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[dblades]

Reports of failure are as important as reports of success. 

[WestCentralFisher]

2 hours ago, dblades said:

Reports of failure are as important as reports of success. 

Fair enough! I could see that being fun. Here goes. 😆 

On Saturday, April 25th, I drove to a medium sized lake in mid-Missouri. I fished along the dam, catching zero fish with a variety of lures targeting largemouth bass. These fish were all released unharmed, or would have been if I'd been given the opportunity. Then I did the same thing elsewhere, but on the contrary, this time instead of zero fish, I caught none at all. These fish were also released, except for one that would have swallowed the hook, if it had bitten and I'd caught it. 

After that, I switched to worms and targeted bluegill and redear. These made for an excellent fish fry, in an alternate universe where I caught any. After that, a competent fisherman would have breaded them and fried them along with some fried potatoes and cole slaw. Jumping back to our timeline, I got bored after awhile and went for a walk before driving home and cooking some frozen chicken.

Below are pics of every single fish I caught. I only ask that everyone tries not to get jealous or feel too bad. It took me years of learning how to be an aggressively mediocre fisherman to get to this point. 

 

 

[Seth]

On 4/27/2025 at 10:57 AM, BilletHead said:

  It's working fine, it's just the time of the year when we're all out doing outdoor stuff. The chatter will pick up I guarantee. 

Looks like my spring aside from the mushroom pic. Finding morels would be at the top of the list of outdoorsy things that I'm garbage at. 😁

[jdmidwest]

I have been on the water twice this year, too much other stuff and rain, tornado's, floods.

Mushrooms crapped out quick here, 1 flush, 1 weekend, then weather hit 80.  Looked around after that, but nothing.  80 degrees seems to be a killer for morels.

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9 hours ago, WestCentralFisher said:

Fair enough! I could see that being fun. Here goes. 😆 

On Saturday, April 25th, I drove to a medium sized lake in mid-Missouri. I fished along the dam, catching zero fish with a variety of lures targeting largemouth bass. These fish were all released unharmed, or would have been if I'd been given the opportunity. Then I did the same thing elsewhere, but on the contrary, this time instead of zero fish, I caught none at all. These fish were also released, except for one that would have swallowed the hook, if it had bitten and I'd caught it. 

After that, I switched to worms and targeted bluegill and redear. These made for an excellent fish fry, in an alternate universe where I caught any. After that, a competent fisherman would have breaded them and fried them along with some fried potatoes and cole slaw. Jumping back to our timeline, I got bored after awhile and went for a walk before driving home and cooking some frozen chicken.

Below are pics of every single fish I caught. I only ask that everyone tries not to get jealous or feel too bad. It took me years of learning how to be an aggressively mediocre fisherman to get to this point. 

 

 

Pictures would have added a certain….  panache to the report 😆