Johnsfolly

Would have made a good pizza. I will have to remember that next time!

It's a TALL bowl!

I think that there are at least a couple in that bowl !

I was jealous of the big white bass that you caught. I wasn't with you when you caught those two western transplants! Might have been jealous then as well! I did edit these pictures and it made the fish look better!

Creedence Clear water revivial "... there's a bathroom on the right." instead of there's a bad moon on the rise. Jimi Hendrix "..'scuse me while I kiss this guy!" instead of excuse me while I kiss the sky. Elton John's ".. she's got electric boobs" instead of boots.

You were dreaming about all the rest and relaxation your last fishing partner allowed you to get on the way to get him unsnagged after he Follyrigged his jig !

Awesome browns! congrats on a great pair of fish! those are the kind of brown trout folks like me dream about and will do so until I can get back to the White!

Okay Leftover time. Nothing like a nice healthy salad and then there is this one where I used the remaining lobster tail and steak from the other night, onion slices, cooked bacon, bleu cheese crumbles and olives. Would have been better if I wasn't at work .

I've already lost one BH special on the fish after this one. Just about broke my heart, then I remembered that I Know a guy that makes replacements ! So I got me a replacement and caught some more fish!

One summer when we lived in Florida, we had 16 inches of rain in 18 hours. Before the rain, the pond at work was pristine with great water clarity, big bass, tilapia, bluegill, blue finned killifish, flag fish... (I regret not being a microfisherman at the time) After the rain, every creek, septic, and drainage ditch was connected. The water afterwards was murky and green, there were gar, green sunfish, walking catfish, sailfin mollies, other aquarium releases, exotics, etc. We boated down the road and had fish swimming across the road. As it dried up the walking catfish would be found crossing the roads.

After following you up and down the creek, I may be the one dragging alright! Being tired of yelling "Get the Hopper under the laurel branches!"

Gavin - Looks like a goldeye. The eye and mouth look like the gold eye. Looking at the front of the dorsal fin it is slightly behind the front of the anal fin, which seems to be a main characteristic of that species that differentiates this from the mooneye where the dorsal fin is in front of or even with the anal fin. Great catch! As Ham stated, I'm also a bit jealous. I think that these are a pretty cool group of fish and would love to catch either one or both species!

When they're small no need to clean them. Just scale dredge and fry them up.

Since it may be one of the last or close to it where I would celebrate Father's day with my whole family at one time, I really wanted a special meal. Instead I had a Zaxby's chicken salad between watching the Incredibles 2 movie with everyone and going to the shooting range with my son, his girlfriend and Livie before heading out to Maryland. So last night I did a make up meal for missing a special Father's day meal at home. Definitely not a meal that you could feed the whole crew unless you took out a loan. I started by parcooking a few Yukon gold new potatoes that I picked up at the farmer's market. Cut and set them aside. I threw a dozen little neck clams into a small amount of boiling water and covered them to cook. I got a pot of water infused with sea salt and the Chesapeake favorite Old bay to a boil and added a Maine lobster tail. I pulled the clams and drained the liquid pouring most into another pot of water and cooked an ear of local sweet corn. The clams got a little bit of cracked black pepper and some Old bay before they got a butter dip. I seasoned a filet steak with Montreal seasoning, garlic powder, and Old Bay (making this as much a Maryland dish as possible). I pulled the lobster out before it was fully cooked and split the tail. I dry sauted some local button mushrooms until browned, then added a small amount of oil and some spring onion slices then cooked until the onion had a bit of color. Set them aside and started to sear the steak. In another pan went the potatoes, some S&P, garlic, powder and a small pat of butter. I seared the other side of the steak and tented it with foil to cook further on the stove top. Once it was close to my doneness, put it on a plate, covered it with foil and let it rest. I added a pat of butter into the pan that the steak cooked in and put some color on the lobster. I pulled the corn, just some S&P and again with the Old Bay. No butter needed on the corn. Once I plated everything, I added some bleu cheese crumbles on the steak. Not only was this a really good meal, half of the lobster and steak are in the fridge for another meal, maybe a salad !

Well back to being a bachelor. Last week I had to decide what to do with a chicken breast and some vegetables cut and stored from my last trip out to Maryland. Stir fry sounded good. Don't have a full arsenal of spices or sauces at the house yet. So had to run out for soy sauce. I found a market that not only sells fishing gear, but sushi grade salmon, tuna and octopus. That's my kind of store. Also a modest selection of scotch and whiskeys. Kept it simple, thinly sliced chicken, peppers, onions, some garlic powder, S&P and soy sauce. Served with some red beans and rice made by a distant Uncle of mine. Ben is his name. You might know him. Had a But Oak special County Line brew. This is there standard County Line Brown ale aged in bourbon barrels. The Bourbon flavor really comes out.

