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I have always thought of them as a store for people who don't care about cost and always believe if you pay more for something it is better. Plenty of them around here, then people like me will stop by once a month to check the bargain cave. If you make a lot on everything you sell you don't have sell a lot, but nice to have another place to shop during bad weather.

Great choice, I applied but I couldn't hold a candle to Chris. Think I can beat him on the water 50% of the time but his sales experience and customer base in this area is unmatched. I really miss Chris's bait shop, he had a great store on Newhope back in the day and he and his wife treated everyone who came in the door like long lost friends.

I really hope you have a buddy while diving...

It's also a bad place to have your first heart attack, alone. Teenagers don't have to worry about those much . You never get too old for basic safety so IF the day comes your body fails your life will depend on how well you chose your friends. When was the last time you tested those swimming skills? I used to ride a bike for days without touching the handle bars, tried that last week and almost went down.

Just such a shame that people swim in areas that are so unsupervised and don't think about rescue equipment. I was raised going to scout camps and have a long military background so buddy systems and flotation devices just make common sense. As fishermen we always carry personal flotation and throwable devices along with ropes and we don't plan to get into the water. Just makes me wonder what is going through the heads of people who go into the water with no more than shorts and flip flops and no one backing them up. I will get in the lake when it is hot from my boat and my wife likes to swim from the boat and she thinks I am "weird" that I will not leave the boat without her getting back in and I always take a flotation device with me(I don't trust her that much), until something like this happens to remind her how fun can turn into tragedy in seconds. I was not there but wonder who they had appointed to watch out and what was their plan for rescue when something went wrong, I am betting there wasn't a life jacket or flotation device anywhere. Sorry to say it but due to lack of training and nature of people and water 3 is just a beginning, lots of hot weather to come. If you know people going to the lake PLEASE have a conversation about safety and loan them a life jacket. I pick up every life jacket I can find at goodwill and salvation army stores and give them away every year. Spending $2 on a kids life jacket and giving it to a stranger on the lake just makes me feel like I am doing my part. BE CAREFUL PLAY SAFE

40/29 reported all 200 positions filled, anyone know someone who has been contacted about a job yet?

If we are still talking about Eden's bluff, sorry I got confused there too. It is South of Horseshoe Bend going toward Hickory Creek, point 10 being the entrance into Monte Ne. As you make the bend past Monte Ne the right side of the lake is the cliff side I am referring to. https://maps.google.com/?ll=36.260608,-94.070778&spn=0.018513,0.042272&hnear=Rogers,+Benton,+Arkansas&t=h&z=15

No the right hand side of the left turn after Monte Ne before you get to the water intake. Point 5 is the Big Clifty area, also a good cliff.

Just south of point 10 on the right hand side, it is a big cliff with a lot of swallows nesting on the side. You can usually find some pontoons parked their crappie fishing brush piles and trees. Both ends are well known to bass fisherman, but I have found walleye hanging tight to brush and trees. They seem to have the rep for roaming the rocks but I think they like the shade of boat docs and hang in trees just like bass or crappie also, if not more. Maybe they have a thing for crappie? Or could just be where the food is? You will know you are there when you see the little blue sign that says something about the eden-ford trail. Or maybe it's Edan not Eden?

I take the approach of zooming in on fish on the point and working with a jigging spoon and don't worry about going too deep. The biggest walleye I have seen on beaver was 8lbs caught by my wife in a cedar tree on a drop shot. But I DON"T troll or drift so I can't compare. There are deep fish to spoon on Beaver in hot weather just hard to hang on fish when you find them because grandpa will choose that very spot to pull jr around in circles around you. If I am jigging fish in 50ft my screen shows 40-50 feet or I get over deep trees like the ones just south of pt 5 and pick them apart limb per limb. Once again this this pattern falls apart as soon as the wakes start. Edens bluff is another spot to pick apart deep ceders.

My best bass fishing is always the first week of deer season, very few boats all week.

What would really be nice is a Rod and Gun Club where guys could sit around tie jigs, flies whatever, a bar and a "pro" shop like the golfers have but with a range instead of a golf course. As a young man I spent most of my time in one in Germany and learned more on that range with old soldiers with a beer or two in them then I ever learned in "training". Was a lot more gun than rod club due to Germany's fishing regulations but we did sit and swap fishing stories a lot. I did buy guns I never would have also because someone would say "hay ever shot one of these" then I would try theirs and go back into the shop and buy one. They didn't sell any shoes or women's clothing at that club though and I guess that is where the money is today in sporting goods.

I will build some really big brush piles this time...

I do think you will see this, the lake usually does not rise in the fall or winter and with August levels starting in June then 1092 is not out of the question. Once the water gets below 1110ft then the rest of the drop will be due to evaporation only but without rain in the mountains springs slow down too and that will show in lake levels dropping. I am not sure what caused the drop in 1977 but I think we could be lower than that this year, this is the earliest I have seen Arkansas declare a state of emergency for state wide drought. When it does drop just a warning if you drive out to the islands or on the old lake bed anywhere you will be fined....also picking up anything off the old lake bed like arrow heads is also illegal. I have been run off gathering lead weights before and thought I was doing a good deed removing lead from the lake bed.

It's the first one..

