Fishing appears to be popular with this group

[VastOne]

^ that is the beauty of it all.. the memories and friends

Glad you are enjoying it buddy!

[PackRat]

Too much fun.

Need to get my ass back out there now that it's warming up.

[PackRat]

Spring Break fishing trip on the Santee River. Rigging up to get a large stripped bass prowling the edge of the cypress trees. The wife is in full blown Captain Ahab mode so this could get interesting. Photos soon.

[VastOne]

Nice... hope to see C Ahab get her way!

[PackRat]

Came close. She was using a small sunfish my oldest caught as bait and had her rod secured to a tree while I stayed at the lake casting. I heard him breach and saw the ripples at the furthest edge of the cypress. 30 seconds later, her line goes taught and starts to spool out. Damn fish took off; crossed my line and went into the cypress roots. By the time I cut my line free, and the wife got hers out of the cypress he had stolen the bait.

Some pics -

Me and the youngest:     my oldest:    local water hazard here in the Southeast:

      

[VastOne]

Great pics Mr RatMan...  that is one awesome Black Crappie! Well done eldest!

[PackRat]

According to the park ranger, it is most likely a gar prowling the edge of the cypress. Switched to some metal leads today, but too windy with the thunderstorms passing through the area, nothing biting.

Only catch of the day -



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Wife landed him this morning in the rain - 19 inch (48 cm) chain pickerel.



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and of course ....

[KrunchTime]

I fished quite a bit when I was a teenager.  I have too many other interests now and fishing seems boring to me now as well.

[lwfitz]

Had a nice long weekend, Thursday thru Monday, scheduled to fish the Islands but got blown out so I cruised up to Lake Casitas and caught a few crappie

[dizzie]

Very nice lw! 

[PackRat]

No fishing today. Just turtle watching with the youngest -

[VastOne]

@lwfitz, GREAT crappies man!

@ Mr RatMan, awesome picture!

Out today in Wisconsin, my favorite place to fish... Have not fished there in 18 years. My favorite to fish for are smallies and walleyes... No smallies today but I did catch my first walleye in 18 years also.

We also saw a Bald Eagle come extremely close to us and the water, that was pretty cool



We were Lake Koshkonong on the Rock River in Fort Atkinson, very serene place

[lwfitz]

@ VastOne
Oh man that looks awesome.

@ PackRat
Absolutely nothing wrong with turtle watching! Looks like fun to me

[PackRat]

About 100 F (~38 C) heat index here.

So we went to the lake for some fishing -

[PackRat]

Last trip to the lake this year -





checked out the local falls; nice change after a some 2 pound bass jumped off their hooks.