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Nice haul!

I think everything went to a new server yesterday. Might have dropped a few posts?

Eric, You out of country already?

Looks like you had some fun yesterday Scott. I like the spider rig! I was checking them out the other day. They are on the "when I get back from Alaska" toy list. Great report!

Great report and great pictures. I was going to chase crappie this morning, but thinking about giving the bass thing a try now. I have not fished for bass in 25 years and starting to get a hankering for it.

Another great report. Thanks for sharing with us. I got a buddy that fished for crappie yesterday and said it was kinda slow for him in the James River arm. It sure was a nice day to be out on the water.

Nice catch! Thanks for the report.

Nice report. Welcome back to the area. A little keeping the wife happy goes a long way.

Thanks for all the kind replies. I want to have the pic of my grand daughter framed.

Yes, Scott, I think you have….LOL!

I found a few yesterday after fishing. Got to take my grand daughter and son-in-law on their first ever mushroom hunt.

1/16 ounce jig heads with bobby garland sassy shad bodies in pearl.

Great report and welcome to the forum. It was cold out there this morning!

Got on the water at 6 this morning and it was a little chilly out there. Put in at Bridgeport and boated to the first MDC brush pile down lake on the left. When I got there, all my fingers felt like they had been mashed by a hammer hurting so bad from the cold. I managed to catch 3 shorts at the brush pile on 1/16th oz jig heads with pearl Bobby Garland sassy shads before the sun came up. Started fishing the banks in that little cove next to the brush pile and caught 4 more shorts in the shallow water. It finally warmed up enough that my fingers quit hurting so I headed down to Bear Den. Kind of worked the bank on the way down the cove on the right side but concentrated on submerged logs in 6 to 10 feet of water and really started picking up the keepers. Finished with a limit by 11 and got a phone call that my daughter, son-in-law and grand daughter were heading down wanting to go on their very 1st ever mushroom hunt. I had the perfect spot in mind for them. I headed back to the launch, trailered the boat and got home 20 minutes before they arrived. Put a bag of ice in the live well when they got to my house and the 4 of us headed to the woods down the street. We spent about 3 hours looking and ended up with over 130 morels. The kids stayed for a dinner prepared by DD'sMC that consisted of deer burgers and tenders smothered in sautéed morel mushrooms, and some steamed veggies. What a fantastic day!

Spent an hour in the woods after work today and found 77. We still need more rain to really make it happen.

Top are fresher. Just up after a rain. Bottom ones have been up for a few more days and starting to get on the dryer side.

Them are better than fish. Nice find!

Thanks for the report. How many did you end up with?

Great report Jim. Thanks for sharing. I want to try and get up there this week. It is hard not to fish the James right now though.

That is a pig. Thanks for sharing.

It has been hit and miss for me the last week up in Flat Creek. I've been doing a little better back out on the main lake area. Thanks for the report.

Yes it has an MDC sign on the left going in. It has a little cove off to the right at the mouth with 2 docks in it and one dock on the right of the main cove just past the mouth. Its the 1st bigger cove just down from Bridgeport and is a little bigger than Peach Orchard.

Nice job. Thanks for the report.

Fished a couple of hours this afternoon in the shallow brush at Bear Den and got 9 keepers.

Yup, he cleaned them this time. I helped him rib em.