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Thank you! Very helpful

I lost 75 pounds then been holding. All of a sudden I'm losing again. My wife said next week their going to find out more on my Cancer. Which I was thinking on the weight loss. My Son said Dad you have been working hard this could be. I know I will find out but still concerned. Don't really mind the weight loss but hopping it isn't because of the Cancer. big rockpile

Let's see if this makes sense, Materials: fly jig hook with bead to match. This a #12 J. Stockard hook. I used tungsten but this is just a quick guidance tie so adjust for what you want to use. For dubbing I really like Wapsi crawdub. Pine squirrel strips and again do the color you like. I am using 6/0 thread red in this case. Bead on hook start thread and work to the back of hook. Approximately above where the barb of the hook wrap a little dubbing ball. This will allow the pine squirrel pincers to open up. Prep a couple sections of your squirrel strips. An inch or so on this size hook. Again and do what you like for length. Strip off about a sixteenth of the hair off the strip and tie just in front of the dubbing ball. Wrap thread back tight against the ball and claws will begin to splay out. Take your thread and create a dubbing loop long enough to make a five-inch place to put dubbing. You might not need all of this but better to have plenty. Take pinches of the dubbing and add to the loop spreading it down the thread. I wax my loop thread for this step. Now spin it up, its going to look like crap but we take a dubbing brush I use Velcro on a popsicle or tongue depressor to brush all the trapped fibers. No this is not uniform and pretty but trust me it will turn out just fine. Wrap that messy twisted loop of fibers forward to the bead as you go each turn sweep the fibers to one side of the thread as you wrap forward. Ugly, isn't it? Whip finish behind the bead. Take your dubbing brush and fluff that mess up, down, all around frontwards, backwards and try to get the trapped fibers free. Don't sweat all those loose disconnecting fibers in the velcro. Pull them out and retain for the next one you make. Now with brush or fingers sweep what you have backwards toward the tail. Looking better by now don't you think? Pretty easy. Two materials are all you need. Add flash and feelers if you wish or crystal flash for your feelers . Drop this in the water and fish it. Long strips, short strips, hop it on the bottom.

We fished at night and did well. However, when we quit the day jobs we learned to day fish. It helped that there were 6 of us and at least one was there every day in January, February and March. We were able to keep on top of them and know the best bait color.

Way back when I lived in Forsyth I never really figured out the whites except that a lot of the locals were fishing at night.

It’s awfully late for whites to still be around Beaver Creek. When we fished it a lot they were usually gone by the first of April. We would move to the James up around Rolly Blunk’s before heading to Stockton.

We used to see that a lot and at the time it was said to be tannic acid but I have no way of knowing if that is the case. The algae bloom is as good as anything. All I know is that end of the lake is nasty red/brown with low visibility.

Doing a little research on this and it appears it is an algae bloom. That's my best guess. 😀 An algal bloom is a rapid increase in algae growth that can occur in freshwater and marine environments. Algal blooms can be green (see image above), blue, red, or brown and sometimes they are so bright that it looks like a layer of paint is covering the surface of the water. Many algal blooms release toxins, but some are non-toxic. Algal Blooms - Missouri Coalition for the Environment (moenvironment.org)

I hope that you guys get the rain that you need and not more than you want 😉. I'm done with rain personally. We have had heavy rains at least once or twice a week for most of the late winter and spring so far. The most that we had was 9 inches in ten days. Of course most of those rains would be Thurs or Friday after I decided what creek or small river that I wanted to fish that weekend only to watch the gage heights climb and climb... 😩.

Wenners said the same thing. What do you think is causing the water color? Is it runoff or turnover? Rain in the forecast over the next couple weeks. I'll be down on the 6th and a spinnerbait sounds like it could be the deal.

I drove down one night because the whites were “ON” at upper BS and in Beaver. We went straight to Beavercreek, and on my first cast I caught a rainbow trout.😂. Never did catch a white bass and neither did anybody else around me and there were dozens of us.😆

The cats are eating. We caught 3 on a rock crawler last weekend - 2 flatheads and 1 channel. Big was almost 15 pounds. 34 in the boat is a good day - thanks for sharing!!

I was just thinking. I don’t think I’ve ever seen table rock below 915 coming out of April. We need it!

I'll still take the blow out cleansing.

When I built my current house, I sold my 2 3-wheelers and a four wheeler. Got settled in and never bought any again. I sure miss riding. I hope your house goes well and you get another boat.

Anything more than about 2" will just run off anyway without wetting the dirt and if the 2" comes down hard and fast most of it will just run off. Run off might fill the ponds but it won't refill the karst that keeps the streams flowing. One week after a torrential food and the hills will be in drought again. #becarefulwhatyouwishfor

That's where I'm always at.

Was supposed to float Saturday so of course it's going to blow the rivers. But I'm happy to get some rain.

Who's the next best guide to hire on Table Rock?

building a new house and this was only getting used a couple times a year. That’s why is does not have many hours on it.

Might bring the Cicadas up

We get just enough to keep things green. Creeks and rivers are way low . It's beginning to seem normal.

Been pretty dry here. I would like to see 1 to 2 however, not 4-5.

Looks like we're going to get our wish. Pretty big rain over the next 4 days centered on the 3-state line. Should be pretty gradual but we'll see. Creeks and rivers will be shut down for a while. For Taney, hopefully we'll see more generation. Babler reports seeing very little green slim in the dam area on TR so hopefully that means less moss flowing this spring.

Back again yesterday evening. LS showed 75% less whites and they still weren't interested. I caught a nice male on my 2nd cast on a blue rebel and thought, "it's on!", but it wasn't. I give up on BS whites. I'll be going to Table Rock and catching smallies in the coming days.