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Pat Some days I am more likely to hook up if it was a log and not a fish. Daryk I had to look up bala shark. I always called them tricolored sharks. Pretty likely that it was a carp or some type of sucker. As with Bigfoot, we need a body or at least a photo of the fish.

BH and smalliebigs We definitely don't have as many hummers in our Columbia neighborhood than you two. Been only seeing two or three at a time at any one of our feeders. They have been draining the feeders pretty quickly with this heat. Also do not mind the Seals and Croft song. My uncle Larry looked a lot like James Seals and even wore similar hats. He and my aunt divorced when I was fairly young but that resemblance stuck with me. Now if we can just get a summer breeze that would make me feel fine.

Thanks BH. Now I keep thinking about making mushroom ravioli. Time to break out the pasta maker. Don't know about our tomatoes. Rabbits have been getting the nearly ripe ones. Never had to fence them out before. Hopefully I can salvage a few tomatoes over the next couple of weeks.

Started dinner by cleaning some gulf shrimp, chopping broccoli, onions, and chanterelles. Sauted the broccoli and onion, then added the mushrooms. Once the broccoli was getting tender and the onions were translucent, I added the shrimp and salt and pepper. Once the shrimp were mostly cooked through, I added store bought alfredo sauce and cooked through the shrimp and broccoli. Served with fettuccini noodles.

Al Thanks for the advice. I have to say that I am addicted to seeing that big wake heading for my baits. It is so hard not to set the hook becore you feel the weight on the line. So I am always trying to learn to be a better top water fisherman.

Carol Welcome to the forum. There is a lot of good information to be found here. Also a lot of humor. Just don't believe everything that has been said or take it personally. What fish do you go after?

Daryk Great way to beat the heat with a close fishing trip. Glad you found some that were interested in the spook. Whenever I would rush to get to a spot to be there at the right time or condition a friend of mine used to say that you catch the fish that are ready to bite when you are fishing. So don't worry about things you can't change. Catch the ones in front of you. Congrats.

Congrats on the rainbow! That fish sure has been eating well. Thanks for sharing that suprise catch.

Definitely some fat healthy fish. Congrats on a great night trip.

Even with temperatures expected to exceed 100 degrees today, I was set on getting out to my favorite smallmouth water to see if I could catch more top water fish than mid or bottom baits. I got to the access point at 9:30 this morning. Air temp was probably close to 88-90 degrees. The water seemed to be around 80-85 degrees. There is a long hole right at the access. This area gets fished a lot. I put on the Perch pattern Whopper Plopper and had two blow ups and one 10" largemouth on the line. Several more blow ups while casting toward a rock pile downstream from me. There was shade above the rocks and it extended well over the water. Caught one more largemouth a little smaller than the first one. With all of the blow ups there seemed to be fish around that pile and I switched to the 1/8 oz PBJ Ned rig and hooked up with another small largemouth on the first cast. Several cast later and nothing to show for my efforts except lots of small fish pecking at the Ned. The river narrows above this hole and most stretches don't hold a lot of water. Cast the Ned to some deeper water behind a laydown tree and get a strike by a smallmouth that comes undone next to me. Same on the next cast a little further upstream. Both fish probably weren't much longer than 8". Next hole and still fishing the Ned I lose two more smallmouth one was over 12" in length. Catch two smallmouth, both about 9-10" in length and a 9" largemouth. The bottom is getting more large rocks and boulders, which in this system means more smallmouth and also more potential snags with the Ned. Switch back to the WP and have a couple of smallmouth hits and land a 12" fish. I am headed up to several boulder filled runs that are below a large long and deep hole. Although I haven't fished this section for a couple of years, I know this stretch well having caught a bunch of smallmouth every time I fish this section. I have twice caught my personal Missouri best smallmouth at the head of this deep hole, two fish a few years apart with both fish measuring 17.75". Headed up to this section of water and spooked a juvenile bald eagle off the bank. Fishing the WP I land two more largemouth, two really fat green sunfish, and three more smallmouth. I didn't catch any more fish on the WP, mainly because I felt that the bait might be spooking the fish when it hits the water. With too many boulders for the Ned. I put on a fluke. The first cast was just upstream of a large boulder and the fish must have been watching it, because it took the bait just as it hit the water. A couple of cast later, I caught my largest smallmouth, a 14" fish, and that fish pushed a 10 foot wake to get the fluke. I caught a couple of more smallmouth and a couple of largemouth. I switched to a super-fluke and only got a gar interested, but could not get the gar on the line. I kept seeing a large bass swimming in the hole. I put on a Excaliber Spit'n Image WTD bait. I did not catch the big one, but caught two largemouth and two green sunfish in this hole. It was now about 1:15 pm and the temp must have been close to 98 degrees. I fished the next hole upstream and that was about as far upstream as I got today. Just getting two hot for me. I caught another largemouth and smallmouth on the Spit'n image in that hole. Stopped in the shade above that short hole and saw a madtom go up under a rock just below me. I switched to my microfishing line and hooks. Didn't see the madtom again. Tried to catch some juvenile hog suckers, but could not do to too many mosquitofish and bleeding shiners. I did land this big female mosquitofish. Caught several shiners and a studfish. Done microfishing and headed back down stream back to the large hole. Kept seeing two large bass, but between my offerings today and the foot prints in the gravel from a previous fisherman these bass would get to within a couple of inches and never take my baits. Did get another gar to chew on my fluke, but could not get a hook set on this fish. Ended with this 8" smallmouth. Total tally was 12 fish with the Ned and fluke versus 15 fish on the WP and Spit'n image top water baits. So even with the heat the top water bite was not bad for nearly 100 degrees (on the way home, the local bank registered 101 degrees).

