Johnsfolly

Most fish are not that active at night and not as skittish. So gigging or bowfishing at night means that the fish may stick around longer for you to stick it or shoot it. Usually folks over time figure out the easiest way to secure something to eat. So instead of wasting a lot of time spooking fish during the day go at night and have better odds filling your boat.

Hard fighting and great to eat. Winning combination in my book😀. Can be easy to over harvest big ones.

Looks like good water Dan and a nice day to get out with your grandson. Did you catch a bunch?

@Smallmouth Addict 12 did you ever get out to Little Dixie for blue cats? If so how did you do?

Maybe bring him out of seclusion😀. All that sounded great Rick!

Looks so much bigger in this photo. What a toad!

That is a Giant! Congrats Bill!

To me these pictures says it all! Congrats on making great memories with your kids! 👍👍

Congrats on a nice pike!

Looks like it catches big females😱. What can you say the marketing is working😌.

What we need is more strict gun control laws like they have in DC and Chicago.... Wait a minute😌?!?

Nice PB smallie Seth. Congrats!

Watching a float go under is a great trigger. Still love the thump of an underwater bite😀.

Would that be Gerrymallarding😌! Maybe someone was under the influence when they made the dividing lines😂.

@JestersHK Nice haul for a quick morning pond trip buddy! I would have to had done one of your night fishing trips to get ahead of the front in Columbia. Rained until 4 pm.

I still have to winder Ness since I don't get those kinds of pop up ads 😜. Lately it has been life insurance ads for me. Wonder if they know somethimg that I don't😌.

When I am purposely fishing powerboat or eggs for trout I am keeping them. What I don't like is gut hooking a trout when I am fishing worms for suckers in the Niangua amd hadn't planned on keeping any. Should listen more to Oneshot who tends to head home with trout when he sucker fishes and bring a cooler regardless. And should start using circle hooks there too. I was watching an offshore video and they were catching undersized mahi. Every one of thise fish was dropped into the boat, allowed to bounce all over the deck and then thrown back into the water. The whole time that guy us saying how high the mortality rate is for those short fish 😒. I would also contend that carpeted boat decks aren't a great catch and release surface for those fish either.

I will also say that I have a few but would love to have every DeLorme state gazetteer atlases as well. I will lose service in a lot of rural areas and having a paper map is invaluable to me. Having the state atlas has helped quite a few times to find a spot or to get me out of one 😌.

I find the street view is hit or miss most of the time in rural areas. I will use it if that function is there for the spots that I am looking to try to fish. Lately I will identify four or more likely spots using the map features mentioned then will get eyes on the three most promising ones first when I travel to thay area. If none of those don't pan out, I'll will look at the others. Usually at least one will be fishable.

Pasta looks good RPS but that avocado is intriguing. Gonna have to try that. We love avocado and balsamic.

Congrats guys! Topwater is my favorite way to catch most fish for the pure excitement. Cool double. Have to be in some aggressive fish to get both hooked😀. I've seen it first hand but haven't caught one myself. Hope you can get out again. Looking forward to more reports.

I've been in quite a few that did have gators. Was nice to not have to speed reel in the fish to keep them away from a gator😀.

Was definitely pretty unexpected for that area. A gem amongst the melon and corn fields of Delaware.

who makes the wounded duckling topwaters? I used to have a hula popper that looked like a blackbird😀.

We have to enjoy the journey as much as the success. Still want to catch those guys and will just have to keep trying .