Johnsfolly

That's a great double! Congrats! Browns like stocker rainbows as well😁!

Based upon your proximity I think that both would work well at Crane creek. Can't wait to see some photos !

If you want an easy baked fish, salt and pepper the fillets, squeeze a little lemon juice and then coat the fish with ranch dressing. Bake until flaky.

Tonight we made a squash and brussel sprout dish. Sliced the butternut squash into noodle like ribbons. Salt and pepper and baked for 20 mins. Crisped up some applewood smoked bacon pieces. Pulled the bacon. Then sauted thinly sliced brussel sprouts until tender also with salt and pepper. Added in the cooked squashand the bacon then a third cup of chicken broth. Added some chinese 5 spice. Served with a roasted chicken thigh.

Dan I fry with a mix that I make myself. I start with regular bread crumbs mixed with half as much panko crumbs. Add dried oregano and sweet basil to the mix. Then garlic powder and salt and pepper. I also add in parmesan cheese. I dredge fish in flour seasoned with salt and pepper. Then into a couple of beaten eggs then into the bread crumb mixture. Fry until golden brown.

I may have to try and make my own. The local Amish applewood bacon is really good. I can also get some good dark chocolate as well.

Great trip QB! Congrats buddy! Can't wait to see you hold up some trout in Arkansas. Skunks breed in Feb. So your reference to the amorous Pepe Le Pew is apropo😁.

I have never caught a spot as large as any that you guys were catching. So I would still have gone with smallies as the hardest fighting black bass. Though would be willing to try one😁!

Yes. Its was okay. Maybe if it was better bacon or chocolate it may have been better.

Didn't you see my previous post? We would catch our limits at the local lake in Columbia after Feb 1. If lived there now i would have eaten a couple of trout dinners already.

Seth I agree. When the trout have that orange flesh they taste great. Unfortunately the fish that I would catch that had that colored flesh were brown trout. I just don't eat browns anymore. So that would leave stocker rainbows and any possible holdovers in the parks or whire/red ribbon streams. Of course unless I was out west then it was invasive brook trout on the menu.

Very nice buddy. Congrats!

I used to look for days like that just to get down there and fish. Especially good if I went on a Tuesday or Weds. Often fished all alone. Good luck if you get down that way soon.

I'm an hour ahead of you guys. So I'm now on my lunch break !

Those are great looking bass! Congrats on catching the best footballs over the weekend!

I agree with that, which is why it's better to catch four, get them cleaned and on ice before you start fishing again !

Always thought that it was trout park etiquette to keep four on a stringer and cull the smaller ones when you caught something larger .

I had only really began regularly fishing the parks about 8 years ago. Was a good place to get my kids on some trout in a creek. Especially after taking them pond trout fishing in the urban lakes. Haven't done an opener yet. Not likely to now either. I would get excited for the PA opener when I lived there. Pretty much a similar deal to the trout park openers. Didn't like that very much. So most years I would have been fishing for trout pretty regularly in the Current or Little Piney or other trout stream well before the parks opened and often was the only one on the river. Also would have likely been out more than a few times meat fishing the urban lakes after Feb 1st. So the allure of being packed along the bank with a bunch of strangers didn't have much appeal.

Those plants are lotus. They have taken over the shallow water areas over the last couple of years. Typically fish there before they green up and put up new leaves. Still tougher from the bank lately. Thought about belly boats out there.

North east of Columbia. Up route Z towards Centralia and east on St Charles road.

I've caught some nice smallmouth in the red ribbon section. Only one brown trout down there. Still counted 😁.

Wrench you ever fish Turkey Farm Lake? Also caught crappie, gills, and readear there with Livie as well.

McCredie Farm lake has been regulated for bluegill. Must be 9 inches to keep them. Most fish that I have caught there on one trip was 92 using microjigs. Mostly bluegill, black crappie, and bass. Crappie population took a big dive two years ago. Heard that some guys fished it hard for several weeks keeping stringers of crappie. Small lake like that can't take that kind of pressure. Livie and I fished this lake a lot as well. Enjoyed catching golden shiners as much as the crappie and gills.

I've done well on nice redear sunfish there during the spawn. Bluegill plentiful and some nice size. Catch a lot of small crappie. Large numbers but little size. Would fish it a lot with my daughter. Was close to the house and was always a great go and just catch some fish lake.

Congrats buddy! Nice report. Did you catch any around the treatment outflow? Last time I fished that creek the trout would go on a feed when the discharge started. Did you see any browns in that white ribbon section?