Seth

He's got a heck of an eye if he knew without a doubt that it was going to be 1oz bigger thant he previous state record. 😁

Looks like my spring aside from the mushroom pic. Finding morels would be at the top of the list of outdoorsy things that I'm garbage at. 😁

Yep. I cleaned 15 females and only two had eggs that looked like they were ready to be dropped. The rest did not look ready.

Put in at Ravae's at the 55mm and stayed with in a mile. Caught a few males up shallow, but ended up finding the better quality females under docks near points and on brush near docks in 12-20' of water. Kept a limit of 11-13.75" fish with 10 of them being 12"+. Color didn't matter, just had to put it in there face. Water only had about 6" of visibility.

I love the competition factor. Anybody can go catch em when conditions are perfect during the week. When you go out and fish the same day and conditions and whoop everybody else, you've proven that you were the better angler that day. Do it over and over and you'll know that you're a better angler overall. It's not for everybody, but some of us love it. Heck, I won't hardly fish for bass unless it's a tournament. If I'm just out fishing for fun, I'm probably going after something I enjoy eating more than a bass. To be honest, I'm not sure how people do nothing but bass fish when there are so many other types of fish to be caught.

It wouldn't bother me. The last time I purposely went after bass in the spring was in 2020. I'd rather spend my time chasing whites or crappie this time of year. I get my fill of bass in the summer and fall.

Do you just now have an issue with it because an "influencer" told you to have a problem with it? Tournaments have been fished in the spring for decades.....

Didn't have anybody to take a pic of me with the bird so the photo kind of sucks. (10" beard with two other baby beards, 21.8# and 1" spurs) on opening day.

@BilletHead I think my bird was a in the upper 25 lbs range. That hoss you got beats that by quite a bit! It was a good opening day all around it sounds like. The wind made it hard to hear the birds, but I knew there were a few in the area so I just stayed put and called in between the wind gusts. I'd hear a gobble once in a while so I knew it was just a matter of time before something showed up. @Ryan Miloshewski texted me sometime around 8:30 I believe with a pic of his beard and it wasn't long after that I peaked up and saw a fan and then a couple big white noggins headed towards me. A few moments later I had a bird flopping myself. It actually ended up being a triple bearded bird which was a first for me, and weighed 21.8lbs and had 1" spurs. My dad and father in law both tagged birds on opener day as well. Only one other time can I recall dad and I both harvesting birds together on opening day.

It was a good weekend for thunderchicken chasing. My dad helped my youngest nephew tag a jake. The nephew I took botched an opportunity Saturday morning, but we made up for it when he tagged a 23.5lbs tom with a 10" beard and 1 1/2 and 1 5/8" spurs on Sunday morning.

I've definitely chucked reels for less! Would have been nice to at least get some eyes that monster!

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.