April May on Bull

[Fish24/7]

5/11   I could go but I couldn't stay all day. On the water at 6:30 off by 10:30. Same exact deal as last time. Not big ones but tons of fun! 

[Fish24/7]

love my ultra zoom camera!  got some quick pics of these two yesterday from about 50--60 yds away. yep.same tree

Looks like the plan is to go again early Sunday morning looking for a largemouth bite.

[Fish24/7]

5/13  Plan was to go after green bass but decided to go hit the smallies one more time while they are still up failry shallow. Visibility was 15-18'.  WT 70. Wanted to start a little before daylight but there's so much floating debris where we launched had to wait until it got light enough to see. Once it was safe enough to nav. we made a run into Arkansas. Threw some topwater for about an hour. Had 3 blow ups but no eaters. Once the sun got higher went to dragging finesse worms and swiBmmingite was pretty slow until around 9:30 then it really picked up. Fished until 11:30. Caught a bunch! No biggins, but the numbers were better than the last 2 times. Mostly brown bass with a couple mossbacks in the mix. Shad spawning all over the lake right now in the debris mats. Saw a plane doing loop de loops it made me queasy just watching it! here's a few from the day..

 

sat in this tree for at least 20 minutes calling for his girlfriend

[Fish24/7]

Wed. 5/16

Dropped the canoe in for the first time this year. Fished from 10-2. Plan was to spend the first 2 hours chasing green fish , then target hand size gills the rest of the time. Had 2 rods with me and just a handful of tackle.  Started shallow with a frog and had trouble catching fish that tried to eat it. After missing several good bites I FINALLY hooked and landed a 3lb class largemouth. Just one of those days where I'd make a bad cast over and behind a bush I'd get bit immediately and they'd wrap me up and get away, or they would spit it out before I could set the hook, or i'd be 3 days late setting the hook, or they would knock the bait up into the air, or jump over it. Crazy stuff!  Time to grab the drop shot ultra light rig and see what was lurking just under the canoe. Well,  it took a couple hours to get  some nice gills for a mess, but I must have caught 100-150 little boogers. There were schools of them swimming around everywhere. Had to use a 1/4 ounce drop weight to get my rig down past the babies before they could grab it. The bigger one's were in 4-10ft just off the bottom. Channel banks had the biggest one's. saw a whole bunch of little fry. So small I couldn't tell what they were. Whatever they are they had a fantastic hatch! Going again Friday/tomorrow.

[Rob P]

On ‎5‎/‎14‎/‎2018 at 11:32 AM, Fish24/7 said:

 

sat in this tree for at least 20 minutes calling for his girlfriend

I'm seeing more of these guys locally.  Very cool.
Now they fit in with the stray cactus I find in my prairie or woods.

[Ham]

It used to warmer and dryer here. I like our native cactus, Ozark tarantulas, and Road Runners. 

[snagged in outlet 3]

Saw my first road runner years ago on Buford Cutoff with a buddy of mine.  Nobody believed us for years.  Now they are becoming more common.

[fishinwrench]

When I was a kid the roadrunners were very common on the gravel bars of the Salt river.  They ate a steady diet of baby frogs during spring/summer. 

We have a pair now that hang around the driveway and in the road out front,  but they are totally uninterested in the bird feeders.   Are they strictly meat eaters?  

[snagged in outlet 3]

I think so.

[Quillback]

Leave a couple of ribeyes on the driveway for them.