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Livie picked up a rice ball mold at an Asian market. So we baked the white perch and picked the meat off the bones. She mixed some mayo, sambal chili sauce, and minced ginger with the fish making a spicy fish filling. She made sticky rice. She partially filled the rice ball added furikake rice seasoning then the spicy fish then more rice. Pressed the mold and out pops the little bear head 🙄. A little more furikake seasoning and then eat. We just learned about this rice seasoning and saw it at the same market. I made sauted broccoli and onions with garlic and ginger. Soy and hoisin sauce for flavoring.

A big concern that I have for EV is that batteries don't hold much charge with temps below freezing. In the middle of a bitter cold winter night would be a bad time to run out of juice. Also how much electricity is needed to run the heater. Gas powered vehicles make their own heat and EVs don't. Do you just have to avoid driving in the cold?

They have just suspended the tax here. It will eventually go back into effect and then we may get a 75 cent increase per gallon or more when it does. Not looking forward to that day.

Ours don't approach the size of the ones that you and Ham caught previously.

Not trying to get political, but facts don't lie. Yes GW Bush in 2008 had the highest gas price with a spike over $4 in Sept. However, the prices of fuel under his admin was well under the prices during the Obama admin. The prices under Obama was consistently higher than all previous presidents (except maybe under Carter) and much higher than when Trump was in in office. U.S. All Grades All Formulations Retail Gasoline Prices (Dollars per Gallon) (eia.gov)

We get a good bluegill bite in the lake and used to get a great redear bite. The weeds have taken over some of the better spots. Our redear catch numbers dropped last 2 years. Though we were in FL during the best time of the spawn for the redears last spring. We need to find this year where they are bedding under these new circumstances.

A little late on this post - occurred last Sunday and Tuesday. With a poor perch performance in Delaware we fished a local creek that gets a decent spawning run of white perch this time of year (photo from a previous trip). We still had a lot of bloodworms and at $14 a bag we were going to use them 😉. Fished high low two hook rigs with a 1 to 2 oz sinker. Over the years we found a hole upstream of where all the other folks fish. This hole always has some fish holidng in it and I rarely see anyone fishing it. Livie got on the board first since her baits were right in the honey hole. It was fat 8.5 inch perch and it went into the cooler. We normally see many 8 to 10 inch white perch from this creek and those were the ones headed for home. Livie followed up that catch and another and another before I caught and released my first perch of the day. After about 8 fih from the hole her bite died down and dad caught up. At the end of a couple of hours the tide had fallen off a bunch and effected the overall bite. We decided to head home. Livie had an even dozen and kept four and I had 10 perch kept three, also two mummichogs, and a satinfin shiner. For @snagged in outlet 3 here is Livie with the only double perch hook up for the day🙂. I took an hour off on Tuesday and we headed upstream on the same creek but up near the lake and spillway. Livie had a frog tied on her rod and was trying for snakehead in the lake. I was fishing trout magnets under a float using a green/black body. Just trying for some panfish while she chucked the frog. Livie had a couple of blowups on the frog but no hooksets 😒. At the lake I only caught one small largemouth bass. Livie tried the lake on the other side of the spillway and I tried the trout magnet below the spillway and got nothing. I tried a 3 inch swimbait and had something hitting the tail. Switched out the trout magnet body and put on a green pumpkin crappie slider with a chartruese paddle tail. Caught three nice redbreast sunfish. We then went down below the spillway and fished the hole above this fallen tree. I caught a few bluegill including this guy on the slider. Livie was having a tough time. So we went over to the other bank to try for more redbreast and possibly fallfish. We switched to redworms on the trout magnet jig heads. Caught a bunch of bluegill and redbreast in the pool area. Shifted down stream to fish the faster water where I typically get into fallfish. It didn't take long and I landed my first and smallest fallfish of the evening. These guys are related to creek chub and bigger ones often fight much better than trout at least oz for oz. Livie and I both caught fallfish from about 7 to 10 inches. With the sun going down didn't stop to take photos before a quick release and another cast. I watched my float drift the riffles and then into the pool head and it disappeared. I set the hook and thought that I had on a giant fallfish for this creek. Turned out to be one of the holdover stocker trout. The disappointment was short lived since this was the first trout of the year for me, but I haven't targetted them at all.

Same here, but our governor suspended part of the gas taxes, which cut our prices by $0.60 per gallon over the last couple of weeks. May be good for the consumer, but the station owners may have paid those taxes but aren't getting that back at the pump.

Even small fish get a photo😉 especially when it is cold and windy.

I saw this great cover of s classic Zepplin song and had to share it😁

Thanks @Daryk Campbell Sr. Pretty interesting story. I'm not sure that We want to start seeing fish driven vehicles on the highways. May be a new competition for Norm🤣

Not on Facebook.

Great job @Seth on catching a bunch but more so in volunteering and taking the kids fishing! I'm sure that they will remember today for a long time👍👍

Another reprise done at my wife's request. Venison stroganoff over noodles and served with garlic zucchini. Browned meat in olive oil. Then added onion and shallots cooked to translucent. Added garlic cooked some more before adding the liquid. Braise liquid was a mushroom and beef stock made with dried mushrooms, water, and beef bouillon. Heated for 2 mins in microwave to rehydrate the mushrooms. Mixed and then added half cup of dry red wine. Cooked for 20 mins on a simmer and covered. Added fresh mushroom slices. Cooked another 25 mins. Added cup of sour cream, salt and pepper, and cornstarch to thicken.

