Johnsfolly

Dealing with too much carp at work😜!

Those are great looking McCloud rainbows. Congrats on your successful Crane creek trip!

We have at least two male and one female hummingbird hitting our feeders. The big surprise was several male and female rose breasted grosbeaks hitting our seed feeders before I went to Maryland. While in Maryland Sue tells me that we have baltimore orioles in the yard this year. I saw a male and two females hitting the jelly feeder yesterday. No photos yet.

Awesome trip. Congrats on a great days fishing! And catching!

It took a couple of days here in Maryland, but I finally got out and fished. With my travel schedule I have been trying to get in on some panfish spawning. Back in Missouri I got into some crappie. Now I hoped to get into some bluegill or readear sunfish at Tuckahoe lake like I did last year in May. I tied on a John Deere microjig that I picked up at Weaver's tackle store in Lebanon, MO the last time I fished Bennett's Spring. Even with the 4# Pline I can cast this tiny 1/125 oz bait 20 to 25 feet. If the fish were in ths spots that I caught them last year I wouldn't have to cast much further than 25 feet. I fished the jig without a float. The first spot I tried I did not get a bite on three casts. I hoped that this wouldn't be a busted trip. I went to another spot where I had caught bluegill previously. I made a cast out between some emergent plants and the line straightened out as the jig dropped and I set the hook on a nice bluegill. I caught a few more from that spot. Most of the fish took the bait as the jig dropped at the end of the cast. On one of the casts I did not get a bite until I jigged it a bit and got it close to the weeds and got a surprise bite, a black crappie. This was the first crappie I have caught in Maryland. Yes I do have a list of fish that I have caught in Maryland ! Once the bites slowed, I moved to another sandy spot where people put in canoes and kayaks. I had caught pumpkinseed sunfish here last year and I could see beds in the sand. As luck would have it I caught another pumpkinseed in that location. These are just beautiful fish. I moved to the dock and caught several more nice bluegill. Then I got a stronger fighting fish and landed my fish redear of the night. A dark male. I could see the fish moving around the dock. I also thought that I saw a long dark shadow at the corner of the dock. Several of the bluegill were over 8 inches in length and this redear was almost 10". I ended the night with a dozen bluegill, eight readear, a pumpkinseed, and three black crappie in 84 minutes of fishing. I made a cast up near some brush and lifted what I thought was a branch and it was a 14 to 16 inch largemouth near where I had seen the shadow. I did not get the hook set well enough and the bass swam away unharmed. It was a great night. The only thing better would have been able to share this with my daughter or some OAF friends. This post has been promoted to an article

Nice trip buddy! Love that he was able to get into some smalllies! Also love that crappie. I've seen some of the darkest males this year than I have seen befire and that one you caught is a cool fish.

Those are some awesome trout! Great photos!

I do wish that I could tie flies in order to participate in a swap. Those are some good looking flies!

Look at you laying down the law! I'm pretty sure that if she pressed you that she would get to fish one or two before you caught a stinkin bass on them 😜!

Sounds like you guys made the best of less than ideal conditions. Congrats! Thanks for taking us along on this trip.

Nice looking cutties! Congrats!

Very nice bunch of fish buddy. You had the baits that thise fish were looking for!

Looks like you'll need some tartar sauce 😀.

Just got to eat those just to thin down the population😀!

You should have hired a biologist to move the tree . If there is not a continuous strip of bark from the roots to the leaves, that tree is going to die. if it does live it will not be very pretty for a long time since most of the branches will die back without adequate nutrient flow from the roots.

Definitely a milestone post! You're currently 31st in terms of reputation. Just 29 likes to move into the top 30 ! Not that I would pay attention to that stuff !

Had our first hummingbird show up here in Columbia. Always amazed at how small they look like early in the season. Quickly got feeders out.

Glad that Pat caught some fish! Sounds like a great time buddy.

Congrats on a memorable day! Would have loved to seen that flathead. Sounded like a nice fish.

I added my two cents on gigging regulations.

I don't know about the southern stream smallies. It serms like the spots I fish in central MO they are frequently spawning into June. I find much more active post spawn fish around the 4th of July and later.

That was really great! When you see a crossing like that one most of us would never think that there were that many different animals using that crossing. Very cool. Thanks for posting.