BilletHead

If you ever get North you can pick in our meager garden Rick. Never forget that. So have more tubs ready for making wickers. Invested in a 4 1/8th inch hole saw that will make things go so much easier that a jig saw for the wicking pipe. Got to get on this project. So I finally got the lettuce from starting trays into big beds. Looked pretty poor but perking up now. In second bed the rest of the lettuce starts. Slim pickings and not too healthy. Look like crap. Had enough for one side. The other side I put some popsicle sticks for the layout and planted more lettuce a few days ago. It is sprouting I noticed today. It second bed becomes a wash it is OK. One bed is really enough and we end up giving to others. Tomatoes and Peppers in starting trays. Nothing sprouting yet, BilletHead

My thoughts exactly. Sizzle is good with bacon in skillet but not on vehicles, BilletHead

Ok JD here is what I am up against. I may of asked you before but I have slept since then. I still have the two hives I started with three or four years ago. One on a guys property across the road. Don't get over there very often to check on it. Then this one in the yard I enjoy watching. Both wintered fine I suppose . Won't peek in until it gets much warmer. The one across the road had both big bodies filled but never did anything in the super. I have been told that bees sometimes don't like to build on the wax coated foundation that some super frames come with. I am going to buy some pure wax foundation to put in those frames this season. Then I have this hive pictured in the yard. I did get a bit of honey from it. Kind of thin but real good. On this one I need to pit a new bottom board on it. So I smoke them. Remove top frame. Put cover back on. Disconnect bottom frame from old bottom board and slide frame onto new board? Thanks, Marty

What Quillback says and I might add, Wiley can you see all the wires going down your trailer and where they split to each side or do they go down the enclosed frame? I was blowing fuses on the truck. Couldn't figure it out at all. Finally disconnected at lights. Put strings to be able to pull back. In my main harness mice had got into the tongue near the front of trailer and had been munching on the plastic coated wire causing a bare spot touching and grounding out. Really look hard at your fuses Kendall on truck. Sometimes blown ones are hard to see. Like someone had already said depending on the year of your truck. There are fuses under the hood and on my truck on the left part of the dashboard facing the door. BilletHead

Lance you most certainly have it figured out man. What a set of whiskers! BilletHead

Yep but we sleep outdoors all winter but go inside to pee, Go figure , BilletHead

Hahaha. Really don't want Kendall's truck to spark and ignite. BilletHead.

Nice fishes DJ! Good gills dude. BilletHead

Hank in there Kendall. I think you will eventually win! Marty

Boy I hope you practiced catch and release. It might be rare and endangered 😲. Hey @Johnsfolly What does Pete have here? BilletHead

Yes we do Mr. @Johnsfolly My uneducated guess is an immature red bellied black nosed stickleback sculpin dace minnow that has crossed with the gar you mentioned. My micro buddy John where are you? BilletHead

Pleasure to meet you also riverman. We will see you again I am betting. Did you find any big females down that way? BilletHead

Holy Mackerel batman! I bet that one is on @Johnsfolly s micro list. Well done those micro masters are going to be jealous, BilletHead

Another day another drainage, 22 on my clicker and 9 on Mrs. BilletHead's. Water temp 51 -52. Mostly males 3 to 5 foot of water. Pink over white clousers. Pat used floating line and caught two right off. All I did was snag on bottom. I changed reels and went full floating line problem solved. Most fish tight against bank to four foot out in slacker eddy water. Only a couple hits in main current. Got off water early before rain hit. Staying dry was nice , Mrs. BilletHead got to see her new birthday trolling motor work. So glad she lets me use it . @snagged in outlet 3 and @duckydoty #gamechanger . BilletHead

On the fly rod to boot, Bonus points! BilletHead

February 5th you say? Pretty neat getting into big school like that, BilletHead

Nice Wily! BilletHead

Nice! I see the fatties are down some but soon they will be heading up. BilletHead

We are all in a conspiracy messing with @snagged in outlet 3 ! Speaking of if you get down this way and fish with one of us or go on your own we can point you in the right direction or should we send you on a wild white bass chase? , BilletHead

Lucky kids and kudos to you for doing that! BilletHead

Finally got down there for the first time this year. Thanks to the guys here who have made reports. Long daily drive from BilletHeadVille for a scouting trip and reports help. Some guys don't report and I get that especially smaller streams but this place is big and popular so no secrets. it is a fun place to fish. Curtise OA forum member and my friend made trip today with me. Fun to fish with and we have many things in common. We can joke and give each other a bad time and still go home friends. The way it should be. I think we finally arrived at the ramp around 7:30 and prepared to launch. The lot was pretty full and a launch line had formed. We have fished enough together out of each others boats we know the drill and we were launched quick and headed up river. A fog had formed and heading into the sun was bad. We ran up to where we had caught fish before and along that area several boats had gathered. Must be the place to be and we slid in line. I rigged up the fly rod and Curt tied a chartreuse marabou jig on his line. I tied on a pink over white clouser. Curt caught a couple and I noticed others were throwing white of chartreuse offerings. I quickly changed gears and put on chartreuse over white and began to catch myself. Throwing towards the bank stripping some a pause or two and letting the clouser swing. Curt did the same. Fish were caught in three to maybe to ten foot deep. Even threw opposite side of boat and caught in the middle. Fish were somewhat scattered. Sometimes one in a spot sometimes two or three could be caught. More and more boats came up and joined the flotilla. At one time there was twenty to twenty- five watercraft in our view, Early Curt got pretty cold. I never did. Cannot figure out who is messed up this way bit figure a mix of both of us makes one normal person :). One thing I noticed all the fisher people in all these boats worked well with each other. Much visiting from boat to boat. Friendly bunch. Only seen a couple of boaters I thought were out of line. I know a boat on plane produces less wake. I get that but one shoalrunner decided to do a run slalom ski style through some fisherman. I mean close to them. I call it crap. You had to get your bait down to the bottom or as close as possible. I used 250 grain sink tip line. I got down and snagged often. Not sure what was on the bottom but I could stretch the fly line and let it pop back. I never lost a clouser. Curt caught some on plastic and briefly threw his fly rod and caught on that too. We don't think his line was getting him far enough down today. Normally he and I run neck to neck but today I caught the most. All sizes caught mostly males, Fishing really slowed down for us shortly before noon although others continued to catch a few. We both hooked bigmouth buffalo. My one came unbuttoned as one of Curts. He landed his second and he also caught a blue cat that was three pounds or so. We did not keep anything today just catch and release. We heard there were less boats yesterday and catching was better. Go figure should have been there yesterday! We have all heard that sometimes in our trips. This being said we have all been the ones there yesterday too! There was two fine gentlemen we talked to that was there yesterday and they cleaned 200 whites. That is allot of fish cleaning. At the ramp cleaned carcasses all over. Water temp was 53 so soon it will really be on big time!, BilletHead This post has been promoted to an article

Oh liphunter, I crocheted until I took up fly tying. If you don't fly fish go ahead and tie flies and some of us here on OAF forums can dispose of them for you . Thanks in advance, BilletHead

Report coming. The way guys were talking not as good as you and others did yesterday. I was happy though, BilletHead

It happens man. It will turn to the better hang in there! BilletHead

Yes we do need to trade numbers. We were upstream beyond the first normal shoal. Pretty good current in that shoal. How did you do downstream? Did you launch at 10c? That lot was packed! BilletHead