Johnsfolly

Pretty sure that is the White below Bull Shoals dam. In case you're not trolling, Phil is the owner of this forum as well as Lilley's Landing in Branson.

Congrats Pat on a great day yesterday and have a happy bday today!

That's a nice spot Jeff. The broken stripes to me would be more indicative to a hybrid and not a pure striper. Nice fish regardless!

Congrats on a nice bass!

Hey Jeff The state of Washington closed all steelhead fishing in 2022. https://www.foxnews.com/great-outdoors/washington-closes-steelhead-fishing-population-concerns

@Ham congrats on a great multispecies trip! Lots of healthy looking fish!

I'm back to driving straight into the sun right now. Had a reprieve for a couple of weeks until the time change. When we lived in N. Ireland during the winters I would drive into work in the dark and then drive home in the dark. It was then I realized why many Irish drink😅.

Sorry to hear that.

You can always take photo of the photo.. Just saying....

Used to see a fair number of guys below Truman trying to snag a few.

@nomolites that's an awesome halibut!

I didn't see a photo, but may give you a pass 😉

Photos or it didn't happen 😉! I have eaten paddlefish and it's decent enough to keep one. I just want to catch one myself since they are in my mind a pretty cool species. Closest I came were my buddy's catches while he and I fished LOZ together a few years back. The large one went over 70 lbs. I don't recall what his other keeper weighed. I snagged a 5 lb blue cat (not photo so maybe I imagined it 😅) and bumped a few paddlefish. Yeah he outfishes me on musky as well 😅

Congrats Jeff sounds like you guys had a great time.

I would love just a small 6 to 7 ft sturgeon. Or any of the Missouri/Mississippi species would be great.

I just entered what I ate today into my food app. It just had an ambulance sent to my house!🤣 I bought a pair of shoes from a drug dealer. I don't know what he laced them with but I have been tripping all day!🤣

Report of a giant paddlefish or spoonbill caught in Oklahoma. Over 100 lbs, that's a big fish. https://www.fieldandstream.com/fishing/oklahoma-anglers-catch-giant-paddlefish/?amp=#amp_tf=From %1%24s&aoh=16473389421490&csi=0&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com I haven't snagged one but I know that @Seth targets paddlefish. What's the largest paddlefish caught by an OAF member?

As I have grown older, I remember all of the people that were lost along the way. Maybe my budding career as a tour guide was not the right choice 🤣 A man walks into an enchanted forest and tries to cut down a talking tree. "You can't cut me down." The tree exclaims. "I'm a talking tree!" The man responds, "You may be a talking tree, but you will dialogue!"🤣

Thanks Dave. We got skunked on crappie which was our target. I'm hoping that someone hasn't done a good job at cleaning them out from this small pond.

In Ireland they would say that you were never more than 25 ft from a rat in any town or city larger than a small village. Personally, I prefer the spiders 😉. I have walked back from many a night time small creek fishing trip and have been amazed at the number of spiders that I would see with the LED head lamp. It was lucky that Livie was not on those trips or else she would never go back out again.

Seems like we are about a day to a day in an half of what is going on in the midwest. Because of the buffering from the bay we don't get as harsh a time than you guys might.

I shot a deer with my .308 that was at the base of my 15 foot ladder stand. Bullet went through both lungs, but that deer ended up 60 to 70 yds away and had crossed a fence somehow. Similar to @Terrierman she wasn't hard to find since there was a 2 to 3 ft swath of blood to follow. Best that I could tell is the the energy of the bullet didn't fully dissipate in the deer since she wasn't more than 18 ft from me.

So this weekend we were hit with a bad storm yesterday, high winds, rain then sleet, then blinding snow, then back to high winds. Today it's clear but still cold and until about an hour ago windy again. We just hunkered down and did little. I went through some photos from last weekend and early this week to post a fishing report. I took off Monday and Tuesday and had plans to fish a few spots since the weather was decent. The first trip was to piggyback a birding trip with fishing. Livie and Sue got me a pair of nice Nikon binoculars and gave them to me Friday night knwoing that I would want to take them with us on Saturday. They were and are great and we used them a lot already. Prior to this first trip, I have been talking with a couple of guys here in MD that have collected different sculpins around the state. Having never caught a sculpin in MD so far, I found some locations based off of their information and one spot was about 8 miles up the road from the birding location. Livie and I donned waders and got into the stream to dip baits around any boulders and structure that could hold sculpin. I did not have my polarized sunglasses so I had to decide to either stick with water I could see bottom or to fish by feel. After 10 to 15 mins, I put my bait into a hole made up of a log and two boulders. I didn't have to worry about seeing the bite since it hit it hard and I had my first ever blue ridge sculpin in hand and in the bag. Livie tried that same spot and a few others in that first pool and then along the rocky bank, but nothing. We didn't even see other fish. We decided to hit the rocks at the tail of another pool. I found an eastern blacknose dace and got it to bite, none of the photos were any good. Livie got a bite from a similar setup as I had upstream. However, she failed to set the hook. She put the bait again near that same hole and we both saw the sculpin come out and take the bait. So in 35 mins we had caught only three fish, but we both caught lifer sculpins 😁! Later that afternoon I fished a mountain creek and only caught more eastern blacknose dace. Monday we pond fished. We went to the pond near us that usually has decent crappie and bluegill. We fish it now since later in the year it is covered with lilies and practically unfishable. We were fishing trout magnets under a float. I had on a pink headed jig with a green body with a black back. Livie had a silver jig head with a white and chartreuse body. We started at a spot near the parking lot where we normally get bigger crappie. The drill is pretty simple, cast out near the weed edge and give the bait a coule of short pulls and let it sit, then repeat until you catch one or get to a spot of unproductive water. I caught a few bluegill at this spot but Livie didn't catch any. She went to our next spot and lost a crappie right at the bank. I caught one more bluegill and joined her. She switched to a piece of worm on the jigs and caught a couple bluegill and a fiesty little bass, but only when she put the bait within the lily field. I caught a couple more bluegill and a decent golden shiner before the rain came and we left. We didn't get out one more time like I had hoped but all in all we had fun fishing my long weekend. Can't wait until we have less dramatic weather changes to be able to get back out again!

We have a .308 and .243 that both kill deer. But they don't get out much anymore. Been hunting private land in MO before we left and now here in MD where they don't want rifles used. So it has been about 9 years since I have shot a deer with the .308 and Sue was the last to use the .243 eight years ago. (Thought Pete might read this post so added a photo 😅) - We have a bunch of ammo for both and for our .22 rifles.

What a difference a day makes or in this case a change in cut of meat. As old folks we like chicken cordon bleu. We have always butterflied the breast for this dish. Lately we have been buying thighs. I prefer them to breasts for most dishes. Finally tried them in cordon Bleu last night. I butterflied the thicker side of the thigh so it would cook evenly. Breaded and baked the thighs first in the oven (instead of pan frying) then topped open faced with the Swiss and ham. Back into oven for another 10 mins. Once done topped it with a white sauce with brown mustard added. Best cordon Bleu that I have had. Looks like a keeper from now on.