Come on!!!! I know it�s Christmas, but somebody post some TOADS for cryin outloud!!!! Imma bout to pop!!!!! And you if you don�t have a pic of a toad or toads, just post a cool christmas pic or sumpin!!! Here�s a pic of my boys chamealeon eating a moth I caught yesterday... Had his mouth open and everything...

Oscar catching a Black Eye from the cat

great stuff!

Is the water still too warm for you to fish, Rick??

Here's my old setup when I first started cattin on my old 1965 Thunderbird


Here's my brand new ulterra that I still haven't put on yet..LOL!!!!

@ Magged Out - that�s hilarous!!!!!!

@ Huckleberry - just a beautiful speciman!!!!

@ Ed-n-eddy - It�s so much better than readin the news...

@ J Lowe - Thats it, you are goin down John!!!!!!!! You are going down to China Town!!!!! LMAO!!!!!!!

@ Serj - Cool Pics buddy and you are gonna love that Ulterra!!!!!! Man are they sweet!!!!!!!

And John, You know I�m in bad shape when I�m takin pics of feeding Mr. Pickles..... 6 days and counting!!!!!!!!!!!

Mike had some studs yesterday...all 4 New PB�s...Big Fish went 49.

http://www.tawakoniguideservice.com/photos.html

I know it bud. Hope you get your boat fixed up soon!!

Mr. Pickle's rocks bro!!!!! .. haha I'm surprised you didn't name a snarf LOL!!!

Oh man poor Oscar!! That's a cool looking pooch carnale!!

I had motor issues last trip that required a better mechanic than me. No holes anywhere though. Just got her back yesterday. I worked in the smokehouse while I was waiting!

This thread is not off topic either! I cooked these before my last trip for using as
blue cat bait! All I caught was a bunch of Potlickers! Heehee! Good Christmas and happy toad huntin the new year!

@ Capt Michael Littlejohn - Awesome Pardner!!!! You can�t beat good trips like that!!!!! Congrats to Mike on a heck of a day with customers and I hope StevEEEE gets out there and has a good day soon too!!!!

@ J Lowe - Thanks buddy!!! I can�t wait til I get the big boat back but I can�t wait on it any longer so I�m gearin up the my little river runner as quick as I can!!! Gonna try to pop me some toads outta that little thing!!!

@ Serj -

@ Littlefeather - Have a good Christmas and good luck to you too pardner!!! That bait looks delicious!!!!!

Hopefully I'll beat my pb of 42 pounds this year


Wife's 30 pounder

Plus 10 Serj buddy!!!!!!!! This is the year!!!!!! Awesome pics!!!!!!

5 days and counting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'll be out Tuesday! It's my birthday tradition! I did hear that Hubbard Creek Resovoir record was broke today with an unofficial weight just shy of 60#. Man I'm pumped for next Tuesday!

Good for making MaMa smile Serj!! Good fish!

Braved the cold yesterday and landed 9 fished in some unusual places...
My fingers are finally gaining back function.

Thanks Bud!!..It's pretty easy to make her smile when shes a catfisher, just got to put her on the fish..lol!!..Hey hope you get your pb for your birthday. it's my tradition on my birthday at Twok in January too!!

That is a nice Hawg J Lowe!!

Awesome!!!!! Yeah It�s been lake record weather for the last few days out there! I could just feel tha monsters moving. Lol! Is this somebody we know Curtis? I know a small group of folk thats been hot on em down there over the last couple of years... They would probably be shivering in their boots if they saw us talkin bout it on here too!!!! But you done gone off and spilled the beans!!!!!! LMAO!!!!!!

And Nice John!!!!!!!!!!! Good work!!!!!!!!!! I definately gotta figure out where I�m gonna put the heater on my little river rig!!!! We got some good cold a comin!!!!

Thanks Serj! Giving it my best on my local mud hole Tuesday!

Good one John!

Rick, I didnt see salt in the new record breakers beard so I likely didn't know him. Saw him and his fish on Abilene nightly news. Probably fake news! Lol! Didn't look 60# but I'm a dwarf so I couldn't guarantee.

Thanks bud, just to fuel the fire, those fish were from Hubbard too. Lol.
Is Brownwood your home lake? I've always wondered if there were good blues in there. The map of that lake looks really interesting for some winter fishing!!

Brownwood is awesome yella cat lake up north. Not so much on blues. I fish Proctor over Brownwood for Blues. Not as good as your home mud hole(same size) but there are a few larger fish in it. Been putting back a few slot size last few trips even though it's no slot lake. Tons of eaters!

awesome fish!

I've seen some big blues noodled out of there early this year. I've been wanting to give it a try as well.

Pardners, I�m gonna take a minute and talk about sumpin... I decided to come out here to the wifes families old barn and discuss what I call a violent fishery...



I bet that lakes definitely got a toad in it and they can be caught in it, but I�m gonna go ahead and list it as what I call a � Violent Fishery �. My definition of a � Violent Fishery � is a body of water that has such a poor concentration of monster fish in it, that the best time to target them and catch them is on violent weather days and just almost the violent weather days only. It�s the kinda days that turn most men into boys, and most boys into children that can�t find any chocolate! Lol! It�s the days that the monster fish know, that no one in their right mind would be out there trying to catch them. It�s at this moment and this moment only the monster fish throwaway all their safeguards and feed like it�s going outta style with no parameters guiding them.

I�ve spent the last 3 or 4 years trying to prepare my big rig so I can as safely as possible fish on these kinda days but it�s not easy. It�s not like I have a dad or a grandfather saying ok, son, � you can�t do this kinda stuff, that way, on that kinda day out there you here me �!!! It�s just something I gotta slowly dig down deep in to, and try improve my ability and my rigs ability to safely target these kind of fish on those kinda fisheries, on those kinda days each time I�m out in em.

