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Well I made it out to Meredith for about an hour. A 14 hour shoot day yesterday meant I missed the sunrise bite but in the hour I was there I still managed this smallmouth. Absolutely TRUCKED my swim jig the second it hit the water. I love smallmouth so much. Lake Meredith is absolutely gorgeous and I'm so happy I was able to experience it

Thinking a similar moveset to Peach in Smash Bros Brawl

These threads about fish pulling out split rings and stuff are unlocking previously unknown fears Thanks, I hate it 😂

I have caught this bass

It hurt to watch Dallas lose in the WCF twice in a row but I can't imagine being Florida and losing two straight SCF. Glad they won it. Now dallas just needs to stop playing trap hockey and depart from Steve Spott and life will be dandy

Will hopefully be fishing Lake Meredith sometime in the next few days, one of the very few water bodies in Texas with a sustained Walleye population. Hopefully the work days are short enough to make it happen. The banks of that lake are basically cliffs so I will likely be relegated to the marina and boat ramps. Still, there are nice fish that hang out on those areas at most Texas reservoirs. It's been tough fishing for a while now. I miss the summer night bite at roberts. Sunday I fished Texoma and also a lake in central Texas and caught a total of three stripers. I blame the barometer - while it was sitting right around 30 in/hg, there was little more than 0.2in of change in a three day span. Most of the time in those conditions I find that it's almost exclusively a nighttime bite. It's just how it is right now, I expect to be back to fishing normally in about 6 weeks but in the meantime I'm just not gonna be fishing much. Probably a good time to work on flipping a jig with more accuracy in the yard or something. For now I live vicariously through y'all

A lake fork flutter spoon is maybe my favorite livescope lure

Bait monkey says lures catch fisherman before they catch a fish

I got out with a buddy of mine on a guided trip he invited me to. I haven't really fished since my big day at Texoma a while back. A new lake for us, a very small one compared to our normal (but closed) territory. We threw mostly worms and jigs today. Tough conditions; super still with big sun and an obvious thermocline setting up. Max depth 20 feet, very muddy sort of bath tub type place, basically all the relatable structure or cover is around the rim with the exception of a couple brush and rock piles. I dragged a shakey head across a ledge though and hooked into this 4-7 midway through the day. She wound up being big bass for the day. I caught two small dinks otherwise. Slow tough day but it's the first 4+ I've had in several weeks so I feel good about it.

I am optimistic that Roberts may open before August. They finally opened the spillgates this week and it's dropping. So far about 6" down this week. It needs to drop about 3 more feet before they can let ramps dry out enough to reopen.

depends on what lure i'm fishing with. topwater naturally winds up being about 50-60%. moving baits tend to be closer to that 90-100%. I hardly ever lose a fish on a red eye shad, but when I do it's almost always a giant

In the summer I bring whatever water I think I will need, plus about 25%. I also like the newer "Gatorlyte" beverages for electrolyte control - instead of basically just being pure sugar, they have the actual dosages of magnesium, calcium, etc printed on the bottle. They make a zero calorie version that I like a lot. The taste is not particularly great, but it does the job better than your average sports drink. Right now my band has one guy with a kidney stone and one guy recovering from severe dehydration. Hydration isn't just a marketing term. It can happen fast. Water is the juice of life, it's important to treat it that way

Man you know I got that dawg in me

I'm already excited for that

They've been murdering my ankles all year and they continue to do so

Across about six or seven hours. But yes it was a day for the books, numbers-wise. I can already feel the chiggers digging in

Went up to Texoma since it's open and stuff. I had a good day. I wound up on Denison Dam chasing boiling schools of tiny striped bass. Managed a decent smallmouth which was the big fish of the day. But I landed 41 striped bass before I ran out of water and the schools got further off the bank. That's the most fish I've caught in one day just not the species I prefer. Either way it just felt good to get bit non stop

This will probably be the least hours I've fished since I started getting serious in 2021. All my places are flooded or tornado damaged. I anticipate Ray Roberts will be closed for at minimum another six weeks. Last year, I think I fished something like 200+ days, some of them on days where I worked too. This year I think I will get about 60% of that total just from closures and a lack of other places that are worth the time. I think I'm going to start driving to Texoma once or twice a week and fishing at the state park there since it's open. Gonna throw a flutter spoon at the dockhouses and see if anything sticks. There are some giant smallmouth and some good striper in that lake. it's just a solid 75 minute drive each way and that's tough to stomach when Roberts is less than 20. I would find a pond, but all the good ones in the county are private or HOA, and if I'm going to drive an hour for a pond, I may as well be at Texoma. 95% of the land in the state is privately owned so there's just limitations on what is public and good.

Catching a 4lb smallmouth was a thing I will never forget, I hope you both get that experience this year This is that fish:

If I could transport seven feet of Ray Roberts I would. She's way full, we're officially into top 5 historical flood territory up here. Lake Ray Roberts is completely closed, no traffic allowed. They can't release water downstream because there's nowhere for it to go. We're about 5 feet from cresting the emergency spillway. Thankfully we get a break today and tomorrow, but Saturday is predicted to be stormy. I'm ready to go fishing again already.

I can't say I've had a full NDE, where my body was actively expiring. But I have dodged almost certain death way more than someone should have by 32. Severe salmonella from a reptile bite in the middle of the Kenyan bush. I was 9. 104 fever and an eight hour ride through the bush to the nearest hospital. About two months later my dad took myself and my mom to broken bow to take fly fishing classes, we were in a severe rear-end collision on the way home. I was laying down in the back seat. I woke up looking at a suburban's undercarriage and the headrest of the seat I was in. If I had been sitting up I would have certainly passed. Covid+rocky mountain spotted fever at the same time last year, 103-104 fever for four days. Pretty sure I lost some brain cells from that one. Almost t boned a 2003 Mazda protege doing 70 when he pulled out in front of me at the last second. It's good to know how to handle a vehicle in a skid at high speed. He painted my back bumper and then sped off. I had to find a safe place to pull off the road, and was told by the county sheriff after an hour on hold that "since i had left the scene, no report or dispatch would be made". Guess I should have parked in the middle of a busy farm to market road. Absolutely useless. This was last year. 2010, working at a casino vendor. Kept me on shift for almost 18 hours. I fell asleep at the wheel less than five miles from home and was within milliseconds of driving off the side of a hill and into an oil/gas site. Road sign killed one of my doors, but I lived. There's more but those are the ones that come to mind the most easily

Emergency Spillway at Ray Bob activates at 645.5ft. Hopefully this rain pattern cuts out soon because this is a realistic outcome in the next couple of weeks without a pattern shift. Getting pretty sick of not fishing any of the local lakes because the parks are all flooded. Meanwhile there are a few ramps open so the boaters just have to worry about lines and floaters. Sure wish there was accessible water worth fishing within an hour of me.

My first "Real PB". Christmas Day 2021, first holidays without Dad. 6.82# on a chatterbait micro. Meant a lot to me and I think set me on the path to trying harder. The 4-1 smallmouth with someone else's bait in its mouth was also a special moment. As cool as it was to catch my 7-10 PB, I think those other two were more unique experiences

Nightmare fuel for a 32 year old. I took a comebacker to the cheekbone last year (1/2oz red eye) and that was enough for me to flinch the rest of my life