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That cloudy day post spawn topwater thing is my favorite way to catch them on bull- it's just so fun when they are on-

I started the first of three weeks with no days off last Sunday. I hate you guys. Enjoy that topwater bite while it's there. Hopefully I can still catch a few when I get back down June 16th-

Shhhhh. Stop talking about Bull Shoals. Table Rock is awesome! Best lake ever! And bikinis! It's got bikinis to watch if the fishing slows, which it never does, it's a fish on every cast at Table Rock! There are no fish in Bull Shoals, only carp and gar. BIG, BIG, eat holes in your boat gar!!! They ate all the smallmouth this morning as a matter of fact. Yep ate em all. Only gar left...

Thanks for the report-

Cedar Hill, Missouri, but willing to meet up along the way to Bull Shoals in the Springfield/Branson area, or possibly somewhere down 55, as I travel pretty often that way as well-

Willing to listen to offers- I have 2 more Chronarch 100A's I'd sell for the right price- I need this stuff to move soon or it's off to eBay and shipping hassles!

Hey Guys- I have 2 TFO Gary Loomis signature rods with Shimano Chronarch 100A reels for sale. I'd sell the reels for $60 each, and the rods for $50 each. If you want both combos, I'd take $200. The reels are in good mechanical shape, average cosmetics. The rods are the 7' medium action, I'd compare them to a G. Loomis MBR-842 in something between a GL2 and GL3, if there was such a thing. I liked them a lot for spinnerbaits, senkos, flukes, and topwaters. Text or email is preferred due to my odd work hours. (314) 313-0071 markburrismcs@gmail.com

Hey guys, I have a few stainless steel props for sale, sold the boats that they worked on, now I need these out of the garage. Here is the list: 27P mazco RE-3 chopper, very clean, good for lighter, faster hulls, $200 26P mazco RE-4 chopper, good, some small rough spots on edges, also good for lighter boats, $200 26P mercury trophy, original version with fixed hub, very clean, great all around bass boat prop, $200 22P mystery prop (?) got this on a champion 184/150 combo I bought. Only thing I can see on it is M22 on the inside of the barrel. It's in ok shape, has some pretty sizable dings on it, but runable. Good spare prop? $80 Text me at (314) 313-0071 for pics, or email me at markburrismcs@gmail.com I'm in the St. Louis area, but headed to Bull Shoals Sunday afternoon until Tuesday evening for those who may want to meet in the SWMO area- I'd prefer to not have to mess with shipping these, but I guess I could, for whatever shipping costs. Thanks, Mark Burris

Oh, forgot to add, if anyone happens to have a lowrance LSS-1 or 2, with transducer and cables and needs props, I'd trade all of them for it- Unlikely I know, but thought I'd throw it out there- mb

Hey guys, I have a few stainless steel props for sale, sold the boats that they worked on, now I need these out of the garage. Here is the list: 27P mazco RE-3 chopper, very clean, good for lighter, faster hulls, $200 26P mazco RE-4 chopper, good, some small rough spots on edges, also good for lighter boats, $200 26P mercury trophy, original version with fixed hub, very clean, great all around bass boat prop, $200 22P mystery prop (?) got this on a champion 184/150 combo I bought. Only thing I can see on it is M22 on the inside of the barrel. It's in ok shape, has some pretty sizable dings on it, but runable. Good spare prop? $80 Text me at (314) 313-0071 for pics, or email me at markburrismcs@gmail.com I'm in the St. Louis area, but headed to Bull Shoals Sunday afternoon until Tuesday evening for those who may want to meet in the SWMO area- I'd prefer to not have to mess with shipping these, but I guess I could, for whatever shipping costs. Thanks, Mark Burris

Those of you with smartphones, buy the app called "radar scope". Put together by University of Oklahoma storm chasers, it has all sorts of Doppler radar data in like 5 minute updates. You can see precip, wind, storm tracks, warning boxes as fast as they go up, etc etc. Absolutley the best $10 you can spend. I've used it to run around storm cells while fishing, used it to postpone or cancel outdoor concerts on my job as an audio engineer. I can't say enough about how good it is. Mark Burris

Great looking football jigs and ned heads! I really like the hooks, I'm not a fan of the ewg type hook, for me good sharp round bends result in more stuck fish. Great job, and will gladly pay for these in the future.

The power pole drift paddle idea looks cool to me- I use a drift sock on crazy windy days sometimes, and it would be cool to be able to slow the boat down at the touch of a button. Not sure it would be $2K cool, but hey, if I had it to spend on fishing...

Anyone have the Cara T7 6'8" angler of the year casting rod? What do you throw on it? Is it too stiff for a jerkbait rod? How about for spooks/Sammy's? How about the 6'5" jerkbait special? Anyone use that one? What Cara rods do you use for what techniques? I've been a Loomis guy for many years, but I'm thinking of changing up a few rods and trying something new- Thanks for your replies, Mark Burris

I don't know about a weight, but I think that Jason Christie, Edwin Evers, Brandon Palanuik, Jonithan Van Dam and Fred Roumbanis are all fishing on the last day. Will be a fun one to watch...

