You ever caught fish while wearing business casual?

[Arty]

I was dressed and making coffee to head to work and saw a couple fish flip around at the edge Of my dock.
Having just spent the last few days cleaning and re-spooling my rods and reels, I felt it was a sign to out there and see what's what.

1st cast. Only cast. I had to get to work!

Just for comparison, those are 1x6 deck boards. She was about 13 inches long. That's gotta be the biggest "bluegill" I've ever caught.
Maybe I'll catch her again tomorrow.
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[quercus alba]

Business casual? Most of the fish in Arkansas go shirtless and wear cutoff jeans and flip flops.

Okay I'll bite, that ain't a bluegill. Now you caught two on one cast

[Arty]

Where I'm from anything in the sun fish or panfish category is a bluegill

Oh- and bite me


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[quercus alba]

Lepomis microlophus Aka redear sunfish, Mason bream, Georgia bream, cherry gill, chinquapin, improved bream, rouge ear sunfish, and shell cracker.

[Big Skyz]

Bigger than any sunfish I've ever seen.

[Captain]

I'm calling it a shell cracker.
But to be safe it's a bream...

[Arty]

We will get to the bottom of this. I know a guy that knows a guy.


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[BarryBobPosthole]

Three toed bandersnatch!

BKb

[Chicken Dinner]

I was gonna say warmouth, but the body shape isn't right. My $.02 is on a shell cracker.

[quercus alba]

8859

[Arty]

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[BarryBobPosthole]

The ones we carch in Oklahoma aren't prehooked like yours QA.

BKB

[quercus alba]

I took that off a Virginia fish identification chart. That would explain how Arty catches them.
:occasion

[Thumper]

Whoa! Tough crowd hangin' around this joint today! ;)

[Arty]

We've got each and every one of those fish in that pond/lake.
Plus yellow perch white bass black crappie white crappie catfish and some big ass largemouth.

[Captain]

We've got each and every one of those fish in that pond/lake.
Plus yellow perch white bass black crappie white crappie catfish and some big ass largemouth.

And I have not had an invite to come up there and feesh yet?
Hummmmmmmmmmm

[Arty]

And I have not had an invite to come up there and feesh yet?
Hummmmmmmmmmm

I don't have time to teach you again.
Already did that at lake co-9

[BarryBobPosthole]

You have tilapia in your pond?

Why?

BKB

[Arty]

You have tilapia in your pond?

Why?

BKB
To keep the bottom clean i guess

[BarryBobPosthole]

We don't need no foreign ass fish in our waters to clean them up. If we do, then we're screwiing the water up and need to fix that, not introduce new fish.

Sorry for the rant, but I think we're gonna have a water crisis here soon.

BKB

[Captain]

He's probably getting tilapia mixed up with grass carp.

[Captain]

I don't have time to teach you again.
Already did that at lake co-9

Yea, you got that playing keep away from fish down pat, I've never seen anyone throw such good equipment and great bait and catch LESS. I was 8 fish to your one when I quit counting because I felt sorry for you.
I don't need any of your lessons.

[Thumper]

Hey Cappy, I think ol' P-hole is getting closer and closer to jumping on the Trump Train. Ya' think he'd like to build a wall to keep those nasty ol' Talapia out'ta here? ;)

[Captain]

Hey Cappy, I think ol' P-hole is getting closer and closer to jumping on the Trump Train. Ya' think he'd like to build a wall to keep those nasty ol' Talapia out'ta here? ;)

He probably would support it as long as Japan pays for it.

[LJ3]

It's a damn panfish people. settle down.

[BarryBobPosthole]

A tilapia is some african fish they give to yuppies to make them think they're eating something good. And I think they are vegetarian fish at that. WTF?

BKB

[quercus alba]

They eat hippo poop so I guess technically that makes them vegetarian.

Not unlike yuppies

[LJ3]

tilapia is gross.

[Captain]

Tilapia are the buzzards of the fish world. You can literally put them in a septic tank and they will live. True.
They had a bad name and folks would not eat them so they changed the name to tilapia and put a promotion effort behind it and let people think they are eating some farm raised fair. They took off
But make no mistake that is a nasty fish.

[BarryBobPosthole]

Its is a nasty fish and it is an invasive species. If you wanna eat them, fine, but don't raise them in Amurican waters.

BKB

[Captain]

Too late Posty. They been growing them here since the 1930's

[Captain]

"Freshwater aquaculture produces species that are native to rivers, lakes, and streams. U.S. freshwater aquaculture is dominated by catfish but also produces trout, tilapia, and bass. Freshwater aquaculture takes place primarily in ponds and on land in manmade systems such as a recirculating aquaculture system."

[Thumper]

What a bunch'o wussy whiners. Heck, I remember as a kid, white folk didn't eat catfish for the same reason. The black folk always thought we were nutbags. Personally, I have no problem with Talapia. I'm curious, would you dufes turn down a pulled pork BBQ sammich or a nice rack of ribs because of what pigs eat?

[Arty]

tilapia is gross.
Agree
And to think people pay good money in restaurants for them. A lot of people think they are eating a delicacy.