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Ham How long go were they released into the lake? If it was several years ago, then they are likely have a breeding population to still be catching them. They are pretty prolific breeders. Does Bull Shoals go anoxic in the deep water during the summer? If not, the perch probably have a comfortable temp range throughout the year.

Downstream - Out of my three she is the only one that still likes to get out and fish with dad. At least until she finds boys. So I will take any time she is willing to go out with dad. Mitch - You haven't see the zombie-like groups of people running around looking at their phones, stopping and looking around? Pokémon go is a game that folks use their phones to track and capture Pokémon. It's at least getting folks outside to go catch these things. I know you guys recently had an addition to the family, but is your wife leaving the house more frequently to go for walks? If so, she is probably playing the game.

Thanks. Never thought thatI would see any silversides in MO let alone catch one. Just in the right place and lucky.

Nice fish Dan. Hoping to try verticle jigging. Looks pretty productive.

Ham Did not realize that BSL had yellow perch. Do you know of any other lakes that have a perch population?

After a successful day on the river on Sat. I was able to convince my wife and my daughter to make a trip down to do more fishing. We were originally going to go to Bennett's, but due to off color water, did not want to make the 2 hour trip and have bad fishing especially when my favorite river was fishing well. This was going to be a casual fishing trip. I wanted to get them onto some fish. I brought three different rods. One with 8#, 4#, and 2# test line. I still had my PBJ Ned rig on the 8# line incase we got into some smallmouth or largemouth bass. The 4# could be used to fish small jigs or roostertail baits for sunfish or bass. I brought along the 2# rod just for the possible microfishing opportunities. Where we were headed has smallmouth, and largemouth bass, sunfish, rock bass, and a large variety of minnows, darters, topminnows, etc. I felt that we could handle most anything that we came across with our set-ups. I was not planning to fish much, but to help out rigging lines, taking pictures, and just enjoying the day. Many folks on this forum know that I have a collectors mindset when it comes to catching multiple fish species. A friend stated that my fishing was my version of the Pokémon Go craze hitting throughout. Even my wife and daughters are out chasing the variety of Pokemons throughout our neighborhood and town. So I was hoping for a variety of fish being caught on this trip. We decided to access a small tributary of the river I fished on Sat. The water was running a bit higher than I normally see in this creek. Took this as a good sign and decided we should look over the one or two holes I could see from where we parked the car. I sent my daughter upstream to a hole with some large rocks on the bank and I assumed down into the hole while I rigged the 2# rod with a tiny piece of hook for my wife to catch shiners in the multitude of schools in this creek. My daughter had the 4# rod and a 1/32 oz olive/black marabou jig. I don't think that she made more than one cast to catch this smallmouth bass. Just as I finished this picture and Olivia released the fish, it was back downstream to Follysbetterhalf to capture her with her first bleeding shiner catch. You'll notice that she is in stealth mode with the large white hat and brightly colored top. Gotcha! Its in the bag instead of a Pokeball. We all moved up to the hole that my daughter was fishing and Follysbetterhalf caught a 10" smallmouth on the Ned rig (no picture due to a quick release once unhooked). She then got hung on a branch near the opposite bank. Instead of blowing out the hole, we left that rod and used the other two. Just as I was noticing a different topminnow in the creek that I don't believe that I had caught before, my daughter took the 2# rod and immediately caught a northern studfish, the topminnow that I had just seen. I also noticed a school of western mosquitofish (look like large guppies) at me feet. Also a fish that I have never caught before. So it was on as to who could catch the first mosquitofish. I also was behind with not catching a studfish. Dad takes the first mosquitofish. Then just after releasing this fish lands his first studfish. Gotcha! Then the girls doubled on mosquitofish. Then we got the Ned free and headed downstream. My wife stopped us by telling us she just saw a small black catfish go under some of the small rocks in the stream. We never found that one, but had a madtom head in our direction. It took 10-15 minutes for my daughter to finally net this guy. We could not tell from the photo if this is a stonecat or a freckled madtom. I will have to contact someone to see if he can help Id this fish. I only count fish that I catch by hook and line, but my daughter likes to catch fish by hand or in this case with a small net (she caught a large male longear sunfish later on by hand, but no picture). One last minnow for my daughter as we head down the confluence with the river, her first bleeding shiner. I found that under the bridge there were a couple of pools with some bass in them and I called the girls to try to catch them. Olivia was first with the Ned rig. Followed by my wife with the 1/32 oz olive/black jig. A couple of fat largemouths. Her nails match the colors on this green sunfish she caught on the jig. After these fish the girls, used Olivia's dive mask to look at sunfish and minnows in the stream and I caught another largemouth with a 1/16 yellow/black jig. When Olivia got the Ned hung up in deeper water of this pool, we sent her diving for it with her dive mask. She said that there was a large bass that came right up to her face. The 13" largemouth that I just caught may have been that fish. We finally got to the confluence and there was more fishing and swimming. My wife caught four smallmouth on the Ned and I caught three myself and lost two large fish. We were just slow reeling it across the golf ball to base ball sized rock. It's definitely a game changer bait. I have got to make some more. Just before I committed to swimming in the deep hole we caught several smallmouth, I had one more fish to catch. I had seen a thinner minnow running along the surface as we were catching the bass. So with a #20 hook and a tiny piece of worm I landed this brook silverside, my third new species of the day. GOTCHA!

