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Wily - Great post! I have only heard about Dry Run recently. Sounds like a great experience for you and your kids. If hooking and even losing a huge brown trout doesn't get them motivated to keep fishing later in life, I don't know what would.

I have just begun to hear about honey powder, but have never used it. I would think that it would be a better finish than in a rub, since I believe that it's likely to easily burn. Love to hear more about it though.

WHEW! Crosby with the game winner in overtime. They got caught off guard at the end of the first, just looked like they were thinking about heading into the locker room with 2 minutes left. Power play still not looking really forceful. Are they too predictable? Pens looked slow in the third period, but picked it up at the beginning of OT. Glad that they got the win. Now a split or win two in TB would go a long way towards getting to the finals.

Ben - Pretty cool. Looking at you map I can now see the places that folks are posting about on TR. I do see an opening in your map right around Lilly's Landing. Maybe Phil would let you put in a sensor around their dock.

Still reeling from that beat down on Friday. I hope the Pens can score early and often tonight and split at home. Don't want to see them 0-2 going down to Tampa.

Skeeter - Great post! Awesome to see his smile while holding a fish. They grow up way too fast and get pulled in many different directions. I hope that you have a fishing buddy for life right there.

Sounds like a great time with the family!

I got out the causeway again this morning. I was on the west side of the bridge at 6:45 am. The sky was clear and it was cool with little wind. The water was still pretty muddied with less than 6-9" of visibility.I started with a 1/6 oz watermelon/chartreuse slider about 18" under a float fishing parallel and close to the bank. Nothing was touching that bait. I caught my first three crappie while fishing the same 1/8 oz jig pearl / chart.combo I used last Weds. The strikes were sporadic like the fish were moving in waves. Two guys fishing from the bridge since day break limited out and left. I got on the bridge and jigged around the bridge supports. I had a few strikes both at the end of my casts and right next to the bridge on the south side, but only landed a bluegill. The north side was a different story. I caught 8 fish on that side. As I was catching fish, I was thinking that I have five crappie, it would be nice to catch a sixth fish, or now I have nine total, I would love to catch that tenth fish. Once I landed the tenth fish, I thought I really should get on the road, but let's cast once more. I soon caught my eleventh crappie of the day. When I went for the even dozen, I hooked up on a rock and broke off. Someone was also telling me it was time to head home. Today's fish were shorter than those I caught on Weds. with a range of 9.5 to 11.5". Left at 9 am with fish still biting for some of the boats on the north side of the bridge. I doubt that I will make it back up to Thomas Hill before the crappie move deeper off the banks. I have it on mind for next season.

That's a great pair of hybrids. Must have been a great fight. They are such strong fish and absolutely don't want to be landed.

That should be enough to fish about a 1/3 mile of the creek. By that time I should have spooked at least a half dozen trout by breaking branches over their heads.

That was painful to watch. Lots if folks hurt on both sides. Now I am just hoping to split the first two games.

Snagged - thank you for the correct Elvis pronunciation. Thank you very much!

Sounds like I will have to triple the number of flies and jigs I bring with me the next time I get to fish this creek.

Great trip with your kids. Nice cooler full of crappie!

That's a nice flathead and sounds like a good night for whites as well. Were they running water?

Marcus - Ovechkin knows that he will have to continue to hear about his teams not making it any further than the second round and his disappearances in big series or games. Who wants the moniker of being the player with the most goals that has not been to a Stanley cup finals. I don't feel bad for him, but hat has got to cause some gray hairs.

Mitch - Elvis didn't get a body like that without downing a lot of fried PB, bacon, and banana sandwiches. Been working at trying to stop looking like a blond version of the fat Elvis.

Looking forward to keeping the run going! I love that they have home ice. I was happy that they picked up their PP production against the Caps. My wife has two issues with the Pens still in the hunt for the Stanley cup. The first is my beard, which she says may go Grizzly Adams by the end of their run. I was out of razors when there was 15 games left in the season and stopped shaving then, which is the main reason the Pens went on their tear and got to the playoffs! The players had nothing to do with their success, it was my playoff beard!The other is my Chris Letang man-crush. I love the way he defends and moves the puck. Looking forward to great things from him and the rest in this series. I guess that there is a third issue, keeping my Penguins shirts clean for me to wear every couple of days. Enough about my superstitions. Go Pens!

Awesome stringer of fish. Were you fishing from the banks or a boat? Jigs?

