Johnsfolly

Daryk - Congrats to your son on his bowfin. You don't want to lip that fish! I wouldn't call them ugly. Look at this gentleman in his nuptial finery! I would love to catch a breeding male like this guy!

We have to talk about yellow bass and spotted sunfish and the best time to target them.

Duane great looking sculpin. Would still love a little blue-green on the chin. By the time I might get down to Taney (maybe mid-Oct or early Dec) those fish will have been soremouthed by your baits I may have to find a new pattern 😌.

QB just goes to show how fish will always do the unexpected at any time they want. Glad you boated a couple nice ones!

Thanks for posting. Sometimes it's great to calm down and take in the majesty of the world around us. The rains here in MD led to swarms of mosquitos in our yard this evening😒.

I have heard that yellow bass, Morone mississippiensis, have been collected in those lakes. That is not a common species in Missouri. I never got up that way to try for them myself.

Tim that is a s bleeding shiner. i tend to look at the dark coloration right behind the gills, but my daughter likes to call them the ".. ones with lipstick on" .

Nice walleye! Looks like a strange place to release that fish. Bet that it wanted to stay for dinner 😁.

Good luck! I hope you land a giant brown! Can't wait for the report.

Those are some chunkie spots! Congrats!

I would second that!

I haven't had beavers bump me in the night, but have had plenty wait until just when you get close enough but don't see them before the slap their tail on the water. Back in college, I would help another grad student on her rodent mark and recapture studies. We would set the traps the evening before and then get out just at dawn to see what we caught. Some of the traps were near a known bear wallow. So when it was foggy, you were on edge in case you bumped one of the bears. It seemed like we were targeted, because for several foggy mornings we would turn down the trail to the bear wallow and a doe would wait until we were within 10 to 15 feet of her and blow. Got us jumping every time !

Onehot if you are sitting a worm on the bottom, in that situation the attraction of the worm bait may override their caution and line size may not matter as much like TJM mentioned in his post. You may actually catch more trout if you dropped your line size, but you are not trying for them anyways. I have seen similar responses to what TJM mentioned in clear water and mostly where the fish have a long time to evaluate the bait. In those situations I will almost always go to 2# line. In situations, like jig fishing a river like the White, 11 pt, etc., those fish are reacting quickly to a bait rushing past them. I don't believe that they are as line shy. At those times I prefer 6# fluorocarbon leaders.

Good looking plate of food Ness. Not sure where you placed it. Looks like new lumber😁.

Hey you got down, got spooked by the Squatch, and caught some fish buddy. Congrats buddy! Wish I hadn't been working. I have got to get down where that action is. Has to be a brown down there that wants to meet me!

Duane they look awesome in those fishes mouths!

Wait a minute this coming from the guy that said I wont give you one unless you use it😜. A bait should be fished not put on a shelf. I agree that these baits like the MH french fries are as much art as they are baits. I'm proud to know the artists😁.

We had the same problem. Seems like they just want a change in scenery. The ones we had in our tank were grassland crayfish. So they are semiaquatic anyway.

That's a beauty Seth! Congrats!

Nice job! Must have missed this due to one of my moving trips. Have to love a small clear Ozark creek with hundreds of volunteers. Only thing better would have been a few more minnows or darters caught . I just have not found that kind of creek in Maryland yet. Some of the ones that I have fished seem almost devoid of fish in comparison. Like DJ said, would love to see some tank photos !

Not in my mind ! Then again Duane could probably catch those Taney trout on bare hooks !

Congrats Duane on some nice fish on the sculpin!

We do at the Folly household! Put capers in a lot of meals.

Last week when my BIL was visiting we did a seafood crab pot dinner at the house (no photos since we gorged ourselves and nobody wants to see that ) and he actually paid for the seafood. I got to shuck more oysters than I would have liked. Ate them raw with horseradish and lemon and grilled some with some Old Bay and butter. Picked a bunch of blue crabs and ate shrimp and sweet corn. Still had ten crabs when everyone was stuffed. so we picked them and my wife made a cream of crab soup that was delicious but still no photos. That soup would go well with the risotto as a nice leftover meal.

The main problem is that I am currently over 1000 miles from the leftovers !