Johnsfolly

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!

Did you catch anything on the charter?

We should market a line of OAF background sheets and portable stand for those photos that might compromise your fishing location. Maybe you caught that 6 lb largemouth at the base of Niagra Falls, or in a corn field in Iowa, or at Disney Land ! The skies the limit (unless there is a tower or misshapen tree in the picture that can be identified)!

The sculpin is like "I can get this! He's mine!"

Nice to see a fishing report with some fish photos! Looks like a great time! Would love to catch a 28 inch rainbow. A couple of those kings have great color to them. You guys should be proud.

I sure hope so! Be nice to see some fishing reports.

I also have dome quite a bit of spearfishing. Done nearly all while freediving. Like most spearfishermen that I knew kept what we could eat over the next day or two. Enjoyed the challenge. Also followed any regulations that may have been put in place at the time. I don't equate the spearing of legal fish to what is done by poachers. They are not fishermen or hunters. They are thieves to all of us. Any argument that puts guys that follow the regulations in with poachers to support ones agenda is offensive.

Sounds good. May try that ourselves.

Here is a great longear sunfish that my daughter caught last year in the Maries River, probably just under four inches. Here is one that I caught from the Spring River in SW MO in 2016 . This guys was a little over 5 inches, but has the most turquoise that I have seen with this species.

That cantaloupe salad looks good! What else is in it!

Nope. Had fun anyway.

Haven't caught one over 6 inches. I'll look for a colorful one in my old photos. They are a great looking fish. Love that fly! Great job!

In the same spirit demonstrated by BilletHead this will not be multiple posts. Just getting caught up. On the fourth we kept it simple - beer brats on the grill. However, we did have a caprese salad. Only thing from our garden was the basil. Though there are cherokee purple tomatoes @ness On Friday another quick dinner day. Rotisserie chicken with noodles and chanterelle/oyster mushrooms. I sliced the mushrooms and started cooking the chanterelles in a dry skillet to let them release their water. Then added the oysters (farmer's market) along with minced vidalia onion and garlic. I added a little olive oil, salt and pepper. Once cooked, I drizzled a fig infused balsamic into the mushroom mixture.

I wonfer if heavy runoff in the late spring resulted in lower dissolved oxygen levels in the surface water before the thermocline set up. Now witth the heat there contimues to be an oxygen deficit.