Johnsfolly

They are called poor man's tarpon. Hit the bait hard, pull hard, and often jump. I only fished twice for them. Caught a few the first trip and 20 the next evening. Fished with 15 of my closest friends 😌that second evening. Fish would get caught up and down the line. A great time.

congrats on finding a workable setup. Nice Fish!

Sounds like a good day regardless. Congrats on some nice fish! I love it when fish fight over your bait!

Congrats! Those are some great fish especially those browns! You had a great system to catch quality fish.

You're right there were none !

I will not be home for my wife's Bday this year. so tonight was the Bday dinner. I picked up a pound and a half of 16-20 count wild caught gulf shrimp. Livie peeled the shrimp while I cut green, yellow, red peppers, onion, broccoli, minced garlic and ginger. Once the shrimp were peeled and rinsed, I dusted the shrimp with flour/Chinese five spice. I heated some canola oil and fried the shrimp to get a crisp coating but not fully cooked. I added oil to a different pan and started cooking the broccoli, then added the onion. Once translucent, added garlic and ginger then the pepper strips. Once cooked added the shrimp back into the vegetables. Once heated added Iron Chef General Tso's sauce to the mix. Served over brown basmati rice.

Six!

450 people die each year in the US by falling out of bed. Over 800 people die in the US in bicycle accidents 4500 people die while walking across the street. 150 people die each year by being hit by coconuts. 2 million people die each year due to contracting malaria or other blood borne diseases carried by mosquitoes. Where would you put efforts into prevention?

Great video! Beautiful fish! Congrats on a great trip even with the two flat tires! I love brown trout but really preferred seeing those native cutthroats. Maybe because @BilletHead has been sending me cutthroat photos while he has been out in Colarado.

I typically don't bake them but this sounds to good not to try.

Has anyone seen @Flysmallie? Maybe he made a trip up to the M River😁.

Here is the statement from the CDC on the occurrence of CJD. Classic CJD has been recognized since the early 1920s. The most common form of classic CJD is believed to occur sporadically, caused by the spontaneous transformation of normal prion proteins into abnormal prions. This sporadic disease occurs worldwide, including the United States, at a rate of roughly 1 to 1.5 cases per 1 million population per year, although rates of up to two cases per million are not unusual. The risk of CJD increases with age, and in persons aged over 50 years of age, the annual rate is approximately 3.4 cases per million. Whereas the majority of cases of CJD (about 85%) occur as sporadic disease, a smaller proportion of patients (5-15%) develop CJD because of inherited mutations of the prion protein gene. These inherited forms include Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker syndrome and fatal familial insomnia. CJD is different from variant or new-variant CJD - If chronic wasting disease jumped from cervids to humans it would likely be in the form of vCJD or nvCJD. That is the assumption based upon the relationship between bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and vCJD/nvCJD. Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) is a prion disease(https://www.cdc.gov/prions/index.html) that was first described in 1996 in the United Kingdom. There is now strong scientific evidence that the agent responsible for the outbreak of prion disease in cows, bovine spongiform encephalopathy(https://www.cdc.gov/prions/bse/about.html) (BSE or 'mad cow' disease), is the same agent responsible for the outbreak of vCJD in humans. There have been cases of vCJD in the US as reported by the CDC Four cases of vCJD have been reported from the United States. By convention, variant CJD cases are ascribed to the country of initial symptom onset, regardless of where the exposure occurred. There is strong evidence that suggests that two of the four cases were exposed to the BSE agent in the United Kingdom and that the third was exposed while living in Saudi Arabia. The specific overseas country where the fourth patient’s infection occurred is less clear. The first patient was born in the United Kingdom in the late 1970’s and lived there until a move to Florida in 1992. The patient had onset of symptoms in November 2001 and died in June of 2004. The patient never donated or received blood, plasma, or organs, never received human growth hormone, nor did the patient ever have major surgery other than having wisdom teeth extracted in 2001. Additionally, there was no family history of CJD. The second patient resided in Texas during 2001-2005. Symptoms began in early 2005 while the patient was in Texas. He then returned to the United Kingdom, where his illness progressed, and a diagnosis of variant CJD was made. The diagnosis was confirmed neuropathologically at the time of the patient’s death. While living in the United States, the patient had no history of hospitalization, of having invasive medical procedures, or of donation or receipt of blood and blood products. The patient almost certainly acquired the disease in the United Kingdom. He was born in the United Kingdom and lived there throughout the defined period of risk (1980-1996) for human exposure to the agent of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, commonly known as “mad cow” disease). His stay in the United States was too brief relative to what is known about the incubation period for variant CJD. The third patient was born and raised in Saudi Arabia and has lived in the United States since late 2005. The patient occasionally stayed in the United States for up to 3 months at a time since 2001 and there was a shorter visit in 1989. The patient’s onset of symptoms occurred in Spring 2006. In late November 2006, the Clinical Prion Research Team at the University of California San Francisco Memory and Aging Center confirmed the vCJD clinical diagnosis by pathologic study of adenoid and brain biopsy tissues. The patient has no history of receipt of blood, a past neurosurgical procedure, or residing in or visiting countries of Europe. Based on the patient’s history, the occurrence of a previously reported Saudi case of vCJD attributed to likely consumption of BSE-contaminated cattle products in Saudi Arabia, and the expected greater than 7 year incubation period for food-related vCJD, this U.S. case-patient was most likely infected from contaminated cattle products consumed as a child when living in Saudi Arabia (1). The patient has no history of donating blood and the public health investigation has identified no known risk of transmission to U.S. residents from this patient. The fourth patient was a US citizen born outside of the United States. The investigation by CDC and the Texas Department of State Health Services indicated that the patient’s exposure to the BSE/vCJD agent most likely occurred before he moved to the United States; the patient had resided in Kuwait, Russia and Lebanon. The completed investigation did not support the patient’s having had extended travel to European countries, including the United Kingdom, or travel to Saudi Arabia. The specific overseas country where this patient’s infection occurred is less clear than those for the 3 previously reported US cases largely because the investigation did not definitely link him to a country where other known vCJD cases likely had been infected. The patent’s illness first manifested in late 2012 and death occurred 18 months later. The vCJD diagnosis was confirmed on the basis of a biochemical analysis of a urine sample collected late in the patient’s illness and by histopathologic examination of brain tissue obtained at autopsy. So eating deer may be like Russian roulette but with a gun with well over several million empty chambers. That would be further reduced for those like myself that process our own deer and stay away from brain or spinal tissues during the meat handling.