Slider Those are impressive baskets. Nice variety of mushrooms. It looks like you found some indigo milky mushrooms. I haven't had those before. How do they taste? Here are some of the pictures from our trip last week. These last two boletes were very large. the smaller one's cap was 3" across.

Awesome picture! Nothing better than a kid holding a fish with a big smile. Thanks for posting.

The last fshing report on Weaver's site was for Tuesdsy the 12th. I couldn't find a post for Thursday. Maybe I missed that one, poosibly on FB. I don't go on FB.

I may be addicted to the Ned rig. More on that latet.

Thanks guys. Since this river system hasn't been blown out, I took out my better half and daughter to a small trib of this river today will post after we get dinner.

I haven't fished in Missouri since the end of May. Issues at work and high water have kept me off the rivers and streams that I fish during the summer. Made plans to fish a small river on Sat. to fish for smallmouth and plans to head to Bennett's on Sun to fish with my family and some guys from work. I really need to catch some smallmouth and bought a couple of Whopper ploppers to catch the summer top water bite and got the jig heads and Zman plastics to make my first Ned rigs (sorry Dave I picked up another jig head at Bass pro shops in town, I'll see about getting some of yours if the Ned works for me). Floods at Bennett's have the water higher and more off-colored than I like to fish. Ended up not going down to BSP. So I kept my eye on the water levels on the other river with a mid-week 1.5 foot spike, but dropping. So without any more rain the water was still low enough to wade and the fishing should still be good. 3 am Sat. I am up listening to a heavy downpour. Checked the water level - no change. Check the local weather down at the river - 15% chance of rain. Contact friend to update what was going on and discuss options. Stay on plan, meet at 4:30 and head south to the river. Drive through the rain questioning the weather. With a few planned trips blown out by rain already this year, I feel the jynx. "It's not you. It's me!" Rain lightens up as we pass through Jeff City and stops as we get to Westphalia with still a ways to go. May be it will be good and dry day after all. Keep heading south and turn into the access - no rain. With four fisherman, we spilt with two headed downstream and two headed upstream. I was headed upstream with a guy that does not fish this type of water and has never fished this river before. The long deep, 2-4 foot, slow section of river usually holds some bass. I started with a fluke in baby bass, which is my personal favorite bait for a river like this one. I can cast this bait across all sections of this river and far enough upstream or downstream as needed. It matched the bleeding shiners that dominate the forage and is large enough to attract bigger fish and not too big to catch a lot of mid-sized fish unlike the super fluke. I pointed out a large rock pile on the far bank and mentioned to my partner to cast his plastic crayfish bait to the pile while I fished less productive water upstream. He just couldn't get his baitcaster to get that bait to the pile. It could be a long and unproductive day if he can't find a bait that will get some distance in his cast. Clear and shallow water requires longer casts to not spook your target fish. Most fish you won't see until it takes your bait and you land it. I put on a Whopper plopper (perch 90) on the line and since the river is deep to our bank, make a cast up stream parallel to the bank. I wanted to see how this bait would fish in this river. I could cast this a long way. I like the action. I'm a little concerned about the line in the water running the bait beneath the surface. I keep my rod tip high to keep the line off the water and to maximize the top water action. Nothing on the first cast. I cast cross the middle of the river but still far upstream. As I get the bait to within 15 feet of me, I see a bass following as I pause the bait. It explodes as I crank it a little more and the fight is on. It's a 10-11" largemouth with a pot belly. My first on the WP! No more fish following at this spot, move upstream about 50 yards and catch two more fat largemouths casting to the other bank. I mention to my partner that he should try to fish one overhanging tree that I had a couple of blow-ups. Nothing for him yet. This slower water typically holds more largemouth and not many smallies. I came to catch smallmouth and continued to head upstream to water that was faster and with more rock and boulders than logs. The water upstream was a little faster, but still had a bunch of logs along the one bank. I made casts with the WP and had blow-ups on most. A couple of really big and fat (see a pattern here) green sunfish hit the WP along that bank. I get to a spot where a tree is laying halfway across the river. There are rocks and boulders along the bank and into the river being covered by the tree. I make a couple of WP casts and only get one or to pops and no hook-ups. I see a couple of smallmouth swimming behind me. I switch to the fluke and land my first smallmouth of the day. Casts to the log and rocks led to several more fat green sunfish. One of my casts hooked over an