BilletHead

Dang Mr. Wrench! I suppose it would cost me more than that? Wish I could find fish like that. Actually never tried chasing them in the Fall. Got to try it. Cool photo buddy. Wrench is right Mr. Chillbilly you will get eat up with temperate bass once you get started. The BilletHead's are really, really ate up with them. A couple of this summers fish, BilletHead

He should know that is in just jest. See the smile face? Just like the flyfishing you tube video Mitch posted. I love it and wear it like a badge of honor. Made me smile and I really needed it here in BilletHeadVille that day. BilletHead

As long as dreaming of craws and not feeling crabs .

Nice, Nothing to share right now. I am a jack of all trades and a master of none. Short version a seasonal tier. Meaning is I have too many irons in the fire this time of the year to tie. You can look up my old posts from several years to see what I have experimented with, BilletHead

I am with you Mopanfisher although the more fish I catch out West the more I want to try for. We all have a wish list and I am included. The high country draws the BilletHeads and ever since we started trying to go native fish in native areas the more fun we seem to have. We do not lack but three or four cutthroat to call the North America slam completed. While we are still able and before we get to the point where we are not able I think we will continue to chip away at that. since we have done what we have guideless we would like to finish it that way. if we happen to get that done who knows what will be next. Some other fish would be cost prohibitive. BilletHead

Fellows I could not agree more. Never had many issues with giggers. Just caught fish with holes in them. Seen a Walleye once that had been cleaned with suckers. Now to Spoonbillers and a few cat fishermen. Yes some of them are that way. One boat ramp I use can get pretty bad. It is steep and narrow. Easy for them to haul fish up with the vehicle and boat. Clean fish up top and for some reason it is hard to reverse trip back down ramp to dump carcass. For heavens sake throw it in the water or take it home. If you want to share your catch take it home and put it on a fence post in front of your home to share like most of the rest of the guys. This all being said we see only the ones who do this. I am an optimist and believe there are so many more that do it the right way. Nothing is said about the ones who do it right but just wittiness one doing it wrong and it goes viral, BilletHead

Oneshot the Missouri Bison hunter!

Lets see when I had someone to teal with me last week first day two thirty AM. From that day on until Monday, of this week it was between three thirty and four AM. Now I have no one to help in the spots I cannot do on my own five AM is the norm. Of course I may hit the pillow between eight and eight thirty in the evenings and miss Joe D's posts until the next morning . BilletHead

Hey I get up early ! Plus those guys grow hair and don't have perfect heads to show off. BilletHead

I take it your invite got lost in the mail ? Billethead

So does this mean you got your special invite Phil! We were at the store yesterday and was told the store is closed today for the ultra special event. Not public today. Past presidents Bush and Carter, fishing and hunting legends, Racing legends too. Other special guests including political from the top national to local Missouri muckety, mucks. performances from top county and western performers. BilletHead

Gavin, I used an old Junker transom trolling motor mount. Just cut off the motor and the head on top. Made a bracket to bolt to the hollow shaft bottom. Tape transducer wires to the outside of the tube if you cant get them into the tube to run to top. Just bolt to transom. You then have the option of tilting shaft out of the water or loosening adjustment nut and sliding shaft and raising or lowering unit to desired height. The only downside is transducer rides behind back of boat some and you may get some water spray up behind boat. BilletHead

They are yours MoPanfisher, Just let me know when you want to get them. May be over through your town October sixth in the morning. If it happens will let you know and drop off somewhere, BilletHead

Cutthroat or brookies?

Ummm brook trout, another species introduced into the west and they have displaced many native cutthroat. BilletHead

Good on you brother but offer still stands I will gift out bow fishing arrows to anyone, BilletHead

Hey Griz I still got mine! Do you need it? Some bow fishing arrows too. Anybody want them? #save some wetlands shoot a carp #help a gamefish shoot a carp #fertilize your garden shoot a carp . See another smiley face, BilletHead PS seriously anyone want some solid fiberglass arrows points included.

Please distinguish what kind of rock on the list, Igneous, Metamorphic and Sedimentary. Then break those down again to areas we can snag them please. Do minerals and fossils count? Single hook, treble hook, multiples of each hook? So many questions but you are the life list expert. Hamilton is too for that matter, BilletHead

