LittleRedFisherman

Always have a plan B. Ha ha

It was. Local river here are blown out still. Our southern mo ozark rivers here are staying fishable pretty soon after a rain. They giving. 2-4 inches here this Tuesday again.

Took the future son in law fishing today. He hung with me pretty good and taught him a few things about river fishing. I had taken him once before and when I mentioned staying close to Home and trying some crappie or heading back to the river, he immediately said he loves that river bass trip last time He didn’t twist my arm much for that and off we went. The fish are for sure coming out of there winter stage here, did best on a crank in some pretty good current in what I call staging areas above holes. We had a pretty good hour then the wind and clouds moved in and the fishing slowed, great afternoon however I brought him back home so guess he gets my approval 😛. She had a couple BF’s in the past that might had disappeared. Ha ha

Thanks man. Yeah kinda makes you ready for summer

I went today and hit 35 mph a few times today

Pete if restrictions aren’t a problem I’d go with the 90/65 bit the 60/40 HO option fits for 60/40 rivers. I can tell you there is a noticeable difference from my old 60/40. Seth is right about the tourqe it jumps out of the water fast with the extra weight I carry. I love it. Starts up great on cold days to I think Seth is right on the displacement specs.

I run a 60/40 HO on mine Pete. My old 60/40 would run 27to 28. This one will run low 30s. I have an 18/52 now as opposed to 17/52 on the old motor. I didn’t really want the extra speed as much as the ability to plane out better with more weight. I believe the HO does that better for me. With 3 batteries, gear and trolling moter and if I wanna take 2 guys with me. My boat will still plane good and run high 20s. It’s more weight on the back being a 90hp head detuned or whatever but love it after 2 years of use

Here’s another one I uploaded from last season. Always love the ones with me and Landen. Two part show with some catfishing here at home on the St Francis and some trout fishing up on white river with some white river zig jigs!

Not one of mine obviously but ran onto this recently. Thought I’d post it in honor of Forrest Wood. Enjoyed this one from the good ole days were Orlando fishes with Forrest on the White River.

I need to fish more so aging process will slow down. lol

Richard, Ham and I from 2014 Richard doing his thing with a dandy brown

First show I ever filmed on my own in 2014 was on white river. I have a clip somewhere I’ll try to find it

Starting to put some of my older And favorite shows on my old YouTube channel. This one is from last year. Kinda gives me the spring fever. Thought I’d share on this old post from time to time again.

That a certified dandy right there guys. Awesome. Hate I missed it looks like another good time!

I’m with quillback on this one. It’s been one of the safest baitS on bass I’ve used for me personally. I can’t even recall one being hooked in the gullett. If your not paying attention and loose contact with your line I’m sure it’s more prone to happen.

Great trip looks like Cody.

My goal is to fish more in 2020 than I did this year as is with most I’d say. I slacked this year on my Flathead fishing I wanna get back to chasing them in 2020. Plan on fishing for more river walleye after the new year as well as crappie. Would love to hit the big lakes more my lake fishing was pretty good this past year, want to keep expanding on that and not just the rivers that I dearly love. Taking my son fishing more in 2020 my most important goal.

Glad you made it Nick! We had a banner day Saturday for sure! Looking forward to chasing some lake and river bass soon Welcome to the forum!

Would love to as well but will be in Nassau with the fam. Looks like Ham and Richard have same tropical idea. Lol

It’s a blast Scott. We fish and eat well then when not doing that we talking about fishing ha ha.... win win

Glad you guys made it safe. Hope we can go fishing again before next Jigfest.

Ordered a new bracket tonight. Got crappie to catch! Norfork can be hard on boats looks like but was totally worth it!

Well the 7th Jigfest was another success and not just because of the fishing, it was good seeing old friends made as well as new ones during these gatherings. The fishing wasn’t great my first day, the high water flows of the white had dingy water and trash on Friday and the fishing was rough as Phil stated. I invited my friend Nick to join us for his first experience on white river, it wasn’t I was hoping for his first experience there. However the gatherings that evening and the Eric’s BBQ where awesome as usual. Today was a different story, with the advice of Ham and ZigJigMan aka “the human seines”, some of us made a trek to the Norfork as the flood gates flows where at a decent level for fishing. That decision turned out fantastic. Nick fished with me till 2pm and we had 83 boated by the time he had to leave, and I mean some fat fiesty rainbows with several cutthroats mixed in. Nick started the day with an 18 inch bow on the Second cast of the day, I knew then it was gonna be a good day! DJ “JestersJK” joined me soon after and we continued to lay the smackdown as my son says on some heathy trout. After my dismal day Friday fishing I stayed with the zig jig most of the day as I was shooting for 100 boated fish, DJ did well throwing jerkbaits as well. My boat ended up boating 114 trout and my last fish of the day was a 19 inch Cut that fought like a smallmouth! Hooked it right before a sketchy shoal and things got interesting as we where trying to keep the boat out of it and fight the stout fish! This was actually my first ever fishing the Norfork, so was highly impressed and looking forward to going back soon. The last pic is for Johnfolly, I hate he couldn’t make it this year but thought I’d do some micro brown trout fishing in his absence! Another great gathering y’all, looking forward to more reports here! God Bless!

At buffalo city?

I love it when a plan comes together lol. We are gonna eat good!