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I caught a few goggle-eye like the one below out of the multitude of hits yesterday on a PBJ ned rig fishing the Niangua river. Must have been a swarm of them on a single piece of unseen cover.

Its your call on reading about or looking at food. I wouldn't suggest it. It got to the point that I couldn't even listen to food commercials. Clear broth and liquids just did not cut it.

Those are awesome bass! Congrats!

MOpanfisher Just don't plan on being more than 50 steps from a bathroom once your magic shake kicks in. The rest is pretty uneventful. The best part can be your first meal after your procedure. You feel like you can eat anything without consequence.

The goliath grouper was known as the jewfish previously. Apparently there are a few ideas about how they got that name. I had heard one idea that the jewfish was just a shortening of the original name of jeweled fish, which was given to these fish based upon the speckled coloration of the juvenile fish. Another that this was a mispronounciation of jawfish. The last is that this was considered a fine kosher fish due to it's white flesh eaten by jews in the caribbean.

They touch on the many reasons that I have started microfishing. It has added a lot more waters to fish especially around home. A lot of these fish have very interesting life and breeding cycles that most folks overlook. The last is the abundance of new species available. I also love to see peoples reaction when they see the tiny tackle. Thanks for sharing this post. I still love to catch large fish as well.

Mitch I have always liked the contrasts that you would get with black and white film. A lot of color photos get kind of muddy. So I like the old pictures for those qualities.

Trythisonemv If you have read any of my past posts, you know I can't help but look at other fish to catch even when catching the McCloud rainbows. Have you been seeing any numbers of grass pickerel lately? I have caught them fishing from the upper access in the past, but did not see a one last Feb when I last fished Crane.

Although I agree with Ben Franklin that the wild turkey would be a more noble national bird, I would hate not being able to chase them around in the spring and now again starting next Sat. I can't imagine that an eagle would be a good "eating" bird. Al - let us know if you land any of those channel trout.

I'm sure that most on here thought that the egg sandwich was a humorous way of saying "lighten up Francis!"

BH Another great hunting post. Congrats to you and the Mrs. I'm sure that we will hear more when the puddle duck season rolls around. Don't forget that this is a fishing forum. The french fry may have to make a return.

Were you strolling or trolling those Neds? Hopefully you got some sashimi from that tuna. That's a lake that I want to fish. Looking at the land, I would think that this lake is out west possibly south of the border. I would also assume that is a white marlin. Congrats!

Russ that is (are) a fantastic brown trout! I can't tell if both pictures are of the same fish. Regardless congrats on your night trip on Taney!

Great photos of your McCloud mastery! I wasn't planning on a trip down to that creek this year, but your making it hard to resist. Seems like they may be putting on the feed prior to their spawn this winter. Congrats!

FFM I agree about the bonus feeling after getting that first fish or in a lot of my trips that targeted species. I track the date of the trip, species caught, number caught, anything special (like 1 >15"), location and lure/bait type/color. I don't get into temp data, clarity, weather, etc. At least not yet I don't.

CM Great to see you get out with your wife and son! Sounded like a great trip. You will have to work on long arming your fish photos. I'm sure that they were much bigger than in the photos . my daughter really enjoyed going through the rapids, particularly the Falls. Floating in Oct, my wife and I were just happy not to get soaked with cold water in cool weather.

A crazy european angler that marks a centimeter ruler on his leg.

I'll keep you posted. As you said they are slow growing. So it may be a couple of years before anything exciting happens with them.

BH Understand being hot and worn down. My trip on Sunday was on a 1 square mile of National Forest land with 65% of the land in grasslands. It's relatively flat land. so I wasn't expecting a grueling hunt. Since they allow grazing, the only wooded areas are around the creeks that run through the property and they are fenced to keep out the cattle. So I ended up crossing over four barbed wire fences. The creek bottoms looked like they had lost a couple of feet of bottom due to scouring with the heavy rains this spring/summer. I had to cross two of the deep creek bottoms (higher than my head) and a few that were only waist to shoulder height. Some of the weeds and brush were chest to shoulder high, which for other people may only be waist high. It seemed like every "opening" in the weeds ahead of me resulted in a patch of briars or another deep creek branch. I did find my first patch of jack-o-lantern mushrooms here in MO. I have seen them in PA, but not yet here. No edibles that I could confirm. Had a cottontail 8 to 10 feet in front of me with an open head shot, but it was a couple of weeks before it becomes legal game. At that time its likely a fox will have killed and eaten it. Still it was a good afternoon/evening hunt, but was worn out on Monday. I had already planned to have that day off from work and just had to convince my better half to give me the day off of the honeydo list. Oh shoot, I didn't get a picture of me having fun.

