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9 hours ago, dan hufferd said:
Bass out of the wintery deep are excellent !
Beaver lake -spotted bass of any size are fair game. They are tasty. I'm not a big fish eater, but every once in a while I'll keep some.
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Fished the morning from 0630 to 1230. Tried the spots Dutch and I had success on Monday, expecting some good fishing, but for the most part those fish had moved.
I caught most of the fish I caught today in coves fishing the bank or close to it. On a 1/16 oz ned or Berkley wake bait. One of those deals with the wake bait, that if you saw them come up chasing something and put that bait on them, they'd usually take a swipe at it. One swipe, if you got them, great, if not, they would not come back for it.
Caught one keeper largemouth on a 3.3 keitech over 40 feet of water.
Saw some beds with males sitting on them, WT 64 when I left.
Caught a couple dozen with 6 keeper largemouth in the 16-17.5 inch range.
Caught a 14" smallie that had a shaky head with worm in the roof of its mouth. Was able to get it out with little damage to the fish.
11 rigs in the Big M lot which is quite a few for a weekday.
- BilletHead, bfishn and cheesemaster
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9 hours ago, dan hufferd said:
I hooked a big gar around emerald beach a few years ago, on a spoon. It stayed pinned long enough to get it's head almost in the boat. They are fighters !
Were you across the lake from the ramp? Early last spring there was a massive school of gar over there.
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That's really good for a short trip.
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8 hours ago, Terrierman said:
My buddy took me to Golden Corral after my last one. He still tells the story about how I was eating a chicken leg while loading my plate.
For the money they charge, they should have a free all you can eat buffet in the recovery room.
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8 hours ago, BilletHead said:
Bizarro is all I can say. You weren't at Woodstock like @fishinwrench parents, were you? 🤪
I may be old, but not old enough to be at Woodstock.
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2 hours ago, fishinwrench said:
So anybody that comes down with a health issue is themselves AUTOMATICALLY TO BLAME for not being tested sooner? So don't expect there to be a quality physician available to help you ! It's your fault because you didn't take preventative measures! 🧐
Is that the mindset that all of you have adopted?
I don't blame anyone for what they do or don't do health wise. I get checked out and if nothing is found, I'm out the door feeling good. If something pops up, I'll cross that bridge, but until then, I'll keep on keeping on. After a little more coffee, I'm going to hook the boat up and hit the road.
- BilletHead and ness
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The first one I had, 10 years ago, I wasn't completely out. Didn't feel anything, but had the most vivid dream I have ever had. I was flying through outer space in a recliner, very colorful fireworks going off as I was flying, stars and planets whizzing by, it was literally a trip.
Next time I had one, I mentioned to the anesthesiologist the dream I had and he told me, that won't happen this time. He's right, that's the last thing I remembered until I woke up.
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Quick turn around, another one starts in 2 days.
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Time to close this one. Best of Luck Mav!
- Terrierman, BilletHead, fishinwrench and 1 other
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Nice fish! For sure that wind was whipping this weekend.
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Dutch and I got in the water at 0635, water temp was 61 near the launch.
I got some intel about a top water bite down the lake a little, and to that area we went. We did get some on top on the Berkley wake bait, some fish were deep over 30 FOW of water chasing shad and some were near the bank, TW bite didn't last long, but it's been a while since we've caught any on top, so it was a nice change.
After that it was pretty much a ned rig show. No wind to speak of so we were able to fish 1/16 oz neds and get some bites. Best bite was to find banks that had ledge rock in 2-3 FOW, water clarity is good enough that you can see the edge of that rock where it drops off into the green water. We'd either throw the ned right at the edge, or sometimes throw it up on the ledge and drag it off. A lot of out bites were right at the edge on that drop.
We did get a few on the Ned off steep chunk rock banks and some of those fish were out to 20 feet deep or so.
We caught 48 bass, with a dozen keepers. Biggest was an LM that Dutch caught that was just short of 3 lbs. We caught a good amount of chunky LM's today, a few smallmouth, and of course some spots.
I'd go back tomorrow AM, but looks like it will be a bit sporty out there weather wise.
- MarkG52, BilletHead, Dock-in-it and 5 others
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Great report, glad you got into them.
It is a beautiful lake this time of year.
- m&m and STLbassbuster
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I use 1/8 and 3/16th oz heads with a 2.8. I like Dirty Jigs jigheads as they have a short shank hook which allows for more "wiggle" in the swimbait. I'd bring some 3.3's too. I fish the 3.3 on a 1/4 oz head. Some folks will swim the 2.8 on a 1/4 oz head and do well.
There's some top water action going on now in parts of the lake
- bfishn, waterpossum, DavidB and 1 other
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Some size there for sure, congrats!
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Nice chunks!
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34 minutes ago, Maverickpro201 said:
Well went to the Dr yesterday. We evaluated Petscan, Biopsy and MRI all together.
He is recommending Radiation and some injections to slow testosterone down, because 4 areas in prostate have the C, 1 has high numbers, 2 lymph nodes may have and 1 under the bellybutton has cancer. All are below belly button . Nothing anywhere else. So the will give me a shot next week then 4 weeks later check PSA and then another shot. Then he will plant 4 gold seeds in the prostate cancers. Half way thru the 45 radiation treatments they will start radiating the lymph nodes also. He said if it was him or his father this is the route he would go. So I suppose I have to trust his experience and knowledge. Anybody here ever study up on this crap?
Good thing is, if I want to take off for a few days while getting treated, so I can go fishing I can.
Thanks
Best wishes for getting rid of that stuff. I have not studied up on it myself.
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Dutch put the whipping on me today, 21 of those bass were his. I started off throwing shakey head lizard and worm, and some swimbait, could not get bit on that stuff and spent most of my time netting Dutch's fish. He got one that looked to be 3.5 lbs., and a few in the 2-2.5 lb. range.
Got a bit breezy out there later in the AM, but other than that, it was a good day to be out fishing!
Here's Dutch's fish:
- Champ188, cheesemaster, AR Huzgr and 8 others
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I have watched ,most of it, it's pretty good.
At the start they were showing Rip Collin's 40 lb. brown, one of the shots was an overhead where he is holding it upright in some kind of tank while it was still alive. From the side it looks big, but when you see the overhead you realize how wide that fish was, just massive.
I haven't looked but you might be able to catch it on the PBS Arkansas website. If you fish the Ozark trout tailwaters, you'll like it.
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The description is vague, but tonight on PBS is an hour long deal about the Little Red concerning trout and tourism.
- gotmuddy, ness, BilletHead and 1 other
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That's a great smallie, congrats!
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When Ray Scott started the whole pro bass fishing thing, the guys all fished out of identical boats, identically equipped. Those days are gone of course.
I'm still enjoying fishing without FFS.
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Looking for a Bull Shoals LMB/SM report
in Upper Bull Shoals
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Good deal!