Johnsfolly

I still have nightmares!

I would like to report guys keeping more than their limits of white bass on the Spring River 🤣

Looks like a great trip guys.

I found them to be really dry, so just stopped eating them!

I usually just log those into the memory banks for future fishing . Unfortunately as I get older I find that those subfolders in the old cranium tend to get more difficult to access .

Shouldn't be much further than the last place I sent @FishnDave.

He just resurfaced on a group text. He's doing well not sure when he will get back on OAF. Maybe after his next trip to Taney.

I have never caught a confirmed 7+ lb bass ever. However, big or small I post them all !

Any photos?!? I ask for a friend . @liphunter@snagged in outlet 3

Seems like the confirmed brown bullheads in MO are down around Mingo in SE MO.

This haunts me, especially with Florida fish. How many spotted sunfish might I have mistaken for bluegill or other grunt species that I lumped with French grunts. Or did I catch a bigmouth sleeper. I've taken at least five or six species that I thought I had caught, e.g., black bullheads, from the life list because without a photo, I'm just not sure of the species . I have also gained a couple after review of the photos that I do have and as my knowledge base of species increases . Locally common names, e.g., bonito instead of false albacore, etc., did lead to some misidentifications which I believe that I have corrected. Lately been using some INaturalist folks as reviewers for some species. Helped me split what I thought were all golden redhorse suckers and added the silver redhorse to the list.

If you do catch black Bullheads, PM me if you're willing. I need to check that species off my Genus completion quest . I can swap with details about where to find some yellows not terribly far from you.

We know a rehabilitator in PA that mentioned that nearly all great horned owls they worked on would smell like skunks. Seems to be a favorite prey species. The brain of a GH owl is small. Smaller than their eyes.. The olfactory lobe is very small especially in regards to their visual and auditory portions of their brains. So they really just don't smell the skunks.

Have to be cutest baby animal in my opinion. Love when they charge or foot stomp. I remember in college walking with Sue and a friend with one of our house dogs past a cemetary in the late evening. Four baby skunks were running around. We put the dog on the road side and blocked her so she wouldn't see them. They all ran behind a tombstone. Then one after the other they would pop their heads around the edge to see us. The second one was kind of on top of the first. Then the third above those two. By the time the fourth one got involved they all fell over and scattered around🤣. Was a very funny Disney like event.

Ate it too quick for photos 😉

Made up bread crunb mix 50:50 mix panko and regular bread crumb. Added oregano, basil, and garlic powder. I also added some JO'S seafood seasoning into my flour. Standard flour, egg wash, and then bread crumbs. So fried fish, tautog and bergall from previous NJ trip and the red hake (ling) from this Sat. Also twice fried sweet potato fries. Homemade tartar sauce. Sue made an expresso mud pie topped with fresh whipped cream.

Yeah it i got the sad puns buddy 🙄.

We had two ferrets in college. Lots of fun and pains in the butt. Best fun was their inquisitive nature. Watching them push their face into a plastic cup all over the floor. Great times. Their heads fit into a paper towel tube and they like to swing that around when they get stuck 🤣. Our male Bob loved partially deflated mylar balloons next to the couch. He would jump from the couch onto the balloon. Then repeat. Very funny as well.

They are one three Lepomis species that I still have to catch. Tried twice in 2919 but couldn't find them.

Crocs with Socks Buddy !

Quick story. There is a public archery range in Columbia at the VFW hall. We were out there shooting one evening. Probably about 12 guys. A blond haired woman pulls up in a pickup truck with camo trim along running boards edged with a little pink. She get out and is wearing a baby blue satin miniskirt dress with lace collar and trim. Also a pair of dark blue cowboy boots. She pulls out her bow and three arrows from the truck. Takes a spot on the 30 yd target, puts one arrow on the string, uses her right boot as a quiver for the other two. She then shoots all three within a 2 inch circle and goes down pulls her arrows and then leaves. I can't remember, but she did have a bumper sticker like I'll kill them you grill them. Many a man on that line were questioning their life choices in mates at that time .

Never tried cowboy boots, but have had those same issues with knee high rubber boots. I just stopped wearing them.