Macsimus

I drove over to take in the weigh-in for the inaugural Bassmaster Tuesday Night Live yesterday at Mill Creek. It was good times, just like a classic weekday evening jackpot tournament complete with weigh scale and basket in the back of a pickup truck. Mike Iaconelli and Drew Benton bested the four two-man teams with 15-7 for a 6 fish team limit. Zona and Mercer were their hilarious selves with two particularly funny moments. Zona pulls the cash out of his pocket to pay the winning team their $5000 and it's a giant wad of $20 bills. And then, a little bit later after all the teams had been weighed and the winners paid, it's all winding down, people are starting to leave and Mercer yells out in his booming voice, "Hold everything! We've got lead weights!!" The four anglers that rode as co-anglers had their rigs at the ramp so I had chance to check them out. I had to laugh at Ike's boat.

I could probably help you out with that. 😄

Way to go, Daryk. Always good to get that first one under your belt. Wishing you many more this year. (10 years. Goodness.)

Interesting. Thanks for sharing. Ever thought about working on Tay-Tay's crew? I hear she gives some pretty nice bonuses. 👍

https://www.bassmaster.com/news/bassmasters-1st-tuesday-night-live/ Sounds like a good time. I'm hoping to be there.

I guess I need to self-report a violation. 😁

Excessive use by a certain OAF member? 😉

I mostly want to give a tip of the cap to Jeff (Quillback) for sharing his recent experiences on this lake. I've been pretty much beating my head against the wall on TR since I got down here Mar 1. It's been easily the slowest fishing I've had here in the last 12 years. I went to Beaver yesterday and fished the dam area. Caught 17 Smallies, 12-17", a couple of 14" Spots, and a 14" LM. A couple came on a 2.8 swimbait and the rest on the venerable Ned. WT 64-65.5. It was a great day. Catching a hard-charging Smallie on a ML spinning rod just never gets old. Beaver is such a beautiful lake and the drive, over hill and dale, and across a one lane bridge is a hoot as well. Some real pretty country along the way. Thanks for all your posts, Jeff.

Thanks for the report, Jeff. Did they bite all through the day for you?

I fished it Thursday from Lucy Smith Hollow to the confluence with the White. Visibility was 1-1.5' with greenish color. There was some wood debris including some logs so you had to be careful. Water temps 53.5 to 56.2. I scratched out 6 shorts on a Ned. It was really tough but then I suck at fishing this lake. I enjoy it and love the lake, but it regularly humbles me. 😀

Glad to see you guys were able to get out and enjoy that fantastic weather. I can't even fathom what 78 would feel like. 😀

Dock-in-it, thanks very much!!

Other than when targeting the fish behind your boat, are you fishing vertically with the SB or are you casting with a swimming retrieve? 5/8 seems quite heavy to me and would have a 3" SB moving rapidly during a swimming retrieve?

My enthusiastic vote goes to the Five Fish Lures Ultimate Ned Jigs. They have a good variety of weights, the hook sizes are perfect and strong, and they have a great braided wire weedguard which does not unravel and can easily be bent back into shape.

I often wonder what happened when I pass those white, road-side crosses in the middle of nowhere. That wreck would've been horrific and I'm glad you didn't have to witness it or worse, be involved.

I often wonder what happened when I pass those white, road-side crosses in the middle of nowhere. That wreck would've been horrific and I'm glad you didn't have to witness it or worse, be involved.

Nice report, Bobby. Thanks.

PM sent.

but does anyone in the Table Rock area have an old, working, Lowrance HDS-8 Gen 2 laying around that they'd be willing to part with?

Doing well, Daryk. I hope all is well with you?

Not sure about the north end but you can launch at Mill Creek on the south side of the bridge.

Shorts in February? Need a dancing banana emoji. 😎

Yes sir

Saw those A-10s last year. Always gives me goosebumps. Wish they'd fly over more often. My condolences on the tough fishing, kind of. 😀

As always, a most interesting post. Curious how you can differentiate between residents and roamers? Year to year, I find it next to impossible to find concentrations of fish on prior year spots and have convinced myself that they're all roamers. 😀