A bar fish is a white bass. smaller fish than stripers or hybrids.
Hybrid is a cross between white bass and striper.
Hybrids have broken lines (stripes) down the sides.
stripers have unbroken stripes.
i think barfish have the rough patch on the tongue
like kentucky bass do.

I dont have the problem of spooking da reds or worrying about my cast.
Get a fly rod.
Pink charlie or flex o crab or spoon fly .
Set it in front of a red and hang on. if you miss pick it up and set it down again. (2 secs) no reeling in to cast again.

Get your soil tested first But fertilize once after the acorns fall and again in the spring as they are starting to form. you can do it 3 times a year just start when the acorns fall and go every 4 months

carolina rig a cacahoe on an 8" leader and let it sit where the fish are.
Cacahoes are flounder crack!

Man That's a fine boat seat pawPaw , LOL
Capt , I hope you are enjoying your retirement
Cause now that you don't have to go , Fishing can be fun again.
Bob

J B
When fertilizing any tree the prefered method is to
look up at the limbs and draw a circle on the ground just inside of the outer limbs . Then draw another half way between this circle and the trunk.
get some 2" or bigger pvc pipe cut in to 2' pieces.
drive a pipe into the ground . it will fill w/ dirt. pull it out . and pour fertilizer in the hole .
Do 4 on the outer ring at N. S. E . W. then do 4 on the inner ring 45deg off of these.
Deer will walk thru piles of acorns to get to the fertilized ones. White oak is best if ya got some.
Bob

Capt Rory,
You still going to try to make it to the bungle for a day???
bob

i'm sure that you can kill as many as you want to pay for.

Gary,
We may hurt and ache and maybe bleed a time or two.
But there is nothing better in my eyes than to see them
younguns catching fish and having a great time .
Keep em on the right path , Bob

47,000 gal.
Of hydrocloric acid spilled on the approach and they say NONE got into the lake ???

dats some nice flat fish paw paw

bayou thunder,
I wasn't going to mention any specific guide unless asked. But since you brought it up I also would recomend
Capt. rory rorison.
Glad ya'll had a good trip w/ him .
he is one of the most personable , knowledgeable guides in the shell beach / hopedale area.
Unshakable if you call rory tell him Bob-58 said for you to call him the bald headed pirate!
bob

Brer rabbit,
it was distroyed by a hurricane . i read story about it.
i think only 4 or 5 folks survived 100s were killed in the storm and the whole island was erased.
Was a great story , i wish i could remember where i saw it.
Us folks w/ more advanced minds have trouble remembering things . I guess they get to full. Bob

i know it may not be the answer you want to hear ,
but the best thing you can do is hire a guide . Tell them you are new to the game and they WILL teach you.
you figure the cost of gas and bait for a few trips where you don't catch . Take that $$, find you 1 or 2 others that want to go and split the cost.
you will learn enough on one trip if you pay attention
to pay for the trip.
Bob

Don't know if its legal or not but i know of guys that used to run trot lines for red fish. This was b4 the limits ,
And they caught all they wanted to clean.

tghought they said hydrochloric acid but i'll check news .

capt k,
you and i both know those trout make a feeding circle following the bait.
I have seen it on a small scale in some of the sand pits around G.I. There you could move w/ them . I've also seen it in barataria and it may take 3 days for them to make the circut.

plotspike makes a mix that will grow in the shade . Great for planting in those small clearings in the woods.
Round up the area wait 3 weeks mix seed and fertilizer ,
broadcast and rake into the soil w/ garden rake.
watched this stuff grown in pots under a carport in a corner, No sun and it grew great.
Bob

fence man,
i didn't say it was not good for the deer . i said it saps all the minerals out of the soil.
Look at alot of the fields that were planted in rye for 5-10 years for cattle and nothing grows but i think its called broom sedge?
If you fertilize every year or two rye will work but i have seen trails thru calf high rye that lead to a field planted in clover or deer mix.
Cattlemen plant rye because its cheap and it requires minmal soil prep.
Bob

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