overhanging limb with the bait suspended in the water. I had a largemouth rip the line off of that limb and head downstream. This was the first 12+" bass of the day. Again it was eating well. I caught several more fish on the fluke. I tried my Ned rig and hung up in the bigger rocks without getting any strikes. I was able tog get it back by walking upstream each time. My partner was now fishing a crankbait that he could cast well. I had him hopscotch above me upstream. He caught a couple of green sunfish to get his first fish of the day. I knew that were going to get into really decent smallmouth water just upstream. Unfortunately we hit a hole that usually is 2-3' deep where the river hits a bluff at a 50 degree angle. It was only 18" deep in most places due to an influx of gravel. I switched to a black/olive 1/16 oz marabou jig and landed my first northern rock bass, my 36th different species for this year. He caught his first smallmouth just upstream from me in this same hole. We kept going upstream. I switched back to the fluke going weightless and he put on a pink super fluke with a weighted swimbait hook. This river has lots of 12+" bass, many 13-15" bass and a few 17+" bass. I saw a seam in the current that suggested a deeper water trough and cast my fluke upstream from that seam and I soon had on my first 14+" smallmouth of the day in hand. I caught one more 12" smallmouth in the this hole. It's just beautiful water. Fishing the weighted super fluke just wasn't getting my partner any bites. I gave him a 7" berkely black powerworm with a chartreuse ribbontail as we headed to the next hole upstream. There were water willows along the closest bank and I had him cast parallel to that cover. A 13+" smallmouth hit the bait as it hit the water. unfortunately it broke off as he was landing the fish. Out of the black/chartreuse worms, I gave him a green pumpkin ribbontail and he caught a largemouth off of those same willows. I had two largemouth take my fluke just under a sycamore overhang on the other bank. Now we were into some fish. Upstream at the tail of a long deep hole with lots of rock and wood along the one bank, there were more brush hanging over some deeper water and I landed my largest smallmouth of the day (15+") on the WP. I switched back to the fluke and got into a pack of smallmouth. Most were 10-12" and one looked like it would top 18". I landed four right off the bat with the fluke, I kept throwing at the large fish, but the smaller ones would hit the baits. I put on a plastic crayfish and caught two more smallies and a few green sunfish. The big fish stayed around but again could not get to the bait. I switched to the green pumpkin power worm and he finally hit the bait, As I was reeling him in he came off. I just had to watch it swim away. My partner was caching his own smallies at the head of the pool. Could it get better than this? I leapfrogged up to this hole. There was fast water coming into the head of the pool, with a log laying down deflecting the water and big rock, mid-sized rock, and pea gravel bottom. The hole was probably 2-3' deep and I could reach the water just at the head of the pool with my casts. I put back on the WP and it was on. I caught five fat smallmouth all between 11 and 13" and a 13" largemouth. once they stopped rising for the WP, put on the fluke and then the crayfish plastics and landed a couple more smallies. I then put on the Ned rig, since there was a gravel bottom. Made my first cast up by the/under the log and slowly reeled back in bumping along the bottom. Before I knew it a smallmouth was swimming away with the Ned. I caught five more smallmouth and a rock bass all on the Ned in just about as many casts. I lost another smallmouth and two largemouth. One of the smallmouth I had caught with the WP earlier. My first attempt at building a Ned rig. My first fish on the Ned. Ned Rock bass. I showed the Ned to my partner as he came back down stream towards me. After 5 1/2 hours of fishing we had to head back to the truck so that my partner and my friend could get home by 1:30 pm for work. On the way back downstream I had to try the Ned for the big bass that was still cruising around that hole. First cast another fat rock bass. On the far bank there was a 12" smallmouth hanging by a large rock. I said to my partner to watch the bass and I made a cast just in front of him and it pounded the Ned. He couldn't believe that I just called the shot and caught that fish. I had a witness. I will definitely have to fish the Ned some more. Ended the day with 54 fish total and five different species. I did not microfish and would likely have caught many more species, since I saw at least three different darters (orangethroat, rainbow, and greensides), two chubs species (creek and hornyhead chubs), two sucker species (northern hog and possibly white suckers) and probably three different minnows. I caught 26 smallmouth with three that were 14-15" and 10 that were 12-13" in length. I didn't catch as many largemouth bass, only 10 fish with four between 12-13" and one 14" fish. All of the largemouth, and most of the other fish had paunches filled with the minnows and crayfish that fill this river. All fish were released to hopefully grow bigger for the next time I get down that way.

