Johnsfolly

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.

My daughter and I could used these on our fishing trip on the 4th. That was a hot one. Wore both of us down. Have my wife looking to get us some new warm weather gear.

BH Not sure what sounded better in this post 1) just being around good people that help each other out and share in their bounty. 2) not being whizzed on by folks that are too busy rushing around😂. 3) that korean slaw 4) or that burger mix Since I can't makup my mind, I'll just like it all! (That is with only one like😁)!

Very nice buddy! Get some rest and get back after them! I want to see a brown by the end of your trip😁.

The darters and minnows are so diverse and during breeding season display an amazing variety of colors. Can be challenging to catch a new species. I love trout fishing but most are put and take fishing when they are out of their native ranges. I enjoyed fishing for native brook trout in the mountains in Maryland. As much for the scenery as the fish.

Beautiful day in Iowa. Just over 80 with a nice breeze.

Good luck if you do get after some Taney trout! Post some photos if you do get some. If not enjoy your time in Branson!

Jumping from keeping fish in a now fairly regulated harvest system and comparing that to unregulated market hunting or slavery is a big jump. Just don't buy your catastrophe mindset for every species that someone can selectively harvest. If people cannot find longear sunfish they just aren't trying to find them. Gravel mining, bank erosion, cattle in streams, water quality degradation, etc., are far more likely to decimate this species than selective harvest. I won't shame someone on this site for using a legal method to harvest fish for the table. I see no evidence that Huntingducks117 is out there filling trash cans with fish or wantonly wasting these resources.

If we weren't going to be in Iowa watching cars speed around a track I would have loved to get down to Taney to fish with you guys. Missed fishing with you this last week. Can't wait to see some bleary eyed reports😁! Love to see your oldest holding up a large jerkbait brownie!

Congrats on spending time with your son and his friend! Thank them for their service.

Now you're just being mean. You know that I have short legs and they aren't making any fences the height to just to keep in rabbits. I despise barbwire fences!

You know me Marty I am a living contradiction. I don't want to be pigeon-holed into a standard label ! Is he a microfisherman or a multispecies angler? Does he Go Native! or plant whatever he wants. So I have store bought raspberry canes growing next to the milkweeds at least that was until this year when the milkweed extended its domain! We have native bluebells and blue phlox next to daffodils because I like the contrast of colors. Best that I can recall tomatoes or cucumbers are not native to this area either !

I know a few folks that may be interested !

Keep and eat what you want as long as it is legal. Enjoy!

