Johnsfolly

Missed my big opportunity with my Maine charter trip being cancelled of catching sculpin large enough to fillet. May just have to fry up some Ozarks😌. You know that as soon as I decide to eat them I won't be able to find any.

@duckydoty and @JestersHK Sound like a great time. Wish that there was a Folly in the boat with you. Would have given DJ more opportunity to get in the water to retrieve snagged baits !

In the Whiter and Norfork river systems the brook trout are the candy! Duane you'll have to paint up some brookie baits for Jigfest !

Good luck buddy. I want to see you tag a big brown on this trip. Wish that I didn't have to work/pack, etc.

Well I guess that it could be worse😌.

I can see it now. My daughter's first buck taken with a self bow and stone points. Jeremiah only fly fishing for natives and throwing non-natives into the garden compost. Cooking only with goose fat and eating squirrels that they shot with their air rifles. Nah who am I kidding the kid couldn't hit a squirrel in my best spots ! He does like sculpin fishing! Crap so does Marty !

I hope that my two oldest get back into these outdoor activities. My oldest has a boyfriend that will soon replace me in my friendship with Marty and my son knows more about military firearms that I will ever know. So they haven't gone too far astray. My youngest has the fever, but is just getting to the "I'd rather hang out with my friends" than you dad stage. Good thing that we are moving so it takes her a while to get some local friends .

Your crappie are eating my darters and shiners ! Kill them all!

Can anyone confirm if they indeed have stopped making the Airstream? The shelves have been cleared in more than on Bass Pro shops that I have visited to replace my broken one. Ended up in St Charles BPS and replaced my 7' with a 6' since it was the only one on the shelf .

I could only dream of an invite like that! Want to see photos from that trip!

I'm getting ready to try to teach my youngest. I have an 8 and a 9' 5WT and will get her using the 9' first. My other two kids didn't have the interest to learn. Apparently I'll have to use my fly rod to fish Marty's hoppers. It would be good for both of us to practice .

Very cool. Don't get the idea that they have children. That alone eats deeply into your travel and fishing budgets for a while. Would love to see the smalleer fish on flies.

Congrats Dan! Couple of nice walleye. Glad to see you out on the water.

Can't wait to battle the laurel bushes to get these guys in front of some brookies in their native range - means they go back gently to fight again. Passed by the river that I fished for then last March on our way to Missouri.

Looks like a great night of catching! Great job!

I think that I am only at 376 casts sinve I caught this one😒. Got a few more casts before the next. Maybe this Oct.

TJM - thanks for posting this. I didn't go into algal/plant effects on dissolved oxygen. The reason that runoff containing high amount of nutrients/fertilizers like phosphorus and nitrogen affects the dissolved oxygen levels is mainly because of the affect on algae and plant biomass. With the increase nutrient loading into the water the algae will reproduce rapidly and "bloom". In a heavy algal bloom a few things can happen. 1) populations of toxin producing algae/blue-green algae (cyanobacteria) can dominate the system and cause detrimental effects like those during a red tide (dinoflagellates cause these). 2) and as you mentioned the increase algal and plant biomass can shade out other plants and algae which creates a large die off of the algae and plants being shaded leading to decomposition and a drop in DO.

I agree about the look of the fish. To me the musky is more appealing just because they are fewer in number than pike. Pretty exciting when you have a big one trailing one of your baits that you are doing a figure 8 by the boat!

Another meal that started with the self-pick option. This time in Virginia. This guy got steaked. The steaks were seasoned with salt and pepper then cooked in a trace of olive oil. Once they were flipped, drizzled with teriyaki glaze and flipped again to caramelize the glaze on both sides of the fish. Steamed broccoli drizzled with balsamic vinaigrette and homestyle new potatoes. Not shown was a leaf lettuce salad with cashews, black olives, artichoke hearts, and raw broccoli.

Very nice redfish. Love the cloud photos. Would have hated being in the rain that followed. Catch anything else than redfish?

Last time that I went musky fishing we met a couple of bass fishermen. They told us that they couldn't keep the muskies off of their white spinnerbaits. Did we catch any? Nope.😒 I did hook what looked like a personal best largemouth on a musky sized bucktail only to lose it at the boat.

You got me figured out alright !

How about when you lose your phone and you have silenced the ringer. That makes for a bit if a panic😂.

Spam, spam, spam, eggs and spam. I don't like Spam. You could have the Spam eggs and bacon. But it has spam in it. Not as much spam as the spam, eggs, bacon, and spam. Me, I love Spam.

Each fish species has a different set of environmental conditions to survive. Some fish like trout and walleye need higher levels of dissolved oxygen than bluegill or catfish. Cooler water holds more oxygen than warmer water, which is why trout are naturally found in spring fed streams and not shallow farm ponds. Cooler water is more dense than warmer water except when it is near freezing temperatures (why ice floats). Water is at its highest density at a temperature near 4 degrees Celsius or 39 to 40 deg F. When a lake stratifies during the summer the higher density colder water is at the bottom of the lake. As you all know the thermocline is that area that has the greatest difference in water temperature and also the greatest difference in water density and oxygen levels. In highly productive or eutrophic lakes due to high algal biomass dying off the cold water below the thermocline may have little or no dissolved oxygen. In lakes like that where the lower water become anoxic the fish can become compressed in the water column and more susceptible to a sudden change in DO concentrations. When the a highly anoxic lake turns over in the fall there are frequent fish kills, which has been noted on many lakes throughout the world for many decades. in many lakes that are not that highly productive, the bottom water does not go anoxic. In those lakes you'll find fish like lake trout, walleye, whitefish, etc. which are those species that require higher oxygen levels to survive. Because they require more oxygen and the water at or below the thermocline is dark, walleye are adapted to living and feeding in these low light areas (look at their eyes) and they will tend to stay in water where there is not too much light. Under daylight conditions a walleye is more likely to swim downward or at the same light level than it would be to swim up towards the light. If there was 15 feet of anoxic water right at the light intensity level that the walleye are comfortable they may have swum for a long time at 30 foot depth to get away from the anoxic water and died of hypoxia. Bluegill may be in those same waters and since they are not as light sensitive they might have swam upwards and able to get to better water. There was a report on OAF last year that discussed a similar event in Beaver lake that caused a fish kill with stripers. There are also fewer chances of flooding events in the summer than in the spring or fall when the water is not stratified. There have been more flooding events in the last few summers than I can remember and may be the likely to cause of this sudden uptick in fish kills.