Our first fish of the year! WizStead Post #5
One reason I'm so excited to get moved back to the farm,
is how quick and easy it is to go fishing!
- Gather up our stuff and in just a few minutes we can be drowning worms.
Date: March 15th, 2018
Time: about 5PM
Location: northcentral, MO about 15 miles south of Iowa
Weather: 64F
- with a cold front moving in giving us rain the next day.
- a bit of wind, but not too bad as you can see in some of the pics...
Bait & Tackle:
- Wife, Sylvia decided to drown worms.
- Presentation: #6 hook about 3' below a bobber
- WizarDave used a Mepps Minnow.
- Presentation: Just reeling in fairly slow did the best.
- I did all the fancy jigging and such but mainly just a slow roll was better.
- Presentation: Just reeling in fairly slow did the best.
- Both using ultralight poles with 4# test
- We bought these for trout fishing at Lake Taneycomo near Branson...
Fishing report:
- Wife Sylvia = 2 bluegill
- WizarDave = 6 largemouth bass
- We fished about an hour,
so catching about 1 bass every 10 minutes.- Quite fun!
- We fished about an hour,
WizarDave's first bass of 2018
Sylvia's first fish of 2018
Abracadabra!
Proving my post was correct!
Where we are fishing
Note the clouds and slight ripple from the wind...
- On up the hill there is our (going left to right) garage, cellar house and house
- Up that draw in the middle of the pic kinda going to the left a bit, is where I have been successful hunting morel mushrooms and even a turkey once!
Bass #2
Trixie checking out bluegill #2
Bass #3
Brutus checking out Bass #4
Bass #5
Note how clear the water is
- This pond usually get pretty murky in the summer...
Bass #6 That's a wrap
What to do with fish guts...
I don't normally harvest bass, but I know they are a bit overpopulated in this pond.
- so I harvested 3 of them for Friday's supper.
- I didn't think about it in time, or I would have kept those bluegill.
- You can see they are a bit overpopulated and stunted...
- I didn't think about it in time, or I would have kept those bluegill.
My other hobbies include gardening, so I did not want to waste this great fertilizer!
- Trixie supervised me planting my fish guts.
- Fish guts are high in nitrogen, bones = calcium,
- Abracadbra! later this year when it warms,
I will have 3 hills of zucchini right here!
- Abracadbra! later this year when it warms,
- Fish guts are high in nitrogen, bones = calcium,
Calling all outdoorsmen
There is a fairly new group that's gaining Steem here.
- Check out @myfishinghunting
- Use the tag #myhuntingfishing to increase your exposure to other outdoorsmen.
- They even have a bulletin board!
https://chainbb.com/f/myhuntingfishing
- They even have a bulletin board!
- Use the tag #myhuntingfishing to increase your exposure to other outdoorsmen.
That's all folks!
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AWESOME fishing day! Nice to see people outdoors enjoying a beautiful day!
Thanks @goldendawne! We had fun!!!
Great post! I hope to get to do some fishing soon. Glad to see someone from MO on here, I lived in Belton, MO for many years but just moved across the state line to Overland Park, KS. My step-son has a place in Gunn City, MO that I hope to do some fishing at soon.
Thanks.
The first fish of the year you had a great time out.
Hi @mhm-philippines, do you fish there?
Hello, @wizardave. There are many fish here. Six inch long shrimp also! The Philippines is made up of 7,129 Islands. Water everywhere! Salt water fishing and fresh water! I am here preaching the Gospel, so my main focus is “fishing for men”, as Jesus said.
I have not seen any bass, but I have not yet been everywhere. We have a fish like a catfish here. I have caught some 20 inches long.
The fishing in the sea is where the big ones are. I have not been, but my wife’s brother in law had a rig with 30 pound test line on and could not turn around a fish he has hooked.
My problem, I need a rig meant for salt water. My fresh water rigs all seize up after a few dips in the salt water. I have made a few casts while the kids were swimming.
My son just turned 4 and we will be fishing together soon. Nothing like a father son outing!
Daddy William
Awesome post! Looks like a great time. I would love to learn how to mushroom hunt myself.
Thanks @nickbuha we had a blast!
Oh I do love a good fishing report and it sounds like you guys had a lot of fun! I'm impatiently waiting for the weather to warm up here (Virginia mountains) so I can go catch some local trout and smallmouth bass. My fishing fever is getting high! Thanks for the great post!
Thanks!!! We did! We did!
Lucky you having them local.
haha I can relate. I had been hounding the wife a bit for us to get out.
Looks like you had quite the time while fishing. All the ponds by me are so pressured that I'd be happy with a bass an hour.
What do largies taste like? I've never eaten freshwater bass. More of a fan of catching and cooking saltwater fish myself.
We did have a blast!
That's why I miss living in the mountains. I had a few ponds I'd frequent on my fourwheeler. Pretty sure I was the only one to ever fish in a few of them, caught something almost every cast.
Catfish is a very distinct taste for sure. I'll give bass a shot one of these days.
If I am not mistaken, you are the first (other than @myhuntingfishing) to post from the My Hunting & Fishing Forum! Thank you! This, and the fact that you have posted a great bass and bluegill fishing report from the forum and you are actively promoting our community has made you the winner of the daily upvote prize! Congratulations! I have to say, you had some great competition with a number of posts made with the #myhuntingfishing tag today. So thankful to get to know you through these posts! Steem on! God Bless!
Oh cool. Thanks!
So wanted to give it a try.
So I will research and study on it a bit.
Wow yes there are getting to be lots of good posts to read here. WTG!
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