I'll just ignore the perch comment . I will have to try them some time. I typically catch quite a few.

Did it look like either of these fish? This top one is a goldeye. Should have had a lot of teeth. The mooneye I don't believe has the same arsenal of teeth.

I have never tried one, but green sunfish must taste terrible. Or else you wouldn't see ones this big.

Good Luck! You know how demanding those German Micro Managers can be !

We're Learnin him!

Watcha got thar is a Brim!

It takes about 15 to 16 hours from you. Sue has done it a couple of times already. I haven't caught a rainbow trout in MD, YET!!! But know that I can put you on browns and Native brook trout. Also looked at Delaware, they have four trout streams that are about 2 to 3 hours from my place in Maryland. Also the weakfish (or sea trout) is the state fish of Delaware. In case you need to go to the brine for a Delaware trout.

WOW. Don't think that I would buy any of those.

I have been meaning to get into north Maryland to hit a high gradient stream or two for some new species. Hoping to catch some different sculpin, darters, or madtoms. I had a bunch of things to get done around the house (yes I am domesticated and house-broken ) in the morning and didn't get on the road until after 2:30 pm. I got to the stream access around 4:15. I had fished this stream back in March and only saw three or four fish and could not get any bites. I was hoping for a different turn out this time. I looked into the water around the bridge by the access and did not see anything ,but two juvenile fish that were even a bit small by my standards (or hook sizes). Wasn't looking real good, but I headed upstream anyway. There is a walking park converted from an old railroad system that runs along the creek a lot like the Katy trail in Missouri. I looked at the creek from the next bridge and saw what looked like some fish activity. I had on a 1/32 oz tube jig head with a green pumpkin body and chartreuse paddle tail slider. I made a cast to the far bank near the bridge wall and got a couple of taps. Nothing solid. I cast along the wall on my side of the bank and got more of the same, just nips most likely at the tail of the bait. I switched to a John Deere microjig and got a nice bite from a redbreast sunfish. I couldn't get a photo, so maybe I didn't catch that one . I ahd seen another sunfish chase the one that I caught and made a couple more casts but no takers. I could see fish on the other bank and went over there. I put on a #16 hook, a couple of split shot and a small bit of nightcrawler. I ended up catching a rather familiar minnow, a common shiner.I catch these guys a lot in MO, but had not caught on yet in Maryland so it was a new one on that List! I caught quite a few and some looked more like striped shiners, but there have not been any striped shiners reported in Maryland. I caught a couple of small bluegill and decided to head upstream where I had a chance at a sculpin back in March. What a difference a couple of months can make, I was seeing a number of fish. My next catch was from a slower water/sandy bottom section of creek and was another Missouri favorite, a creek chub. Again knocks that species off of the "to catch in Maryland" list. I caught another small bluegill and creek chub then moved down to the faster water/riffles and rocky pools downstream. I could see fish in the gravel, but did not see any darters. I cast my worm into a deeper hole undercutting a sycamore tree and got a decent bite (for a minnow). I knew that this was not a species that I had caught previously, but was not sure what it was. Fortunately I was able to catch a couple more further downstream including this large one and was able to id these fish as river chubs. A new species for my life list as well as my Maryland list ! As I had mentioned I was catching a few of the common shiners in most spots that I fished. I also caught a few bluntnose minnows as well in the faster water near the tail end of the pools. I have caught these guys in Missouri as well, but not in MD. So what about the surprise. Was it this Louisiana water thrush? Nope I have seen them throughout Pennsylvania. What about the fresh and ripe blackberries? Nah they are pretty common and the number thorn bushes that I remember walking through back in March would have alerted me that these guys would be streamside as well. How about this ebony jewlwing damselfly? Not expected but again fairly common around streams like this one. Not even this doe standing broadside at 15 yards from me was a surprise. As I was leaving, they showed me how much they own the roadways as they walked slowly across the road on several occasions. The surprise came when drifting a bait along this large boulder. I made a couple of cast and drifts with my worm along that flow. I caught two common shiners and that large river chub in that stretch. I hooked a fish that fought a bit differently than the minnows. I knew that the state of Maryland will release dreaded nonnatives to this stream as a put and take fishery. But that fish felt like a trout, but it came undone. I made another cast and drifted the same flow and got bit again, this time it did not come unbuttoned and I landed this 5 inch naturalized nonnative. That was a surprise to me. I did not know that there would be any browns in this creek.

Gavin did you get a photo of that fish?