Johnsfolly

DANG Ness!! Looks great.

Just have to love brown trout!

@Quillback I keep seeeing "The Goal" photo of Bobby Orr the lastime the Bruins played and beat the Blues in the cup finals. To get over that I had to watch highlights of the 85 basketball finals😜

Great fishing guys! Definitely some nice looking bass. I really like that flathead. Congrats!

Nice walleye! Great trip for you and your son! Congrats!

I was in Connecticut when they put in the helmet rule watching a lot of Whalers hockey when I could not get the Pens games. I remember Ron Duguay from the Rangers refusing to wear a helmet since he wanted the wind going through his hair. He was grandfathered in to not have to wear a helmet. I agree with you there QB. Sporting events are so much better now on TV than back in the day.

The greatest thing about hockey is that it is the only sport where play speeds up as the clock winds down. This statement is especially true in playoff hockey. Overtime for Game 7 in the Stanley Cup finals is chaos in the making ! Only thing that can better is the play by play announcers trying to keep up with the action. That's the bench.

I'm happy for the delay, hoping that it cools off your goalie ! Rask has been a wall in the net. His play worries me the most at this point. On a side note I love the walrus goalie GEICO commercial. Just makes me laugh .

It's that Massachusetts bias. Just because you lived there is no excuse buddy .

Lots of guys here fish for snakeheads. Haven't tried for them this year. Will try to get my daughter to catch one. Supposed to be good to eat. Will have to report if and when we catch a couple. Honestly I would prefer to not have another invasive moving into Missouri waters.

I would tend to agree with you, but have not tried it there. I do prefer Guinness in Ireland over any place else I have ever had a pint of the stout !

I certainly like Spaten. so I agree with Ness.

Thanks for taking us along DJ! I'm not sure exactly when, but expect to be in Germany either later this year or early next year. Will be in a small town near Stuttgart. Not sure if I will visit as many breweries, but you never know .

QB those are the fishing stories that we remember. Great hybrid buddy!

Left the girls at home this morning. Maybe it was the 5:30 departure time that kept them from going with me. Headed back for another shot at those shad. I tried the same tandem dart setup and got nothing. There were terns feeding in the seams of the heavy current. Switched to a 2 oz chartreuse and silver slab spoon. Stil not much going on. After nearly 25 casts actually had a hit and hooked a bluefish. Lost it right at the rocks. Couple casts later landed a shad then nothing. Saw guys down the inlet hooking fish. Found that they were slamming the blues by drifting what looked to be 1 oz jig heads with plastic bodies. Saw that they were silver or white with chartreuse tails. I left and headed to a local tackle store to see if I could find something similar. Found 3/4 oz pearl bucktail jigs and 7" ribbontail pearl colored worm bodies. I never could get into the middle of the action but did hook and land two 16 to 19 inch bluefish before they dispersed with the tide. No photos. Did see a guy land a chopper (5 to 8 lb) blue and another guy get nearly spooled when he hooked one to the boats 😂.

Congrats @Mitch f and @Hog Wally! Water has been terrible for bank river fishing here in MD. Haven't tried for river bass yet. Hope to catch some on your baits in the future.

Good looking bunch of fish. Congrats on catching what will be a great fish fry! Also great report.

Do you eat green sunfish? I have never tried them myself. Always thought that they had a bit of a smell to them. Love catching them except when I an trying for rock bass or small mouth.

MDC regulations Game fish not hooked in the mouth or jaw must be returned to the water unharmed immediately, except paddlefish legally taken during the paddlefish snagging season. Game fish include: goggle-eye (commonly known as Ozark bass, rock bass, and shadow bass) warmouth northern pike muskellunge, tiger muskie, and muskie pike hybrid chain pickerel grass pickerel all species of catfish except bullheads all species of black bass (largemouth, smallmouth, and spotted) paddlefish (spoonbill) all species of crappie white bass, yellow bass, and striped bass trout walleye sauger shovelnose sturgeon. Allowed alternate methods You may use permitted alternate methods in designated waters to take certain species, including paddlefish (snagging/grabbing methods only) and nongame fish. Nongame fish include bluegill green sunfish carp carpsuckers suckers buffalo drum gar, all other species other than those defined as game fish or listed as endangered Seems like redear get put into the "all other species.." listing. I would assume warmouth are included in with gamefish due to resemblance to the rock basses (goggle-eye).

