OldMillRoad

The company I work for used to clean up meth labs for the KBI in Kansas, oh the stories I can tell ya. You definitely ran into a meth head tweaked out of his skull. They can probably find this idiot naked, up in a tree close by shouting at the little polka dotted men running around below him.

Buddy bass tournament benefiting Ducks Unlimited at Long Shoal Marina on Sunday July 19th. Take off is 6 am. $125.00 per team/$25.00 big bass. For more information please see the attached flyer,

Ya buy a hat like that I bet you get a free bowl of soup. Oh, but it looks good on you. Hey Wang, what's with the pictures, it's a parking lot!

I have caught several sick looking fish this year. Some have been wounds from not being handled carefully, IE. ripped out mouth or jaws, but a few have had sores on them. These could be battle scars that don't heal right due to the bacteria in the water, who knows.

Water is clearing up. Had about 6-8 ft in some areas.

Didn't Bobby Petrino obliterate something???? MIZ...

Drove by Eufala today on the way back from Dallas, I'm pretty sure you could grow corn in that water. What a mud hole. I will be down by Baxter tomorrow, I will let you know.

Outboard engines may hate it, but I run pretty good on ethanol....

I think most of it is "the blind squirrel" theory. But I think your odds go up the closer you fish to Beaver or up in Roaring River.

This doesn't work at all, I tried it last year and failed miserably....lol.

Sprint I feel for ya, my son and I fished AIA yesterday too. And while we are telling fish stories I figured I would get my frustration out as well. We fished from Baxter to Campbell Point to start, and we did really well dragging green stuff in deeper water really slow but they were all 15-16 inches with an occasional short. We then got in the wind and I started throwing a jerker, I caught 11 fish in a row, just nuts. My son is manning the culling beam and I just keep handing him fish as we try to upgrade by ounces. Every single fish was the same size, and I love catching those dudes, but please let there be one kicker in here. Nope. Onward we press, we worked back down the lake to a few other spots with 45 minutes left till weigh in. My son switches up to a tube, just dead sticking it in 20-25 FOW, and bam! Biggun! Breaks him off half way to the boat. Dang! We work the area thoroughly and jump to another spot with 15 minutes to go. I catch a good brownie real quick, then throw back in with a Varmint and hook a good one. She digs deep on me, everything is fine, then she runs to the top and jumps.........Holy Smokes it's Hammmerhead Fred!! 8-9 pounder. Just freaking enormous, I work her through the tail walk and have her about six feet from the boat and watch my bait pull free and she wobbles her way back down, out of sight. Just another big one that got away story. Ok, I am done crying now. It was a great weekend of fishing.

I've got a Yammy 200 on it. It will run a little over 70 with flat to mild chop. You gotta trim her down in rough water. It is the same storage layout as the Skeeter 225's.

Well you send Zona, Mercer, and Wheldon some cash, and they send you a worm purse. Hurry, this offer ends soon! LOL!

Yes, I will agree on the trailer. I have made so many upgrades on that thing that they should be paying me to manufacture them. I have been eye balling a couple boats lately, I am planning on trying to sell it this winter.

Thanks for the kind words, Ham. My dad had me on this lake fishing from the time I was 3, 41 years ago. I am very fortunate to have spent a good part of my life down here with family and friends. I love the way the boat fishes, huge front deck. The only drawback is the wind, I miss my old glass boat when its howling.

I got a wild hair and called my Dad, we decided to run down and fish for the day. He has been preoccupied with a lot going on in his life the last several years and hasn't had time to get on the water much. So I set him up with a varmint and away we went. He caught several on the little rig and I did as well, not so much on size. A lot of Spots in the 13- 15 inch range. I changed over to a shakey head and it was on, bigger fish and a better bite. I rigged one up for him and he started smashing them as well. We stopped counting after 40. The fish were really staged on secondary points, we stuck a few in the pockets but quickly determined that the concentrations of fish were definitely on the points leading into the spawning pockets. With little wind and high skies the fish were pulled out a bit. 10-30 FOW. The wind picked up in the afternoon, we fished around our dock and I picked up a few on the jerker before we called it a day and put the boat on the lift. He was thrilled with our trip and I was very happy for him as well.

I'm out this morning, someone turn on the wind.

Rub some Naval Jelly on your ball then work it over with steel wool.

Guess a lot of folks don't know how great the fishing is on LOZ and Truman right now. And a lot less boats than Table Rock. A lot less,,,,, My son and I were fishing a derby two weekends ago James and Big Creek was the same way...Take a number....I don't like it when people cut in front of me, so I will never jump in front of someone. We just found different water.

Picked up a Buff today. Surely this sumbeech will block out the sun, or maybe I'm doing it wrong......

My son and I fished it as well Sprint. We weren't too far from you. The bite was ridiculous. We caught over 40, culled umteen times by ounces and wound up with a little over 13 lbs. Our best fish came on a jerkbait and spinnerbait. A shakey head did the most damage numbers wise. We found two points that were just loaded with Kentuckies, it was every single cast, but everything was 14-16 inches. A whole lot of fun and boy its hard to leave fish but we just couldn't get a kicker either. So we spent the last hour and a half hitting channel swings, nothing doing there. It was a great day on the water.

The Good Lord has blessed me and I don't want for much, I have a great family, friends and job. I also know the majority of folks are struggling and living on credit. These statistics kind of put things in perspective. The massive and growing gulf between rich and poor is one of the direst challenges facing the U.S. economy. Highlighting this gap, more than half of U.S. wage earners made less than $30,000 last year, according to an analysis released by the Social Security Administration on Tuesday. That's not far above the $27,010 that marked the federal poverty line for a family of five in 2012. We've created this infographic to help visualize the skewed income distribution in the country. Where do you stack up? -If you make more than $10,000, you earn more than 24.2% of Americans, or 37 million people. -If you make more than $15,000 (roughly the annual salary of a minimum-wage employee working 40 hours per week), you earn more than 32.2% of Americans. -If you make more than $30,000, you earn more than 53.2% of Americans. -If you make more than $50,000, you earn more than 73.4% of Americans. -If you make more than $100,000, you earn more than 92.6% of Americans. -You are officially in the top 1% of American wage earners if you earn more than$250,000. -The 894 people that earn more than $20 million make more than 99.99989% of Americans, and are compensated a cumulative $37,009,979,568 per year. *Based on the 153.6 million American wage-earners, as defined by the Social Security Administration.

I thought my waterfowl hunting addiction was bad, well it is bad. But it isn't 50 large bad. When combined with my green fish addiction...ugh...nevermind. I hunt a bunch and I could never justify that kind of money for a sheep or a goat. Although some old boys throw down 5k to hunt ducks up at Habitat Flats for 3 or 4 days. The 1% have money to spend and I guess if you find a way to take it from them more power to ya.

Sometimes ya just gotta drive a boat...glad you got some time with your son.