Originally Posted By: Shawn Banks
We fished and drank beer yesterday afternoon. We caught a nice stringer of big bluegills and crappie. Got up this morning and learned how to post photos, talked about fish and various ideas, and they just hit the road to head back to Lincoln. We had a great time and laughed a lot. It was good to blow off some steam and get back to the simpler things in life.

JHAP, you're welcome here anytime. I'm only 45 minutes from the KC airport, and I have access to lots of fishing holes. The pond we fished yesterday is about 35 acres, private, and full of nice fish.

Bruce was actually targetting lmb and was throwing a Zoom Horny Toad when he caught his crappie. I was using my standard 1/32 jig head with a red and white tube when I caught mine. TJ landed a 13" crappie on a spinner bait. We caught several bass and then went light tackle to fill the cooler with bluegill.


Jeff/Shawn

If you ever DO head out to visit Shawn, please give me a shout out - I would not want to miss a chance to meet any of you and it's just down the road. Shawn is a great host, has a beautiful family, and truly has a very cool operation going. It's a wonder to witness his creative genius at work - his brain doing sumersaults as he tries to relate a flurry of innovations the private water manager will soon come to know they cannot live without. My Christmas list is already down the page with all the goodies Banks will soon be providing lucky guys like ourselves.

Oh yeah, and any of you city boys, don't forget join him for a midnight "snipe" hunt - just remember not to volunteer as the "blocker"...thankfully it was a clear and starry night and I navigated the five miles back to Shawn's place just about daybreak and in time for eggs, juice and toast. Doesn't get any better than that.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. ~ Henry David Thoreau

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