Don't have pictures. Tonight was grilled chicken thighs that were marinated with a fig balsamic vinegar, oil, and spices. Also had grilled cauliflower, chanterelles, onion, and yellow squash. Dessert was a couple of spiced peaches that we had canned a couple of weeks ago.

Al Nice looking boat. I especially like the cutthroat decal in the front. Should be a great boat.

I like to cook with dried porcinis. I will soak them in hot water to reconstitute. Mostly do that for the intense flavored liquor than the actual mushroom. Then i use the liquor and mushrooms as a braising liquid for shortribs or squirrel, etc. Real interested in grinding any dried chants in sauces like BH did for his tomato sauce.

Eric82 Those are some nice chunky fish. Congrats. Looks like you got bass dialed in as well as trout on the fly. Thsnks for the post.

Ness If you have been getting consistent rains like we have been the last couple of weeks then you should be able to find chanterelles. Look in the areas the Gavin and BH suggest. I also have been finding them on benches below a wooded slope. Once I do find a patch, I like to look along the same elevation on the slope instead of down or up slope. It seems to me that the mycelia grows horizontally and not vertically along the slope. Kind of like trolling a contour at the same depth you found fish. This is a fishing forum.

Did a stir fry with chicken and beef. Vegetables included carrot, zucchini, onion, green pepper, ginger, wild collected oyster, chanterelle, and indigo milky cap mushrooms and store bought enoki mushrooms. I picked up the enoki before we collected more chanterelles and the indigo milky mushrooms yesterday. I had those mushrooms so I used them. While cooking, I was really wishing that I had the Billet-o-matic super wok to superheat and cook this meal. Still I made due. Olivia wanted to take a photo of her plate. So here it is.

Had a guy give me a tip on where to go find chanterelles without even trying. He left with a big bag. So we headed there this evening. First mushrooms were not chanterelles. Maybe some sort of milky cap mushroom with an orange cap but white gills and stem. It seemed like where ever we looked there were lots of mushrooms. This was a mixed oaks flat. Some cedars and low brush. It took several minutes until we found our first chanterelles. Probably got 20 or so in this patch. Kept looking and I found three green crackling russulas. Then another small patch of chanterelles and tons of possibl e milky caps, some Amanitas, emetic russulas, and many that I could not ID easily. Also boletes of almost every size shape and color. But it was this one hidden in the grass that really got me excited. An Indigo milky. My wife and I both spotted the first ones that we found tonight. We found them in tall grass near a path edge. We also found a couple in the mixed oak areas again near the edge. At this point we felt pretty good about what we had found and were headed back to the car. I still was looking off into the oak woods as we were walking the trail and I spotted orange. We go over and we see patches after patches of chanterelles. There were so many that we left the broken tops or small ones. We filled the rest of this basket and my backpack and it did not look like we harvested any. It was phenomenal.

Very likely to be a bolete. Not sure of the species. We have been finding a lot of boletes this year and I am really poor at their ID.

RPS the British made growing maggots and fishimg maggots into an art form. I watched a lot of rough fishing shows when I was over there and was always amazed at the different color combinations of larvae they used to catch fish. I really liked when they would catapult chum with a cupped slingshot. They would often fish the same spot all day long and needed to bring fish to them. It's a different type of fishing thsn we are used to around here. Thsnks for the story. Brings back some memories.

RPS - Great story. Did he bait the swim before he caught that perch? The only fish that I caught in 19 months of living in Northern Ireland was a perch. Their fishing laws and fees were just too high for me to pay and fish a whole lot. Even the one pay trout lake would not let me fish because I could not convince them that a spinning rod casting flies was not bait fishing when they only allowed fly fishing. We regularly caught perch when we lived in PA. In most public lakes these fish were really overfished and in turn most were really small. One of the lakes we were researching in grad school had not been fished in decades. We were able to convince the board to do a fish survey study of the lake. That entailed catching as many species of fish, pumping their stomach contents, weights and lengths, plus removing scales for aging the animals then release back into the lake. My wife and I fished in the same boat (at the time she was just my girlfriend). We were catching perch that were 16 to 18" in length and almost 1.5 to 2 lbs. They fought like smallmouth bass. I didn't get to fish much. I had to process every fish. So once I was done processing a fish, she would hand me the next one that she just caught. I have a picture on my desk at work of each of us holding a 17 and 18" perch. That was a great time. The smallmouth bass in that lake were all relatively old (7-8 years old) and all about the same size, 18 to 22" and about 2- 2.5 lbs. I know that there are some big perch in the northern plains states. I would love to find some more local.

Slider and BH - What type of habitat did you find the indigos? I would love to find some. Do either of you have an idea about the white polypore mushroom in my second picture? Does not look like any polypore that I have found before. Thanks.

We have a friend that has some serious food allergies. So I have no issue with a guest that needs special care due to allergies. I can't stand folks that choose a lifestyle that insist that you have to adhere to that lifestyle as well and pander to their needs. There was a vegetarian that we worked with in Ireland that would eat bacon and seafood. I'm not sure she understood what it was to be a vegetarian.

Ham Great report. I haven't fished in enough tailwaters to have any real experience getting caught in the flow or gauging when I needed to get off the water. Closest experience was when I had a river come up real fast due to rain that almost caught me off guard.

Congrats on a pig of a smallmouth! That's an awesome fish. Smallmouth do fight hard, but I think hybrids fight harder. Both are great to catch. I also believe that you would never land a 10# bluegill.

Yo-Zuri hybrid in 8# and P-line fluoroclear for 2 and 4# lines. I don't typically fish heavier line. I do have a reel spooled with 6# nanofil, but I haven't fished it often enough to have a full opinion about this line yet.