Johnsfolly

Piquing my interest here😁.

As you know we did get across the bay and went to a state park on the bay where one can find fossilized sharks teeth. There was a 1.8 mile hike through the woods down to the bay. We found hundreds of mushrooms. Lots of giant ones. Some that smelled awful. Most of the mushrooms were not edible or interesting for us to harvest. Though I did spot a choice Beard's tooth (Lion's mane) mushroom. Looked like it was getting a bit older and I left it. Livie found the best find of the day - a small hen of the woods! this one did come home with us!

Sorry to hear about the crowds. Even with the crowds you caught some nice trout! Congrats!

Very Cool Phil! Too bad you couldn't get a bait in front of those brown trout. Sfill it must have been great to see fish of that size.

Great job guys! Great report!

Should have opened your reply before I asked what you were using. That's a great small creek rainbow. Heck I would have loved catching that in a bigger stream😁.

That's a beautiful rainbow buddy! I may have an idea where you caught that fish 😉. What did it bite on?

I know that I will likely have little risk of contracting it from squirrel brains since there ittle brain matter left if I shoot well enough. I don't think that @BilletHead will have an issue either. He shoots better than I do 😁.

Duane thanks for putting on the contest. Hope to see some action on those sculpins in Dec on the white😁. That is if I fish with DJ or if you are going to Jigfest.

Looked like a heart shot when you sent me the photo. Was going to ask if it was messed up for eating. She's an efficient hunter. Get it dropped and worry sbout the meat later. Tell her congrats from the Follys.

Nice looking spots. Congrats!

You spend some time with @Mitch f and @BilletHead and you start posting old 70s videos. Wonder what that's saying😌?

I told Livie about your post. She says that she would love one buddy! She would pit it a glass case and maybe let us see it. I said to her she can do that if she got to the mailbox first 😜!

Congrats! Can't wait to see some trout landed with that sculpin bait!

Why does this always end with a threat of carp regulations? Like we are all going to stop fishing ir enjoying life because Texas or some other state wants to put in carp regulations. Most on here don't care other than they if asked by the MDC or AR game folks they would say no to regulations.

Congrats. Wish I had the money. That is a sweet boat and deal.

A little jealousy here in MD . Congrats DJ.

Hey you know that I love to hear myself talk😁

1. Local regulations are set by evaluation of the opinions of the people within that location. I do not know if the regulation put in place for CT were based upon a declining population of a fish that they intended to conserve. Based upon those regulations, it seems that they were put in place to develop a trophy management system and not for strict conservation purposes (e.g. maintaining the species). I would not advocate creating a trophy system for carp in Missouri. 2. I personally am not affected by these regulations, e.g., do not live in CT, do not bow fish for or consume common carp. I would avoid using terms like "fair" when describing management strategies. 3. My idea of conservation is the protection of the natural environment and proper utilization of potential resources without adversely affecting the continuation of those resources. In this case you are discussing common carp that are outside of their native range, e.g., introduced species. In my opinion this would not be a species of concern from a conservation stand point. Also the creation of a "trophy" system for carp would not be considered a necessity to conserve this species. I have not personally seen a significant abundance of capturing carp. They seem to be doing quite well over the last 140 years in maintaining their populations without the need of regulation. 4. 1 - I would not advocate for carp regulations in Missouri from a conservation standpoint. 5. 1 - The regulations in CT do not affect me. I enjoy catching carp, but I would not advocate for carp regulations in Missouri from a conservation standpoint.

Liphunter - we are a close second though !

Awesome buddy! I think that I need to head across the bay and up into some oak forests to find some hens.

Yes everyone coming out to Maryland are here now. There are definitely good and not so good crab cakes. Glad you found some that you liked.

I have been thinking quite a lot about going after some more briny species before the "true" fall (i.e., temps less than 75 deg during the day) sets in. So we headed down to Ocean City to fish the inlet pier. The tide would be coming in and would be high tide around 7 pm. So we had a favorable tide to fish. We were going to fish mainly for bottom fish with bloodworms or Fish bites artificial baits with blood worm scent. Livie started with a single rig with a smaller hook. As I was getting the double rig rod baited, Livie got a solid bite and landed the first fish of the afternoon/evening. She was ecstaic landing a northern puffer! Which immediately started to puff up as soon as she began trying to remove the hook. She could not stop giggling while holding this fish. It was her 48th species of the year. Now I wanted to catch one! so she took over the double rig rod while I fished the single rig rod. I started my day by catching the smallest fish of the day, a baby black sea bass! I ended up catching one sea bass after another. Livie's first "fish" seemed to drag alone the bottom. It was a horseshoe crab. Livie continued her luck fishing by catching a double on some nice spots. As the tide kept coming in more spot and sea bass were caught. We would switch between rods and I caught a pinfish, which was a first for me landing one on hook and line! Then Livie started catching pinfish which was her 49th species of the year. Folks around us that were fishing minnows were catching snapper bluefish and a couple of speckled trout. We had a great evening. I even ended up catching my own puffer! Looking forward to heading get back down to the inlet again.

In case some missed my post on the edible mushrooms, we found a fresh bunch of chicken of the woods mushrooms. Below are the bunch that we harvested this evening. Several bags of cleaned mushrooms went into the freezer. I foresee some fried mushrooms coated with Don's Chuck Wagon batter ! So tonight we followed a recipe (Chicken with rosemary and garlic) from the Missouri's Wild Mushrooms book, put out by the MDC. Slice chicken mushrooms, sliced medium onion, and minced three garlic cloves. Sauted the mushrooms in a little light oil for about 8 min. Added the onions and garlic and cooked. Added two tablespoons of butter, almost a third cup of sherry, a sprig of rosemary, and salt & pepper. Cooked until the liquid evaporated then added a tablespoon of capers. Seved over wild brown rice.

We have access to good fresh clams, but I'm not sure that unless I get large quahog clams that there would be enough "clam juice" from the fresh ones. Your description is pretty close to what I have made before.