I'm not even sure what would cause this color phase. Strange fish.

I did that with native flowers in the Columbia yard. Would have spring blooms(columbines, blue bells, celadine poppies) followed by summer flowers (brown eyed susans, cone flowers, milkweed) then autumn flowers (asters).

We do know about the lack of sales tax. A few of our staff live in DE for that reason. Others go to the outlet shops. My vice is fishing tackle😂!

I have been trying to get on the shad spawning run by heading up north to the big rivers and their tributaries. Haven't had much luck, between work, heavy rains, cold weather, etc.. that had the fish start and stop their runs. Decided to look elsewhere for possible shad fishing for Livie and my Betterhalf. Saw videos of guys catching shad in the inlets near us. Those fish were not running the inlet to spawn, but more likely to feed near shore. My Betterhalf doesn't have a Maryland license, but does have a Delaware non-resident license. So on Saturday, I read a recent report from the Indian River Inlet in Delaware that shad were in the inlet and folks catching them on the incoming tide. Packed up the gear, including a box of spoons and shad darts, and the family and ran out to Delaware. We got to the inlet about 60 to 70 mins before high tide. There was a good current running through the inlet. I saw a guy fishing a double shad dart tandem rig behind a lead weight. As I watched him as he caught a double and landed a third fish on his second cast. His buddy caught two using a similar rig. With that information I got our rods rigged up with a 3/8 oz egg sinker above a barrel swivel then a 17 lb leader tied with either a silver #1 PET silver spoon above a 1/8 oz chartreuse/green dart. Another was rigged with a 1/16 oz pink/pearl dart above a 1/8 oz chart/green dart. I ran out of 3/8 oz sinker and put on a 1/4 oz sinker above a 1/16 oz chart/green dart above a 1/8 oz red/pearl dart. We found a spot along the fence where we should be able to reach a seem in a back eddy. I made the first cast, gave it a 2 second countdown, slowly reeled in, and hooked the first hickory shad of the day on the pink/pearl dart. Not a big fish, but feisty fighter. My Betterhalf hooked the next fish on the chart/green dart. This was her first shad ever. Two casts later she hooked up again this time on the spoon. I hooked another on the pink/pearl. Livie had the rod with the lighter sinker and I had her countdown to 3 before reeling it in. She finally got bit, fought and landed her first hickory shad, a nice 17" fish. My Betterhalf hooked and landed two more. Then she hooked into something bigger. I didn't see it, but the fish showed itself to the guys up from Sue. They described what seemed like a skate or a cownose ray. It broke her off on the rocks and was lost. I caught another shad, then hooked into a bigger fish that pulled drag. The fish dove into the rocks and broke me off. I never saw it. As the tide crested, wind picked up, and the bite slowed. Livie and Sue switched to fishing with small hooks and bloodworm pieces. Even then the bite was not fantastic. Sue landed a spider crab! Livie did catch a fish and it was one that she has never caught before, a cunner or bergall! Sue headed back to the car to warm up while Livie and I tried a different spot trying to find an oyster toadfish. No bites. The tide had crested and the fish just were not biting. With the cool wind, we decided to head back towards the car. I decided to make a few more casts. As Sue was walking down to us, I got a heavy bite. Turns out it was a double. Decided that I could not do better and we packed up and headed home. Sue and I ended up with six shad each. Livie caught two shad and the cunner. Not sure that the girls will be eager to return, but I plan on getting back there and catch a few more shad.

Healthy Stripers buddy! Congrats again! Can't wait to see tomorrow's catch!

Congrats on a great looking mess of crappie! Fish fry for sure!