BilletHead

Yea Olivia Go Livie go! You never know what you will get with a wad of worms bottom fishing. A real Suprise!

Wow nice day for the team. You two are ruthless. Mean motor scooters. Go on the catch it all tour. Seriously you two are great fisherman.

This comes to me for the oneshot theme song of course this could very well pertain to the BilletHead too . Some of us are very well worth taking care of.

Good job Ollie, We are helping with Reel Recovery part of next week. But am planning on getting back down there again. Would like to hit that topwater white bite with the fly rod. does it look like the water is about close to the same. If others are launching, I hope I can push the boat off the trailer. Maybe I can twist @curtisce arm and let him push the boat off the trailer .

That will catch Alex, BTW what a messy bench. Looks like mine

It really is pretty tasty. I like to diversify and try other beers sometimes but there are standbys. This is one.

Yes but she can butcher a pig! And deer, and goat and sheep plus she can sew up the holes in oneshot's bib overalls!

Love it, Here we go! Give us updates.

The older I get the more I like the easy button.

I have told Ham to have a good trip so am telling you now. Please don't let a gator eat him or let him contract that bad crap bacteria thing in the salt water.

thanks buddy!

Pretty much what Dutch said. There are reports of 25 and above every year. I know I carried him part way home and he felt like a ton. Said to myself screw this sat him down, my gun, decoy, vest and walked back home for the ATV. Im not the beast I used to me packing stuff. More to the story. I shot the bird and claimed my prize. Went to my pocket for phone to text Pat to let her know I was alive. Call me oneshot jr I suppose she worries about me. It's a good thing I know. Nothing there I had ripped my cargo pocket on pants. I began to scramble as I put it on silent when hunting. Backtracked a few times. After dressing the bird, I went back did the route it two more times and found it in the pasture where I shot the bird. Darned lucky.

Cool Beans Jeff!

This is so cool! Thanks for posting, Bret. Congrats to all those youth fishermen.

Thursday morning!

I think it'll be good actually for a couple weeks more. I enjoy the constant fishing action when it's on. I'm going to meet you down there sometime.

A little after eight this morning scored. 10.5 inch beard and inch spurs. 21 lbs 5 oz VID_20230417_084805075.mp4

Congrats Dave on making your goal. I need to get one of those bowfins.

Nice Ollie! Off the first gravel bar there was an osprey diving and getting fish. I also saw a kingfisher with a little shad in its beak. It flew right in a hole with it across from gravel bar.

Dry here also John. Very surprised we have found what we have. Hope you can get into some. Our best spots were really dry and only a handful from them.

Okay going to make a bulk report now. I think five more trips since last report with @curtisce. More with him and one with Pat and another with @grizwilson. You all should know this place is no secret. There are more license plates in the lot where all park from Missouri and Kansas than Oklahoma. With no limit of white bass I think meat for the year gets taken by lots of fisherpeople. Boats get loaded. Ice chests, livewell and stringers. It gets plumb crazy with boat traffic. Some down right dangerous. Courteous folks too but some stupid. I will attach some pictures. One day Grizwilson and I were first to launch. Early Is the key and running in the dark will get you the choice spots. Crappie was the target and I knew where to catch. We got into them for awhile until the good ones were caught out and dinks remained. Went back next day early and dropped @curtisceand his friend Phil on a good gravel bar to fish. I motored up to crappie hole to find two boats pulling them in already. So I fished for whites and hybrids. I guess Grand had a good stocking of hybrid a couple three years ago and results are showing up. One day I had 8, one day 10 And another day 10. All between 2 and 4 pounds. Kept some and released a bunch. All of this fly-fishing and 99 percent were caught on Pink over white clousers. You would get sore arms from casting and fighting fish. Sink tips and getting down to the bottom is the answer. Fish caught on the bank in slack 2 foot of water to in the fast current in 7 to 8 foot deep. Throwing out and letting the fly swing. Some hits on the swing by by far more slow strip back to the boat and even letting it sit in the current. Those temperate bass with flat body and wide tail fight hard. Did not weigh the whites but one day had some 15 to 16 inchers. Lets look at pictures now. I'm tuckered out. First day river up and flowing hard. Last day there really low and three trips had to back out and slide boat off trailer with waders then take boat out deep enough to start motor (jet). Reverse deal walking boat onto trailer and winching up. No loading with motor. Folks with big boats would try to launch and pull out and go to twin bridges. I helped a couple others get boats back on trailers. On day someone tried to launch a pontoon boat. They had to be winched out getting stuck. We missed that but got the story. VID_20230408_075652513.mp4 VID_20230403_075148922.mp4

Hit three more of our patches but ventured out from one and added another place. Between places hit the fencerow asparagus patches. Got some spears. The earliest finds today were after turkey scouting. Hit the first usual spot and found a few. Left some dried ones there. We started wandering willy nilly finding a stray here and there where we have never looked. Good ones! As we got closer together Pat found a couple more. I walked over and all around a elm with bark falling off the trunk were morels, lots of them. Bet we found twenty around it. Some of the first look pile as the mushroom bag was overflowing.Back at the house we ventured off two more patches. One next to the house only three more. Decided to hit the last spot behind house. Little Walk 800 yards north west. Got there to find a bunch more scattered. One across a woven wire fence. Three tight strands of barbed wire over it. Long ways to nearest spot to cross. I laid down and reached out. Got ya sucker! VID_20230416_090157383.mp4 Fun morning. Seen some jakes from this spot. Might go see if they are there in the morning.

Tis the season, Morels are being found, wild asparagus also. Picking lettuce in the garden. All incorporated into todays meal. Morels sauteed and smothering a ribeye. Salad made from garden romaine as we are thinning out every other one. The raw asparagus also added to the salad as was bunching onions we have growing beside a raised planter. Blessed to get part of our meal in places other than the market.

They raise them for food in Southern south America. Peru I am thinking. I would try it.