| John David Barham’s Fishing Report | Last Updated: | 10/30/2011 | |||||||
| Notice tabs at the bottom of the window for each year's results, back to 1999 | |||||||||
| You can contact me at | west.tn.fishing@gmail.com | ||||||||
| Also see | www.uu.edu/personal/jdbarham | ||||||||
| Get directions to Redbud Lake and Dogwood Lake east of Lexington, TN, in Henderson County, West Tennessee. | |||||||||
| Totals since I started keeping records in 1999 (Does not include earlier boat years of 1986-1998) | |||||||||
| Trips | Trips | Hours fished | Bass caught | Bream and Warmouth caught | Other caught | Total fish caught | |||
| 351 | 1110.25 | 1582 | 4488 | 97 | 6167 | ||||
| Average per trip | 3.2 | 4.5 | 12.8 | 0.3 | 17.6 | ||||
| Average per year (13 yrs.) | 27.0 | 85.4 | 121.7 | 345.2 | 7.5 | 474.4 | |||
| Size of
big bass in pounds (n=16) |
Date caught | Lake | Over all years since 1999, in… | ||||||
| 9.25 | 04/19/96 | Dogwood | 2010 | New records in 2010 | |||||
| 8.75 | 04/10/98 | Dogwood | Most trips | 44 | * | ||||
| 6.50 | 04/15/89 | Dogwood | Most hours fished | 135.75 | * | ||||
| 6.50 | 10/10/98 | Dogwood | Most "Other" fish | 24 | * | ||||
| 6.00 | 04/15/09 | Dogwood | |||||||
| 6.00 | 10/16/09 | Dogwood | 2010 | ||||||
| 5.50 | 10/29/04 | Dogwood | Most bass | 252 | * | ||||
| 5.00 | 10/18/97 | Redbud | |||||||
| 5.00 | 10/18/03 | Dogwood | 2002 | ||||||
| 5.00 | 04/08/05 | Dogwood | Most bream | 583 | |||||
| 5.00 | 10/07/05 | Dogwood | Most total fish | 622 | |||||
| 5.00 | 10/31/08 | Dogwood | Most avg. fish/trip | 28.2 | |||||
| 5.00 | 04/10/10 | Dogwood | |||||||
| 5.00 | 08/13/11 | Pin Oak | |||||||
| 5.00 | 10/28/11 | Dogwood | Single-day species records | ||||||
| 4.75 | 04/16/02 | Dogwood | 4/17/10 | Most bass | 24 | ||||
| 3/12/06 | Most bass | 24 | |||||||
| 5/20/99 | Most bream | 112 | |||||||
| The one
that got away (Size guessed) |
Date | Lake | 6/20/09 | Most 'other' | 12 | ||||
| 8.00 | 04/12/05 | Redbud | |||||||
| 8.00 | 10/01/96 | Dogwood | |||||||
| 8.00 | 10/25/08 | Dogwood | |||||||
| 7.00 | May ???? | Dogwood | |||||||
| 6.00 | 09/30/06 | Dogwood | |||||||
| 6.00 | 11/14/08 | Dogwood | Favorite sayings | ||||||
| - The worst day fishing beats any day working. | |||||||||
| Doubtless God could have made a better berry | - Early to bed, early to rise. Fish all day, and | ||||||||
| than the strawberry but doubtless God never did; | make up lies. | ||||||||
| and so, if I might be judge, God never did make | |||||||||
| a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than | - I suffer from OCFD - obsessive compulsive | ||||||||
| angling. Izaak Walton (1593–1683), English | fishing disorder. | ||||||||
| author, biographer. The Compleat Angler, ch. 5 | |||||||||
| (1653). | - People ask me why I don't keep fish. I love to | ||||||||
| eat fish but I hate to clean them. I only keep the | |||||||||
| Flyfishing may be a very pleasant amusement; | ones big enough to go on the wall. If I want to eat | ||||||||
| but angling or float fishing I can only compare to | fish, I'll go somewhere and order them. I only | ||||||||
| a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and | clean the smart ones; the smart ones are the | ||||||||
| a fool at the other. Samuel Johnson | ones that don't get caught. | ||||||||
| (1709–1784), English author, lexicographer. | |||||||||
| Quoted in: Hawker, On Worm Fishing | - Work is for people who don't know how to fish. | ||||||||
| If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church. | - Most of the fish I catch measure about 12 inches. | ||||||||
| Tom Brokaw (b. 1940), U.S. journalist, | Of course where I come from, we measure them | ||||||||
| broadcaster. Quoted in: International Herald | between the eyes. | ||||||||
| Tribune (Paris, 10 Sept. 1991). | |||||||||
| - Some of my friends give me a hard time | |||||||||
| because I sometimes hook a carp when I am | |||||||||
| flyfishing. They are all as long as your arm, | |||||||||
| weigh about 15 pounds and put up a great fight. | |||||||||
| But when you land it… what then? | |||||||||
| Here's a recipe for carp: | |||||||||
| - Catch a carp | |||||||||
| - Dig a pit and put hot coals in the bottom. | |||||||||
| - Wrap the carp in wet newspaper. | |||||||||
| - Put it in the pit and cover it up. | |||||||||
| - Let it cook at all day. | |||||||||
| - Dig it up | |||||||||
| - Unwrap the newspaper from the carp. | |||||||||
| - Throw away the fish and eat the newspaper. | |||||||||
| - Fisherman are born honest but they get over it. | |||||||||
| Fisherman's Prayer | |||||||||
| I pray that I may live to fish....... | |||||||||
| Until my dying day. | |||||||||
| And when it comes to my last cast, | |||||||||
| I then most humbly pray: | |||||||||
| When in the Lord's great landing net | |||||||||
| And peacefully asleep | |||||||||
| That in His mercy I be judged | |||||||||
| Good enough to keep. | |||||||||
| - I friend told me he caught 6 fish with no head | |||||||||
| and 9 fish with no tail. How many fish did he catch? | |||||||||
| Answer: 0. (Think about how a 6 is written, with the | |||||||||
| 'head' being the part above the loop. The 'tail' of | |||||||||
| a 9 is the part below the loop. So if you take away | |||||||||
| the head and the tail, you are left with o and o, which | |||||||||
| totals 0.) | |||||||||