Seth

I didn't go opening weekend, but went this past Sunday afternoon. Tons of small fish in the stream that escaped during the winter flood so you had to weed through them to get to the decent ones. They were all over the green/white rubber leg, white trout magnet and orange trout worm. My father in law fished velveeta under a float and couldn't keep the little guys away. He caught plenty of fish, but nothing worth keeping. My best four were all 14-16".

If you want to know the next day predictions, you use the link https://www.energy.gov/swpa/generation-schedules. The USACE app was just redirecting to that page anyways. I'm hoping the CFS app will update with that information as well. I'll know if it does later today.

Does it update in the evening with the predicted flow for the following day like the USAC Little app did?

Auto renewal is where it's at! I think the ONLY things I don't have on auto renew/pay at this point in my life is the trash bill and the electric bill. The only reason they aren't on there is because they don't offer the option yet.

Once the water shuts down, it just gets flat out brutal. Even the scud bite Saturday morning was a lot slower than we were used to. Luckily we were able to get a limit of quality fish while 4 units were cranking. After they shut the water down, we were just going through the motions and wasting time. We trolled flicker shads from Lilleys down to Monkey island with nothing to show for it. After that, we ran back up and my buddy threw a black jig while I used a 1/50th oz olive/orange head jig under a float and may have caught six fish in the last three hours. There were plenty of fishing of various sizes midging around us all afternoon, but we just couldn't get them to eat what we were offering. I wish I had brought some zebra midges to try.

I'm having a dry spell right now. It's been a while since we've had anything worth getting excited over to net.

That's the one perk of being the fry man. I got to "test" several pieces of crappie and turkey before anybody else. 😁

I'd say cook at normal times and those of us who are mad at the fish can come in and eat whenever. Once I'm on the water, it's hard for me to come back in. Normally I just forgo eating when I'm fishing and make up for it all at once at dinner time. I'm afraid I may have over done it a bit Saturday with that last plate of desert though. All I could do at the Monkey was sit there in misery from being so full and watch the shenanigans go down. I was already full of what was already out, but I had to wait for Cody to finish the gumbo to try that as well as partake if the many fantastic deserts that were present.

Yep and when it's a dual possession deal like that where both receiver and defender appear to have control of the ball, favor always goes to the receiver. The people saying it was a pick are clueless on the rule. If anything, it could have been ruled an incomplete pass but since the ball never budged upon hitting the ground it was ruled a catch.

I was planning to fry the turkey on Saturday, but could do it Friday evening as well if need be. I'll just need t make sure it's thawed if we are doing it Friday. I'm not going to be down until Friday afternoon/evening though so Saturday would probably work beter for me. What's our total head count so far? Trying to estimate how much I should bring.

The fact that Allen hit heaved that ball up and actually hit his receiver in the hands is crazy. There were four Chiefs defenders surrounding him at that point. If that receiver hangs on, the ending gets even crazier!

It's so fun watching Mahomes, Jackson and Allen duke it out. They are all studs. Watching that and still seeing the Chiefs get the dub is the perfect combo.

That has been the biggest eye opener for me as well. In the past I'd have just thought I wasn't around the fish, but that's rarely not the case. Good spots always hold fish, they just ain't always biting!

I love listening to guys tell me how they sat on a big school of crappie for hours and only managed to catch a few. They can't grasp the concept of leaving inactive fish to find active fish because they can see them on the graph. If I'm not getting bit every few casts then it's time to roll out. There are way too many other crappie around to deal with inactive fish.

I’ve accomplished nearly all of my personal goals regarding big fish and tourneys over the past few years so my goals are changing. The only two goals I really have are to fish with dad as much as possible and try to take more youth out fishing.