MoCarp

fantastic!

I find That part interesting... didn't I read somewhere basspro were opening a boat building factory in china?

I also noticed the shadow bass running smaller..the world record is only 1 lb 1 oz. my youngest brother caught a rockbass on shoal creek in the mid 70's that weighed 3# on a zebco de-liar thing was huge...I wonder how many records have been caught and never turned in......

personally I think we have several rock bass "strains" the rock bass I have caught in shoal creek are different than the ones in Tablerock and the elk river shadow bass...the ones we caught on lake of the woods where a bit different as well.....

Most Of these fish are caught in our area....SE Kansas Strip Pits are a great place for Pumpkinseeds...the streams near KC you can catch redbreast....

Mud Sunfish

Ozark Rock Bass

Ozark Shadow Bass

Red Breast

Flyer

One of my favorite Warmouth

Orange spotted

Pumpkinseed

Green Sunfish...AKA Black Perch

Green x Blugill

test your fish knowledge!..........RED EAR

AWESOME!

people will do many things for money..ethical or otherwise....from getting a bass from a live box on a dock on TR to win big fish....to taking WAY over their limit to get their "moneys worth"....they can ban corn chumming, yet you can count on it still happening....just like deer shot from the road with a spot light.... I caught my 1st trout on a fly.....have a bucket list of many things angling I hope to try.......once people fish for the fun and not for dinner things will change....we are closer to that today than 15 years ago..but have a ways to go I thing its a waste to arrow a 30# common and toss it into a dumpster at the ramp.....many are ok with that...I think its not cool to put a knife to a 3# smallie.....is it legal? for now yes....to think a put and take fishery is "natural" we are just fooling ourselves...if a guide is chumming corn I am tossing a corn fly......yellow jig etc....western trout streams are a good way to spend ones retirement.....

is it fair for on angler to use spinning gear instead of fly tackle? this a personal choice for each angler....chumming in itself will not replace an anglers skill in reading the water, or presenting an offering...IMHO chumming that feeds and fattens fish is better than feeding them things they get nothing from....If I was trying to catch a brown on a dry fly...what would I chum?....I have pet dart frogs and culture fruit flies (Drosophila hydei) they measure about 1/8 th of an inch long, and are the ‘wingless’ form. I always thought of culturing some in a 5 gallon bucket and dumping in a a few handfuls in the right water conditions to see what happens.... A well producing deli cup sized culture will put out a shot glass full of the little devils....a 5gal bucket? a full deli cup I am sure...wading out and floating out a few handfuls over a 10-20 minute span I am sure would get them rising....could be interesting

I have thought about using chopped shad like we used to use menhaden in the gulf go up current on a point at Stockton and and toss in some diced fresh shad then swim a 1/2 fin s fish on a ned rig prob get slammed by what ever fed on that point it does work..... you can make your own with salted shad and an old ice chest..nasty business I used to do it making trapping lure...but tai fish sauce works just as well and a whole lot easier the fake pellets work awesome...they come in floating and sinking in different sizes and the hollow ones you can make a paste and load it for the picky trout...or carp back in pre power bait days we used mini marshmallows to float salmon eggs off bottom..or velveeta cheese can sweet corn is a great bait for carp, but sunfish, turtles crawfish and waterfowl love it too.... and will pick you clean.....waiting and wondering if your rig has bait on it is what made the need for plastic corn and boilees once out you know they are still there in closing there is a theory called the baiting pyramid is should apply to trout as well...basically think of a chummed area like an african watering hole.....and the biggest fish move in and run out everything else... in carp the small fish move in and over time the biggest fish get 1st dibs.....below is a better explanation on it application in fishing,...in theory it should apply to trout ...the best feeding station should hold the best trout in a current situation because it brings dinner with the least amount of effort...chumming just moves the dinner table http://www.barbel.co.uk/site/articles/baitingpyramid/baitingpyramid.htm

IMHO Chumming is an art form canned sweet corn is notoriously hard for a trout to digest, won't kill them ether... just won't grow fat eating corn... so if your were a guide and you wanted to chum......Hi protein layers pellets 16% to 17% if you can find it peacock chow 28% is better, but more expensive...but FAR more affordable than cans of sweet corn...go to wally world and get a bottle of Tai Fish sauce and put it in a cheap spray bottle and in a 5 gal bucket LIGHTLY mist the pellets then give the bucket a tossing mix.... hook baits a hair rigged pop fake pellet (made by enterprise) will work well and have less gut hooked fish maggots are another great chum, they can be ordered on line and a single plastic pop up maggot with live offerings on a maggot clip will produce fish when nothing else will one trick is to chum pellets, then just a handful of maggots, and use maggots as hook baits.....it stands out from the chum bed and seems to get the bigger fish as a note the fish sauce trick works for bass walleyes and crappie...spritz up a feather jig in the back of the boat and just smile

Apparently a few more " outdoor public figures" are going to be seen euro carping.......