I remember last year when me and Randy we�re fishing Twok and we both knew we we�re going for that one fish! That One Fish!!!!!! Now, Twok is not a Violent Fishery, but we we�re still going to hit it and fish it like it was a Violent fishery on a Violent day! We had fished several areas to no avail when we finally found what we really wanted in an area that was way downwind. Since we we�re so far downwind, the waves that we�re hitting the front of the boat we�re about what I would consider 3 to 4 footers. Anyways it was no prob. I tied us up to a monster tree that hopefully wouldn�t break, and then double tied us to it just to make sure it held. We we�re just fine, but every now and then, a dern rogue 7 or 8 foot wave would litarely come outta the middle of no where and pound over the bow of my boat!!!! I was like � Randy, what the hell was that�????!!!!! And I remember the worst part wasn�t the wave coming over the front, it was when the back of the boat would come down, it would slam down so hard and go so deep that a foot or two of water would come rushing thru the back of my open transom and swamp the boat all the way up to the front deck!!!!! After about 5 of those, my front anchor rope finally ripped the cleat off the front of the bow of my boat!!!! It sounded like a 50 caliber went off and then we slammed tight my backup rope!!!!!!! I said � [censored] we gotta get the heck outta here Randy �!!!!!! He didn�t hesitate one second!!!!! We reeled in all the rigs as fast as we could and then hit the key and the boat wouldn�t start!!! We tried every thing we could do to get it started but after about 5 more of those rouges, I knew we we�re screwed and we had to call Tom!!!! Lol!!! We had our life jackets on and had already made our escape plan if the backup rope broke and the boat went flipping into the trees!!! We we�re going to stay together and swim, until we made it to the closest bank that was maybe about 100 yards away. We we�re ready for whatever we had to do if we had to do it!!! About an hour later I looked up and saw Tom coming!!!!! He was like the White Knight Dude!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! TOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anyways, we didn�t know what was goin on then but I do now. The water coming rushing in thru the back of the boat, swamped the boat so bad that the water flushed down in over my fuel tank, seeped through cracks in the hoses and the tank and vapor locked my engine.

Now, heres a pic of what the back of my boat use to look like...



This is what it looks like at the moment...



And this is my new custom 108 gallon fuel tank sitting in the yard and waiting for me to install it when I get my boat back... Lol!!!!!

You're doing some serious work to that thing!
But you're right, you've gotta take those bad situations and learn from them.
"Improvise, adapt, and overcome!"

I'll be back chasing them sometime after this weekend.
Merry Christmas to everyone. Catch some big ones!

I remember that evening!!!
Boat is looking good!!!

Wow Buddy that was an intense read and gave me and wifey's experience right back to us like it was yesterday..lol She said You guys are nuts me included..lol.. Very happy you're still here typing this..lol!! Merry CHRISTmas!!

Update- they buddy's again!

Haa!!!!too cute!!!

@ J Lowe - Plus 10 buddy!!!!

@ Tom - Thanks and Good Luck out there this year Tom buddy!!! Gonna miss runnin in to ya!!!

@ Serj - I want that knifeEEEE!!!!!!!!

@ Magged Out - thats what all the fish species do when that watertemp hits the mid 40�s and stays that way for about a week!!!!

Shake it Ladies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AYEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ok its obvious now Prime is growing lizards for bait but i have also been busy up my way during x-mas....
I think me and Littlefeather could do some damage teamed up...

Rick, I like what you've done to the boat, looks good and much better than that open transom. Let me know any weekend you feel like going, your welcome in my boat anytime. That said, I plan on going Saturday. Location yet to be chosen.

You are doing all the things Robalo should have done back then! I also had a front cleat pull free from mine. Transome would swamp occasionally causing leaks into the hull. I have to say the 108 gallons of fuel with oil shouldn't add much more than maybe 900#. Should break the waves! Lol! Good job Rick!

Catfish and stuffing for Christmas Sam? You are right, we should team up! I'll bring some tarter sauce!

@ Big Sam - LOL!!!!!!!!!! Sam have you ever seen the movie � Willow �??? Anyways your comment made me think about a funny part in the movie when these two little faries are fighting and one says � your a lizard �!!!! The other one gets mad at him and throws out his arms and says � Your mother was a lizard � !!!!!!! LMAO!!!!!!!!! Good Stuff Sam!!!!!!

@ TRH - Thanks Trent, and I really appreciate that offer buddy!!!! Dang!!!! If I wasn�t having to bring in money that day to pay for my rig repairs I would jump all over that pardner!!!!! I hope you catch a monster!!!!! Good Luck out there!!!! Oh and I�m out right now testing out my little river runner!!!

@ Littlefeather - Thanks buddy!!!

To the Fish gods..... Could somebody turn up the wind just a weee bit please???!!!

I said just a weeeeee though now.... Thankyou...

who in their " right-state-of-mind would call for wind on Tawakoni?? better quit listening to those faries fighting.... we may have a man down here people!!!LOL

LOL!!!!!! I wasn�t on Tawakoni Sam!!!!!!!! And I lost a Baheeeemoth and I mean � baheeeeeemoth �!!!!!!!!!!!! But Just Keep it a comin though Sam buddy... Keep it a comin!!!!!!

AAAhhh We stole the baby when he was taking a peepee!!!lol!!! Gentlemen...meet Lug.

LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It�s Just hilarious stuff Serj!!!!!!!!!!