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One up for Shell Knob now

There is a tornado warning up now that includes a lot of the rock.

Looks like some more real weather sliding down your way guys, stay safe. Hopefully besides the red boxes I'm seeing on radar, there is a little rain in it.

And Al, I highly recommend trying some Sunline Sniper. It's very castable, handles great, holds up to zebra mussels and rocks as well as anything I've ever used, and seems to be much less stretchy than seguar invisix. It's my very favorite line of all time, and they even make it in a green color which I like. Mean Green and Yozuri are both great, but for anything bottom contact, the Sunline is hard to beat. p.s. The cheaper Sunline super fluorocarbon is crap, and while I absolutely love their Shooter fluorocarbon for some applications, it is stiffer and harder to handle than Sniper.

The sinking thing is a huge deal on bottom contact baits fished on a slack or semi slack line. You can have several feet of slack mono floating on top of the water or being blown by the wind, while the flouro slack is much more of a straight line to the bait, which adds a lot to sensitivity for jig and worm fishing, among other techniques.

American Legacy Fishing has been good to me, but the Lew's outlet in Springfield is really where I blow the kids college fund. Here's hoping Bernie wins in 2020, daddy needs some new gear! Lol

Actually I haven't bought anything off Amazon ever. I make a serious effort to support local mom and pop retail places, even if it costs a little more.

And to further hijack Quill's thread, every adult generation has been convinced that their kids are listening to crap music. With the possible exception of 21 pilots and Adele, and a very few others, what every generation has complained about is actually happening now. Today's music really IS crap. It's cheaply produced, poorly written, poorly performed, "fixed" with technology to the point of it being soulless, and the kids are feeling it and turning to the "classic" music on vinyl as a result. Maybe these kids are smarter than we give them credit for...

I can agree with this. I don't really mean to be blaming the arrow when it's really a problem with the Indian, but lots of folks just simply don't think about the consequences of being plugged in to the information superhighway 24/7. I'm not going full Amish, but they have some things right..

All I'm saying is that milli vanilli got their career ended for lip syncing, and now every "pop" concert, and a whole lot of "country" concerts are lip syncing vocals because the "artist" needed so much auto-tune help in the studio that they can't actually sing their own songs live, without the computers. Its an increasingly photoshopped, "fake news", image over substance, disposable over repairable world, and the internet is driving a large part of it. Be genunine, support real, spend your money on quality.

Bill Babler had a post on the TR forum about Arigging. Mine is set up exactly the way he suggested. I used to use 1/4 oz heads, and I think the sink rate was just too fast. I was constantly hanging up. I haven't lost a rig yet since I switched to the smaller jigheads.

And no, I was using 3x 1/8" oz heads on a Yum flash mob rig, with the top two baits on screwlocks. I was throwing into about 8'-10' with the rig, and slow rolling it back with the boat in about 20'

That's my wife

Flysmallie, I'm glad you manage technology in a way that doesn't harm your family. My wife and I try very hard to do the same. However, I still hold that the internet actually does more harm than good. I feel like it has isolated us humans more than it has connected us. We have too often traded face to face time with actual real family and friends that know all of our good and bad and still choose to love us, for online relationships with folks who only see our carefully presented online personas. This has caused a whole new level of keeping up with the Jones, and of people being dissatisfied with their perfectly normal lives, because they are comparing their life to manicured instagram and Facebook posts of "friends" who wean through a dozen pics of their steak dinner to find the perfect one to post to fit their ideal image. I also feel like the staggering amount of weapons grade B.S. mixed in with the useful knowledge on nearly any topic from politics to bass fishing has done our society damage as a whole. I think it has contributed highly to the downfall of craftsmanship across the board in our society. Guys like fishinwrech who have learned a trade over the years are losing business to YouTube "how-to" videos, because the internet makes everyone an "expert". We already had a problem in America with instant gratification, and the internet just makes that worse. Don't even get me started with my immediate area of expertise, namely Music. I can rant for hours on what studio technology has done to the art and craft of musicianship, and what file sharing and services like Spotify that don't pay artists anything for their music has done to those of us who work full time in the music industry. I'm not saying I don't enjoy so many areas in my life that technology makes easier or better, but I will say on here that I'm really glad I grew up before the internet, and I'm saying to anyone that will listen, to take a week or so break from all things smartphone and internet, and get a little perspective on how these pocket screens change all of our lives. You will probably find like me, that all the change isn't for the better. p.s. GET OFF MY LAWN, and TURN THAT CRAP YOU CALL MUSIC DOWN. Im officially old now.

