I watched a show several years ago about them removing a dam maybe two on the colorado River......I could catch a lot of fish with those pink chubs.....
Actually its' the Glen Canyon portion of the the Colorado River upstream of Lee's Ferry between GCNP and Glen Canyon Dam that creates Lake Powell. (Marble Canyon Trading Post at Lee's Ferry) is a destination. The river as a managed tailwater of cold water releases creates a zone of unique trout fishery possibilities for North America with the once endangered Humpback chub.
Remember the endemic ecosystem minnow that live here are the trout FOOD! With water demand exceeding demand use Lake Mead for water storage. Lake Powell for flow management we can do both as water flows in one end and out the other we're in charge. Lake Mead & Powell have shad populations. In between everything wants to eat these chubs. Farm these minners, we're the deciders.
These fishes already know how to doit if we create the sandbars.
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I have never fished the Cumberland......we used to fish for trophy stripper on the Caney Fork River...we would put in at the confluence with the Cumberland..........it is in Carthage Tenn.......just below the Cordell Hull Dam.....they opend a kyacking operation on the Caney Fork and pretty much ruined drift fishing for 50+ lb Strippers.....
They look like Pot Stickers.
Oh ok. I took it to mean you were somewhat familiar. It’s a great trout fishing river from what I’m told. I live only about 3 miles as the crow flies from the river downstream from Burkesville. Their is a tributary called Marrowbone creek downstream approximately 4-5 miles from Burkesville by water, and if you took it upstream 3 miles I would be able to bring you a sammitch😑.
Hell......maybe we need to go fishing? I haven't been down yet......my buddy says his place is just outside of Burkesville city limits.....he says people catch trout, walleye and a couple other species of fish.....from the bank of his property........I only got my boat out of the garage a couple of times in 2020........my boat has less than thirty hours on it............I am itching to fish this year......
Not much of a fisherman but I would be more than happy to help you get familiar with the place. When will you be down here? The sammitch offer stands. I’m serious.
Walleye is about the best eating fish in my opinion. Just a tremendously delicious fish. Pike is close... This comes from a person that earned his cred out of eating perch out of the Detroit River (And I liked those too.), learned saltwater fishing and that is all the fishing I have done in decades....(Black Seabass is great, I like Mackerel and Spanish Mackerel...) Another real good eating fish is ribbon fish or belt fish but way too many bones for me, I am not a finicky eater, I use a shovel if available.
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Sea bass IMO is the best but it's so damn expensive.
Yes I added to my original post, black sea bass is tremendously good eating. I got on a run once and went fishing in the Atlantic about a dozen times in a row and brought two or three of those in each trip which I was told was ridiculously lucky. I eat Whiting and Sheepshead too along with some flounders. (That (Flounders) normally takes minnow fishing and I have never been good with minnows for some reason.)
I tell you where I caught more flounder than anywhere. In my crab traps if I set them out. I usually crab with a drop cord and one of those wire collapsible nets with some type of cheap chicken tied in the center, wait about five minutes and bring it up quick but when I set a crab trap I have caught a few flounder that way.
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It’s delicious if cooked properly. Never had Pike. White Bass is also overlooked. I’m not necessarily a fish eater, but I take what the good lord offers. And I’ve eaten almost everything this part of the country has offered. And I’m 20 pounds overweight, so I think I’m doing alright.
Now for the worst tasting fish. Again IMO. Cuddlefish or cuttlefish. Also one of the ugliest.
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If I look at the BMI chart I am told I could weigh 133 pounds and still be healthy/ normal but I think I'd have to actually be in the grave two to two and a half years before I could get down to that weight. At 5'11" I now stay around 210. If I stay between 200 and 210 I am happy. I am called overweight at that weight but I can wear a 36" waist and don't have a gut (I can pinch well over an inch though.). I DO love to eat but I eat halfway healthy. If I have my choice I like about everything except snails. Don't do s-car-gots...... I'd say my favorite meal is scallops but my wife makes a heck of a soup out of oysters, shrimp, green onions and some other ingredients that is also about my favorite with home made dumplings thrown in...
This is in Charleston near Summerville SC where we lived before we moved here. We stayed on that ocean. Just tons of food in that picture alone. (Oysters, clams, some other types of shell fish.
Some other pics of our harvests at one time or the other...
This is the soup I was mentioning...
Some Spanish mackerel and Ribbon fish
I won't even start in on the crab... i think my darling caught them all...
Just a few pictures...
I will stop too many I know but I miss it. Been over two years now...
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Now for the worst tasting fish. Again IMO. Cuddlefish or cuttlefish. Also one of the ugliest.
I wouldn't even have to swear off those, swear at'em yes but...
