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Dan i know it's hard when you realize that you are not the favorite. Sorry buddy . Maybe they will let you still watch TV .

I am assuming that you meant flier sunfish. The Maryland Biodiversity project goes out and samples for all species (flora and fauna) across the state. The database states that fliers are rare across the state but locally common. I haven't caught one either. So may have to find a lake or pond or two that may have a good population. Maybe a next year deal. Focused this year on warmouth and the banded and/or spotted sunfish species, here and in the Midwest.

Thanks QB! At least you still have the Patriots and Red Sox wins to carry through the football and baseball seasons.

What a beast!

Great to see the Blues with the cup! Refs looked to have swallowed their whistles with I think was only one penalty called. That helped the Blues greatly since they were vulnerable to the Bruins power play. Congrats again!

Look great buddy! Would love to fish those again on Taney out of the Doty boat😁.

Saturday I took my wife and daughter out to Delaware to surf fish. It was fairly windy and there was a chop on the water. The waves made it difficult to tell if we were getting bites. We fished high lo rigs. One with bloodworms and the other with sand fleas. Only caught one fish during a couple hours of fishing. I thought that I had hooked a plastic bag. Not too far off when I landed a striped burrfish. A relative of the puffers. @Ham thought that it looked like grumpy cat . We decided to head to the Ocean City inlet pier to try and catch some fish with the high tide. Livie down sized her hook and bottom fished near the pier pilings. She had the fun of catching over 35 tiny to small sea bass. Her catch of the day was this striped searobin. This was her 70th species on her lifelist .

Lots of both. I have only caught one of each this year. Hard to get a great photo of an eel that keep trying to tie itself in a knot to get off the line. Only a small pickerel so far. I did catch this on a white/chartreuse trout magnet jig .

Good luck. Can't wait to see the trip photos!

Fantastic fish and great memories! Congrats on what looked to be a great trip!

Deal like that makes me wish that I had a boat .

it is tremendously relaxing to just catch fish. Not worried too much about what is going on. Hook, fight, land, and release nothing more complicated than that .

Thanks Daryk! Now we just need to find a suitable plaque or stand to put it in her room.

No better advice than this. Too many "orphaned" fawns get moved by well meaning folks that end up being raised by humans and not their mothers.

Work has been a nightmare with major changes going on that has elevated my stress level. I decided to head out to one of my most productive streams that I have found in Maryland so far. I currently have caught 12 species in the creek including my first striped bass and close to 300 fish since my first visit in 2017. This was going to be a simple fish catching trip. Dumb down the baits and catch those stupid fish. I got to the creek at low tide. I have never fished it this low before, so didn’t know what to expect. I was fishing a 7’ BPS Microlite rod, #4 Pline fluoroclear line, and tied on a white/chartreuse trout magnet jig. First cast upstream, slowly reeling in the line with one to two small hops then a pause and repeat that cadence. It wasn’t long that I hooked and landed a decent stream bluegill. Next cast a female golden shiner. Didn’t expect one in the creek but catch them in the lake upstream. She was throwing eggs about. Third cast missed a bite from a small fish that I saw grab the bait. The fourth cast was bit by this nice male redbreast sunfish. I knew that this was going to be a decent evening of catching . After landing a couple others the bite slowed and I moved upstream to a spot that must have a bowl-shaped rocky bottom. Fish just stack up in that spot. It took only two casts (first one missed a bite) to land my first yellow perch of the evening followed by a couple more and a bunch of redbreast and bluegill sunfish. After catching several small sunfish, I got bit by a tank and landed a large and thick pumpkinseed sunfish. Got the fish face photo. I caught several more. On one cast I got a follow by what I thought was a sculpin with long white tipped fins, but then recognized it as a breeding male satinfin shiner. I ran up the bank and got my microrig (6’ Airstream, #2 Pline, #20 hook with a tiny piece of chartreuse plastic tail from a trout magnet body). I immediately landed three tiny bluegill and a banded killifish. Not what I was looking for. I threw out the trout magnet and pulled in a couple of the satinfins. I wish now that I had my catch bag to show off the coloration and fins better than this photo. Since I did not have a counter I sent off a text with my fish totals for the trout magnet and switched to a bit of worm to keep catching. Caught another yellow perch, a few more tank pumpkinseeds, many bluegill and lots of redbreast sunfish. Total fish count was 65 in just about 3 hours of stupid fishing! A pretty evening that I shared with a couple of deer and a fat beaver (too dark for photo; but he tail slapped once he figured out what I was ).

While chasing after the elusive creek chubsucker back in March, my daughter found a roadkill sika stag. The county that we were in at the time does not have a large population of these non-native deer. So it was a surprise to find a sika, let alone a stag. Not having a suitable bag to take the head back with us, we buried the carcass with leaves to find it and let the beetles work on it before we came back for the head. Jump ahead to May. We were headed back home from an out of town trip (likely fishing related ) and I decided to see it the carcass was still there and how it looked. We were able to find it and the beetles were working hard to clear the bones. I was able to get the head and removed as much of the remaining skin and flesh that I could, bagged it and took it home. Once at home I buried the head in the compost pile to let nature to continue to clean it up. Three weeks ago I pulled the skull and boiled it to remove the last bits of flesh. Dried it in the sun. The next step was putting it into a 25% bleach solution for about 25 - 30 mins to bleach the skull. After strong rinses again back outside in the sun. Last couple of days I hit the inside and outside of the skull avoiding the antlers with a matte finish clear coat to protect the bone and give it a nice finish. Livie with her 3 x 3 trophy!

Good luck Champ. Hope it goes well!

Looks like that technique would work great on snakeheads in the thick stuff here in Maryland .

Why are the EU carp fishermen so secretive in terms of where they catch big carp? Don't all of the carp guys just get along and support each other without question? None of them would cheat to win a tournament. If there isn't a big bowfishing population in the EU then it must be to prevent other carp fishermen from taking their prize fish. People are greedy everywhere. If there is money or prestige someone is going to cheat to get it.

Skeeter congrats on hopefully passing on the fishing bug to the grankids. That's a nice bonus fish for getting to hang out with granddad! I agree that she looks like she wants to try out that ned bite as well.

Embellishment (flopping) happens a lot lately in the NHL. At least not like the NBA....yet . Still have that image of LeBron James flopping against the Bulls when he wasn't even touched. Looking up his flopping GIF's he has a bunch to them. Must have a bad back if he falls over due to wind .

I would love to see your golf bag!

All and all I have enjoyed what has been fairly decent hockey in this series. Officiating has been a challenge throughout the playoffs, but that is where we are as a sporting community. Unlike our friend in Bella Vista, I personally don't want to see a game 7. However, this series is likely to end up that way and it will be exciting.

Sounds great Ham. Can't wait to see some photos .

Blues get away with a tripping penalty and score game winner. Take game 5 in Boston😁! Headed back to St Louis and the cup will be in the building for Sunday's game 6! Getting exciting. The cup already made history in St Louis with the youngest baby to ever be placed in the cup. Baby was just 20 mins old.