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what color was doing the best? i fished the upper lake and did well on the mudlines jigging but not one keeper eye out of a dozen and buncha whites about six inches long? i couldnt get a bite on anything but chartruese. i tryed jerkbaits for a bit but im new to hard baits so after trying a couple different baits with no bites i went back to old faithful bucktail

nothin like talkin to yourself. thanx for all your input fellas

oh and another question i had. am i gonna get the rite action out of the rapalas? maybe thats a dumb question but i am new to the hard bait thing. my whole life ive used live bait ir something on a jig head. i think its time to broaden my horizons.☺

thanks for the advice. do they sell those strips at walmart? im going down to udahl and tecumpseh sunday mornin and im gunna try and make a full day of trying to catch a striper. i have a ten ft john boat and a trolling motor and im guna give it my best shot.

in the process of figuring out how to post a pic i deleted my profile pic. can u plz undo that lilley?

well i had some old floating rapalas. they were all the classic black top silver bottom. and i really wana start trying the whole jerkbait thing. ive mainly been a bank fisherman and catch almost all my fish on a jig of some kind.any way i got my wifes nail polish and did some painting. do you guys think the colors will work? and how can i make these floaters suspend?

well i had some old floating rapalas. they were all the classic black top silver bottom. and i really wana start trying the whole jerkbait thing. ive mainly been a bank fisherman and catch almost all my fish on a jig of some kind.any way i got my wifes nail polish and did some painting. do you guys think the colors will work? and how can i make these floaters suspend?

sorry im not posting on the subject really but i was reading some of the posts about where you guys live and was wondering. do any of you remember a guy at ha ha tonka early last summer on the dock that gave you a few swim baits? i was kinda curious how they worked or if you tried them if in fact any of you are the person i gave the swimbaits to. lol

no ive never been one to chase many strippers lol. heck when my buddies un school were skippin class to drink or smoke and chase girls i skipped class and went to the woods or creek. to be honest i dont know why she hates it so much. i have stayed gone all night and not called but i always come home and when i do im always dirty and smell like fish.

which is lookin better and better the closer it gets to spring lol. just kidding honey dnt kill me.

story of my life. seems like im a week early or a week late every year. it dont help that my wife hates my fishing. i pull an all nighter bout two or three times a year and i always get threatened with divorce.

its going to be interesting to see what all the fish do this spring with them having full access to the river. id almost bet that we will all be suprised how far up some fish will go. on another note is there anyone here that could post or pm me when the stripers do show up at tecumpseh and dawt? my wife isnt a huge fan of my fishing so time is limited for me. i have made trips in previous years but its usually an hour drive in vain. managed to hook probably a 30 lb plus fish last year i know it was that big cuz it hit my fluke about ten ft off the bank and i saw ir clear as day but it spit the hook after about five seconds and thats the closest ive ever come to catching a striper over five lbs

There are some pretty good sized pools in the Arkansas river and they have no problem reproducing in all stretches of that river. I think the main thing is no obstructions for a certain distance

I think with them being able to freely move up the river that it's just a matter of time before schools of small ones start staying in the river. It has been a couple years since I floated this river so I don't know how big the quiet pools are anymore but I think it's logical to assume that they could reproduce with the rite conditions

Thanks for the replies guys. I would like to see a few years of natural reproduction in the river. I think it would be great to see several schools of one to five pound stripers in the river year round. I like to catch trout they are good fighters but I don't like to eat them and I release all my smallies so when I float and camp I'm left with goggle eye and hotdogs lol. And it takes a lot of goggle eye to feed a camp.

Thanks Lilley.And wrench do you know how many fish made it up that far? Or possibly what the water temp was when they made that run?

Sorry meant dawt mill and my wonderful spell check changed it to date

Has the breach in the dam made it easier for the stripers to move up the river? And with the river running for such a distance without obstruction could one assume that they may start making a spawning run way up the river and reproducing naturally. Which I know trout fisherman hate that idea but I wouldn't mind it so much.

just wondering if anyone has had any luck recently , it is that time of year

well how did it go up the gravois?

anyone fished zinc lately? was thinking about trying it soon but its a 3 and a half hour drive for me.

does anyone know much about fishing for hybrids and walleye at ha ha tonka this time of year? do you need a boat or can a guy walk to the island? and would you recommend live bait or soft plastics and jerk baits? thanks in advance, people have been very helpful the last couple of years i have used this forum and i greatly appreciate all the good info. i also look forward to sharing any info that might be useful to any other avid fisherman like myself.

are there still stripers in the river above the dam or did angry trout fisherman gig them all out? and would a person be smart to find himself at liner after the first good rain?

when do you fellas think the eyes will start movin up?

nice fish! are those pickeral any good to eat? ive caught several but never thought bout throwin one in a skillet