You know that I do as well !

So he compiles stories and anecdotes. Big deal that doesn't make him a writer. Also anyone can self publish those types of books. Does he have published articles in peer reviewed scientific journals? Has ever worked where an editor forced him to fact check his work and not write opinion? Maybe he has a degree in wildlife management. Again having a degree vs actually working in that area are very different things. Maybe his agenda is to get back at those organizations for not hiring him. The fact that folks like yourself are "listening" is one of the biggest concern that I have with guys like him. If you are afraid to eat venison because of CWD then don't ever eat beef in the UK. I've seen more than one source state that 90 deaths due to nvCJD have been documented in Europe and the UK.

I can recall in PA shad roe being sold all over in the spring. I haven't caught an american. The 2 lb hickories put up a great fight and I cam only imagine what a 6 lb americam would be like. They are pretty cool fish that is in a recovery period. I hope to tangle with the guys for mamy years in the future. Sorry for hijacking tbis thread 😌.

Sounds like an epic time. Congrats! Hopefully tomorrow is the same.

Bill - I was the opposite. I went for years fishing in what is now the blue ribbon trophy section and did not ever fish the trout park. I can count on my one hand how many times I have actually fished upstream from Tan Vat. Most of that was due to being cheap. No reason to buy a day permit when I had the annual trout stamp. The other was due to targeting the brown trout. I wanted to be away from people and fish big aggressive baits. I wasn't looking to catch rainbows drifting down from the park. Based upon my records, I would fish the Current four to six times per year and I have caught 320 trout in the blue ribbon section of the Current in 14 years (not a great percentage). Only 32 of those trout were rainbows and 288 were brown trout.

"She's like Paul Revere's ride, A little light in the belfry!"

Boy Ah say Boy that thar is a Chicken! I loved the chicken hawk. Still cracks me up thinking about those cartoons !

I went to college in Bethlehem PA and was just 25 minutes from the Delaware and did not once try to catch a shad in the eight years that I lived there. Went up to the Susquehanna River this spring and caught hickory shad and had a blast. Now I regret not taking advantage of that fishing opportunity.

I get tired of the fear mongering that goes on today and this guy to me represents one of the worse types of offenders, one that cherry picks data and presents that as fact or overgeneralizes "findings" to support his agenda. I have had real issues over the last decade with channels like Animal Planet that put on TV shows that support pseudoscience. The problem is that there is no disclaimer stating that what is being presented is the opinion of the show's producer, but instead is passed off as scientific facts. When people watch shows like that they assume that what is being presented is scientific fact or else it would not be in this "nature" show. Timothy Treadwell, the grizzly bear man" is a great example of using his opinions to misrepresent bear behavior. He advocated that we could develop mutual relationships with bears and that they should not be feared then he ends up being eaten by an bear. Not only himself but his girlfriend was killed and partially eaten as well. I wonder how many people watched his programs and were convinced that bears can be trusted. I do not believe that he Dablemont is out for the public good. I believe that he is more about trying to perpetuate his own fame and agenda. Because of that I cannot trust what he says. again those are my beliefs.

Chain pickerel seem to be common in the 11 pt and Current rivers here in MO. When you wer fishing Rhode Island or Mass did you ever catch redfin pickerel? They are the northeast subspecies related to the grass pickerel.

The grass pickerel that I caught in Crane were all 6 to 7" in length. I caught them all in Feb. This is not a very big species. Didn't get any photos. Found this photo. all of mine were about this same size.

I just love catching brown trout. So visited the upper Current often. I now go all over catching natives.

I have always thought of the Current as a trout stream. I fished it for well over a decade before I ever fished below Cedar grove. Still hard to wrap my head around thinking of the Current as a big river with more traditional river species.