Johnsfolly

Yes ! They can strip a cow to the bones in less than a minute... OK maybe not, but they will flat out tear up bunker and other fish when they are in a feeding blitz. I made the mistake of getting my finger close to the mouth of a little guy and it bit through my finger nail . After that I never get my fingers anywhere near their mouths.

When they started lifting the travel bans and self-quarantine rules, I finally got to head back out for saltwater fishing. We haven't had great success on numbers, but really made up so far is variety. Not going to go into too much detail on gear. Many of these fish were caught on high/Low rigs using live bait or fishbites. In Ocean City Livie and I fished a couple of piers using bloodworms and minnows. She caught a bunch of small black sea bass. And I caught a small summer flounder on a minnow and a 14 inch tautog (blackfish). on bloodworms. I got out one morning to the beach in Delaware and caught a couple using bloodworms scented fishbites bait. Caught my first First State "trout" - a weakfish or sea trout (happens to be the state fish ). And a southern kingfish (aka whiting or kingcroaker). Last Friday I ended up trying to catch some decent bluefish. Really slow day that even the locals were having a tough day. After about 4 hours of being skunked, I did catch my first fish of the day, a hickory shad, on a Thinfisher blade bait. I had lost a decent fish about 15 mins earlier on a 1 oz bucktail. Back toward the mouth fo the inlet, there were terns and gulls hitting bait fish. I threw out a 1 oz silver and red jigging spoon. I let it sink about 4 to 5 ft, jerked it once and was on tight to a snapper bluefish. Next cast same thing except the blue threw the bait 15 ft from being landed. Then nothing for many, many, casts. I switched to a small yellow headed Gotcha plug and landed one more hickory shad then the bite shut off. Although I haven't had any of the those high numbers days, all of these fish were fish that I had not caught yet this year .

Sounds like a great time! I love multispecies trips. Just stupid fun catching a bunch!

I hope that you do well fishing those streambred fish if you into MO in July. Miss seeing photos of a wide brim hat and fly rod in front of a pristine creek.

The skin on the wings crisps up real nice when fried. Just like potato chips.😉

Looks great!

On Friday I got double hickorys but willing to trade one of those shad for a flathead😉.

I've check the flier and raise with a bluespotted sunfish😁!

I have a couple of racy trading cards.. anyone to trade for redbreast sunfish ?

I have a buddy who is a widower that has only one son. I don't really know his other friends well enough to have their numbers. He is now in his 70's and I don't know if I would ever find out if he died except if his phone went out of service.

Definitely easy to make bad fried chicken .

Sometimes they just don't want to go into the pot ...

Found this online: A group of squirrels called a dray or a scurry. It is difficult to overestimate the people’s love for this animal-a huge number of children’s poems, riddles, songs are dedicated to the squirrel. Squirrel often becomes an episodic, but very important hero of fairy tales, films and cartoons. Of course, our desire to feed these animals is good for them. When going to the forest, take with you a roasted black seed or a bag of nuts, such as hazelnuts, walnuts, cedar (only in shell), and the squirrels will surely thank you. It is important to remember that when you are going to help, the main thing is not to harm: do not give the squirrels bought in the store peeled or salted nuts and seeds, do not treat them with popcorn or sweets, do not treat the almonds – this is for squirrel poison. So are air gun pellets, 22 rounds, and No. 6 shot

@Devan S. great posts! Congrats on overcoming the not so successful trips and sticking it out to get those streambred trout! If it were really easy more folks would get it done. You got the hard ones out of the way for sure. A couple of well timed floats (water depending) and you should have your slam! Good luck!

Congrats to you both. Glad that I was able to help. Any photos? Let us know how you guys do on the rest of the slam!

We tried adding cinnamon into batter. Kind of flattened the pancake. Did not work so well. Tasted great though 😉.

Saw this list this morning. Log this under "we should have thought this through before acting" category:

This CHAZ situation is both humorous and dangerous. I only know what has been presented by the media so I will plead ignorance if I am stating mistruths. The humor is that these folks lack resources like food and are calling on those people that they have separated from to supply their needs. They seem to lack some understanding on how an autonomous nation would need in order to survive like food, power, water for example. They seem to be calling for Seattle to disband the police force and court systems while they have an armed force of "police" protecting their borders. The mayor looks at this as a "festival" and no harm is being done.. Except that they have taken over other peoples property and are taking power and water from those people that pay for those utilities.. Biggest concern to me is precedent with other groups may be looking to do the same elsewhere.

Great use of the cast iron. We really like making this.

Crab and brie omelets this morning😁

Nice fish especially that billhead! Over the last six months I have been cleaning up my fish lists and researching to have accurate accounts of species. Based upon location where I caught them and distribution maps,, the fish that I had down as black bullhead were likely brown bullhead. I dropped black bullhead from my list. So now they are a target species 🙄.

I counted lateral line scales and there were 27. Looks like what I could find as Prussian carp. Would have liked to have seen those fins on your fish. So I'm hesitant to go all in on the P carp I'd. I did find that they have color variants that look like goldfish. It may be possible that all the ones you caught were prussian carp. I n my quick search I could not compare to large goldfish photos.

Congrats to Blake on catching and landing that toad! Was worried about all the jumps. But it was pinned well🙂. You know it's a big fish when it sounds like a brick hitting the water as it lands. Congrats again. Thanks @Phil Lilley for posting the shorter version.

Very nice fish. Now we all know that Ned rigs don't catch fish, right😉!