Johnsfolly

Sounds like a great time for you two. May be days like today that keep the two of you together. Congrats on a great trip buddy!

I know that you want to catch any trout. Would seem fitting to try for some native cuttbroats if you can find them. Thought that I would bring that up before Marty 😜. Good luck! Can't wait for a report.

Pretty amazing crappie. Wonder if they ate it. The handling of that fish for the photos likely prevented a successful release. I used to go to the Columbia BPS just to see Pat the current (previous) world record black crappie. It was an amazing fish to watch swimming in their tank. Only lasted a couple of years in captivity. I suspect that the constant "low" temps that they keep that tank may have contributed to her demise. Or a fish that big was pretty old to begin with and maybe she just met her natural end.

Awesome triploid brown Duane! Congrats on your PB brown trout!

Marinated chicken cut off the bone, Mexican spices, asiago and Colby cheeses melted on top of saffron rice. Served with a commercial refried beans. The Folly version of Arroz con pollo.

We just went with the instant containerized garden this year. Cherry tomatoes, romaine lettuce, summer squash, sugar peas, potatoes and herbs.

Great find. As Marty said usually don't look for chickens this early. That's a good looking mushroom. Would be great sauted with butter and a little garlic 😀.

Didn't see this until today. Great trips using the microjig. We showed the same thing but in different states that these little jigs just flat out catch a variety of species and decent sizes!

Glad to see someone out there putting it on some of those stinkin' green fish ! Congrats to the girls on getting their fish on their own. Makes a father proud. Would love to get the girls together again if possible to chase some fish in a pond or a creek.

Very nice Aaron! Would love to get after some of those fish. Just not enough time when I am in MO. I do love seeing some big brown bass. Keep posting.

Chief that looks fantastic. On the prom photo you should be proud.

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.