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Phil Great report snd an awesome brown trout! Congrats!

That's a real nice looking brown trout. I love its fall coloration. Congrats on some nice fish!

Congrats on your 15th anniversary! Nice fish photos by the way!

Shepard's pie at the Folly house tonight!

Sow bigs are isopods also crustaceans.

@Phil Lilley as you know most of them are crustaceans and not insects. Most likely to be called scuds by most trout fisherman. I tend to refer to them as amphipods or maybe even Gammarus.

Phil I know that you are just goading me on by calling them "bugs" !

You know that I am in on any aggressive predator species, or for that matter any species !

They are a fairly primitive fish. This oysterfish may be an ugly fish if there is such a thing 😌.

Just had to go Cajun on us. Next you'll be showing us pictures of a gaspergou 😂! I'd rather see some sac-a-lait!

Daryk - Congrats to your son on his bowfin. You don't want to lip that fish! I wouldn't call them ugly. Look at this gentleman in his nuptial finery! I would love to catch a breeding male like this guy!

We have to talk about yellow bass and spotted sunfish and the best time to target them.

Duane great looking sculpin. Would still love a little blue-green on the chin. By the time I might get down to Taney (maybe mid-Oct or early Dec) those fish will have been soremouthed by your baits I may have to find a new pattern 😌.

QB just goes to show how fish will always do the unexpected at any time they want. Glad you boated a couple nice ones!

Thanks for posting. Sometimes it's great to calm down and take in the majesty of the world around us. The rains here in MD led to swarms of mosquitos in our yard this evening😒.

I have heard that yellow bass, Morone mississippiensis, have been collected in those lakes. That is not a common species in Missouri. I never got up that way to try for them myself.

Tim that is a s bleeding shiner. i tend to look at the dark coloration right behind the gills, but my daughter likes to call them the ".. ones with lipstick on" .

Nice walleye! Looks like a strange place to release that fish. Bet that it wanted to stay for dinner 😁.

Good luck! I hope you land a giant brown! Can't wait for the report.

Those are some chunkie spots! Congrats!

I would second that!

I haven't had beavers bump me in the night, but have had plenty wait until just when you get close enough but don't see them before the slap their tail on the water. Back in college, I would help another grad student on her rodent mark and recapture studies. We would set the traps the evening before and then get out just at dawn to see what we caught. Some of the traps were near a known bear wallow. So when it was foggy, you were on edge in case you bumped one of the bears. It seemed like we were targeted, because for several foggy mornings we would turn down the trail to the bear wallow and a doe would wait until we were within 10 to 15 feet of her and blow. Got us jumping every time !

Onehot if you are sitting a worm on the bottom, in that situation the attraction of the worm bait may override their caution and line size may not matter as much like TJM mentioned in his post. You may actually catch more trout if you dropped your line size, but you are not trying for them anyways. I have seen similar responses to what TJM mentioned in clear water and mostly where the fish have a long time to evaluate the bait. In those situations I will almost always go to 2# line. In situations, like jig fishing a river like the White, 11 pt, etc., those fish are reacting quickly to a bait rushing past them. I don't believe that they are as line shy. At those times I prefer 6# fluorocarbon leaders.

Good looking plate of food Ness. Not sure where you placed it. Looks like new lumber😁.

Hey you got down, got spooked by the Squatch, and caught some fish buddy. Congrats buddy! Wish I hadn't been working. I have got to get down where that action is. Has to be a brown down there that wants to meet me!