If you always fish Beaver at the end of July and First of August that is probably the reason you have so little success. I would rather fish Beaver the first week of February and dodge ice then try to get on deep water points and dodge wake boats in August. The best fishing times that time of year IMO are midnight until 7am and I am not a night fisherman but you can find fish up shallow at 2am that will go down 50 feet around 9am. I am not saying that you can't catch fish in the heat of the day with jet skies buzzing around, just saying that you are visiting the lake at our worst time for fishing. Beaver shines when you need gloves and a ski suit to launch in the early morning hours. There are a lot of deep water springs in Beaver that allow the fish to go deep and I have caught bass and bluegill as deep as 80feet on those springs in the heat of the summer when people from other states tell me there is no oxygen below 30 feet and don't believe bass can survive below the thermocline. If you have a hard time I would suggest a trip to Holiday Island and fish below the Town of Beaver towards the dam where the discharge from Beaver keeps the water cooler and the size of the river keeps pleasure boats away. I don't set lines for catfish but have heard from people that do that the cats will feed in shallow water all year and the problem with people fishing jugs is they put them out too deep. I have seen bait line up at night in 10 feet of water with fish feeding on them and thrown crankbaits threw them during night tournaments to find they were channel cats and not bass....I guess it is just the time the cats come in that changes and I see people hanging lines around dark where I can see their bait swimming to the top around the shorelines. Between points 5 and point 1 seem to be very popular with 3-4in bluegill the favorite bait. I hope you enjoy your stay but I would encourage you to visit again in October or November for a better fishing experience.

Driving back from Little Rock on I40 today I saw a wake boat flipped over on the side of the road trailer still attached to the SUV that looked to have rolled a couple of times and 4 or 5 damaged cars in the center median. I had to smile when I thought "they can't drive a truck either". Sorry I know that is mean....but I have always been more honest than nice. Just read on Yahoo Usher's 11 year old sun killed by a jet ski, we had a death on a jet ski last week on Beaver guess it takes a death in the family to get people to wake up to the fact a boat on the water is the same as a car on the Highway and if you let you kids play in a busy highway they die. Cars almost didn't take off 100 years ago because mother's didn't know any place for their children to play other than the streets, 30 years ago there were very few 50mph boats on the lakes, now maybe is our time to stop letting the children play in the "street". I am not saying there can't be a "playground" on the lakes but maybe it should be marked off and some travel lanes set up just like we did on land, or let natural selection take place...

I just looked it up and found that area is what I would had have called Big Cliffty, first right after point 5. Found a neat web site about the area. http://hogscald.com/hogscald-today.php

Quillback what point is that near? Did the driver drown? Were they wearing life jackets?

Hopefully Google will do that for all of us, the Google Earth maps were down to that level for years, but you still can go back on them. I like the big rocks in war eagle, I just hope they do the fly over pics.

I agree, being an native Arkansasan their anit too many law books in our native tonuge...... But seems when it comes to Huntin and Fishin they would translate one. Like 'ifn any of yalls boat in tur water put a wite lite on it...an keeps it on...

There is no "confusion" I have been in meetings when everyone agreed it was breaking the law but agreed that was "their" business and would pay "their" fines if caught even when the club rules read "obey all state laws and regulations" but most had problems with fishing with the anchor light "white light" on while working the shore line. I have no problem with turning the switch to anchor when dropping the trolling motor as long as I have something to steer around but when you are fishing with blacklights any white light hurts. I have only seen one fisherman get up and walk out in protest.

Using that Map I see how much lower in June then previous years, just wish it went back further. Looking at that map I will predict 1105 for year end low.

Ever fish a tournament at night? Most of the bass tournaments this time of year are at night and if you put in at Hickory and your fish are North of Rocky Branch you will get 30 or so boats that will be getting the most out of fishing and trying to weigh in at 2am. You will loose way too much fishing time trying to get back to weigh in at 30mph believe me, I had a 50hp when I first started fishing Beaver. That is the reason Bass Boats have 225s and 250s to get to the fish and back. I have almost wiped out on pontoons with lights in the water but no lights on(green glow is hard to see) cabin cruisers drifting with no lights on in the main channel but the worse offenders are fellow bass fishermen who stop on the way back to try one more point and have nothing but black lights. Every weekend there is some type of jackpot or club tournament in the summer, they are legal and running 70 at night on Beaver, Table Rock 35. F&F I do try to stay to the main channel just trying to make a point, but I have been running 5 boats wide trying to get to weigh in before and had to run closer to shore then I wanted and found people fishing in the dark. I even have a partner that won't run lights at night once he drops the trolling motor and won't allow a white light on his boat. Weather YOU or I like it that is what is going on even on Wendsdays and Thursdays sometimes but every weekend and I have even set in club meetings and had people complain and the tournament director admit he fished without an anchor light and would not agree to disqualify people fishing without lights. If you are on the lake at night there will be more than one boat coming at you over 50mph even after midnight so please keep a white anchor light on!!! I have fished back seat of two boats that ran up on sand bars while running over 50 in a midnight fog, one jumped the bar and only minor damage the other was stuck on ground and we hit a tree. If they can't see a sand bar with trees how are they going to see a boat with no lights. There is no weather that will cancel a tournament around here either so don't feel safe in fog, thunderstorm or anything else they do fish through them. I have to admit I sort of miss running to weigh in with hail stones hitting me in the face and seeing 68mph on the GPS with white blurry glows in front and green and red glows behind the boat.....

Not having your lights on could kill me(translation big deal,big fine) swimming with no life jacket and your anchor your problem little fine. I had to stop carrying a firearm because of coming around corners in the middle of the night and missing people fishing without lights because they thought they were "out of the way". Sorry for the rant but had enough run ins at 2am with people who always felt they were in the right when THEY WERE THE ONES BREAKING THE LAW and almost got both of us DEAD and a$285 fine is better than ME being dead. I run back in on my GPS track, now how are you going to know where that is when you drop your trolling motor and turn off your lights???? I might have run close to shore to avoid traffic on the way out and I WILL RUN the SAME way back if is DARK. That might not make sense to anybody else but it is LEGAL and not punishable by DEATH by unlighted boat. If a $285 fine doesn't worry you idiots like me who run wide open around corners next to shore should. My little 115 doesn't sound like a 225 either......