Quillback

These cool mornings are great!

I had two weeks in the middle of the season that just killed me. I could've been a contender!

Watched a bit of the day 3 weigh-in at St. Lawrence last week. Guy by the name of Bryant Smith set the single day record for smallmouth in an Elite event with 29 and change. The day I watched, he did not make the cut to fish in the last 10. He said he was leaving immediately for the drive back to California. Had to get back soon, has a one year old he hasn't seen in a while. Dunno if he tows a boat back. Those guys do work hard, it is highly competitive. Most people who are successful at what they do, work hard. There's also a lot of stuff besides the fishing. It helps to be a good communicator and a salesman, sponsors want people that are comfortable dealing with the public. KVD, for example. I don't know for sure, but I bet he's had a lot training as far as presentation skills, having been through quite a bit of training myself, you can watch people when they speak in public and pretty much tell if they have done some work to become a good speaker. There are some people who are naturals, but relatively few.

That's some good fishing! I was out today in my buddy Jeb's boat, can't say that we came even came close as far as weight - we caught a dozen bass, but the biggest one might have gone 13". Great morning to be out however, big old full moon early and cool temps that felt really good.

Shows you as 13th overall in the TW league. That's pretty darned good.

Just shy of 30 lbs. of smallmouth in Bryant Smith's bag yesterday.

I must confess I did walk a mile yesterday around 2 PM, a few clouds and some breeze and it wasn't too bad.

For the first time all year I have put my afternoon walks on hold. If the predictors are right, we have a nice cold front coming in Monday.

Was it uphill both ways to the pond? 😃

Fallguy, leading our league, is #21 in the overall TW standings. It would be neat to see him win it. Wish I had some good advice on who to pick in the St. Lawrence deal, but I'm doing my usual guessing, with no insight.

Nice fish!

I have live trapped them before, but it hardly seems worth the effort and they replace their losses quickly. Had the same problem, squirrels never bothered the tomatoes, then one year they decided they liked them. When I grow tomatoes, I get some nylon netting and wrap (loosely) the tomato frame deal with it, from the ground up.

I got some of those jigheads, and you can thread the Elaztech over them by pulling on the front of the bait. Rigged up a couple of Zinkers.

I've caught some kelp greenling but never one of those rock varieties. Very colorful.

That's pretty neat!

I saw a post on BBC where a guy was having a tough morning recently, switched to that rig and caught some fish. I have read that a chunk of Senko is a good bait, and Basstrix Flash Stix. Keitech Shad Impact has worked for me as a drop shot bait, seems it ought to work for that technique. I bet Elaztech stuff would work, but I don't know if you could get it on one of those rigs.

Thanks for the report, I have not been over to Beaver in a while, but that may be the ticket, getting out deep. Might go next week with the weather looking to be a bit more reasonable.

Never heard of the beer thing, heard of drinking a 7 up. The charter guys never made any suggestions or offered us anything. If I ever go on the salt again, I'm getting the prescription stuff. Dramamine is next to worthless IMO.

I have been seasick one time, and it was bad. However, I'd chum, and you kind of recover for a few minutes after chumming, so I picked up my rod and kept fishing and got my limit of silvers that day. On a charter and it's not coming back until everyone limits. There were 8 of us on the boat that day and all of us were sick to one degree or another. Swells with wind chop on top, it was tough to stay on your feet. Had to go out to an oil drilling platform out in the gulf once to do a software upgrade. You fly out to those things on a helicopter. As we were hovering above that very small looking landing pad, you could see the platform slowly going up and down in the swells. I thought uh-oh, I could be in trouble, but as you check-in once you land, they had a medic present that asks you a few health questions and he asked if I might get seasick, I said it sure is a possibility, so he gave me a couple of pills, and I was fine for the 24 hours I was out there. And that was good as they have excellent food on those rigs,

Nice ling, I think they are better eating than halibut.

Couple of allegations surfacing on the BASS event going on St. Clair right now that a couple of guys kept bass hooked outside the mouth. It is against the regs to do so in Michigan, and Ontario.

Here is one for you if you haven't caught one yet, Starry flounder. Used to catch them in Puget Sound bouncing lead jigs off the bottom. Starry flounder - Wikipedia

I'm pretty sure they are all stocked. Might as well harvest them. I remember reading somewhere that AGFC was thinking of doing another stocking. A few weeks ago I was on Table Rock, heard some noise in front of the trolling motor, saw a paddlefish just as it was swimming back down. I'm guessing 30 lber., nowhere near the size of the Beaver fish.

Believe it or not, cabezon are good to eat.

That is one big bow!