My favorite Wart rods are a pair of old G.loomis IM6 popping rods, model PR-844C. Lighter and more sensitive than glass, but softer action than high modulus graphite. I just switched to lews reels, BB-1 in the 5:1 ratio. 8 pound trilene 100 percent fluorocarbon. For what it's worth, the Berkeley cherrywood 7' medium rod for like $19.00 at Wally World has a similar action. I just bought an old shimano bantam mag 10sg reel in a second hand junk store for $15. $20 for a new set of bearings and it is a sweet little reel. That combo is gonna be my "spare/guest" Wart combo, and guess what, it casts just about as well, and doesn't weigh a whole lot more. I like to take friends and family fishing, and most of them don't have decent bass gear. I try to keep extra rigs in the boat, that may not cost as much (I've had rods and reels thrown in the lake and stepped on and broken) but still do what is needed to cast and retrieve the baits in the right way, for them to use. Gear doesn't have to be expensive, but there is nothing more frustrating then trying to learn to bass fish with poorly matched, poorly performing gear.

When does fire tiger work? I fish Bull Shoals mainly, don't think I've ever caught a bass on fire tiger, always try it a while then go back to a craw pattern. Maybe it's just a confidence thing for me, I'm not sure.

V-210 watermelon- paint or keep as is?? I have 2 of these, with clear bills, was thinking of putting them in my pile of warts to be custom painted, but I see they are a pretty popular color. What conditions/watercolor are you guys that use the v-210 throwing them in? I like phantom green in clear water, the natural green craw or green craw in stained water, and the brown craw or V-209 in muddy water or on cloudy days, though I'm throwing my custom painted baits more than stock colors these days- PBJ in a wart is a killer for me-

Put me down with Ham. My friend and I put in Monday at Buck Creek, fished in and between Trimble and Shoal, threw A-rigs, Jerkbaits, jigs, smoke grub, wart, etc. We didn't catch a fish, not even sure we had any bites. I saw a ton of bait between 20-60 fow, a few arches I'm calling fish, and quite a few dead and struggling shad. After talking with friends (in this thread lol) I'm pretty sure we were fishing too fast. I hadn't been on the lake in almost a month, and was fishing new water. I think I was trying to hard to find fish, and really should have just camped out in a couple places and slowed Waaaaayyyy down- Oh well, live and learn-

New prices! Email me guys, I need to move this gear.

Hey Guys- I have some gear and baits for sale. All the reels are used, with varying degrees of boat rash, but work fine. 2x Shimano Calcuttas, $50 each 2x Shimano Citica DPV 5:1 $50 each 1x Shimano Citica D 6.2:1 $50 1x Shimano Curado 200b $50 4x Shimano Chronarch 100A $75 2x rebel spoonbill minnow $4 10x Heddon Zara Spook $20 8x Bill Lewis Rat-L-Trap $12 2x pre-rapala Wiggle Wart $40 2x pre-rapala Mag Wart $10 1x pre-rapala Thin Fin $3 1x pre-rapala Hot-n-tot $3 1x very old but never used Poe's deep crank $3 Text me at (314) 313-0071, or email me at markburrismcs@gmail.com I would prefer to sell this stuff in the St. Louis metro area to avoid shipping, but will ship for actual shipping costs, or possibly meet in the Bull Shoals/Norfork or Springfield/Branson areas or points in between there and St. Louis.

Price no object? Bass Cat. The best built fiberglass bass boat currently made. Period. What the Pierce family has done with the development of their manufacturing is amazing. Plus, you get the best customer service in the industry, from a family owned company, here in the ozarks. Best bang for the buck? Late 90's, early 2000's Champion 203. One of, if not the best riding and handing hulls on the water, (in the hands of a capable driver) and all the bells and whistles of anything made, for mid teens $$, vs $40's for a new boat. Ride in anything you are seriously looking at. Pick the roughest, windy, nasty day you can find. Get in the boat with someone who knows how to drive, and go for a ride. Then drop the trolling motor, walk around, see how stable it is while fishing. Lots of great boats around, pick the one that fits how you use a boat. I know if I was buying new, it would be a Bass Cat, probably an Erya.

Hey Guys- Thought I'd go ahead and post a quick report. I came down and fished yesterday, kind of prefishing for the Winter Bass O Thon, since I have only been on Norfork a grand total of 3 days. I started off the morning after the fog burned off by running up toward Pigeon creek. I graphed tons of bait off of flat points in the 20-30 foot range. Saw some bigger arches, drop shot and threw jigs at them a while with a couple bites and no hookups. I worked back into the creek and started throwing a squarebill and started catching mainly short K's. Lots of shad, junk fishing the rest of the day brought about a dozen bass in the boat, mainly spots with 3 16-17" LMB, mainly on squarebills, one keeper LMB on a jig. Chunk rock in 4-6' was the prevailing pattern, and if there was some obvious wood cover, it held a fish. Caught a couple short K's on a dropshot in channels about 35 feet deep, tons of bait on the graph pretty much everywhere. I'm sure someone caught them better than me, I wish I had another day to try and figure something out. Things seemed very scattered. Water temps upper 60's, low 70's, nice green tint, not too clear about everywhere I went. Hope this helps somebody- lol, it was a grind for me- ill take any help I can get too! Thanks, Mark Burris

Yup, me too Quill. Had it happen last with a wiggle wart and a brand new spool of Trilene Flouro last winter. Gotta just laugh at it sometimes-

What shaft length? I'm pretty sure I want one Phil, PM me and I will work out how to pay you and when I can come down from the STL area to pick it up- Thanks!