This is exactly why I release far more often than keep, half the time I'm too sauced to wanna come home and clean a bunch of fish :D

I'd love to try trout, lotsa people seem to love it... I'm always seeing pics in outdoors magazines etc of people cooking them in hobo packets over a campfire with butter, lemon, and an herb or two... it always looks quite tasty

I've had some good and some bad.

Don't know enough about it to know why, though.

Best fish Ive ever had was cooked literally straight off the hook.

It was Sea Bass and it was ungodly good.
I don't think it had more than butter and pepper on it.

Trout has these tiny little bones all throughout...they are about the size and consistency of 50 lb test monofilament...it's really hard to eat trout without getting a few of them.

When is your spawn down there? I bet it has something to do with changed behaviors related to that.

You Florida guys have it sooo good... freshwater, saltwater, all of it year round :cuss:

A mouthful of bones will quickly take the fun out of eating fish, used to deal with it all the time with various family and friends when it comes to carp... "oh no bones in mine, I know exactly how to fillet them!"

Two bites later theres a ****ing dagger in the roof of my mouth or in my gums

I'm 15 at heart and can't ever hear that without thinking:

https://cdn.meme.am/cache/instances/...0/50955820.jpg

LMAO

It does.

Believe it or not it doesn't start till April.

I know.
Go figure.

I fished my ass off in years past from Nov-Feb thinking they would spawn in the cold.

Never did.

The two monster Bass I posted that I caught last year were both in April.

Daylight and tradition has a lot to do with spawning

Just got back from driving down to Louisiana at the toledo bend lake. Unfortunately a cold front moved in and the bass were not biting.

Supposed to warm up to 65 here tomorrow, sounds like a good day to get out

I might go cast net a few of my ponds depending on the wind. Hate ****ing wind. Time to start attracting the bait.

Plus I bought a newer boat and have already sold my old one.

Live fast, leave a big wake

Got out for a little bit late morning, nothing was biting but it was nice to get outside anyway... the lake is turning over, you could really smell the water today