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Ray, big hand rob, dj, and I are staying in 22. @Daryk Campbell Sr are you staying in there too?

Anyone wanting to split cabin 22? Its the one we were mainly hanging out in last year.

@Phil Lilley is the cabin we stayed in last year available? If so I bet I can get a few to split it with me

Jigfest 2024 was one for the ages. thursday afternoon was rough until DJ/ray and I went down to the mouth of the Buffalo and fished the seam then we started hammering fish, but ran out of light. thursday night we had some finger foods while we waited on the chicken to get done in the smoker. Friday we went to rim, Ray fished with me, I caught a fish on my first cast. We had some good fish that first drift, but by the second drift water had turned yucky and was coming up so we all went down to Red's. Fishing started slow for me but Ray was nailing them, then I got in the groove and we ended up with a bunch of eaters. Friday night we had amazing fried catfish and potatoes, along with more trout dip and candied jalapeno/cream cheese. Saturday morning it rained so we took a nice lazy time with breakfast, which included backstrap which was amazing. We finally got on the water around 11:30 and just stayed at Buffalo city. We caught quite a few fish, then DJ caught the thickest 21" brown I have ever seen. After that the fishing slowed down and we went down to the mouth of the buffalo where we absolutely slayed the fish. Many times every cast we were hooking fish, nothing of any real size, but good fish. Saturday night I made gumbo which turned out great. I realized saturday night that you could tell how good the fishing was by how many hangovers there were...which was zero. sunday morning Daryk made an awesome breakfast with biscuits/gravy/sausage then DJ and I went up to rim to fish a couple hours and nailed the fish again. Several thick fish but nothing notable. I miss the days of 15-20 people jigfests, but having 5-6 was great too.

I believe @Phil Lilley has it on the books for jan 31-feb1

Bummer, hopefully we will see you at taneyfest?

@Quillback are you going to come over?

@LittleRedFisherman do we need to get oil for this weekend??

you should mail me some duck or send steinman down with some for the gumbo

bring the smoker instead of the weber and we can smoke up some trout

DJ said he is bringing backstrap, cheesecake, and muffins

make plans for next year right meow!

your welcome to bring your weber, but the cabin we are staying in has a smokey joe grill

I think @Phil Lilley will be better prepared for taneyfest. I hear he anchored the couches to the ground.

A true friend! And remember, if you dont stand for something, you'll fall for anything!!