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I took a couple buddies of mine out to a stream somewhere in southern Missouri, and absolutely slayed the smallmouth and shadow bass (I think). Brought down a bunch of your Hellgrammites @Mitch f and had a blast. I stopped counting after 50 smallmouth I put at least four over it 16 inches into the kayak but I missed an absolute donkey that went under a branch and dragged my kayak cross the river before she got off. Rigged them up with a plain ol lead jig head and also used them as a trailer on a jig. Good times. Cheers fyi in another locale, earlier this spring, I caught an 18 1/2 incher during the spawn with the gray colored shark tail but I did not have my phone with me (sure)

We met Steve Rinella at Scheels a few months back at a book signing for his new children’s book about getting involved in the outdoors. My son came across the Meateater show on his own, surprisingly, as we don’t allow him watch very much unsupervised. He absolutely loves the show and we were amazed about how focused he was on it considering that it’s relatively low budget compared with the shows that they try to push on children these days. Anyway, we bought the book and got to meet Steve with the whole family as a birthday gift for my son. He seemed very genuine and I got the sense that he recognizes that he’s been blessed with a great career, and he knows he has his audience to thank for a lot of it. My son was starstruck, and we had him sign a crank bait. As a bonus we got to meet Clay Newton, who is Steve’s friend and has been on the show a few times, and coincidentally is the subject my son’s favorite episodes. Clay makes a habit of finding mules on craigslist that are “untrainable” and training them to be used for hunting trips in the Ozarks of Arkansas. Pretty sweet. Clay just happened to drive up to see Steve and surprise him right when we got there and Steve made him stand up front and shake hands with people ha ha.

Do you have a jetty where you are? If you want a low budget unique experience go poke-poling for monkey faced eel on the rocks… A wire hanger. A long pole or piece of bamboo. Some bait. good time

Yep sticking your digits in an ocean fish’s mouth is not a good idea. Good call.

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Thanks

Nice fish

Small jigs Ned rigs prop bait/top water early and late crank bait like wrench said, once you figure em out it’s pretty easy in the creeks.

I had a brown recluse outbreak in my garage. They were everywhere tiny ones you could barely see and big quarter sized granddaddy‘s under just about every object in there. I’m reluctant to use bug bombs because I have young children(I even transplanted some broadhead skinks from a job site to my garages to knock ‘em back)but this is one of the last warm days last year and they were moving around again and I had had enough. The instructions called for one bugbomb this size for my space. I set off five lol. Haven’t seen one since. Skinks are alive and well.

That’s a cool tourney

Dang! Crushed em.

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Looks like the place to be

Good job

It’s “unprecedented”.

Those Lamson Liquid reels must have a defect. The same thing happened to me and it ruined my day. My buddy let me borrow his 8wt and a brand new Liquid fell apart on me about 12 times before I hiked back an hour for backup gear. Also, I noticed that your loop knots are much larger than I tie on my stuff. I guess I might go bigger. 🤔 Good luck and keep em coming!

What did the Tarpon eat and what is your set up ?

Keep em coming. My nephew just caught a knifefish in the canal but I won’t litter your thread up. Those tilapia can get huge down there..

Great day. Thanks for the pics.

Good idea on drying it out first. I’ll put it in my garage with a dehumidifier for a while..

Whoa, those fins are a bright shade of green. Is that a spawn thing?

I wonder how long it takes them to re-slime.

Those things will brutalize a high low rig in the surf as soon as the sun goes down haha