I have a on again off again with fish /seafood. When it’s on, I’ll eat whatever is thrown in the pot. When it’s off, I’m squirrel hunting. But I never turn my nose up to what is offered. Rule 1. Ain’t no rule 2
When the weather breaks and gets a bit warmer I am going to take you up on that. I am not much of a fisherman either but I sure love to get out and drift down the river.......I am not one of those guys that gets crazy when I am out there......I am definately out there to relax and enjoy......
Good morning from ATX. Currently 47°F, foggy, drizzle and cloudy. Dreary weather staying with us until at least next Tuesday. Showers possible Sunday and Monday. Expecting 62°F for today's high. We'll take it.
Happy Friday!
Wishing happiness and health for all our fellow D-League members.
Happy Friday!
Wishing happiness and health for all our fellow D-League members.
50lb Strippers? What are they anorexic? 😋
Go a couple of minutes into the video for the fish.
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Walleye is some thick fish and tasty too. Have a friend here that grills them in foil with butter, Goya powder of sorts and other Puerto Rican spices. Good eating right there.
Did some fishing off the coast of Denmark in the mid 80's for sea bass, flounder, and other notables. two 4 day fishing trips that were set up by the unit I was in at the time.
That is the plan. $3.00 then $5.00 then $6.00. First thing you know we are paying as much as Japan and Europe.
Now that America has voted to shut down oil supplies in the U.S. and kill the energy business, we can start importing from the Middle East and bomb some poor country over there. I wonder who the poor souls will be that get the first American bombs?
I might check with Vegas to see if you can bet on that.
My favorite commercial.........
My buddy has a 60 lb stripper he caught in the Caney Fork.......50 lb is the smallest keeper allowed.........I don't have one on the wall.......yet........There are some nice brownies in there also.........I haven't been down there since the kayak rentals started..........
That picture really confuses my old horny brain...........stripers.....strippers............no offense meant to the young lady in the photo.......who is young enough to be my grand daughter...... 🙄
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If in a fishing kayak I don't think you would have much luck landing a 50 plus pound striper without tipping over.
I would rather bank fish than to drown in one of those modified canoes......there is a guy over at Guist Creek that fishes out of one......he is 86 yrs old.......the rentals down on the Caney Fork are splashers........the water isn't but a few feet deep in most places.......unless they are releasing water at the dam.........
Good morning D-League. Hope all is well.
Had some unusual luck in seeing birds on my last two walks: Last night saw a striking bald eagle fly overhead - not the first time at the small lake near my home but not common.
Then, this morning I saw something for the first time: A V of Canadian Geese flew overhead and one of them was snow white. I texted my step-father-in-law who is a fixture in the DC area Audubon Society. He says it was likely a Snow Goose, uncommon where we live but much more common on Maryland's Eastern Shore in Winter. He said there was a much smaller chance it was a rare Albino (leucistic) Canadian Goose. Either way it was shocking to see it outlined against the gray morning sky, with the other darker geese all around it.
Have a good day folks.
Had some unusual luck in seeing birds on my last two walks: Last night saw a striking bald eagle fly overhead - not the first time at the small lake near my home but not common.
Then, this morning I saw something for the first time: A V of Canadian Geese flew overhead and one of them was snow white. I texted my step-father-in-law who is a fixture in the DC area Audubon Society. He says it was likely a Snow Goose, uncommon where we live but much more common on Maryland's Eastern Shore in Winter. He said there was a much smaller chance it was a rare Albino (leucistic) Canadian Goose. Either way it was shocking to see it outlined against the gray morning sky, with the other darker geese all around it.
Have a good day folks.
Syria sounds like a good bet, especially after yesterday.
They make some of the better commercials on TV.
Good morning D, dreary ole day here in the Berg, 41 cloudy and going to be raining most of the day!
Love fish stories. The best I have other than our trips to Arkansas is, one late evening we were fishing the mining pits, I was using a jitterbug, made a long cast with it and got a huge bird nest in my bait caster, so I hand bringing it in and bam! When I finally got it in it was 6lb. 4oz. largemouth!!! The other is about my uncle, my DAD and his two brothers were some of the first to fish below Kentucky Dam, my Dad caught a large bluegill and was getting ready to put him in the grass sack, when my uncle took it away from him and put the Bluegill on a cane pole he was using. He caught a 52lb. flathead on it. Getting one that big in would be hard for anybody, but my uncle had osteoporosis in his left leg and had to use a crutch to walk with, but he could go up and down those rocks as good as anybody. I still have a picture of it!!
Nothing much going on, going to kick back and enjoy doing nothing!!!
