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Some Fine Eating, those walleyes and Crappies. Keep the pics coming! I did catch a 12" bass today and one gill.

Kid, your son will be talking about these times when he is an old man. You should be proud of the job you and your wife are doing raising your kids.
Heck, I don’t even know you and I am.

I appreciate the compliment 336. We try our best.

We got a wild hair and made a run to the river this evening after supper. Stopped at a little creek on the way up and caught a few perch for bait, no idea what species this rascal was but he was beautiful.
We started by busting a mob of pigs out of the willows on the trek down to our fishing spot. Carrying a bait bucket, knife, lantern, and a 10’ rod meant no rifle but I let the squeal out of one with a 200gr wadcutter out of my 5” 625 and then it was on down the riverbank to wet a line.

Hot, muggy, and buggy but we didn’t have to wait very long for some action. 4” live perch on an 8/0 Octopus hook was the undoing for this old flathead.
I wasn’t sure the little Penn Mag10 was going to have the drag to keep it out of the logjam but it worked out after a good 5 minute battle.
We had to have the talk again about letting the big ones go so we’ll always have more, the boy wants to eat every big one we catch. In the end he understood and we released her none worse for the wear after a few pics.
We figured we weren’t likely to top that and it was just about full dark so we called it an evening and marched the half a mile back to the truck with smiles on our faces.

And a few more pictures from the last week or two.
Limit of Saugeye with a couple sandbass for good measure
Momma with a magnum perch

Pretty good “eye”
He got this one all by himself picked out the perfect worm and everything, he was pretty proud.
Every time we go to the sporting goods store he’s got to pick out a new lure. Always either a top water plug or a moss frog. This was the first run with his newest moss frog out at the bass pond.

Good stuff.

What are you folks calling "sandies"?

Sandbass or white bass Geno. They’re like mini stripers, super aggressive and fight like dammit but they aren’t the best eating fish we have around.

Damn common names.

I'm a fish head and those back east ones through me every time.

Never caught one, but if they're as tasty as their cousins the stripers, they're some good eatin'\, no? Maybe not as good as those saugeyes, but better than others I bet.

White Bass or Sand Bass as they're called down south, aren't very good eatin'. As Kid or somebody said, you got to get the red out of the meat to make them edible. As he says, they're like mini versions of Striped Bass. In fact, Striped Bass and White Bass crossed are called "Wipers" and are probably more aggressive than their parents. They will spool you quick.

We call them Silver bass up here, not bad , but like you said, have to take the red strip off the meat. Maybe I need your son to pick out some lures for me!

Same with stripers and many other fish. Get that red meat out and it's not bad eating.

But then again, I eat mackerel and barracuda and eel and................................

I knew about wipers but had never heard the white bass called "sand bass". We have a sand bass off the coast of SoCal that is pretty good eating.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barred_sand_bass