Johnsfolly

If I remember correctly it was in the strip mall across rt60? from the Super 8 motel.

I enjoyed the Fur Hat ice fishing shows!

From that article, the magnolia looks like another fast growing hybrid. This pickerel is not a hybrid but a leucistic colored fish.

I used to go to a Cajun place in Monett that I liked when I was fishing the SW corner of MO for trout and lifers. That was over 7 or 8 years ago. Not likely to still be open.

Maybe a new hobby for @BilletHead or @Daryk Campbell Sr when they aren't tying flies, building fishing rods, canoes, bee hives, gardening, cooking, etc🤣. https://fox11online.com/good-day-wi/family-tradition-lives-on-through-sturgeon-decoys-neenah-winnebago-handmade-spearing I know a guy that collects fish decoys😉

That's a chunky white bass!

Maybe if they added Angus genes that might make farm raised catfish taste good🤔

I have seen the blacknose crappie with the black line running from the dorsal down to its mouth. Never heard of the magnolia crappie. Any photos that you could share?

Such a cool catch! Would love to see if those genetics could create a neat trophy fishing lake. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/ice-fisherman-catches-odd-looking-fish-that-was-considered-suspicious/ar-AA17d5vQ?li=BBnb7Kz

I've created a similar honey spout before 😅

Allen Pond - 28Jan23 Allen pond is a city park pond that is stocked with rainbow trout in the winter/spring similar to the urban trout program in Missouri. This park is about 75 miles from our house and close to DC. Livie and I fished a different location earlier in the day and we got to the pond with ca. 80 mins to sunset. When we arrived, a couple of folks were fishing or packing up their fishing gear and one young women that we talked to had lost a rainbow just as she was trying to land it. Not knowing the lake at all, we found a spot away from the other fisherman. It was a beautiful night. We fished three rods and used different baits on each rod, a pink/purple Powerbait dough around a #18 treble hook, a red worm, and a #20 treble with three bubblegum colored Power eggs. Placed a 1/8 oz split shot about 8 to 10 inches above the hook. With the floating baits, I felt that would have the bait just above any leaves, weeds, etc. on the bottom. Cast out and let them soak. Just as it was starting to get dark, the rod with the Powereggs got a hit and I was able to land our first trout of the night. Quick photos and back in the water. We got the rod rebaited and back out. Unfortunately that was the only fish that we caught 😒. Still it was a great night. We did have a few ducks that seemed intent to mob us, but stopped about 6 feet from me. Looked over at us and didn't come closer since we didn't make any motion that we were going to feed them. Nicknamed them the Mallard Mafia. Where's Marty when you need protection😁 Saw a bat flying over the lake just as we headed back to the car.

Sorry buddy but I don't recall. Was this when we fished Tuckahoe?

I got close last year. Was fishing a few spots going after the Potomac sculpin (see my rant in Ham's flyfishing thread about that fish) near there but hadn't fished the Potomac in that area.

I didn't want the post to be too long😉. When fishing, it does suck having a photographic memory at times. Of course don't ask me where I put the scissors or what my wife asked me to do this morning 😅!

I

It's been awhile. Most of these locations are likely be attempts with lures and flies as well as baits. Not likely going to go back to a spot where I wasn't successful. So going to throw all the tricks allowed by the regs to get a trout in the net the first time.

I have a lot of lost fish that still haunt me☹️. I can still feel the hook on the bucktail just pop out off the lip of that musky. Heart was racing and didn't get another follow on that trip. Down in FL I has researched a spot that should of had redfin pickerel. That was a bucket list fish. The opposite end of the Esox species spectrum. They barely get longer than 10 inches. Sue did catch one. After that I was determined to catch one. Cast after cast and nothing. I finally made a cast beneath the branches of a tree upstream. I got a nice bite then lost it. Then another bite. The fish swam into a brush pile. I got it out and it jumped and threw the hook. I could see that it was a redfin😔. I tossed my rod to the ground in disgust. Of course my wife doesn't let me live that down. Last year I chased after three of the four sculpin species in MD. I caught two species on the first trips for them. That third species haunted me. I fished three different creeks for a total of seven trips logging over 1000 miles. I lost several during those trips. The elation when I finally got that first one in my photo bag was incredible. So the long answer is that I feel a similar joy and sorrow regardless of the target species. They all have a special memory.

A few OAF folks may remember that I made a goal to catch a trout in every desingated trout stream, creek, river, trout parks, and Taneycomo. I completed that back in 2014/2015. Then I reset and tried to catch a brown trout in the stocked areas and finished that while fishing with @duckydoty and @Ham on lake Taneycomo during a Jigfest trip back in 2018. Caught that fish on one of Duane's sculpin jerkbaits. I was going through my trout trips here in Maryland and looked at the creeks, rivers, and ponds where the state stock each year. There are at least 70 creeks/rivers and about 60 stocked lakes/ponds. Before 2023, I have caught trout in nine locations. I may not be able to fish every one of those spots, but set up a 2023 goal to catch fish in at least 10 new spots throughout the state. I will do this amongst my lifer trips. It's likely that I will dust off the fly rod, especially to fish some @BilletHead gifted hopper flies for wild brook trout this summer/fall. I will post on this thread and provide trip details including photos.

I still would like one over 40 inches. My one and only musky was an inch shy. I lost one that was over 40 right at the boat. Hooked while doing a figure 8 with a bucktail.

Rabbit is the crappie of wild game😉. Squirrel is tougher to get at the meat, but far more flavorful IMO than rabbit.

@BilletHead also ties flies and hand makes his French fry flies as seen in these fish mouths 😁 This black crappie porpoised onto this bait😉

@Terrierman if you haven't tried the Ozark Hellbender yet, I do like this red and would recommend it.

I like the cast iron, but have to admit that I am an over easy man😉

Corrected👍