Anyone heard from Mr. Ben? Have a great day and prayers for the D!!! Oh and I learn a new word yesterday, baumwolle
Love fish stories. The best I have other than our trips to Arkansas is, one late evening we were fishing the mining pits, I was using a jitterbug, made a long cast with it and got a huge bird nest in my bait caster, so I hand bringing it in and bam! When I finally got it in it was 6lb. 4oz. largemouth!!! The other is about my uncle, my DAD and his two brothers were some of the first to fish below Kentucky Dam, my Dad caught a large bluegill and was getting ready to put him in the grass sack, when my uncle took it away from him and put the Bluegill on a cane pole he was using. He caught a 52lb. flathead on it. Getting one that big in would be hard for anybody, but my uncle had osteoporosis in his left leg and had to use a crutch to walk with, but he could go up and down those rocks as good as anybody. I still have a picture of it!!
Nothing much going on, going to kick back and enjoy doing nothing!!!
Anyone heard from Mr. Ben? Have a great day and prayers for the D!!! Oh and I learn a new word yesterday, baumwolle
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On the subject of best tasting fish...
I'm no expert and not a frequent fish eater. But when I was in my early 20s, I lived in Boca Raton, Fla. for a year and a half, and worked for a guy who had his own fishing boat.
We'd go out and catch that blunt-headed, irridescent blue, green and yellow fish we used to call Dolphin, then it was called Dorado and later Mahi Mahi.
We'd catch a couple 15-20 pounders, clean them almost immediately, and my boss would grill them. Great texture, sweet meat, almost more a chicken taste than fish but flaky and moist. Damn, I loved it.
Through the years I've tried it in restaurants, even some pretty good ones. Nothing has come close to eating it within an hour or so of when it was swimming in the Atlantic.
I'm no expert and not a frequent fish eater. But when I was in my early 20s, I lived in Boca Raton, Fla. for a year and a half, and worked for a guy who had his own fishing boat.
We'd go out and catch that blunt-headed, irridescent blue, green and yellow fish we used to call Dolphin, then it was called Dorado and later Mahi Mahi.
We'd catch a couple 15-20 pounders, clean them almost immediately, and my boss would grill them. Great texture, sweet meat, almost more a chicken taste than fish but flaky and moist. Damn, I loved it.
Through the years I've tried it in restaurants, even some pretty good ones. Nothing has come close to eating it within an hour or so of when it was swimming in the Atlantic.
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Christmas week I filled up in Smiths Grove for $1.70. Today it is $2.48.
I am suing Trump because he screwed up and lost.
It is a dreary 42.6°F here. I still have three piles of sleet/snow. Maybe today it goes away, except the sun is not there to help.
I am not a fisherman. When I worked at the Railroad we have a fresh water and salt water camps in Florida and I would have to fish with my customers. We had guides and I never caught crap, even with professional help. I prefer dynamite and a net to collect them.
My best friend lived in Cape Cod and lived to fish. He liked going way out. Here is he and his rig.
I am not a fisherman. When I worked at the Railroad we have a fresh water and salt water camps in Florida and I would have to fish with my customers. We had guides and I never caught crap, even with professional help. I prefer dynamite and a net to collect them.
My best friend lived in Cape Cod and lived to fish. He liked going way out. Here is he and his rig.
Another nice day in store. Perfect to do some outside work or just enjoy mother nature
We had a nice visit today by 7 or 8 Muscovy ducks which is unusual. They seldom appear and were quite a site flying in and landing on the lake. I snapped a couple of pictures but by the time I ran into the house to get my phone they had swam to the other side of the lake and I couldn't get a close up.
Bought this one last year to get at some spots on some larger ponds I can't reach from the bank but yeah, prefer the bank over the kayak. You really have to stabilize yourself when hooking into a lunker or a good fighter
You guys simply don't appreciate the dynamite. It does not weigh a lot and you can pull the fish out one at a time.Bought this one last year to get at some spots on some larger ponds I can't reach from the bank but yeah, prefer the bank over the kayak. You really have to stabilize yourself when hooking into a lunker or a good fighter
Cuz and I used dynamite, homemade pipe bombs and artillery simulators a couple times fishing years ago. Funny watching them flop around on the surface.You guys simply don't appreciate the dynamite. It does not weigh a lot and you can pull the fish out one at a time.
If you was a real fisherman you would sprinkle lime on the water....just go dip them out......You guys simply don't appreciate the dynamite. It does not weigh a lot and you can pull the fish out one at a time.
Holy shit! I did not know that.
A new way to fish!
"Lime on the water, fish upon the grill." sang as:
"Smoke on the water, fire up in the sky"
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If you are on a stream put a net across the stream.......go back up stream and spread your lime.....follow it down stream and clean out your nets......it causes problems with oxygen and they swim away from it..........It is probably listed right behind dynamite in illegal fishing methods......Holy shit! I did not know that.
A new way to fish!
"Lime on the water, fish upon the grill." sang as:
"Smoke on the water, fire up in the sky"
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