A Fish With Canine Teeth

[Wayne SW/MO]

"you mean you catch the same fish every time you go, that doesn't sound very fun."

I guess some things never change.

I don't believe I've caught 6 logperch in my life.

[yaknar]

Osage, welcome to OzarkAnglers, post often and post with pictures. And yes, those are neo's. Simple math...

41 degree air temp. at 6:30 am Friday morning + senior citizen = neoprene waders.

I did not wear them for the water temp. I use Square A's for the shallow water, and right now that's most of the James. And I dont know very much about fish but if the CC is stocking fingerling walleyes, wont they be eating the bass that I like to catch or will the bass be eating the fingerlings.

[Osage]

And I dont know very much about fish but if the CC is stocking fingerling walleyes, wont they be eating the bass that I like to catch or will the bass be eating the fingerlings.

Don't know but I doubt it. Walleye co-exist with smallmouth bass in the northern climates where they're both native. From Hootentown to Galena is one of the CCs pet smallmouth bass project so I'd bet the CC biologists have got the colleratal damage numbers figured out. Walleye are native and have always been here. They breed in late winter or very early spring so they're doing their thang while we're home by the fire putting new line on our reels and watching fishing videos. I've heard the depression folk kinda wiped them out along with most of the white tail deer when folks were hungry. I guess this is the CCs effort to try to bring the population up. Ol' timers called them jack salmon. I was in my early 20s before I knew that a jack salmon and a walleye were the same fish. A call to the Springfield CC office would likely answer your questions. Haven't done too noteworthy this year on the bass but will get busy with Photo Bucket on some nice small mouth from years past. Got plenty pics of nice catfish this year. You like catfish? Zack

[Al Agnew]

A walleye would eat a fingerling bass if the opportunity presented itself, but small bass aren't a typical walleye food. I wouldn't be worried in the least about walleye eating bass.

Osage, if you haven't read it already, read my post under the walleye board. Like you, I grew up calling walleye jack salmon, or just jack. And from reading old magazine articles from the heyday of float fishing on the James and White, walleye were there but catching one was a real event. And you're right about the old timers nearly wiping them out. They were especially bad about gigging them at night in the spring on the spawning riffles.

[Osage]

Here's a few decent size channels. Good eating size.

A couple of nice smallmouth from better years. No, I don't eat these. A 13incher was as good as it got this year. Launch ramps messed me up. I couldn't get into the places I like to go after July. Zack

[yaknar]

Osage,nice cats. What do you use to catch them on? And what's on top of the head of the first channel?

[Osage]

Osage,nice cats. What do you use to catch them on? And what's on top of the head of the first channel?

That's a quarter. It was a nice cat, maybe 4 to 5lbs so I put a quarter on it's head for reference.

I use cut shiners that I catch out of the river with a throw net. A very good bait for channel cat.

These were rod and reel, I don't trot-line.

My middle boat seat could use a paint job but it probably won't get one. Zack

[Bill Anderson]

Walleye are one of the very best eating fish...delicious. The North Country is famous for them, but the world record came out of Percy Priest Lake near Nashville, Tn. It weighed 25 pounds.That's a monster, a wall-zilla.

[laker67]

Walleye are one of the very best eating fish...delicious. The North Country is famous for them, but the world record came out of Percy Priest Lake near Nashville, Tn. It weighed 25 pounds.That's a monster, a wall-zilla.

From what I recall, that record was determined to be false, and the existing record of 21 lbs came from greers ferry. Unless a 25 lb fish has been caught recently, that's what I recall.

[Al Agnew]

I'm not sure what the status is of the 25 pounder (which I believe was supposed to have come from Old Hickory Lake in Tennessee) at this point. But I saw photos of that fish, and there was absolutely no way it weighed anything close to 25 pounds unless the guy holding it was 7 feet 5 inches and 400 pounds. I've seen walleye up to 18 pounds, and I'd be willing to bet that fish was not any bigger than the real fish I saw.