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We will bring something...... unsure what right now!!🥴

Looking forward to seeing you 😀

Marty and Pat I am so glad that you are going to make it. Also will see you at Taney end January.

Personally I prefer a fairly fast 6wt. with a Rio Grand floating line & 7' 5ips Rio sinking leader. But I don't throw big nasty stuff, or target only trophy sized trout. If you do.....then I'd step it up a notch.

7 or 8 weight. I have a Ross Animas with two spools, one with SA Sonar that is 300-grain for heavy generation and another spool with 150-grain for varying flows. For the White, you'll almost always want sinking line. You'll be throwing a big streamer when the water is running. You'll be able to throw anything with that setup. I have a 7-wt NRX+ that handles like an 8-wt so I have versatility. Not sure what rod you're looking at, but I sure do love that Loomis.

What's the best streamer rod weight? Also, would it be better to set up the streamer rod with a sinking line? This would be used on the White River...

Pat and Marty putting the smack down on those green trout😉

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thanks for the report! I am anxious to get out there.

Agreed. 👍 if I swam the spoon or the Keitech thru the shad or let it drop thru they were not interested. If I threw past the shad and brought it through the suspended K’s they went nuts over it. You would have perhaps thought that dropping it through the shad like an injured shad would have triggered them. Nope.

Bill, regarding your graph picture with surface shad and the associated big K's. On Nov 14th I got oh the same scenario with magnum K's and could not believe their willingness to bite the 2.8 Keitech. So yesterday I return to the same location and the small pods of surface shad had mostly short fish and the shorts would follow my bait (leaving the real thing behind) and they would rarely commit. I think when quality fish are feeding at the surface they are more willing to commit.

Kys are too much fun.

Good eats from a good day fishing.

Don’t know how it is anymore, but networking between guides represented a huge part of their success. Loving, Tim Paige, Beck, Chris Tetrick, Pete were all ready to share back in the day. James mentioned Tim Sainato, not so much there. Timmy played it pretty close to the vest. Always happy with any info. You could give him however😂😂😂 I got so lucky yesterday and stumbled into a total load of just those big ole grey /green K’s. Just because people can’t catch them doesn’t mean there is a lake wide shortage of 15+ inch spotted bass. Ran into a gentleman at the ramp when I was pulling out. His boat setup made my electronics gear look like an old bird flasher. It was getting dark and said he had been out since daylight and caught only 4 fish all day. Said he just bought a house here but the fishing was so poor he was considering selling it. Didn’t show him my thumb. 70% of the fish weighed in at Table R. Tournaments are legal 15” plus spotted bass. They are truly a resource that few lakes have and should be cherished. Those big old fat 16/18” K’s provided this old man with an afternoon I’ll not soon forget Had one run me under the boat from right to left, jump twice on the back side of the boat then wrap around the trolling motor and break off. I got the giggles at my clown show and gave her a big salute. We have just had an August thru November fishery that this lake has not seen in 30 plus years. Even in the 90’s we didn’t catch September fish like this year. Don’t touch this pond. It ain’t broke. Sorry to ramble on your thread Dock.

Cool, good luck!

Alright, you talked me into it. I'm going to Indian Creek today. Rain should be out of here for a while anyway.

Sounds like he got his info from Timmy Sainato or the late Buster Loving --- couple of grub fishermen if there ever was one. I can assure you he did not get that info from me ... stained water after heavy rains would have me up in flooded backyards. Literally. LOL

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Been traveling the past few days. Primary fermentation has settled way down, but still going (day 6). I’m so out of practice with brewing that I think messed up by not using enough water in my boil. All DME, not full grain. So forgive me. But I’m about a gallon light which will make this beer bigger towards the imperial side. We’ll see. Was too lazy to do hydrometer readings. Never could read that thing very well anyway. So I got home and decided to rack to secondary and add my 3 lbs of fresh raspberry that I had crushed wit a potato masher and colander and then threw a couple campden tablets into a vented ziplock and stored in the fridge. Have them in mesh bags in secondary and waiting to see if secondary gets a second wind with fresh sugars added. I don’t like the head space in my secondary, but the o2 should scrub out quick enough as it’s still bubbling. Stay tuned.

Heck yeah ! 👍

Fun day. I went out just before knee surgery 2 weeks ago and had success using white war eagle spoon for striper, whites and LM. I was snapping it hard on the rod up swing. Good luck!

Talked to someone today that took a nice buck along the banks of Wappappello. Those few boats are taking advantage of the dry spell and deer attracted to the waters. My creek bottom is where the action is, woods are bone dry.

Neighbor and I launched at Viola at 0700 to surface temps of 61 degrees. Found but a smattering of shad and less than a smattering of fish. We basically couldn’t catch a cold in an Elementary School. Fished the Kings till 11 am and ended with less than a dozen with one solid keep. All out of piles. Where in the Beggebers 10 million shad went I have no idea. He had to go in and I was not about taking defeat lightly so I relaunched at H. Took about an hour but I lucked into the mama load of pig K’s. Just wolf pack after wolf pack. Top of the water column right under shad schools. Yep I found the buffet and it was open. Don’t know that I had over 1/2 dozen shorts and to many keeps to count without a clicker. 1/2 oz. Dixie Jet and 2.8” Keitech did the deed. Biggest at a modest 2.29 but action was Smokin Hot. Thumb took a real beating. Surface temps at Baxter to Campbell Pt. 63.5.

Pat and I hit our favorite pond today. After three Windy warm days the wind gave up some but changed to out of the north eastern direction. Not a good fishing direction IMO but we went anyway. Walking the bank we fancasted covering water from each spot we tried leapfrogging each other. While we each caught lots of fish Pat caught way more and with the biggest bass. I caught the two biggest crappie and bluegill. We both used the same basic fly. The rust colored Grinch bug. We wore hip boots and walked out a few feet to knee deep. This let us cast to the drop offs on the pond although we caught fish from a foot deep to six feet. We kept five bass and two crappie. The two smaller bass and crappie were sprinkled with Old Bay and sauteed in butter. Reminded me of boiled butter shrimp. Pat's biggest bass we did not weigh but I'm thinking 3.5 to 4 pounds. Nothing as pretty to me than a hip boosted gal working a fly rod. VID_20251119_122231762.mp4