Ham

The best I have used are the Lucky Craft RC Wake crankbaits. I have successfully used the Jointed Redfins also.

I ve also caught them in the Spring River near Hardy, AR. I know another spot in south Central AR. A buddy caught a BIG one in the Current River and I saw them feeding before I ever caught one and tried for them without success. I owe the ones in the Current River sone payback and I might as well catch some in the 11 Pt as well. Oh yeah I have a spot on the Little Red River to try for them.

73) Mooneye This fish was a unicorn for me, but I stumbled onto a great place to fish for them. At lower flows, I can usually spot them feeding. If I spot em, I got em. I think they eat a lot of emerging bugs, but I bet they are opportunistic and eat small fish as well. well, I picked out a small nymph and fished a likely area and I got a solid take pretty quickly. I was able to hustle the fish into the boat. I lose a lot of the ones O hook. I was Happy to land this one. The eye of a Mooneye is relatively larger than that of a Goldeye. The dorsal fin base starts ahead of or equal to the start of the anal fin base.

72) Western Blacktail Shiner I made a trip down to Batesvillie hoping for chances at a lot of fish. The CFS was about 22,000 which made things very difficult. I really could not fish most of my desired areas. I saw a bunch of very Happy Shiners, but when I went to rig up I realized that I didn’t have all my gear. I had forgotten a bag at the house. I didn’t have any tippet that would go through the eye of a size 20 or smaller. I eventually found a fly with a little bit of beat up tippet still on it. I tied a fly on that they hated, but I had enough for one more fly and I was able to get a nice one to bite. I keep studying them and I caught two more. I’m pretty dialed in now.

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71) Tiger Trout I made a trip today hoping for a Tiger Trout. I had to fish through Rainbows, Browns, Smallies, Bluegill, Longears, Green Sunfish, and Striped Shiners, but I was able to get it done. My Tiger was fish #31 of the day. I ended up with 61 to hand. I’m a Good kind of tired.

There was one really funky looking one that supposedly really casts well, but I could never fish with one because it was so counter to what I was used to. It was some. Built in warp that loads and helps you throw.

MDC Can absolutely Price some people out of fishing for trout. In Missouri. I’m not wild about it. I’ll likely get one, but if it’s $15 or something, I’d buy one every year just in case I make a trip. At $40, if I buy one at all, it would be a morning of the trip deal and it does push against me fishing for trout in MO.

I second that emotion

I didn’t see a thing on the “gram”.

70) Orangespotted Sunfish What a pain in the butt this little guy was. It took a lot of fly changes and a lot of time to get this guy on fly. I certainly put in the sweat equity on this one.

69) Whitetail Shiner from Bryant Creek

68) Walleye I was targeting them specifically when I caught it, but I did not plan on trying for them today. I went looking for Logperch and mid search a thunderstorm ran me off. I had gotten some bites from Whitetail Shiners and seen some really Big ones, but I had not caught any yet. I hadn’t starting looking for Bigeye Shiners yet either, but I was forced to depart. I tried for Ozark Darters, but only saw tiny ones. Weather caught me there too. so, I took a break for lunch and got supplies to work on Waldo’s trailer. While I was doing that, I thought about taking a shot at walleye. When they open the spillways on Bull Shoals, TRL, and Norfork, they stock warm water species like walleye into the rivers below the lake. I’m all about taking advantage of that. A Little but of a hike to get to my spot, but that’s ok. I rigged up a sparkle minnow with a mini jig dropper. I missed the first bite which felt really firm. No idea what it was. But I did not miss the second bite which was a really Heavy thump. Fish on! I played it carefully to shore (no net) and eased it into the shallows. Very relived to get it to hand. This was one I was hoping for, but not completely counting on. Woo Freaking Hoo!

67) Highland Stoneroller I’m Not a Huge fan of failure. I was pretty frustrated that I wasn’t able to get it done the other day. well, I had gotten pretty Hot and miserable at the new place. I decided to cut and run and try for Red Shiners again. And maybe I would have a few minutes left after that. The spot I wanted to try is a creek that runs into the Arkansas River. The Arkansas River was less of a dumpster fire that last time I saw it, but still pretty bad. So, I was about as far up as I could manage up the creek. I round the corner and a your lady is sitting there amongst a lot of stuff reading something. I announced myself as far away from her as I could be and she about jumped out of her skin. Something was Super sketchy about the whole deal. She couldn’t wait to be away from me and said “that’s my stuff, it’s not garbage”. I tried to assure her I was just there to fish. That killed the vibe though. I caught a few Bluegill and a yellow bass. No shiners availed themselves. As I was leaving, an older guy showed up with a castnet to wreck the place. Also a Big Bummer. On to the Stoneroller spot I went. I had dubbed some bright materials on a size 24. Stuff I can see that makes the fly look bigger than it is to get attention with the small hook. my bigger boys where still where I left them, but no less paranoid. They milled around, but too uneasy to just eat the fly. I present to a large group of smaller SR and you would have thought they had not fed in days. Fighting over the fly, but none were big enough. I walked along and found a group of a little larger sub adults. A couple dozen fish fighting over it. I had a couple of swings and misses, but finally got the timing right and got one with the fly in its mouth. 9 th Flyfer of the year. The goal was 10, but at this point, I am hoping for at least 4 more.