Johnsfolly

Sounds like a great day Jeff! Some beauties for certain.

I knew that I was pretty smart. I confirmed that by scoring a 170 on an online IQ test. I just had to answer three questions. 1) What is my credit card number? 2) what is my social security number? 3) What is my birthdate? 🤣🤣

At least we don't have to kick you out of our garbage cans 😅!

Nothing wrong with catching some thick hybrids. Congrats!

Congrats on a very nice LMB! Hope to see many more the rest of the year.

That's a good looking spot!

You need to take it off the bone 🤣

If you can't blame the netman who can you blame😉 ?!? Seth you should offer a guide service similar to DJ's one fish guarantee. Except you would guarantee that the client has the opportunity at a 20+' brown trout and that the guide won't catch it from under the client 😁. Seriously it has to happen for you, hopefully soon.

Don't know when it was named, but the name reflects the common name or vice versa - Percina macrocephala (macro - large, cephala - head or associated to the head). Related to logperch and ozark logperch found in MO and AR. @BilletHead I saw a similar or the same article on a different feed. This species seems to be a big river species based upon the collections that are on Fishmap.org. So it is very likely to be missed on many surveys. Even with that this it is still considered to be a species of concern or imperiled across its range. I think that is it a pretty cool fish.

Glad that your on the mend. Don't poke the Pharma bear talking about herd immunity 😉 but I agree. We are seeing a few folks at work affected by having it themselves or family members. Our oldest daughter out in MO just got over it herself.

Wouldn't hurt my feelings at all to give it a walk around the pond and a quick photo and release 😉

20 lifers were caught on our Florida trip. Any trip to FL is a shot in the arm for the life-list fisherperson! Livie caught 56 lifers during her push to 100 🙂!

They're a river species primarily so about the same sizes as you would expect for a river smallmouth.

Nice LMB!

Caught bantam sunfish with help from @Ham but missed out on spotted in FL and banded sunfish if FL and MD. Did catch yellow bass in IL. Caught a black bullhead with help from @FishnDave . Missed out on flat bullhead in NC. Tried for northern Kingfish in NJ but no luck. Ended up with 35 lifers in 2021 and over 100 species in 2021😁. We did make the shad trip in March and the FL trip in Apr. The others didn't happen.

This is a giant shoal bass! Must have been a great fight. https://www.fieldandstream.com/fishing/angler-catches-georgia-record-shoal-bass/?amp

Agreed!

Worse smelling fruit has to be ginko.

You know that's right! Photos if I catch them😉

That was in 2020 ?!? Makes sense but Wow on losing a year basically🙄. I hope that we could fish the secret creek sometime if I am able to get out that way. That would be for those goldeye, possible shortnose gar, and grass carp. Then I still need to get after koi or two.

Never threw them, but did a lot of special hikes out onto conservation or national forest lands to let the coyotes enjoy. I do agree that holding the back legs and the high low spin of a hammer throw would get the height for maximum distance 🤣

Still working out some details with my Betterhalf that will affect my final goals. I have a starter list going: 1) Fish for roanoke bass and lake trout 2) Catch at least three species of darter; at least two different species in MD and one lifer. 3) Catch at least 15 lifers with targets of a ) two lifer goby, blenny, and/or sculpin; b) two lifer sunfish; either Lepomis or Enneacanthus (banded) species; and c) two lifer bullheads. Still need to catch a spotted, snail, and flat bullhead.

