Johnsfolly

You've touched on a few points that we have discussed before and have become the concerns that I have about triploid fish particularly brown trout. They have manipulated the fish so that it will not reproduce but puts on weight instead. To me they should be thought about separately from diploids in terms of what it means to be a trophy. To me a 6# diploid trout is a trophy. For a triploid maybe that is a 12# or even a 15# fish. Don't get me wrong since I would love to catch either fish over 6#. If it is a diploid fish there will likely be a reproduction mount made😁. If a triploid I will trying for a bigger one.

I would have needed my speargun😁.

Marty where do you pick up your Elcheapo italian dressing. I can't find that brand at our local store. Is it a Mexican brand of dressing😝? We don't have a tomato jungle. So hardly enough to just to pick and eat let alone enough to dry them. Will try the dehydrated cukes.

I must not have an honest looking face. Been checked a few times in Columbia during the winter trout season. More than a few times at Little Dixie lake. Again after our musky trip in May. I was even used as a blocker for a agent in Maryland. I was fishing a small pier and saw the agent crouched down behind me with a pair of binos. He was watching the couple across the inlet from me. They had just caught and kept a striper before the season opened. So off he went to give them a citation. When I was a teen I was checked while fishing in PA. My brother got checked and issued a citation for not having his license on his person and visible. I will admit to two wildlife citations. Both in Florida. One was diving without a diver down flag. We tried to say that we were within 150 yards of shore. It was actually almost 500 yards off shore. We also had two under sized lobsters. I was using my dive knife as a ruler and it was about an 1/4" short of the legal limit. An honest mistake. We just had to through them back. We were able to keep our legal lobsters and two grouper that I hand caught. That was a great meal by the way. We had our day in court the next morning to pay our fines.At least there were no 8 by 10 color glossy pictures with circles and arrows or a paragraph on the back of each one to be used as evidence against us. The next citation was due to being lazy. I was at work a decided to fish a drainage canal at lunch. My license expired a couple of days before. I was fishing for ten min without a bite in a spot where its possible to catch 30 to 50 in an hour. I finally land a bluegill when the agent pulled up😌. That was a $72 sunfish.

Haven't seen many flyrod and busch can photos from the Missouri wild trout creeks lately. Been missing your reports. Hope that you got out to a couple other trout streams while you were in Missouri.

All those things that you may have said have been documented and filed away until you run for office then they will all come back and haunt you !

Good Luck to both of you!

Been there and done that for a few years in HS!

Very nice fish. Congrats for getting your fish fry!

"...Except for Alice!" Remember Alice? It's a song about Alice."

Congrats on a very nice smallie! It's been eating well!

That photo certainly wasn't taken last weekend .

That is just awesome buddy! Tell her that the Folly's congratulate her on her PB fish! I'm sure that you are still grinning from ear to ear! Got to love when your kids are able to enjoy what we do. I'll make sure that Livie gets to read this post.

The last two to three pages are far more entertaining than pages 2 through 13 ! Would much rather talk about you deck than "..mother stabbers and father rapers. Father rapers sitting there on the group W bench!..."

Great bunch of fish! Love seeing big fat browns and cutthroats! I'm a bit jealous of the Bonneville, since I have not caught one yet. Thanks for posting!

Maybe an OAF road trip is in order.

Good luck on the hook removal! Nice fish while the fishing lasted!

Fire from his fingers and spit from his mouth as he speaks. I wonder if death awaits me with big pointy teeth😂.

@Ham go into this guys blog and look at his redeye bass slam trip posts! Looks like he scooped me on trying for the redeye species. Still want to do this type of trip. Maybe can convince that @BilletHead guy that fly fishing creeks for native bass species is worth the trip out east!

I would say that they were having a heat wave. We lived there for 19 months and I wore a pair of shorts for less than a week. I only recall a day or two where it was over 70 deg. Sounds like you had a great time!

Most folks aren't aware that largemouth, spotted, and smallmouth bass are in the sunfish family. White, yellow, and striped bass are true or temperate bass found in Arkansas and Missouri. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moronidae

Looked like a great time. Awesome small stream fishing! Enjoyed the video as well!

DJ glad that you got to the WOW with the family. Saw that you didn't take my advice about leaving for lunch halfway through when I posted our trip down there. You had to deal with the hangry kids. Loosk like you are getting into fish each night. Good for you guys. Keep the death March's to a minimum while you're down there😁!

Sounds like my kind of watershed😁! Too bad I didn't see this before now. Had looked into the Salt and Fabius river systems to try for fathead minnows. Always ended up somewhere else. Thought I would get to that part of the state at some point. A little late for that now.

@SupremeJCK very nice report and photos! They should let you go solo more often. Congrats on some nice fish!