Johnsfolly

@Quillback great report and great fish buddy! Striper bites around us have been slow to say the least. Lots of rain messing with the salinity. Have never caught any the size that you have been catching in Beaver. Looking to get some like that later this month😁.

I do think that Livie can't wait for me to find a local friend to fish with. 😌. Would take the pressure off her to have to go with me all the time

Haven't been taking the time to post any of our trips lately. Been trying to get a few species for Livie. We tried going to a couple oftributary creeks of the Susquehanna to get her on some hickory shad. We started fishing Octoraro Creek, which reports indicated held plenty of shad. We fished tandem rigs with shad darts. Broke off a bunch but no bites and we headed upstream. Switched to a tandem rig with small spoons. Finally we caught the first fish, a feisty white perch. We caught more on silver PET spoons and on gold Marathon spoons. We both lost bigger fish on the gold spoons due to the hook breaking free of the spoon body. We stopped using the gold spoons and stuck with the silver ones. I got a couple of small walleye which was a surprise from this small creek. Against Livie's advice we moved upstream to another bigger pool. Caught a few more nicer white perch. We had been seeing quite a few larger fish jumping all over the creek. Livie cast and hooked into something big that ran and pulled drag and finally broke off the line. Thought it was a carp. Three casts later Livie caught and landed her very first walleye. Just over 15" in length. Never did catch a shad in this creek. Livie was done, but I wanted to try the Deer Creek confluence. Went back to tandem shad darts and caught quite a few white perch including one that may be the largest that I have ever caught. I landed a small striped bass just as I was getting my license checked by a warden. Just at dusk, I caught my first hickory shad of the year. Only caught the one before it was getting dark and we went home. I have been talking with a friend about catching an eel. I found a tidal creek near our house that eels have been collected previously. I wanted to try to chum with a block of minced chicken liver and worms to try to get Livie an eel. I dropped a frozen block of the chum just off the bridge. We fished a different fishing pier and had very little luck. Just before dusk we went back to the bridge and fished worms just off the bottom. Livie caught the first fish, a white perch. I caught one as well. Livie caught another first - a brown bullhead. Since I have caught them but don't have a photo of one, Livie let me catch the next few fish. Only caught another white perch and two white catfish. Not a bad night. Will still have to get an eel.

Get a European carp fishing camo hide and fish away buddy! No one will even know that you are there ! Shouldn't need a license to fish from a fountain.

Congrats on making that list. I've caught a lot of trout on your jigs. Not near as many as some guy(s) on the forum, but enough for me. So can attest to their effectiveness. Also congrats on a great Merriam's turkey!

Been a lot of quick meals or dining out lately. Not much home cooked meals. We did do a surf and turf for my wife yesterday. Beef filet and swordfish steaks, sweet corrn, and herbed roasted potatoes. Not very creative but tasty.

Looks good buddy! Enjoy the free time that you have over there. Pretty sure that you will be putting in a lot of work time as well.

QB - coming late to the party, but have to agree with the warmouth. That is a species that I have never caught. So I am a bit jealous. They are one of my target species here in Maryland this year. Hopefully I will have one caught in the near future.

Love roasted garlic! Has that sweet almost nutty flavor. Can't beat spreading it on good bread 😁!

When I was a kid living in Nebraska a tornado went through my friend's neighborhood and it looked just like that video. Scary stuff for sure.

I have been on three 72 hour trips. One out of Glouchester Mass (1984) and two out of Key West (89 and 91) Got to fish any time that the boat stopped moving. Bottom fishing not tuna. Caught all kinds of fish. I don't belive that either of those fisheries allow that type of fishing anymore.

Congrats on three impressive river walleye! Those are beasts! Would have loved to see the one that you lost.

Now if she wanted to catch a tuna, I bet that you guys would be headed to Louisiana !

Catching one is a lot more fun than opening a can, but to each his own😁.

Worse thing that I have done was to leave my bow on top of my vehicle. Then drive away. The parking area was icy when I got back to the car. So was paying attention to not falling than what I was doing with my bow. After about a 1/4 mile my bow slid off the roof and onto the road. Fortunately just got some scuff marks in the riser. No limb damage. Been shooting that bow for 6 years since that happened.

Congrats @moturkey on a couple nice birds. Glad that you were able to use that GPS to get back and find your shotgun. I had a buddy leave a shotgun after hunting. Didn't need his GPS since he left it in the parking area. Wasn't there when he got back 😢.

Congrats on a nice bird! Good luck on those Merriam's. Would love to see some photos. One of my favorite looking subspecies.

I fish all over for the experiences. New creeks, lakes, and especially for different fish. I do love the comfort of home waters but you can't catch tuna in LOZ or the Niangua.

Those are great koi pond or aquaria fish. Not sure I would want to see them freely swimming our creeks and lakes. Wouldn't hurt my feelings to catch a big mirrored fish. Hard to rival naturally selected colorful fishes like Missouri darters.

Nice stringer buddy and great report! Sounds like there might be potential for a poor year class if they are reabsorbing their eggs 😢.

Congrats on finding the fish and a pattern that they liked! Sure sounded like a fun day😁!

Very nice walters QB! Not a bad smallie either. Congrats buddy.

If I was in the area you know that I could hardly pass up fishing a small creek or two😁. Unfortunately I will be in Delaware trying to patch up some issues with one of our clients.

I would love to catch something that size. My concern is where was it caught. Is it from a stocked pond with a feeding program. If that's the case how is that different to hunting a high fence "trophy" hunt? I understand that in this case the angler still has to get the fish to bite.

You are allowed to havest mushrooms in Missouri state parks. Also fruits for personal consumption. Cannot pick or damage wildflowers or trees.