Johnsfolly

Those are some great looking trout. Congrats Travis! Especially catching them on your own baits and light tackle.

I need to catch these two guys 😉. I may have a chance at gafftopsail cats when I go to TX in Nov. It may be a bad time for them but will give them a shot. I also need to catch a hardhead and will try for those as well. I have more hope for the hardheads.

Sounds like a great time and a very successful trip. Great photos. That was a beast of a black drum! We were sweating it out thru texts with Ham hoping for you getting a gator gar😉! When we lived in FL and headed to Tampa area, we would more often than not see crested caracara on this same ranch near Lake Wales FL. Very cool birds.

Just need to add some lyrics about beer and a dog...😉😆

Jeff the best part about multispeices fishing is that if it was a new species you are still excited regardless of the size😉.

You got that right! 👍

Warmouth are in the Lepomis genus along with the green sunfish, bluegill, longear, redear and those other brim,😉

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I've caught all three in Missouri. Now just need to catch a Roanoke bass as the last one in that genus.

That is true. They are in all the rivers and tributaries surrounding the Chesapeake Bay. They are also in the Delaware River watershed now as well.

There is also the bullseye snakehead, Channa marulius, down in FL. Not sure if there are any other established species in the US.

Channa argus or the Northern Snakehead is the species that we have here in Maryland. I think that is the same species found out in Arkansas and now in Missouri. The state guys here had two other names that they were looking at when they decided to try and relaunch with a new common name for this species in Maryland. I personally don't like this but they didn't ask me🤔. Might as well called them brim🤣

Nice chunky fish Pete!

The dam does stop a lot more from getting upstream to spawn than the numbers that make it up the fish ladder. There are two spawning creeks downstream that get a lot of spawners in them. The dam is really close to the PA border and we don't usually get PA licenses. The Delaware River in Eastern PA is a better free flowing shad fishing destination in PA. My favorite place to shad fish is the tar river near Rocky Mount NC.

The renaming is an attempt to get more people to consider eating them. I guess eating snakehead was not as palatable as Chesapeake Channa🙄. Many folks like us do like to eat them when we catch them😉

A pun for all you fisher dads.

The Chesapeake Channa 🙄 started being caught only two or three years ago at the dam. Lots of folks go up there to catch them now. Personally I prefer those shad😉.

I think that I can solve that one😉 Though I did get lost in the radish maze😆

Dan that sounds like a fun trip. We have a family trip out to KC in early Sept and I doubt that I could swing travel down that way again in Oct. I hope that you guys can get something worked out. Oh and I want to see photos 😉😁

@Mitch f looks like a Mississippi kite to me but would like to hear Al's thoughts.

Boy I say Boy.. That there is a chicken!!😆

I have a feeling that this is headed to Marty's🤔😆

Most rain that I recall was a flood in Jupiter FL. Editing to be accurate In 1995, Jupiter Farms in Florida experienced severe flooding due to torrential rains. Over a 48-hour period, 17 inches of rain fell at Indiantown Road and Interstate 95 in Jupiter, while Jupiter Farms recorded a staggering 19.2 inches of rain from Friday to Wednesday. We went to our work site in a boat and watched fish swim across the roadway. We had an onsite pond at that time that was pristine. It was dug out and the water filled in the hole being filtered by the sand. Super clear water. Big bass and bluegill. Had american flagfish and bluefin killifish. There were some red tilapia since at one point I think someone had ideas about aquaculture but the bass seemed to kept them in check. I did catch a couple of the tilapia, but no photos and maybe that didn't happen😅. Runoff from every sewer and cow field within 5 miles ended up in that pond with that flood. There were gar and walking catfish in the pond. Water quality was poor and had the low visibility of a nutrient rich farm pond. I don't recall ever seeing any of those native micros after the flood.