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Get out the flipping rod!!!

The point of this tournament is to raise money for the chamber to promote Rogers as a place to live, work and start a business. They do a good job at that and are not in the business of running fishing tournaments. If I was to set up a bake sale it would never compare to Dunkin Donuts or Krispy Kream but I would not want to compete with them just a way to get people to donate to the cause. I would put this in the category of donating to the cause, like getting a car wash by the Little League then complaining about the outcome. If you really need a detal why let the little league do it? If you really want a to fish tournaments that what BASS and FLW is in business to do, the chamber just needs donations and if this becomes too much of a problem they will find another way to do it. They have even had wake board tournamenst and I sure don't want o catch on....

I had an experience like that once during a tournament that a friend decided not to fish at the last minute but we decided to fish around PC anyway. We were on schooling pre spawn fish and the smallest bass we caught that morning was 3lbs and the largest 7lbs something. We could have weighed a 26lb bag or a 22 and 24lb bag if we hadn't backed out and never engaged the motor. It was a bad day for most people and something like 12lbs won that tournament, wonder what people would have said about us had we weighed those fish, then if we had paid we probably would not have stayed in PC. Just saying that you never know about that lake, there are those days. The next weekend we tried to repeat and had only one keeper off the same pattern.

Hard to follow someone when there is no launch site or time. That tournament is only good for promoting local business and the only time I fish it is when a sponsor needs another boat, then I feel ripped off on the gas I use that day. Just go out about 4am and count the boats already on the water next year....

Doc got your point, such terms as perch, bluegill, sunfish are interchanged to describe the same fish, but I always thought brim was a generic term and not a species of sunfish. Then again Bass are a type of sunfish....and walleye are a perch so when my daughter is catching sunfish and calls it perch jerking it always gets on my nerves. I have hooked some 1- 2lb bluegill on beaver but always on a drop shot or jig, but then could have been red ear since I don't look at panfish that close but sure were not any type of perch....

I think it will keep the fish in a pre spawn longer, talked to friend on Winser this morning and he said the top water action was out of this world this morning and first time this year he has seen that. The air temps don't drop the water temp as fast, but sure the snow dropped it a little.

Funny you mentioned carp and eggs in the same sentence since I was just reading how carp eggs are gaining popularity in the US. My self I don't eat any fish so don't think I will try either but would like to see more people fishing for and eating carp. I hate to see good food sources go to waste.

A real man would have eaten those carp......when I was in Germany they were prized food fish. For some reason I betting you released the carp and ate the walleye even though there are plenty of carp in that lake.

With all of these cold fronts looks like the drought won't be back....wonder if they generate before the ACs kick in?

It really depends on where you are fishing, in lakes with pads and grass and fallen trees then I can see where people would look at $2,000 fish finders and say what the heck. But on an open clear water hole like Beaver where you will find 6lb bass at 40ft in 100 feet of water chasing shad in the open....it is just different. When your main cover to fish is shad balls and they move every minute you just can't set up that milk run and hit spots that hold fish unless you can see the shad and what is around the shad. Beating trees and shorline will work 30% of the time and will always find plenty of short fish but those big hungry fish follow the food and you can't find the food with a $100 fish finder. Myself, I don't have that kind of money so I just follow those who do.

With all the dirt flowing down the river I think they would look like big humps, but would like to see a pick.

There is a big car dumping ground as you cross the bridge from Springdale and take the first right and then the first right. They had a story in the paper where a lady was dumped there in her Jeep and the divers had to study the feel of the jeep before retrieving it because they didn't want to waste time pulling out the wrong dumped car. There are supposed to be 20 or more dumped cars in that one spot. If you drive down that point you can see how easy it is for a low life to dump a car into about 40 feet of water. Never been there to scan it though, just going off reports in the paper about two years ago. It is the other side of the river from the boat launch closest to the Bridge.

There are supposed to be a lot of dumped cars just south of the route 412 bridge.

I would guess Horseshoe bend....Nice pics feel like breaking out a spoon.

The Arkansas river has lots of stripers and lots of big bass.

If you want to see where a lot of big bass in Beaver go, lift a trout line or limb line once in a while and see how many dead bass are hanging there. Most fishermen abide by the law but Beaver has a lot of limb lines, jugs and troutlines put out weekends that go unchecked all week and IMO that hurts the bigger bass population and there is not enough law enforcement (unlike Table Rock) to police these people who kill big fish for no reason other than they didn't have time to take up lines. Sorry to get off track.... Congrats on your fist FLW Derick!!!

I think the effort here is to produce some quality bass rather just more quantity. The bass in Beaver are so crossed up between spots, LM and smallmouth it is really getting hard to tell the difference and the lake could use some quality northern strain LM pure breads.

I would say running fast along the shore casting in front of the boat, that is the hardest pattern to fish behind. The front seat is catching fish and the boat scares the fish away from the shore line by the time the back seater gets here. I was skunked behind front seaters that way a few times before I figured out how to drag a jig or floating jerk bait on a three way. Borders on trolling but all you can do, and produces, you have cast out deep and far behind the boat and drag back to the shore way behind the boat. I have not read any reports on how Christie was fishing, just saying that would be my guess. Any more details from the source?

I don't think there is anyone who can block me that good, they have to snag or retie sometime.... Most of these co-anglers just need to learn how to drag.

Larry Nixon out of the Top 20 by 1 oz and both Beaver Lake home boys not even in the Top 50....thought they were low weights due to lack of local knowledge...

Always hold fish closer to the camera than your face, it will grow 2 lbs....Nice fish

You have to remember that Beaver Lake is an upside down lake so the cold muddy water will cause the fish to chase crank baits and blue bird skies will drive them up to the bank......just think backwards of any other lake.

You might need a new ruler....lol

I like to pull a tail dancer once in a while, it is a walleye lure but catches more spots than anything for me. In the spring a redfin trolled with the rod up high to keep it waking will get some big fish to hit and the longer the line the easier to wake.

There has been no generation at all....funny how with swepco being shut down they don't need power from the dam. he run off form this rain will probably add another foot over the next few days if they don't start the turbines.