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Great job out there @tomnilll
Looks like a very fun day!

Beautiful fish! Sweet!!!
The pics from Flaming Gorge are absolutely beautiful.
Glad to see your posts and so happy that you are sharing them with us.
Tight lines and Best Wishes always to you.

Being forgetful made my SD River fishing trip a little tougher this morning. Last night I sorted out a selection of crawbaits,
senkos, creature and a few other plastic worms in little ziplocks that were geared just for the SD river. This way I could travel light
as I have a tendency to bring way ...

Nice job out there!
The Barrett fest has officially begun.
Looks like you guys had a lot of fun.
Too bad all the lakes are not like Barrett.

I read this and snorted. Like Jim, I do checklists, because well, old. But most of them are in my head, so there's the added fun of maybe not remembering the checklist, much less the checked item. It's good you went anyway and even got a fish.


When I am not fishing out of my boat, I customize a ...

Great report and really enjoyed all the details. I could visualize so much of your day on the water.
Pics are fixed and looking forward to seeing more posts from you.
Tight lines.

I read this and snorted. Like Jim, I do checklists, because well, old. But most of them are in my head, so there's the added fun of maybe not remembering the checklist, much less the checked item. It's good you went anyway and even got a fish.


When I am not fishing out of my boat, I ...

Even though I have not fished Barrett for years, I know that there are many guys who catch and have caught huge numbers of bass.
Reaction baits probably help bring the numbers of bass in like KillinTime mentioned above. Regarding the
fish reports....when others see those high numbers, in some ...

A couple recent trips to Murray resulted in a handful of small bass(McFish would be proud
as I gave in and used drop-shot) and a couple of nicer fish on reaction baits.
Anyway, I just wanted to share a few firsts of the year with you as today's trip produced my
first topwater bass of the year. Saw ...

Probably about eight years ago… I caught a smaller catfish on an underspin casting towards the end of the boat dock as I have caught bass there in the past. I was really surprised of how high up in the water that fish was. Always a little bit disappointing catching a catfish when you are bass ...

Wow Vinny, what a great day. You were hitting them above and below. Did you get a weight on the cat?


What was crazy is I just wanted to try to lift it up for a picture and the dang thing was pretty heavy and I was just guessing around 12 pounds. It might’ve been 15 to 18 or? The scale was hard ...

While fishing for bass at Lake Murray, this cat decided my underspin looked like something good to eat. I wanted to get a
pic or two and get it back in the water. I should have took my time as it was not easy to hold up with one hand for a pic and
quickly glanced at the scale which my arm was ...

Ahh...the ever changing patterns of what works best to get the bass to bite each week.
Nice job of being flexible with what you throw as bass fishing at times can be very
as one week they like one bait and the next they pretty much ignore it.....especially
up at the Lake of D & K.
Thanks for ...

Finally NcFish Mondays are back! I am so glad your Monday basket weaving classes are finally over. Word has it you have made
so many very nice baskets that you got an "A" in your class and they wanted you to start teaching the class. Thanks for sharing so
many basket pics with me via text messages ...

If I could win one of those huge lottery jackpots, it be interesting if they would accept $59,000 from private citizen. Odds are they would not.
Much too easy.

Well heck Dannicus .....since you already posted a Murray report...I will slip something
in. It was very fun running into you and sharing fishing stories on Thursday while each of us even caught a few bass.
Amazing how many stories fellow fishermen can share with each other. Nice job out there on ...

Here is the pic you mentioned above..........Mini and Mighty!

Probably a very emotional day for you and no doubt your father would have been very proud of you on catching your
PB. I think he was there in spirit watching his son battle that huge bass. All of us that have lost our fathers know how
hard it is and thank goodness we can still hold on and cherish ...

That lake looks familiar! Who named it that D&K foolishness? (I did) I got 8 bass and a crappie. Mostly on a jerkbait. Got twin 3.28 lb fish on a gunfish. Those were my biggest. Almost cold a couple of times.
Cannot imagine a world without Sutherland open on Fridays!

Donald and Kiefer ...

Haven't been back to the lake since April 12 and boy did the water level rise. It takes a lot longer to get there than going to Lake Murray
and arrived a little after 6 a.m. As I parked next to McFish's truck, both he and Fisheromen already were out on the water. But wait, I
turn to the right and ...