We went to a new area and found a bunch of different mushrooms. About a dozen chanterelles, wood ear, a few oysters and lots that I could not id. I will post photos later. We did find some giant boletes and possibly peppery milkys. Did not anticipate being run out of the woods by mosquitoes. They have not been bad anywhere else, but they swarmed us tonight. Only were out for about an hour. We had just bought a couple of thermocells, but didn't bring one or two along with us. Pretty dumb. We'll go back with repellent and my microfishing tackle to get more mushrooms and the couple of different minnow species in the small creek.

Great photos! That is a fat brown trout. Congrats on her PB trout! Sounds like you had great time.

JHK Congrats on your first wild NC trout! Great looking fish. Hope to see some more pictures of your next couple of trout. Good luck on the rest of your trip.

I had the same type of experience with suwannee river bass in Florida many years ago. I was fishing Wakulla river south of Tallahassee. Super clear spring fed water. I was trying to catch all of the black bass species and still needed the Suwannee river and Guadalupe bass. I had several fish follow my baits. The most action came on a baby bass fluke. I had two separate suwannee grab the bait and just as I got them within hand reach they both just let go of the bait. They were never hooked and just had the baits held in their mouth. Any time I went to a smaller bait to get a better hook set, I only got follows and no strikes. So still no suwannee bass. I haven't gone for guadelupe. Still two species short. Now you have me intrigued to try for a trout slam in Arkansas.

Ham Sounds like a great after work fishing trip. Congrats on the 3/4 Norfork slam!

I caught these two smallies while targeting trout just below the Hwy 19 bridge by Greer. It was Jan. and I have heard that the smallmouth move up towards the spring at that time. Would not be surprised if you get on them in Aug. Good luck. 10" smallmouth. 14" smallmouth.

Marcus Great first walleye! I still haven't caught one yet. A bit jealous. Congrats on your catch! Probably was a decent meal. Didn't look like a C&R photo op.

I'm always up for trophy minnow photos. Good luck!

We decided on chanterelle soup this evening. We followed this recipe: http://honest-food.net/2014/07/21/chanterelle-soup-recipe/ I had to minced and sweat a pound of chanterlles and two shallots while my wife made the soup base. And it's done. I just had a salad with this soup with a yellow tomato from the garden (finally). My wife had brie and crackers with her soup. We really liked this recipe. Now we have to go out and get some more mushrooms. Got more rain today, hopefully able to find them again this week.

I will have to try the carnitas, pork and turkey both sound good. My wife would love them. I have been thinking about this recipe for some time but hadn't had enough chanterelles (yes again with those guys) to make it. Made a roulade with chicken breast that we butterflied and flattened as thin as possible. I seasoned inside of the chicken then added a filling made with sauted chanterelles, minced dried apricots, minced onions, and garlic. I browned the chicken rolls on both sides and placed them on a tray and into a 375 deg oven to cook the centers. I deglazed the pan with more minced onions, water (chicken stock probably would have been more flavorful, didn't have any), and a 1/4 cup of brandy then burned off the alcohol and added cream and small amount of butter to the sauce. Served them with brussel sprouts and butternut squash. (pictured before I added the sauce)

Thanks BH and good luck to you and your better half.

Had chanterelles and scrambled eggs this morning. (Camera was still a little sleepy and foggy eyed this morning.) Sauted the mushrooms with garlic and minced onion. Scrambled eggs from our easter eggers, dominiques, and are bantum hens. Salt, pepper and a spice mix. shared the plate with my wife. I had mine with multigrain wheat toast and cantaloupe.

Eureka!!! Thar is gold in thar hills!! Was going out looking for chanterelles and small furry guys on some forest land. This was an area that I found a bunch of old chants last year. I turned the corner and found the following. I realized that I was undergunned to adequately take care of this sign. Had to call in backup. So reluctantly Follysbeterhalf came to help out. With knives and basket in hand we got down to business. I have never found chants in this abundance before. so I'm pretty excited. Many of these guys were fairly large. With the large number of mushrooms, we left a lot of the small ones to try to keep this site active this year and hopefully into the next year and beyond. Pretty happy with our collection. Hope others are finding some shrooms this year.