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Hoped that you washed your hands😅. Nice photos Pete👍

I would back that🤣! Let's go Elon!

Not the right size and way over budget.

A young girl asks her mom "where did the human race come from?" The mom answered,"God made Adam and Eve and they had children. Then all of the human race was made." A couple of days later the girl asked her dad the same question. Her dad answered,"Many years ago there were monkeys and they evolved into humans. That's where the human race came from." Confused the girl went to her mom and told her what her dad had said and she didn't understand whether humans came from God or from monkeys. Her mom said, "Its OK. I told you about my side of the family and your dad told you about his!"🤣

As others have said previously, I have only known him through his posts on this forum. Even so you could tell how special a man he was and what a great fisherman. I will miss seeing his lunker counts going forward and am unhappy that I was never able to meet him in person. I wish the best for Sandy and his family and our thoughts go out to them.

We do the same. We call it speedtiquing 😁

Great Job Marty and Pat! I'm sure those guys are so appreciative of your efforts.

She's starting to find my hiding spaces 🤣

Ever get set up on a blind fishing date with some boyfriend or friend of a friend and this guy shows up?!?🙄 Then they catch the big one

Now you're catching fish that I can relate to 🤣! Nice job on all those other spots as well.

Pretty much describes the family that my wife and I decided to have once we started having kids. She stayed home to raise them and even homeschooled two of our kids while I worked. Now that my youngest is 18, I'm hoping that my wife may get a job to allow me more fishing time 😅.

If so then there should be quite a few 4+Lb brown and rainbow trout in the mix😉

They can be pretty aggressive and fight well on light line. What's not to like about that 😉?

We are having the same issue with finding any candidates let alone qualified candidates.

Good luck on your new guide business. Thanks for the great offer to OAF members!

Hopefully you had or are having a good time. My wife has been there but I haven't yet. I definitely would sneak to try and get some sort of fish while in Hawaii.

If I am converting it correctly 1 mM of manganese would be 25 mg/L. That would be extremely high. Even the 0.1 mM would be 250 ug/L. I've seen avg concentrations of 24 ug/L. In surface waters across the country. @Phil Lilley what levels are you concerned about?

25Apr22 Took of today wanted to try for more sculpin and darter species. Also see if we could find some morels on the western side of the state. First spot would be a piece of National Park land from the old C&O canal system along the Potomac. Didn't plan for any fishing in the big river, but had targeted a small creek that should hold some potomac sculpin. Sue went for mushrooms and I put on waders. Below the bridge I found some flat rock with good openings under them. I got a fish to come out from under the rock. I had two shots at it as it hit my bait but failed to get a hook set. Found another rock that was similar setup. Again a sculpin was under it and again I could not get a hook set when it bit. Then it spooked. For the next 30 mins I could not find any others. I did find that the bait had covered the hook point. I picked up Sue who had some dryad saddle mushrooms and a single yellow morel🙂. She didn't find any others. We left and got to a second creek. This creek did not have really any rock or structure that would hold any sculpin. Also no darters were seen. Still had one more darter spot. Another 25 min drive amd we were at Catoctin creek. After checking the creek, I saw some small smallmouth bass and redbreast sunfish. I put on a John deere microjig on my Airstream 7' UL rood and 4# Pline. As I got back down to the creek one flyfisherman was leaving and the other had just passed thru the spot with the smallmouth. They spooked when the tiny jig hit the water. Third cast was picked up by a fallfish. I made several more casts but no love from the smallmouth that came back. Once I threw well ahead of them and with small jigs of the bait I caught my first smallmouth in 2022. Not a big one but he made the list😉. I caught a couple of redbreast sunfish and we headed home. No darters or sculpin but a nice day out.

Not sure if they are still there but a trout farm from Gravois mills would sell trout at the local farmers market in Columbia.

That's a great smallie! Glad to see you back Pete and with photos😅!

The jaw does not extend beyond the eye which would be indicative of a LMB. It may be a LMB/Spotted hybrid. Regardless it is a toad and I'm sure well over 5 lbs! Congrats!

Starting this a bit late. I already posted about our shad fishing trip. We had a couple more trips so far and I might get in one maybe two more before May. Spring is definitiely here in terms of spawning fish. Weather has been a bit rougher here as it seems it is also in the midwest. 13Apr22 Made a run after work to one of the closest lakes to us. Only had about 35 to 40 mins to fish before dark. Park guys kick you out at soon as possible on most evenings. The bank that we usually fish looks like they harvested a lot of the vegetation from the bank. I wasn't sure how that would affect our fishing. I put on the trout magnet jig and targetted sunfish while Livie had her waders on to fish a topwater for bass or possible snakehead. I go no love along most of the bank where we would normallly get into groups of decent bluegill and redear sunfish. Livie wasn't even getting any follows let alone any real blow ups on the topwater. I did get one smallish chain pickerel on the green and black trout magnet. Can't complain about the evening. Even the local fire department were checking out their pump systems as the sun set on a nice day. 23Apr22 After our shad and micro trip last weekend, Livie still wanted another shot at the darters in Buck Branch. We made a day trip with everyone and did some antiquing on the drive up to fish. What a difference a week makes. There were much fewer fish in the creek than last weekend. Maybe it was due to being later in the afternoon or maybe conditions were changing. So hope to getting one of the tessellated darters for Livie looked to be a challenge. We had the one micro rod with a #24 hook (that Livie struggled with last week getting a hook set) and a #26 half moon tanago with worm on the other micro rod. Livie could not get many of the fish to show any interest in the #24 hook. She switched rods and hooked up. I was hurrying over with the catch bag and she kept telling me that I would not be able to guess what she caught. She was right, since she caught a salamander still with external gills. Best we can tell it's a dusky salamander. While she used the tanago, I fished the #24 rod. She did catch her first eastern blacknose dace of the year, but not one of the coloroful males that were chasing each other around. I was bouncing the split shot into and in front of gaps and holes between the rocks to see if I could entice a darter to show itself. I did get one to stick out it's head and I called Livie over. She saw where my bait was and as I pulled it from the rocks so she could go after that fish it bit and I caught the darter. It was one of the males in it's spawning coloration 🙄. Well we took a bunch of photos anyways. Livie tooks over with that rod and after a couple of different rocks we both saw movement. She was then able to hook and land her first ever tessellated darter and it was also another male! With that the trip was a success.

When Len was a boy he had heard stories that the day when his father and grandfather turned 21 that they were able to walk across the lake without sinking into the water. Len could not wait to see if he would have this same special power when he turned 21. He got more and more excited the closer he got to his 21st birthday. On that day he and a friend went to the lake and boated out to the middle of the lake. With great confidence Len stepped out of the boat. As his feet hit the water he immediately sank. His friend had to help keep him from drowning. He was discouraged that the special power of his elders alluded him. He asked his grandmother if it really was true that his grandfather and father were able to walk across the lake on their 21st birthdays. She confirmed that was true. So Len confessed how disappointed he was when he nearly drowned trying to do the same thing. She said,"Len you're an idiot. You're grandfather and father were born in January and you were born in July!"🤣

Here's some additional thoughts for those that have been successful this year in their morel foraging. Lots of great ways to treat those mushrooms😉 https://medium.com/one-table-one-world/some-fine-mushroom-tech-b33bd42069b4

Sounds like it was delicious. Great use of the whole bird.