I started to post pictures but did not want you to chastise me, BilletHead

Two more interesting things I found while searching the benefits and non benefits of this exotic species. First thing is we can possibly make some money with these carp . A real r article fond on the internet and old one but the facts are important, https://www.idahopress.com/news/carp-for-sale-idfg-considers-paying-fishermen-to-remove-carp/article_e746456a-ce1c-11e0-b6b2-001cc4c002e0.html Could cut and paste the whole article but I will let you all see it if you are wanting to maybe make a few extra bucks. Then there is this gem. MoCarp talked of nice pristine waters in Europe that carp inhabit. Well no so much here and the experts say so. This is from US geological survey page on carp, https://nas.er.usgs.gov/queries/FactSheet.aspx?speciesID=4 I will just copy and paste a couple of things from here which are a contradiction to the beginning to this thread, Ecology: The species generally inhabits lakes, ponds, and the lower sections of rivers (usually with moderately flowing or standing water), but is also known from brackish-water estuaries, backwaters, and bays (Barus et al. 2001). In its native range, the species occurs in coastal areas of the Caspian and Aral Seas (Berg 1964; Barus et al., 2001) as well as the estuaries of large Ukrainian and Russian rivers. Crivelli (1981) reported that the common carp occurred in brackish-water marshes with salinities up to 14 ppt in southern France. In North America, the common carp inhabits brackish and saline coastal waters of several states bordering the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and Gulf of Mexico (Schwartz 1964; Moyle 2002) as well as the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of Canada (McCrimmon 1968). It has been captured in U.S. waters with salinities as high as 17.6 ppt (Schwartz 1964). In the U.S., the common carp is more abundant in manmade impoundments, lakes, and turbid sluggish streams receiving sewage or agricultural runoff, and less abundant in clear waters or streams with a high gradient (Pflieger 1975; Trautman 1981; Ross 2001; Boschung and Mayden 2004). Pflieger (1975) noted that the common carp tends to concentrate in large numbers where cannery or slaughter-house wastes are emptied into streams. Larval common carp feeds primarily on zooplankton. In its native range, juveniles and adults feed on benthic organisms (e.g., chironomids, gastropods and other larval insects), vegetation, detritus and plankton (e.g., cladocerans, copepods, amphipods, mysids). Feeding habits are similar in the U.S., where the diet is composed of organic detritus (primarily of plant origin), chironomids, small crustaceans, and gastropods (Summerfelt et al. 1971; Eder and Carlson 1977; Panek 1987). The common carp is very active when feeding and its movements often disturb sediments and increase turbidity, causing serious problems in some regions especially where the species is abundant. The species also retards the growth of submerged aquatic vegetation by feeding on and uprooting plants (King and Hunt 1967). Silt resuspension and uprooting of aquatic plants caused by feeding activities can disturb spawning and nursery areas of native fishes (Ross 2001) as well as disrupt feeding of sight-oriented predators, such as bass and sunfish (Panek 1987). A bit more, Remarks: Balon (1995) reviewed the origin and history of domestication of common carp in Europe and elsewhere. Several agents of the U.S. Fish Commission documented the early years of common carp propagation and stocking in the United States (e.g., Smiley 1886; Smith 1896; Cole 1905). Although this species was popular in the early 1870s as a food fish, common carp fell into wide disfavor soon after and is now considered a nuisance fish because of its abundance and detrimental effects on aquatic habitats. Trautman (1981) found common carp most abundant in streams enriched with sewage or with substantial runoff from agricultural land, but he reported it to be rare or absent in clear, cold waters, and streams of high gradient. Pflieger (1997) reported that the total weight and value of common carp taken by commercial fishermen in Missouri exceeded that of any other fish. Hartel et al. (1996) noted that more than 20,000 common carp were killed by a bacterial disease over a short period of time in the Merrimack River in the late 1970s. Because common carp have a higher salinity tolerance than most freshwater fishes, Swift et al. (1977) hypothesized that it may be spreading from one coastal stream to another through fresh or nearly fresh coastal waters in the Gulf area during periods of heavy rainfall and run-off, periods when salinities are greatly reduced. Some interesting facts here peoples and if you read the whole article you may get bored, BilletHead

Looks like sprouted beans to me. I think you need your eyes checked after burning the bikini girls image in your cornea. That or you need reading glasses? BilletHead

I have not either Ronnie but have read about it quite bit on here and other places. Most of what I see is Americas carp fishing. Guys and gals digging worms with a potato fork in the river bottoms. Looks like a bomb went off there. Most conservation areas have no digging signs now. Then there is evidence of forked sticks along the riverbank. Now and again I see the actual fisher person enjoying themselves doing their thing. * Another BilletHead disclaimer* I am in no way dishing on MOCarp. I am just showing the rest of the story. For every action there is an equal opposite reaction. I think both sides of the story should be told. It isn't all unicorns and fairy dust. Think of the Wisconsin story, Just think how much more of a challenge it will be now to catch a carp there? More relaxing time in the reclining carp lounger. More practice with the bait chumming slingshot. More maggots and corn and prepared pellets cast out there for the fish to find. More time to munch on the special human edible carp bait between bites. Might have to turn up the lighted buzzer alarm on the Euro poles in case you fall asleep in the special half tent shade area set up. I know Chumming for euro carp fishing is pretty normal. What about the bow fishers doing this? Would it be poaching and illegal because you are actually hunting over bait? See this smiley face ? This means this is all in jest, BilletHead

Oh my defiantly. I have scored hook sets on Osage orange, cedar and oak in my haunts. Several rock variety's too. I think I should start a hook set life list. What say you Folly? Can you work one of those up? Do you have to net and land a identifiable piece or can we guess? # snag and release , BilletHead

Thanks Phil for the heads up. Having issues with one of my units, BilletHead

Congratulations to the winners! They have taken out some invasive non native species. Well done. Yes some native buffalo too and I am sure the Wisconsin fisheries people have a hand on the impact and know if it has a negative impact on the native fish. The economical impact of such a tourney has to be good for the economy. Lets see 104 decked out bow fishing boats plus trailers and a nice tricked out truck to haul it. Two man teams? That would equal 208 rigged bow fishing set ups. The days of an old throw around recurve and a Zebco 808 taped on are gone. Got to do it right nowadays. So all these guys plus the media and sponsors need to eat and lodge while attending. That would be a nice shot in the arm to the state of Wisconsin ! Yes I know Euro carp fishing is here to say and that is fine. I know too as you have told us carp are here to stay as they have been introduced 140 years ago. Still does not make it right. Bucket biologists seem to know better that educated folks. Again congrads to the tourney winners even though this copy and paste story is almost a year and a half old, BilletHead