We had to get a live-in nanny, since the dead one just wasn't working out!🤣

The airlines ran a promotion that wives would get half-price tickets when they accompanied their husband's on business trips. After a month into the promotion the airlines followed up with a questionnaire to the wives about how they liked the promotion thus far and about the trips that they had taken. The most common response was "What trip?"🤣

We love a good bowl of New England clam chowder or fish chowder😊

Just don't commit any crimes with your DNA results on file 😅

I don't know much about that lake since I have never fished it before. Seems from reports that there are decent chances at walleye, bass, crappie, etc. Hope that you do well and post a report or two. We do like photos 😁. I saw that you want to catch a fish in every state. How many states have you caught a fish? I'm up to 29 states and hoping to get at least three more this year, VT, NH, and ME. That will finish out the eastern seaboard states for me. Then I need to focus on the upper midwest states, e.g., WI, MN, ND, SD, MI, etc. and the western states.

That's pretty cool.

Bowfishing Record Quillback - sorry Jeff🙄 Jasper County bowfisher swipes first state record of 2022 Josh Lawmaster of La Russell shot an 8-pound, 5-ounce quillback from Table Rock Lake. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo – The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) confirms Josh Lawmaster of La Russell is the first state-record holder of 2022 after shooting an 8-pound, 5-ounce quillback from Table Rock Lake. Lawmaster was bowfishing March 15 when he shot the fish. His current record breaks the previous record of 7-pounds, 10-ounces set in 2015. Lawmaster said he was out with his bowfishing team the day he shot the record. “We were actually fishing for common carp that day when I had just come across this little dude,” said Lawmaster. “We knew it was pretty good size, but it wasn’t until the next morning we were thinking about it and decided to contact the department.” Quillback is a non-game species that’s often confused with river carpsucker. This species is widely distributed, and most common in the clearer prairie streams of central and northeastern Missouri. It’s also fairly common in the upper Mississippi River and in large reservoirs of the Ozark Uplands. MDC staff verified the fish’s weight on a certified scale at MDC’s Southwest Regional Office in Springfield. “I wasn’t at all expecting to get a state record, so it’s pretty neat,” said Lawmaster. “Now I can say I actually accomplished something!” Missouri state record fish are recognized in two categories: pole-and-line and alternative methods. Alternative methods include: trotline, throwline, limb line, bank line, jug line, gig, bow, crossbow, underwater spearfishing, snagging, snaring, grabbing, or atlatl. Another Record for the Books in 2022 - State Paddlefish with a Giant Illinois man now holds Missouri paddlefish state record Jim Dain snagged a monster 140-pound, 10-ounce paddlefish at the Lake of the Ozarks March 18. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) congratulates Jim Dain of Pittsfield, Ill. for snagging a monster 140-pound, 10-ounce paddlefish March 18 at the Lake of the Ozarks. The latest record breaks the previous record of 140-pounds, 9-ounces set in 2015 on Table Rock Lake. Dain said he was on a fishing trip with his family and almost didn’t get the boat out that day because the weather kept changing. “The forecast was calling for storms, and then it changed to no rain, so we went out, but it just kept getting colder,” Dain recalled. “We weren’t having much luck, but decided to fish for another hour so we took another turn. And that’s when the drag on the reel started. It felt like a tree was on the line!” Dain said it took at least 20-minutes before they ultimately got the fish in the boat. After getting back to the boat ramp, Steven Henson of Bonne Terre, who happens to hold the Missouri state record for river carpsucker, was in the area and mentioned Dain should get in touch with MDC. “He was at the boat ramp and happened to hold a state record,” said Dain. “He’s looking at the fish and says to me, ‘Boy, I think you should get that checked out because it could be a state record.’” Dain contacted MDC Camden County Agent Tyler Brown, who advised him to go to Tom’s Slaughterhouse in Montreal to use a certified scale that could handle weight more than 100-pounds. His paddlefish is the second state record fish caught in 2022. “We got 16 one-gallon bags of meat out of this catch,” laughed Dain. “We’ve fried it, grilled it and made paddlefish tacos the other night. We’ll be having paddlefish for a while!” Missouri state record fish are recognized in two categories: pole-and-line and alternative methods. Alternative methods include: trotline, throwline, limb line, bank line, jug line, gig, bow, crossbow, underwater spearfishing, snagging, snaring, grabbing, or atlatl.

That's what is said about them.

I used to eat trout from the Current a long time ago. If they were in the river more than a year or so the flesh would get that orange coloration. They were good to eat and we stuffed and baked them. Once I stopped keeping brown trout and bigger rainbows, that meant trout park or other stockers were on the menu. Usually too risky in possible flavor, that those got fried. I will fillet, bread with my seasoned bread crumb mix and fry. Not much different from crappie because the breading and our homemade tartar sauce are excellent tasting 😆😉

The state does not want you to release them alive after landing them. However, seems like a lot of guys are trying to develop a trophy fishing program and do release them or protect them. I don't have a quick link to the report, but the data suggest that the populations of game fish and panfish have declined up to 90% over the last decade in areas where snakehead occur. Only fish like carp and catfish seem to show no signs of effects by snakeheads.

They are getting into most if not all river systems that empty into the Chesapeake bay and Delaware bay. I have fished for them and have had some success down near the Blackwater area which is the most talked about area for snakeheads. (photo for Pete). This was from bank fishing a small tidal creek that I caught a few years ago. Since that time that area has had a tremendous increase in pressure from the banks and from kayak fisherpeople. Now for that area seems like a kayak is needed to get into the back water areas to find these guys. The creek and small lake that we typically fish now has a population of snakeheads that is not as pressured. Livie was fishing the lake with a frog last evening for snakeheads. She had a couple of blow-ups but no hook ups, maybe bass or pickerel or snakehead. Going to be a big push to get her one or more now that she has her own rod to target larger fish. We have eaten them and they are a great eating fish.