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Livie #82 (Lifer) Eastern Blacknose dace Need ruling from @Ham and @FishnDave. Livie caught a creek chub but I failed to recognize that this was the first that she caught this year. So no photos were taken. Allow this as #83 or we need to go catch another one?

Just don't give hime a name, then it becomes a pet 😅. My daughter has a shirt that says "If it has a name it's a pet. If not make it into jerky!" That is her PETA shirt - people for eating tasty animals.

So little flow compared to when we were there. How did Eric do?

Can't help but think the following after reading this. Officer Obie looked at the 27 8x10 color glossy photos with the circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one and then looked at the seeing eye-dog..... And he came to the realization that this was just another case of American Blind justice and the judge was not going to look at the 27 8x10 color glossy photos with the circle and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one ... 🤣

And yet you bass fish like 10s of millions of others 🤣

If I didn't think that you were just trolling I would give you a response.

Let say that you had an employee that you paid to send to a conference with boat and engine manufacturers and they were to represent you and your business. Once they got there they would bad mouth you about how bad you are at your job and as a person. There may not be any fact checking in their claims, but it was based upon their feelings. As a result you lose credibility and likely business based upon that lack of respect. I would assume that would piss you off. That is how I feel about some of the protests from our athletes.

I have never found a bobcat skull, but usually find lots of bones for various creatures, raccons, opossum, mice, deer, foxes, etc. in field and woods. I agree that these are very common animals. The point is that some folks do find the bones of those less abundant species. Yet know one has ever found a large ape skull in any area that supposedly have sasquatch like creatures. I would love to think that there is a large bipedal creature out there that is new to science. So I am not opposed to the possiblity of it's existence. I always go back to the infamous video of the sasquatch walking into the woods. I always wonder why they never went over and filmed the footprints of the "creature" or followed it into the woods.

A man brought his sick teenage son to the doctor. The Dr tells him that his son has mono and that he should stay away from the rest of the family until he recovers. The man tells the Dr that his son may have been fooling around with their maid. The Dr says then she will have to be isolated as well. At this point the man tells the Dr that he might have been fooling around with the maid as well. Again the Dr says that he will have to stay away from everyone. The man says that since being with the maid he has kissed his wife. Your wife says the Dr now we're all in trouble! 🤣

Love it when a quick fishing trip is successful. Congrats Daryk!

Passage Creek, Blue Ridge Mountains Virginia - 03Jul21 Every year I look for a few interesting life list targets and I do some research as to where I could go that would put me in the best position to actually catch one. Early last year I found a cluster of bluehead chub observations on Fishmap.org in Passage Creek within the Elizabeth Furnace recreation area of the Blue Ridge mountains in Virginia. This location is a 3 to 3.5 hour drive from us in Maryland. Due to COVID and other obligations we never got a chance to go and try to catch a bluehead in 2020. So it has been on my mind this year. Finally on the 3rd of July we headed out to the mountains. It was a pretty neat ride once we got outside of the DC metropolis areas and into the mountains. Once we got close to the park, I pulled over and took a look at a couple of spots where the creek came up to the roadway. The creek in this section was running over hard bedrock. It was going to be difficult to find fish in some of those spots. So kept going up to the park. Once we crossed the stream in the park I saw water that I felt would hold some fish. We all got the rods ready and put on our wading boots for some wet wading. I was lagging behind after retying up the rigs on my rod, Sue had already caught a common shiner. We quickly got the fish in the bag, photo taken, and released. Livie caught a redbreast sunfish and then Sue caught the first chub. We looked closely at the head of this fish looking for tubercles (bumps) or scars to help id the fish. This fish did not have any scarring or tubercles. Possibly a young male or female. As part of my research on this creek I found a paper that looked at fish and invertebrate popluations at 14 sampling spots along the creek. Bluehead chubs were the only chub species found in the location we were fishing and they made up ca. a quarter of the species found in the creek. So I was fairly certain that this was a bluehead, but still wanted more proof. I finally got to fish and caught a common shiner and a couple of redbreast sunfish. Livie was able to find and catch a couple of chubs as well. Still no well defined males to confirm the species 🙄. Livie gave me her rod for me to target the chubs while she used the tanago to probe rock crevices for darters or sculpin. I finally was catching some chubs (still no males) and Livie called me over to say that there was a dark fish in a small crevice under a rock in the creek. It was no longer interested in her small bait. So I dropped the larger hook and worm and caught a northern rock bass from that small crevice. We moved downstream to a deeper pool. I was talking with a local guy trying to get some fishing intel while Sue and Livie were into fish. Sue caught the first smallmouth bass of the trip and it was small enough to get into the microfish photo bag. In the same pool Livie would catch the only spotfin shiner (I know it was one of her push for 100 fish, but it's so cool of a fish). Also in that same pool we finally caught some male chubs that had tubercle scarring only on the top of the head and that did not go below the nostrils or on the side of the fishes face confirming that these were bluehead chubs. Again posting a photo that was part mine and of Livie's push for 100 species total - an adult male bluehead chubs with tubercles and with the scarring. A little further downstream, Sue would show us again that there were some smallmouth in this little stream 😉. Not a bad size smallie from a stream this small. More redbreast sunfish were caught. Livie caught a decent fallfish and I caught a couple of bluntnose minnows (that I originally thought might have been juvenile chubs until further editing of the photos). If I had properly id'ed them then I would have pushed Livie to catch one since it would have been a lifer for her. None of us caught any more smallmouth bass. It was another great day on the water and we caught a few fish and especially we all caught the target species making it well worth the trip. We have a great dinner at Pave Mints smokehouse in Front Royal VA. after dinner I had to look in the creek by the restaurant (Happy Creek) and saw lots more fish including a couple of darters to catch. Just trying to figure out when to go back 😁. Drove through some heavy rains while crossing the Bay bridge made us glad of the great weather we had in VA.

