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No it didn't Eric Angler. I am like you it is amazing to me I fish against him in events on Table Rock and Bull Shoals Club tournaments. I feel great when I come in with a certain amount of weight only to be humbled and gladly take 2nd or 3rd place. He has the "it" factor for catching the bigger sized fish when everyone else is catching nice fish. They call him little "VanDam" for a reason.

Blevins, is an unbelievable fisherman on any Ozark Lake. He is able to get on the water alot. That's the key. He can breakdown what the lake is doing, run it and figure which areas the bigger fish are biting better. I know if your fishing against him and he beats you like he has the last several years, people get irritated and accuse him of cheating which is totally false. If he decides to take the jump and go "full time" on the tour he will have a great career. He has had some very good tutors when he was starting out but applies it what works best for him.

The rivers will be on fire once things stabilize.

Baxter area seemed more stable, it appeared the shad were still deep at the mouthes of the creeks. I was hoping to find the shad had moved shallow like that but they haven't done it where I fished yesterday. I really thought about the little rig but didn't throw it none.

Today was a typical post front blue bird calm day. Perfect for deep fishing which I can do but I don't do much. It worked out today! Spoon= 20 fish 6 keeper football spots. Spots were stuffed full of shad 2-3 inches long. A-RIG=3 fish 2 keepers. Shallower on the rig 35ft sitting 15ft down. Only Largemouth was a 3 1/4 on the rig. Depth 70-80 ft deep, fish were above the shad in 60-50ft. Fished from 730-400. Caught all fish 8:30 - 10:30am. It was a head scratcher after that.

I caught one with a transmitter/tracking antenna embedded in front of the anal hole. Had a 2 inch cable hanging out of it. Thought it was Interesting!

Enjoyed it today. Nice not competing against each other like we do in the club tournaments.

Met Fishrman at Shell Knob mid morning to what we both believed to be "slug fest" conditions for Jerkbaitin and Cranking. First stop was Fisherman's and it was on as quick as it started it stopped. Boated 4 largemouth w/ 3 nice keepers 2 in the 3 lb range. 1 Jerkbaitin, 2 A-RIG. Started running the pattern and wind on certain banks and that quickly came to a halt. Caught a couple shorts on A-RIG, Fishrman had a solid fish on the JerkbAit pull off then shortly after hooked a Butterball Kentucky that belched shad all the way to the boat to come off at the boat. Worked our way into the Kings to see if they were willing to bite the RK, caught 3 short Kentucky's but we could tell that they didn't want anything banging on the bottom. Moved up the river another bend and Fishrman stuck a solid 3 lber on a Jerkbait. That was it on that stretch. Decided to run back towards SK and finish out the day, caught 2 more non keepers cranking. Finished off our limit 1/2 way back into a pocket on the A-RIG with a nice 3 lber. Wt 47-48. Everyone have a happy New year!

Fantastic!

Correct BB!

Mudline started to mix just before you make the bend into Deer Bluff. Quill, it was an awesome day for first day of winter. Lots of boats out from what I saw they were all flinging the A-RIG.

Fished 9-5, lots of fish, size was hard to come by. Easily caught 40 fish 10-14 inchers, Spots and Largemouth. RK 10-12ft. Had 7 keepers. A couple that were 3 lbs. Had 14 lbs no big ones lot of fun. Wt: 46.5-48.1 in the muddy water in the afternoon. Didn't Matter either side of the mudline still caught fish. Happy Holidays.

Wow! Thought my bill was bad. "Whoever has the most toys wins"!

December is my favorite month to fish. I feel the fish feed up the most this month preparing for what winter we may get.

Fished 2-5 after getting honey do's done for upcoming berage of holiday events. Caught 9 had 12 bites. 6 keepers. 3 kentuckies, 3 largemouth.Nothing over 2.5 lbs. Crankbaits, jerkbaits, spoon and the infamous Arig. Points and drops where I caught them. Had to have bait though. Even the shallow fish on cranks and jerkbaits there were more than one fish on a spot when you caught one. Looked to me the bait suspended shallower in the water colum thus the variety of depths I caught fish in. Didn't venture out of sight of Viola ramp. Everyone have a happy holiday. Wt: 47ish.

Kings river will be up, we had 2-3inches at my house. North of Berryville on in laws farm they had that maybe more.

If you want Walters get over to Bull Shoals. They are shallow right now. Jerkbaits and cranks fishing for Bass you will catch a couple!

Kansas is giving hunters a doe tag with their buck tags. Farmers are telling us that there is overpopulation of does. I wish Kansas would take a tip from South Dakota as for what they do about populating the pheasants! Midwest has the food for growing big deer. Must harvest a fair amount of does to keep population in check.

This past summer was the best I have done in several years in terms of big fish and numbers of them. I fished deeper and found them bunched up. Fishing jigging spoons/flutter spoons. Just like Bo has said, I did alot of looking and found the buffet.

"Booner" those are hard to come by. Great Deer!

Sounds good to me.

Its not just here in this area. Our club fished in their State Tournament on Dardenelle. 10lbs a day made the top 10 team to advance to the regionals.

Didn't take much either to crack a check. As champ eluded too about fall fishing 10lbs won several hundreds of dollars!

Fall turnover/transition! Give it another good cold front and wind to mix it up It will be good again. Plus the tournament pressure from the last couple weeks gets them educated.