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I’d have to say that is extremely impolite to stop a man fishing out in a stream and order him to stop what he is doing an walk over to you to prove he isn’t committing a crime. I have no duty to walk over to you at your command as my license is here legally in my hand. If the matter is urgent enough to rudely interrupt my pastime then surely a short walk into the water would be appropriate.

When I was young and fished with bait, a dobsonfly larvae (hellgrammite) was the best owing to the fact that every fish that sees it tries to eat it and the fact that it’s body is very durable. You could catch 10 smallmouth or goggle-eye with one hellgrammite. When I lived out west I caught a giant water beetle in a pond at my house. This thing was terrifying. About four inches long with pincer-like front legs holding a big frog it had captured.

Nice job

It was a red ribbon area

5wt. Full sinking line 7ips. The final one took an hour to catch but I wasn’t goin home without that round number haha. Missed eight. Not one rainbow. Caught one big ol shiner as well. They smacked it like a bass. No fish pics, kept the phone in a bag as it’s on its last leg. Wasn’t gone risk finishing it off unless I had a trophy 😁

That’s the exact opposite of what I’m looking for

I second this post haha. Bump

That is one realistic crawfish. Would love to try that hellgrammite the way you did the centipede in Cajun Melon as well.

Last summer, on the Black River, I floated over something shiny. I back-paddled the kayak and dove in after it. Someone had dropped their waterproof pouch with an iPhone wallet and keys. The phone screen was shining because it had just missed a call and that’s how I saw it on the bottom. When we got back to the car the phone was locked but I hit the Siri button and said “call mom” and it dialed mom. I gave the lady who it called my number and she told me her son lost his stuff he day before. The son called me and I gave him my address and he and his dad showed up promptly as they live nearby my home. They couldn’t believe I had all their belongings. Turns out the dad had a bug spraying business and he insisted that he spray for bugs at my house and my brothers house( my brother was with me when they collected their things) no charge.

I’ll check those thanks.

Thanks. Yeah I’m not trying to go deep, just trying to keep him dry during cold weather and be able to cross at low spots. Muck boots are no match for this kid near any kind of water 😉.

I’m looking for some waders for my son. He’s 6 and wears a youth size 13 1/2 shoe. I’m guessing anything from youth size 13 1/2 to 2 would work? I’ve had trouble locating any to try on in the St. Louis area. All the stores are order only. Does anyone on here have any to sell that your kid has outgrown? Also if someone has any good experience on ordering new one that would be helpful.

Fresh water Cabazon. It even has the blue mouth 😁 Or maybe it’s a baby Ling….

Those martins are great. Bought two last year of the counter for $11 apiece.

It’s so crazy because I’ve done a deep dive on this lately as I was going to stay at my friends house next spring on torch lake and travel the area and fish some of the nearby streams for brown trout steelhead salmon etc. I got to thinking that I should fish torch lake even though he warned me that it was tough to fish. I looked it up and found out that people catch Atlantic salmon out of it. I noticed that there is a do not eat warning associated with that species because of high concentrations of mercury, PolyChlorinated Biphenyls (PCB’s), and dioxins. That is where the rabbit hole started… From what I gather much of the state has high levels of PFAS in the river systems and they’ve gone about warning people many times not to eat the fish and have published species specific guides on consumption. There’s a lot of ambiguity on what the safe levels are but I believe it was either the EPA or the state of Michigan declaring that 19 ppm was the high tolerance for drinking water. Some of the fish they have tested are showing up with HUNDERDS of thousands of ppm in them. Apparently a bunch of the pollution is caused from all the manufacturing in the state and is also in Lake Michigan. The other major factor is the fact that the military constantly does drills using fire fighting foam which is loaded with PFAS. Some of the stuff I read says it’s contaminated groundwater up to 100 miles away from these bases. 3M Has been under fire for a long while about the pollution they manufacture and only just recently stopped producing PFAS. Its been hard for me to discern between environmentalist pearl clutching and real deal environmental emergency. That said the whole point of my trip was that my son wanted to go camping in the wild and eat what we catch and I told him that we are going to find somewhere else to go.. https://www.canr.msu.edu/news/importance_of_using_the_eat_safe_fish_guide https://patch.com/michigan/across-mi/state-officials-issue-do-not-eat-warning-fish-pond

Turns out a Voodoo shrimp under a popping cork can catch a bunch of speckled trout before they tear it up once I locate locate the fish..

I’ve never fished Louisiana. But in Alabama and Florida I get the kids to catch blue crabs and ghost crabs for bait and I throw the cast net for mullet. The crabs (cut the big ones up) catch black drum as well and I seem to catch more reds with the mullet. 8 inches is ideal size…

Nice job. Can you give details of put in and take out? I want to do that run..

Thanks for posting this 👍

Would it be easier to autoclave(pressure cook) the bottles?

I caught a baby tarpon in the gulf in a creek/marsh with the fly rod tossing out a clouser. Silver carp the same way in a creek south of St. Louis that flows to the Mississippi. I’ve tried to catch walleye at chain of rocks after a guy told me how he does it, no luck.

Great thread here.

I caught a the first and last one on your list last year by surprise. Do you have a plan for the sturgeon?

Works well on this loose “dusty” type snow before the sun hits it.