One of my main fishing goals this year was to help others achieve their goals (where possible based upon proximity and scheduling). The main focus has been to get my daughter's goals met. She has goals to catch five new species that she has never caught before, to catch two new species of sculpin, and to catch a total of 40 different species for the year. Up to this point her life list was only at total of 34 species. So we would have to work on getting her on new species. With my travelling between Missouri and Maryland, I have been able to find species that she has not caught previously and fish those spots when she is in Maryland. I have posted about those trips previously. When in Missouri, I have focused on getting her in front of some of the more difficult species either due to their resistance to being caught or more likely the distance from our house. I have been also thinking about trying to fish a spot where I have seen and caught plains topminnows previously. This is a small creek just south of Rolla. With that in mind, I planned a trip first to a creek and a small river that are "on the way" to Rolla. At the first creek there was the opportunity to catch several minnows, darters, sunfish, and bass. Since she had not yet caught a smallmouth bass this year, Livie was fishing a 1/32 oz tube jig with a green pumpkin body/chartreuse paddle tailed slider. We were upstream from an overpass and I had her try to cast near the rip rap on the far bank. I tied on a perch colored whopper plopper and cast under the bridge. Livie immediately got bit by a decent small stream green sunfish. Then another. At that point I made my first cast and as the bait "plopped" a few feet got bit by a 8 inch smallmouth (my first of the year ), which for this creek was not a bad sized fish. Some 12 to 14 inch could be caught here, but with the low water, weren't likely to still be in this tributary. Livie made a cast to a shaded part of the water and caught her first smallmouth of the year. I made a couple of more casts with the WP and got slaps at the bait by sunfish and smaller bass. I then switched to the micro rig with a #26 Tanago hook with a tiny piece of redworm. I caught the first western mosquitofish of the day and my first of the year. I had seen a couple of male northern studfish that had some of their breeding coloration. I caught one on the micro rig. Not as colorful as some that I have seen or received photos of from other OAF members, but a nicer one than I have caught previously. While looking for those guys I noticed a small school of minnows that did not look like the schools of bleeding shiners swimming around us. I dropped the bait and caught a bluntnose shiner. Livie was catching green and longear sunfish and at least one more smallmouth. I got her to take up the micro rig and she caught her first mosquitofish of the year. She never did catch any of the bluntnose shiners, since they kept dispersing when she got close to them. A little discouraged by not catching on the worm she resorted to what she does best - hand fishing ! She caught the following critters by hand. Maybe HD Tackle will replicate these guys (@Mitch f @Hog Wally)! Northern studfish Unknown minnow Longear sunfish We got to the confluence of the river and I could see smallmouth in the big pool below the confluence. We threw a few things at them but only landed a couple of small smallmouth bass and sunfish. Had a 16+' smallie look at the WP but not commit. Upstream from the confluence I had a huge blow up on the bait. I made a second cast and nothing until the bait was about 25 feet from me, It was passing right through the transition from the deeper channel to a shallow ridge and got blasted by a nice chunky 13" largemouth (yes we Follys can catch bass as well). Livie swithed from hand fishing to a Trout Magnet trout crank and got into a thick bunch of large green sunfish. You just can't stop the selfies! With the heat, Livie was wearing down. So we headed down to Rolla to get something to eat, drink, and try for plains topminnows. Livie was feeling worse, so I went out and scouted the creek to see if I could locate any of the topminnows. I found a couple only. The water was really low and most fish were really spooky. Our redworms were dead and breaking down in the heat. So I put a small piece of chartreuse plastic from a trout magnet jig on a #16 hook and let Livie fish in the shade of the bridge while I went after the topminnows. I also had on a much smaller piece of plastic on the #26 Tanago hook. I could only catch northern studfish. The juvenile topminnows were too small to get hooked and the one adult that I now saw avoided this bait. I switched to a white/pink piece and found a pod of three topminnows further down the creek. They avoided the plastic bait. Meanwhile Livie was catching bluegill, longears, and small green sunfish on most every cast. She found one of the redworms that had not fully liquefied and brought it to me as I stood near that pod of fish trying not to move and spook them. As soon as I got the worm near them they took interest and I caught one of the three. Livie then switched positions. That spooked the fish and it took about 5 to 6 min for them to return to a spot where she could reach them and not spook them. She got bit and once again we were not able to hold onto the fish for a photo. She did not want to try to catch the last one from the bunch or to look for others. Called it quits! Livie caught three different species that put her total for the year at 32 species. So now we are in the countdown phase towards her 40 fish goal. She also has caught 16 new species so far to add to her life list! Just need to find some new sculpin. I am looking hard in Maryland and may think her best bet is going after some marine species. This post has been promoted to an article

That looks a lot cooler shape, easier to use and feed the tether than the ROV submersible that we used when I was in grad school what seems like a 100 years ago. We used that to try and get population estimates for aquatic invertebrates and one grad student used it to spy on fish making babies . Looking into "sneaky males (use to use a different term that is not politically correct)", which were male sunfish that resembled females in size and coloration that would come into the territory of a dominate male when a female came into breed then he would breed along side the two of them. These males were swimming testes for the most part.

I usually fish Little Dixie several times per year. Bank fishing most of the time and mostly for crappie, redear, and bluegill in the spring and sometimes for catfish in the summer.