I know I am coming late to this party by never fishing a Ned rig. Is this bait best fished from a boat going away from the shoreline into deeper water? Can it be effective while wading or bank fishing?

Al -thanks for that information. I usuallylook at gage height more so tthan flow to determine if I am going to try to wade a stream. This gives me a second tool to consider before making a two to four hour run from home to fish. Thanks again. I do wish they had a way to provide water clarity measures as well. Nothing like expecting gin clear water and you get chocolate milk.

Talk of all these fried stuffed breads, ravioli, and sammiches has got my blood sugar and cholesterol levels rising. I've got to go to my healthy place!

I'd love to see the picture of that record fish. I am on the MDC email notifications. So I get a lot of material from them. I figured that the fish state records would resonate with folks on these forums. There may be more coming.

Another state and potential world bowfishing record for river carpsucker and he breaks his own previous stat record. For you racing fans, this guy kind of looks like Tony Stewart. I would have loved to have caught this fish on a hook and line. Bowfisherman becomes 11th angler to break state record in 2016 Congratulations to Jonathon Randall on breaking the state record by shooting an 11-pound, 2-ounce river carpsucker with his bow and arrow. CONCEPTION JUNCTION, Mo. – The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) reports that Jonathon Randall of Conception Junction became the most recent record-breaking fisherman in Missouri when he shot a river carpsucker with his bow and arrow on Smithville Lake. The new “alternative method” record river carpsucker shot by Randall on April 23 weighed 11-pounds, 2-ounces with a length of 25 1/2 inches and a girth of 20 1/2 inches. Randall shot the fish in about 2 feet of water. MDC staff verified the record-weight fish using a certified scale in Gladstone. “As soon as I pulled the fish out of the water I knew it was bigger than the river carpsucker I shot last year,” said Randall. “I just couldn’t believe how big it was.” Randall broke his previous state record set in 2015 with this fish by almost two pounds. This fish was also certified by the Bowfishing Association of America as a world record for the largest river carpsucker ever taken by bowfishing. “I really just can’t believe it! I shot this fish literally about 20-yards from last year’s state-record river carpsucker,” he said. “I’m still in shock that this happened. I have a new state-record fish, but also I now have a world record. It’s really unbelievable.” According to MDC Randall’s fish is the 11th state-record fish this year. Anglers are on track to break more records this year than ever. “2016 is shaping up to be a year for state-record fish,” said MDC Fisheries Programs Specialist Andrew Branson. “The most state-record fish caught in a year was 19 and we are definitely on track to break that this year. Conservation makes Missouri a great place to fish and it shows with all the big fish anglers are catching this year.” Missouri state-record fish are recognized in two categories: pole-and-line and alternative methods. Alternative methods include: throwlines, trotlines, limb lines, bank lines, jug lines, spearfishing, snagging, snaring, gigging, grabbing, archery, and atlatl. Conservation makes Missouri a great place to fish. For more information on state-record fish, visit the MDC website at http://mdc.mo.gov/fishing/state-record-fish. Jonathon Randall broke the state record by shooting an 11-pound, 2-ounce river carpsucker with his bow and arrow on Smithville Lake April 23, 2016.

A couple of coworkers and I went and tried crappie fishing the Rt T causeway and closed bridge last night after work. We have never fished here before. We got fishing around 5:45. Wind was coming from the north. Partly to mostly cloudy. I fished the south side of the causeway on the west end of the bridge. I began using a float and black/green jig. I caught a couple of small bluegill under the bridge and had one big strike that pulled the hook. Judging from the slime on the line, it was likely a catfish bite. Saw a guy on the east side catching crappie without a float. I switched to a 1/8 oz jig head and slider body. I fished this near the bottom with a medium fast retrieve. I lost a large crappie right at my feet. I first thought that it might go 12" in length. I caught 6 crappie with this set-up and lost one other. I also caught a small largemouth, a few small channel catfish, and an 18" hybrid. Stopped fishing around 8:30. I kept five crappie, four of which were female and all were 11 to 11.25" in length. The last fish was a male and he was a little over 12" in length. All of these fish were noticeably shorter than that first one that got off at my feet, which was likely 13-14" in length. I did catch a channel catfish on the float and jig combo later in the evening that also slimed up the line. My coworkers also each caught four or five crappie and a couple of hybrids up to 18". All in all not a bad night of fishing. For this being the first time fishing this water, I was pretty happy with the results. Don't know if the crappie bite will continue much longer, but will likely get up there again soon. Just need a couple more jig heads.