They are coprophagous like rabbits 😅. That way they leave nothing behind or from it 😉.

Now that's good bass! Old SNL commercials were great.

I do well enough stumbling when wading. I don't need any help🙄.

The bane of many bass fisherman on Pomme😉

@snagged in outlet 3 would appreciate this one it got a photo😅

Agreed and usually pretty easy to catch.

Great looking bass buddy! I'd say it was a good day!

I don't fish that area very often and forgot about handicapped fisherpeople. No problem keeping that regulation in place. Like Ryan I am not for the treble regs proposal. Sorry to hear that this may be your last season. I hope that is not the case. Will miss seeing the lunkers that you and your wife catch.

Surprised Jeff that you haven't caught them. We used to get a few when we fished for porgies out of Cape Cod when I was a kid. They are related to grouper. A lot easier to pull out of the rocks than togs.

I wanted to set up a thread where I can talk about the rest of the trips while trying for achieving 100 species in 2021. Fortunately both Livie and my Betterhalf have been very supportive of this fishing journey. The best way to get Sue's support was to take her along as an active participant on several of these fishing trips. I have posted about our NJ trips back in the late winter and early spring. In this thread I will touch on other trips that we have taken and fish we did or did not catch. Seabass trip aboard The Angler out of Ocean City MD - 28June21 Livie is a black seabass magnet. She seems to be able to catch them in any saltwater location, but had not ever caught a 12.5 inch keeper. With COVID restricting the number of folks aboard any of the local party boats, the seabass reports were outrageous in terms of the size and numbers of fish being boated. This year I wanted to have at least one solid seabass trip to try and get Livie a keeper or many and to bring home some fresh seafood. We might catch some new species for the year which would be a bonus. Beautiful morning in the marina on the OC inlet. The seas were only going to be 2 to 3 foot swells. Most of the time it seems like the swell was 2 feet or less. Very clean water and the fishing was on fire for most of the drops that we fished. We got into a lot of keeper seabass. Livie caught her first keeper 😁 and a few other over the day. She even caught a double on striped searobins for a new species for the year. She ended up catching 19 seabass and 2 searobins. A lot of the keepers were large males. Here's a couple of the knuckleheads that were caught. I ended up with a total of 22 seabass and a northern searobin. I wish that I had more photos of Sue's fish. She was a machine hauling up one fish after another. So the only photo was a fish that she threw on the ice in our cooler 😉. She ended up only catching seabass and brought 25 over the rail. We had a shark following the boat for an hour or so. It never got close enough to identify but it was at least 10 feet long. Also saw a school of cownose rays and a couple of sea turtles. We kept a total of 8 keepers, but we released at least ten or more keepers. It was a great day on the water and ended too soon.

I would push for 15 and under at the outlets or could even include the more tenured fisherpeople. Basically if you are required to have a fishing license you should not fish there.

I know that I am definitely between 1 and 3 as well 🤣

Unfortunately I do not do that 8 to 10 times per day 😅

Loved Fernwood 2 night!