Mommy went back to TN to take care of our fledgling Christmas Tree farm and she took the baby with her to the grandparents. That left me and my oldest (6 years) to fend for ourselves.
You don’t need a boat to catch early fall crappies, just a good plan of action. It can be as relaxing or adventurous as you want it to be. Here are the three best areas to focus on to catch a stringer of crappies from the bank.
Whenever we go camping we always bring the dutch oven and charcoals for cooking outside. One of our all-time favorites is chili with a cornbread topping. Here is what we do.
We use a 10" dutch oven and for this recipe you
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Took my oldest for a quick early morning trip. We kept 16 sacs, 4 bass, 3 goggle eyes, and 3 bream. We caught a lot of small fish today that we had to throw back. Same pattern today. 18 to 24in in 20 fow.
Being a simple country boy that was raised in the city, I have this love of simple country food. When it comes to favorites, it's a hard choice. There is so much good stuff that grows in my garden that it's a little hard to choose
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The water levels here on Kentucky Lake have dropped just a little and are hanging right at the 358 mark. By the end of the weekend, they are supposed to be at 357.7. It’s not uncommon
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There has been a kayak or two hanging under my deck for most of the past decade. For the past year or so I fished out of a Mad River Synergy 14’ kayak/canoe hybrid that I didn’t
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It started off with a quick stop at the Daylight donut Shop with the Grand Son's. If you are ever up at the JFK Park at Greers Ferry...Make sure you don't pass up the scenery of Collins Creek with the FAM. The creek comes out
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Your audience may appreciate this. Bait is very hard to keep lively this time of year.
Two weeks have passed since our industry show, ICAST. It always takes some time to recover, catch up. We return with a pile of business cards with follow up notes. One of those cards is from an old friend, Tony Gergely.
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Wasn't my idea. My sister-in-law talked us into it, and she's not even the crazy one. Wifey usually comes up with the idea of running various races, but this time it was my sister-in-law's fault. She got us to run in a 5k race full of obstacles! I mean full of "real" obstacles. Walking across a 4x4 10 feet up in the air. Swimming across a small but deep pond. Hills, rope ladders, fire pits, barbed wire, mud pits, a junk yard
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We went down to Greers Ferry Lake for three days. Had to take the fishing boat along even though the temperatures would be in the upper 90. Decided to try trolling some crank baits for the first time.
Pouring down rain at 4:30 a.m. today when I left headed for Nimrod to meet up with Nimrod to do a little "whisker fishin". When I pulled into the ramp, he already had the boat in the water and the umbrella up on the boat and was
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I believe it was 2 years ago myself and a friend fished a striper tournament on a chilly March day. To my knowledge the water temp was in the mid/upper 50's. I was extremely confident that we would do very well as i was killing BIG fish (to
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Last Tuesday MO' MONEY posted a thread asking if anyone fishing Sardis or Enid on Saturday would be interested in taking a young man fishing. He was visiting from MO and staying with his aunt which MO' worked with. When all this started MO'
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