After reading Eric82 post about his trip fishing the upper Current with a little color in the water. That got me excited about making the 300 mile round trip just for the possibilities of catching a few brown trout. Since I have moved to MO I have been tracking the numbers and type of fish that I catch. I caught my fish trout in MO at Baptist Access on the Current river over 16 years ago. Since that time I have caught 289 brown trout in MO. Earlier this year I made it a goal to get above 300 browns by the end of our fishing license year, i.e., Feb 28, 2017. I also want to catch brown trout in all of the trout waters that have been stocked with browns. So I still have to catch browns in the Niangua, Roaring river, and Lake Taneycomo to finish that goal. With 274 brown trout caught in the Current, I knew that I would fish the Current more this year to finish this goal. So I was likely to catch some brown trout on this trip. However I made a couple of possibly poor decisions. The first is that I was expecting color to the water. So I focused upon bringing mostly reaction baits, like crawfish crankbaits or jerkbaits. I also had several jigs with me as well. I also brought my rod loaded with 6 lb nanofil line, but did not bring extra 6 lb fluorocarbon leader material. The second was to stay near the access point. Figuring that I was fishing on a Tuesday, I didn't plan for other fishermen being on the river since Sunday. However, there were lots of boot prints all along the banks and trails to the best holes. I gave a way to a couple of fisherman while on this trip. Normally I would anticipate folks on the river and would hike either three miles down to Ashley or hike the three miles upstream to Ashley or downstream to cedargrove and fish back to the car. That way I would fish spots few people fish. So with my course set on these two problems I did get to fish on a beautiful day. The water was running clear and seemed like about 58 to 60 deg. I had fish follow most of my baits. Many would not commit, like they had either seen this before or were a bit sore lipped .I caught my first brown not too far downstream from the access point on a Rapala UL jerkbait. I caught this other brown trout further downstream also on the jerkbait. I found some ripe pawpaws (see Whats Cooking thread for details). I hiked down another 1/4 mile and ran into a guy fly fishing. I decided to let him have this section to fish and headed back upstream. I ended up breaking off one of my lures on the far bank and I got the lure back and destroyed my leader. So I had to switch to my reel loaded with 4 lb line. I then switched back to jigs. I caught this 13" stocked rainbow in the same hole that I caught my last brown trout (pictured above). I caught a couple more rainbows and one was caught on a small rattle trap. It was the first fish that I had ever caught on a rattle trap lure. I ended up only with three brown trout and three rainbows all between 10 and 14". I also lost a chance on a 18-20 " brown trout that was tight against a rock bluff in a highly fished area. I made a great cast right on top and it blew up on the lure, but I went to set the hook on the blow-up and not on the tug. Not a great total for 5 1/2 hours of fishing. I should have tried for more secluded fishing areas, but as I mentioned earlier there is still plenty of time to catch 8 more brown trout in MO. Now I keep thinking about hitting the Niangua and Roaring River this October or in Jan. Then it will be time to give Phil L a visit and get a Taney brown.

I got out on Sunday and was on public lands as well. I had the Remington 870 12 ga pump action. I heard the first one before I saw it. It was coming in low. I could see it above the grass tops. I led it and pulled the trigger when I saw its head coming out of the grass. It crumpled and made for an easy retrieve. The shot was only about 5 to 6 yards. I ended up with three only. I missed the daily limit only by seven. Only got one photo. Add these three with another one I shot last week, now I have enough for a meal. I know its not a teal, but I just wanted to post with the cool guys. I have teal post envy. I will say that this year especially, the thermocell has been an invaluable tool.

Well now I have another check off the bucket list. I can now say that I have found ripe pawpaws. While fishing I got into a grove of pawpaw on the bank and smelled bananas. I looked around and found this bunch. They were soft to the touch. Picked all five and stuck them in my fishing vest. There were lots of trees around maybe 150 stems to real trees. I found some by sight and a couple more by scent. I ended up finding 11 ripe ones and seven rock solid fruit. My family actually like them. Now we have a cup full of seeds to plant near our little pawpaw stem out behind our chicken yard. No pictures of us enjoying them.

Ness I understand. I'm not losing, but fortunately not gaining either even when I have two or three "cheat" days in a row.

Just glad for no "out it goes" pictures.

Spoondog Looked up the oil in poison ivy, which is called urushoil. Found out that the boiling point of urushoil is 200 deg celsius or almost 400 deg F. Unlikely that you would be able to cook it off. The urushoil can be removed with soap and water, but that won't do the mushrooms any justice. So the issue is really how much of this oil may actually be on the mushrooms after a brief contact as they fell from the wood. If you are really allergic, you may not want to eat them. If you eat them or not, it's a good find. All of the oysters that I have come across lately are a slimy smear on the host wood. I missed them by several days or a week or more.