Johnsfolly

@KCKT welcome to the contributing side of the forum. Waiting for the spring thaw shouldn't stop folks from fishing! Lots of coldwater fish available south of you if you are willing to travel. Can't wait to see your reports.

Another great mess of fish. Congrats! I've caught only one crappie this year and that was when I was fishing for a chain pickerel. Hit a large rooster tail!

Thought that you would like the 'eye. Looks like a great spread!

I know that it is something that swims !

It's like that Monty Python song ... "Every fish is sacred, every fish is great, if a fish gets not counted, God gets quite Irrate!" At least I think those are the lyrics 😌. Maybe @ness can confirm? He may have seen that movie.

He would just have to down size to a 1/32 oz Zig Jig😂.

We all know better tham that buddy😁. If I lived as close as you do I would likely be on the river just as often. Great catches for sure! Looking forward to fishing the White and possibly Norfork in a little over a week.

I was always under the impression that leash laws were city ordinances and not state laws. I found this online: Several states have state-wide dog leash laws and requirements. These laws are usually referred to as "Running at Large Statutes." In states without "Running at Large Statutes," local governments, such as counties, towns, cities, municipalities, and boroughs, often enact their own leash laws. But even where there are state-wide leash laws, it's often the case that the state government permits local governments to pass their own leash laws. Often, the local laws are stricter than the state laws. If any confusion arises over the leash laws in your home, contact your local government for more information Missouri has a "State Lands Leash Law." Under this law, dogs must be on leashes no longer than 10 feet when they are in state parks or on state historic sites. Additionally, Missouri law prohibits dogs that have rabies, or dogs that have been exposed, to rabies to run at large.

I must not had corn fed cats. Tasted like fish pellets. So typically avoid most farm raised fish.

Now that is a farsical claim. I'll eat trout over any farm raised catfish or worse tilapia .

Easier to make and more lucrative to sell😌.

@trythisonemv looks like you had what those browns wanted. Congrats!

Of course they would all get hit by cars !

That is great to hear. Hopefully he is an OAF member and begins posting on the forum for all of us to get to know him as well.

Very Nice. Great that you are helping out! I'm sure that he enjoyed learning from you on this trip.

Livie got on the board with a Fallfish caught in a local lake on Saturday. Not only her first fish of 2019 but also the first of this species that she has ever caught.

I've always have gone the othef way... Sear then into the oven until medium rare.

@timsfly thanks for the information. Should help a lot of guys catch some fish on the opener and beyond. Glad to see your post. It's been awhile. I've caught quite a few trout including my first RR brown on the Okuma reel that I bought from you a few years ago.

Likely giving away more information by being on this forum or buying airguns and materials on line than the MDC is getting from your farm tags.

The antler restrictions along with the liberal antlerless tags created a more effective tool to manage the herds. They limited the harvest of young bucks by guys that wanted meat over antlers which shifted meat hunting to does. Kill one doe and you effectively remove three deer out of next years herd size. Possibly 5 to 6 out of the following year and so on. One buck only takes out one buck. In many places that signficantly dropped the population where the MDC has shifted the nimber of tags that you can purchase in those areas to prevent possible overharvest. For those ranting on this thread about overpopulation of deer are glossing over tthe fact that the MDC are not the ones deciding to pull the trigger or not. They only set the regulations. Wrench your neighbors and yourself are the ones to blame for the abundant deer in your area. With all the farming in MO there is an artificially high carrying capacity.. As JDW stated disease is always a way to vastly rebalamce a population. We just don't like seeing it. Its a similar issue with bass size in many impoundments. If folks all advocate catch and release there is the potential to have abundant but stunted bass. Slot limits that allow harvest of small bass are only effective if people harvest those small bass.

Get up there and do your part buddy 😁!

Only if it was catch and keep rainbow feast 😁. Smokers need to be used to process those rainbows to get everyone to eat those fish. I'll eat stocker or nonnative rainbows.

Nice variety! Decent fish in both regards.

Very nice Ness! Hoped that she enjoyed the dinner.

Nice bass. Congrats!