In all seriousness, the quality of this forum, my radar weather app, and a handful of friends I've made while touring with bands over the years that I use Facebook to stay in touch with are the only things keeping me from trading the smartphone for a dumb phone that only does calls and texts, disconnecting the internet, subscribing to the daily newspaper, and doing my best to avoid technology. I'm 42, and I realized that my kids are not getting the quality time with me that I got with my Dad. I loved climbing up on his lap and reading the newspaper funnies as a kid, and then I'd read the rest of the paper as I grew older. Actual words. On actual paper. Face to face time. Not living life through a screen. Between working concerts and watching most of the crowd watch the show through the camera on their phone so they can post crappy quality videos on social media, and having a 9 year old boy develop a serious Minecraft addiction (if you have a kid that age, you know), I realized that I can't complain about my kids living inside a screen if their example is me living in a screen. The internet is amazing, but it's seriously every bit as damaging to our culture as it is helpful, if not more.

Well, contrary to myth, us democrats hold down actual jobs, LOL. Between work, wife, 9 year old and 2 year old, Up until February I hadn't been fishing since last May. I've been lurking from time to time, but also really have been concentrating on weaning from social media and the internet a little bit, and since I wasn't fishing, I didn't have anything to post but "fake news" hahaha

He really wasn't sore. We took our time on the rough spots and didn't really crunch very many. We got a little wet right from point 11 to just past Hollingsworth, but the rest of the time it really wasn't that bad of a ride. The old narrow beam Champ lands pretty soft in the rough stuff, he was just probably a lot more sea-sick than your guy was from rocking around in it while trying to fish. Lol

If it was anything like the Saddle on Bull, there might have been a lot of flying involved. I'm pretty sure we were airborne a couple times.. lol

I will admit that for a right winger, you must have had some pretty good book learnin. You spell a might better than most any other Arkansasan I've ever met. If you keep up with it, you might even get to make your words in one of them newspapers someday. ????

It was pretty rough on BSL yesterday, but like Ham said the fish were up and biting. For what it's worth, good raingear, full face motorcycle helmets, and a 20' Champion underneath you sure make questionable decision making a LOT more comfortable when you are running rough water on a day like yesterday!

DChance, you should be hitting some great fishing in two weeks. It's coming along VERY nicely. You should be able to catch some great smallmouth on or very near pea gravel flats in the dam area, and LMB on secondary points and channel swings in the back 1/3 of creeks. Make sure and have plenty of Ned rig stuff, 3-4" paddle tail swimbaits and 4" grubs with 1/4 and 3/16 heads. 6 pound line will get you more bites on the spinning rods. Arigs will probably still be working, but I'd be ready with warts, spinner baits, jerkbaits, and maybe even a Redfin or Spook as far as winding baits, and Jigs and Carolina rigs for dredging up the bottom. Good luck and make sure and post a report!

Ham, I'm suprised I didn't see you on the water. We fished from 9:45 till 4, put in at Theodosia and fished down to Music and back. I didn't pick up a spinning rod all day, I was looking for bigger LMB up moving around in the wind, although we were both suprised that neither of us caught a single spot or smallie. We didn't catch anywhere near 40, I think I may have had a couple more than 9, I was using Dan's numbers, and he was a little sore he wasn't catching the big fish I was (LOL) so we might have had upward of 15, closer to 20 if you count the crappie and wallyeu to the boat. My best five would have been at least 18, if not 20 pounds. I'm pretty sure it was the heaviest bag of 5 I've ever caught.

Oh, and I also had a 21" Walter on a megabass 110, and a nice crappie on the 110 as well.

Had one of the best days I've had on Bull Shoals today. 9 bass, for me, 4 for my buddy Dan. All LMB, and 5 really, really solid keepers. Wart, ARig, transitions and secondary points in major feeder creeks. Water temps 53-55, windy as all get out.