@FishnDave I tried on the warmouth 🙄. What about longear sunfish? I thought those were a first for you or just a first in MO? Also I seem to recall that you traveled to fish with Ham. I can get you on a few lifers if you ever get out this way, including a redbreast sunfish 😉👍

This was a challenging process. Lots and Lots of research and second, third guessing fishing spots. When as @Ham put it that you are investing in the gas, time, mental anguish to travel to an unknown spot to fish and then get skunked or worse just catch the same fish you could have down the road it puts a big strain on family and mental stability. Also so glad for the support and tips provided by my friends and I was so happy to help others are well get on species that they may have not even heard about. I ended up with 115 total. I had to drop one misidentified fish. After hitting 100 my focus was to get Livie hers and to help Ham were I could when he got out to Delaware. Livie ended up with 100 and Sue got stuck at 48 (and no real interest to get to 50 even with my pushing 🤨). Between the three of us we caught 138 different species in 2021 (listed below). Lots of lifers were caught in Florida as well as all over. Interesting that none of us caught a brown or brook trout though we did try. Also no chain pickerel, which was the first year that I hadn't caught one since moving to MD. We all caught yellow bass which completed my quest for all of the temperate bass species. Sue and Livie followed suit when they both landed white bass. I came within a hybrid striper of catching them all in 2021, which I know that Ham completed. All in all a frustrating and then unltimately rewarding time. Not sure that I would do it again, but if I have a trip that could get me 20+ non-local species planned, then maybe 😉. American (White) Shad Goldfish Rosyside Dace Atlantic Croaker Grey (mangrove) Snapper Sailor's Choice Grunt Atlantic Silverside Gray Triggerfish Sand Perch Atlantic Stingray Green Sunfish Sargent Major Atlantic thread Herring Hickory Shad Satinfin Shiner Ballyhoo Hornyhead Chub Schoolmaster Snapper Banded Killifish Houndfish Scrawled Cowfish Bantam Sunfish Inshore Lizardfish Scup (Porgy) Bermuda Chub Irish Pompano Sheepshead Black Bullhead Jack Crevalle Sheepshead Minnow Black Crappie Knobfin Sculpin Silver Perch Black Drum Koi Skilletfish Black Sea Bass Largemouth Bass Slender Mojarra Blackspotted Topminnow Lined Topminnow Slippery Dick Blackstripe Topminnow Little Skate Smallmouth Bass Bleeding Shiner Longear Sunfish Smallmouth Buffalo Blue Catfish Margined Madtom Southern Kingfish Bluefish Mayan Cichlid Spanish Mackerel Bluegill Sunfish Mud Sunfish Spiny Dogfish Bluehead Chub Mummichog Spot (Norfolk Spot) Bluespotted Sunfish Naked Goby Spotfin Shiner Bluntnose Minnow Northern Puffer Spottail Pinfish Brown Bullhead Northern Redbelly Dace Spotted Seatrout Buffalo Trunkfish Northern Rock Bass Spotted Sunfish Channel Catfish Northern Searobin Spotted Tilapia Channel Flounder Northern Studfish Starhead Topminnow Checkered Puffer Ocean Pout Central Stoneroller Cocoa Damselfish Oscar Stoplight Parrotfish Common Carp Ozark Darter Striped Bass Common Shiner Ozark Minnow Striped Blenny Coppernose Bluegill Peacock Bass Striped Killifish Creek Chub Pigfish Striped Searobin Crested Blenny Pinfish Summer Flounder Cunner (Bergall) Plains Orangethroat Darter Swallowtail Shiner Dollar Sunfish Porkfish Tautog (Blackfish) Dusky Damselfish Pumpkinseed Sunfish Warmouth Duskystripe Shiner Rainbow Darter Western Mosquitofish Eastern Blacknose Dace Rainbow Trout White Bass Eastern Mosquitofish Red Hake (Ling) White Catfish Eastern Mudminnow Redbreast Sunfish White Grunt Fallfish Redear Sunfish White Perch Fantail Darter Redfin Pickerel Whitetail shiner Flier Redspotted Sunfish Winter Flounder French Grunt Redtail Parrotfish Yellow Bass Golden Shiner Reef Croaker Yellow Bullhead Golden Topminnow River Chub Yellow Perch

You must be feeling better to chime in on this feral cat discussion. I hope that is an accurate assessment 😉