Johnsfolly

White bass run is just fake news😆😉. I hope that you slay a bunch Pete and Post Photos!

Very Nice Catching those bass Jeff. I love the three amigos!

I wanted to get back and catch some more trout but wanted to try fishing Boomer Lake for possible white crappie. We don't have many locations in MD that have white crappie. Black crappie are all over the state. I wanted to check out the boat ramp at the north end of the lake and possibly a floating dock or two. I fished a trout magnet about 14 inches under a float. My first cast was just right of the log in front of me. I got some small bites and then nothing. I reduced the distance from the float to about 10 inches. I made the next cast and just let the bait sit for about 5-10 seconds then it went down. 1ST fish on! White Crappie! I made cast after cast to that spot. The only cast that I didn't land a fish was when I cast out too far to the right of the school. After catching 30 crappie I made a cast upstream and didn't get a bite🙄. I can't complain about 30 fish with 33 casts. I then drove out to the trout pond. I made my first cast with the same trout magnet setup and hooked into a decent 12"+ rainbow. Made my little spool drag scream. With 4# Pline, I really fought those fish before netting them. I made a couple more cast with the trout magnet and got only a couple lighthearted bumps. I then switched to the secret baits from yesterday and caught nine more and lost at least four. I ended the night with my PB trout from OK. Tomorrow I head home. I will be back in OK a few more times before the end of April and will try for more OK fish.

Boom ba da Boom!

They didn't say most native game fish but all native fish species. So that total does include minnows, shiners, etc. Some minnows would be bluefin killifish, least killifish, Seminole killifish, hardy silversides, inland silversides, American flag fish, golden topminnows, eastern mosquitofish, golden shiners. Sunfish would be warmouth, bluegill, coppernose bluegill, redear sunfish, redbreast sunfish, spotted sunfish, florida largemouth bass, and black crappie. Might be one or two species of pygmy sunfish. Certainly a darter species. White catfish. FL gar and ruddy bowfin. These are off the top of my head. There are more than a few invasive competing with those native species. Okeechobee is a huge lake.

I'll have three or more trips to OK thru Apr. Also have a big trip planned out to San Diego in Mar. Looking forward to that trip. I'll post reports with lots of photos for @snagged in outlet 3😉.

Love this video. Thanks Daryk I haven't seen it for some time😉. My wife lets me watch every so often😂.

So work and weather has kept me from fishing out in Maryland since the end of November. I knew that there would be better weather for my business trip to OK. I was able to get out this afternoon and fish. As I was headed out to a small urban trout lake just outside ot town, I stopped to check out a small creek in town next to the local CVS. I just picked up some redworms from Walmart. I saw several sunfish near the bridge. didn't take long before I was wetting a line. The fish were skittish with me directly above them. I decided to drop my bait next to a large concrete slab and I found my pattern, e.g., fish the gaps in the large blocks/rocks. Quickly caught several green and greengill hybrid sunfish😉. It felt good to finally get out and catch some fish😁. Green Sunfish Greengill (greenXbluegill) hybrid sunfish Headed out to Turtle Pond out in Lake Carl Blackwell state park for trout. I fished with my go to urban trout lake setup, a 1/8 oz split shot about 8 to 10 inches above a small hook. I put on two or three Gulp eggs and cast and wait. At my first spot, I was texting a few different folks and got a strong bite. I would love to say that I landed that fish but I didn't 😒. I fished that spot for another 25-30 mins repositioning the bait every five or ten mins. I moved to another spot and swapped out the Gulp eggs with salmon colored Powerbait. I just wanted one trout. I saw a guy across the pond catching more than a few trout. He and I got talking and he called me over to see his setup and baits. I won't give up his secrets, but I did manage to catch five stocker rainbows and lost two really big ones. Never hurts to listen to the locals.

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Much improved😁! Thanks Phil!

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That guy must have grown up fishing the trout parks. I have had many dads and kids wade in front of me while I was bank fishing a hole or two at Bennett's. I wouldn't be surprised if that guys father taught him his fishing ethics🙄.

Congrats Dave! I still haven't gone out yet this year😒.

But he likes what they did to his car😂.

I agree. The quality of the trout fishing went down pretty quickly. I don't know if the decline was from the MDC reducing stocking or if there were less escaping from the park or both.

Still one of my favorite Far Side cartoons😂

I haven't fished the Meramec in a long time. I have fished both cardiac and suicide hill areas for a couple of years. The best holes filled with gravel and the trout numbers declined at least for the brown trout that I was interested in. For your trip it would likely be best to follow the advice about fishing near the park than try those other spots. I did destroy a pair of wading boots climbing up suicide hill on one trip. Good luck

Nice Job Jeff!

Why you wouldn't want @Ham or I sieging the castle😉😂

Cosmo-Bethel Lake | Missouri Department of Conservation https://share.google/sQ8Qb4S3HfAsLDQax Plover Lake | Missouri Department of Conservation https://share.google/MlVxTLuIOymfMR8cS Both lakes are stocked with trout but Cosmo Bethel is C&R until Feb 1

When we lived in Columbia most of the urban lakes were regulated as C&R from Nov to Feb 1 and catch/keep after Feb 1 on the MDC website. Some around KC and STL were designated as fully put and take fisheries from Nov to Feb. Those lakes would get stocked a few times over that time period.

Haven't had one of these in a while😂

As kids we had a neighbor with a squirrel monkey as a pet. Also a nasty little animal.

We saw well over a hundred deer in just a couple of fields before dark last evening. I used to try and plan to hunt the evenings before a storm.