Bass Tracker

Around Polk County

07.07.11

1 - Around Lakeland, Todd Racer of Lakeland and his 6-year-old son, Taylor, having fun catching bass up to 3 pounds at Saddle Creek Park flipping cattail edges with Net Bait Paca Craws (junebug), along with some bluegill and tilapia, reports Stacy Roberts at Phillips Bait and Tackle. Bruce Hartup of Lakeland released a 7 1/2-pound bass Monday morning at Saddle Creek on a Culprit blue shad worm off deep cattails. Bass fairly active at Lake Agnes at Polk City early and late in open water around schools of shad on lipless crankbaits (Rat-L-Traps), reports Bobby Blizzard at Big Fish Bait and Tackle. Recent rains seem to have turned the catfish on at Lake Gibson, Blizzard said. Catfish in deeper water on dough-baits, chicken liver or cut shad. Panfish bite "outstanding'' on red worms at Colt Creek State Park, where bass are steady on small shiners in back pit along drop-offs and shorelines, Blizzard said, and panfish "pretty good'' at Lake Gibson. Panfish the ticket at Lake Agnes on red worms and crickets. Bluegill have been best in lakes B, F and Picnic at Tenoroc. Small bluegill and tilapia off bank at Saddle Creek but catfish slowed down.

Source: The Ledger

Diamond (Jims) in the rough

23.02.23

Campers from the Indian Creek summer program and kids who participated in the Baltimore Recreation and Parks "City Catch" program augmented the usual cast of Fisheries Service biologists and anglers who could play hooky for a few hours.

The going was kind of slow a shade south of Bloody Point. But everyone was filling their camera memory card with, well, memories, so how bad can that be?

There's still several hours left today (June 30) for someone to catch the striped bass with June's winning tag on it and collect $10,000. But given bay conditions today and the low water salinity levels above the Bay Bridge, I'm guessing that's unlikely.

So, the one striper with the lucky green tag released today will be worth $20,000 tomorrow. And if no one catches the July fish, the August fish will be worth $25,000.

Source: Baltimore Sun (blog)

Bach + Liszt + Higgs + the Rosales Organ = Wow!

23.02.27

It was about time for the Oregon Bach Festival to bring a world-class organist to Portland, and the 41-year-old festival made up for the deficit in a hurry by presenting one of the nation’s top organists David Higgs in a concert at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral on Thursday (July 7th). That’s where Higgs, playing the cathedral’s magnificent Rosales Organ, delivered a concert that made organ-playing the coolest thing on earth. It wasn’t just the Higgs’s impeccable playing of a program stuffed with gems by Bach and Higgs’s out-of-this-world performance of a Franz Liszt piece that was inspired by Bach, it was also the tremendous volume and variety of sounds that Higgs created from the 54-stop tracker organ that reverberated so marvelously.

Source: Oregon Music News (blog)