Getting them to see another person's point of view or understand that person's circumstances can be and often is one of my bigger challenges in this new lab.

The age of entitlement is the degradation of common courtesy!

@ThisFish if you live close enough to fish BSC often, I would suggest spending a trip just exploring the creek and don't fish. Find which pools runs have fish and which don't. If you can watch them without spooking them figure out where they might be on a return trip. Then you should have a game plan as to which pools you can walk by and which ones you need to sneak into to catch a fish. How are you casting to these fish?

Nice job sir! Good looking crappie!

Nice browns! Pretty neat to catch out your dad's old boat.

we have been seeing a lot of catch cook videos and posts on OAF where fish were fried with fins and tails on. Livie and I wanted to try it. She also wanted me to get back on the catfish horse as well. A few days ago we fished a spot where we have caught white, blues, and channel cats. I caught a couple of 10 inch whites and tossed them into cooler. Livie caught a 16 inch blue. My wife threw in an 8 inch bluegill for good measure. I fileted the bluegill and the blue. The whites got skinned and heads cut off. I mixed up my favorite breading mix. I fretted over this meal since my last two attempts at catfish sucked. So a lot was riding on this. I trimmed some more yellowish meat from the blue filets. All of the fish got flour, egg, breading, and oil treatment. We did enjoy eating the tail and fins from the whites. Everything tasted great. No photos but I suspect we will try to do our part thinning out more of those invasive blue cats😁.

Just missing a sneeze shield🙄. Seriously a great looking spread!

Greatest words that you can hear from our kids😁! Congrats to you both on some nice fish! Great job dad to keep taking her out!

No photos so it must not have happened🤔!?! Sounds like a better morning than many buddy. Congrats!

It's all ball bearings these days...😂

Great looking trout! Congrats! Seth and DJ are likely to wish that they were down there this week. Who am I kidding, they would love to be down there everyweek😁!

Simple breakfast today. Folly farm fresh eggs with garden basil. Topped with hot ham and Swiss.

Man that sucks Mitch! Hopefully you get adequate compensation.

We have a small local pond that have four or five 4 to 6 lb Koi. Very spooky fish since it's likely that most folks are throwing something at them. I personally have not really tried for them. The common carp yes, but not the koi. Now if you were in SW MO there's a guy that might be able to hook you up with a koi outing.