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We only had two fish in the live well by the time the water shut down and had to come down lake and finish out our bag with jigs. Four of our fish were better than a pound and four were 3/4 pound stockers. Numbers were actually not bad, but catching one over 12” was not easy! The flats were dead for us and we had to fish out in the channels to catch anything.

Must be somewhere other that LoZ because anybody with a clue and side imaging should be able to go out and hammer fish on that lake anywhere below the 55mm.

Why the heck would somebody want to clean a big bass when they are catching crappie? I sure don't know anybody that would. If we wanted bass, we'd bass fish.....

Hard to beat a simple double smash burger with American cheese on a blackstone or cast iron IMO.

I don't eat a lot of fast food burgers, but I've always preferred ones that use sourdough bread such as the Hardees Frisco burger or Sourdough Jack from Jack in the Box.

I've fished that area very little. Snagged a few paddlefish in the dredge hole with dad probably 20 years ago and ran down there and caught a few bass during tournaments that were out of St Thomas, but that's about the extent of it.

Slabs!

MariOsa. We went back two days later and never got a bite though. Go figure..... I throw my swimbaits on 1/4oz heads and medium fast spinning gear with 10# braid and 10# fluoro leader. It blows my mind that people don't like white bass and hybrids. I've fried a lot of white bass for folks and they have always loved them. Some people were even surprised afterwards because they said they didn't care for white bass. My only guess as to why that happens is because people don't take the time to remove all of the red flesh before eating or freezing. Freezing them with the red still intact just ruins them. Walleye are great, but there is no way they are that much better than a properly cleaned white or hybrid IMO. I'd take a crappie over a white only because they require less prep work. I prefer the firmer flesh of a white/hybrid over a crappie or walleye too.

That flaired collar design of your head is my favorite thing about your jigheads. Everything has to cinch down towards the head and I've yet to have one slip regardless of whether I tied it myself or I bought it pretied. They all catch fish, but yours don't slip. Having to retie because a jig started to unravel or the marabou slipped down the hook drives me crazy!

I use 1/32-1/16oz jigs at Maramec all year long.

I'm not sure what happened either, but I was more than satisfied with the quality of fish present. We caught less fish during the tourneys than we ever have since I started fishing them in 2017, but also the most 2+ pound fish. The lack of quantity was made up with quality. During a typical tourney, we'd catch 50+ fish with ease. I'm not sure if we ever caught more than 20 in a tourney last year.....

That's good to know. The USACELittleRock app just shows a URL for releases now and it's annoying.....

I was going to recommend a few different setups, but it doesn't look like BPS carries those brands.....

Myself and three buddies started the year of catching a mess of fish on a beautiful day while listening to the Chiefs get a dub on the radio. We threw white swimbaits on rock banks all day long and caught 8 different species of fish and ended up with a good mess of "eatin fish" to boot. I caught my limit of nice white bass and fell one short of my walleye limit, which would have been a first for me.

For sure, especially if you bow hunt. We pretty well lived on wild game (mostly deer) and fish growing up when it was dad, me and my younger brother. Dad and I would kill 8-12 deer a year and keep most of it for ourselves.

Most counties allow unlimited archery antlerless and two firearms antlerless tags. There are a few counties in the northwest corner and down in the south east corner that are more restrictive on antlerless tags. Since I've filled my second antlerless tag with this doe, I would can't shoot anymore with a firearm in this county, but I could purchase and fill two in other counties if I wanted.

My electric fryer has a temp setting but otherwise just use a grease thermometer. I always use one when frying with tue propane burner.

On those bigger pieces of fish, fry them at 325 degrees for 6-8 minutes. Frying at that lower temp will allow you to cook the fish all the way through without burning your breading. That's also how I fry my scored sucker fillets. Rarely ever get a bone that way.

The people I know of that REALLY like them all grill or smoke it. They are a lot more fun to catch than they are to clean and eat to me. Try cooking them this way. Get a charcoal grill good and hot. Melt butter and liberally season with cajun seasoning. Dip 1" strips of paddlefish fillets in the melted cajun butter mix. Throw paddlefish strips on grill and cook each side for 4 minutes. Eat them while they are hot. It was about like eating grilled chicken. The only paddlefish that I bother keeping is the smaller fish caught below Bagnell dam. They are usually snakey, river fish but taste better than the big reservoir fish IMO.

I took the smokepole out for a little snow doe hunt after the Christmas festivities were finished and took this big girl. She came in with four other does. There was a buck grunting and chasing a doe back behind me in the brush. I waited a while hoping the buck would pop out just to see what he was, but the doe I ended up shooting started getting a little spooky and forced my hand to shoot. She made it about 100 yards and piled up. I sure do love letting smoke fly on those cold, late season hunts!

I get burned out on the river bass come July/August when the bite gets tough and would rather go fish for something else. I'm good outside of that though when I can go after trout, crappie, etc.

Whole home water filtration systems and water softeners serve seperate purposes. One purifies the water and the other softens it. They can run in conjunction to one another for the best of both worlds. Are you just wanting cleaner tasting water or are you actually wanting softer water?

I could have been a tree. I know there was the stump downstream from the first island on Taneycomo that we had to watch out for in the dark. All I know for sure is that it was a large object that made a wicked sound as the raging water crashed in to it.

DJ - WATCH THAT ROCK! Me - What rock? You mean that one 100 yards downstream from us? DJ - Yes! This happened during the high water Jigfest I made a few years ago while we were floating and fishing. 😁

Our family farm is similar this year. It just hasn't had crap on it compared to how it was 5-10 years ago. Im sure part of it is that fact that up until about 5 years ago, there was essentially zero hunting pressure to the east and west. Now we have pressure on both sides. I'm trying to convince dad that we need to go in and do some TSI work to really thicken the place up.