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Teacher's Pet and Blue Mesa. I had two handles. Still have my radio hooked up in the garage. There's more comedy on the cb radio than on Comedy Central television

If we don't flood and get super high, this spring is going to be incredible fishing! Thanks for sharing such a great day!

Local feed store.

Try casting parallel to the bank too keeping the lure in 2-8' the whole time

Windy as heck yesterday so I just walked the bank. Tried back in the coves and couldn't find any there. Drove to another spot a wind blown secondary point and immediately caught 6 little largemouth there on a 1/4oz lipless crank and #6 xrap. Hung around there thinking another school might move up. Nothing. Drove to a third spot a chunk rock bank at the mouth of a cove and caught a keeper small mouth and a keeper largemouth on a Ned late in the day.

Well I tried the walleye spot two more times last week and zeroed. Caught some keeper small mouth there but no walleye. Always happens about this time they just leave and I can't catch them there again until December. Spawning time for them soon if not already.

Most jerkbaits have rattles so the fish dont have to see it well to find it .My biggest small mouth was caught on a jerkbait in muddy water like you described. Have caught many many bass on jerkbaits in muddy water. Pearl white ,chartreuse shad when it's sunny, black and silver, clown with clouds. Transition banks ,there are many kinds of transition banks so experiment with types of rocks to find the most productive. In coves or main lake Secondary points are another location . 44-52° water. It's not a deep bite either and they will be closer to the bank in 10' or less.

Nothing 😄 ,but I have slowly been layering alfalfa pellets , compost ,and other amendments all winter.

Don't put the light too close or too far. Don't over water and don't over feed. Should be fine .

The timer turns it on at sunrise and off at sunset. I adjust the timer as needed as the days get longer . Haven't started anything yet though.

Yeah my first thought when planning this was the wind . This bed has a 5'X4' fence in the middle of it to tie them up. The bed is almost 3' deep. The dirt has logs sticks and rocks and pieces of wire fence in it so the roots can hang on. If needed I can attach a pvc frame around the edges for more support.

Big plans this year! Going double or triple the size of the garden potential. Adding numerous kinds and varieties. I plan on making a killing at the Farmers Market this season. Will have everything from peas and beans, peppers , maters corn, squash, potatoes and watermelon, lettuce and onions, strawberries, cantaloupe, cucumbers,carrots, okra, herbs , and whatever else I can get in the ground that caterpillars won't devour overnight . They are the worst pest in the garden here. The other bugs I can easily manage. Will have a big sunflower raised bed this year just because I like the looks of them and it's food for the birds and such. Yep, it's going to be the best garden I've ever grown !! I got a guy bringing me a dump truck load of river bottom topsoil in April. Will also have a flower garden. Zinnias,marigolds,Cosmos,Lilly, and whatever else I think it needs . I sold more fresh flower arrangements last year than I ever expected. They also make my vegetable display even more attractive to buyers with all the pretty flowers . Going to try some new plant based soil amendments with a no till method in some containers.. With all the medical marijuana grow ops across the country now there are all kinds of new to me science when it comes to growing plants, and things Ive never heard of stuff to amend with ,and soil recipes to try in the garden that work extremely well on vegetables too. It will also help cut costs long term by using some of their pot growing ideas in the vegetable/flower gardens to make it more regenerative with less waste. Also trying to eliminate all liquid bottled fertilizer this year and focus more on vermiculture and microbiology. It's going to be a lot of fun and work,and expensive but I love it 😍

@Maverickpro201I know a guy with a green house who's got 30" tomato plants with blooms now. He's way ahead of schedule. I always try to start my tomato seeds indoors mid March. I live in Southern Mo along the Arkansas border. By the first of May they are typically 24-28" tall and ready to transplant from 1 gallon pot into their final containers or in the ground by Earth day. Sometimes we get heavy heavy rains around then so perfect timing is almost impossible here. That's why I always do a back up run of plants. Usually give them away or sell them if I don't wind up using them. In May I'll stsrt trying some cucumber seeds oustide,but won't do any watermelon or squash until June. I don't grow cauliflower or broccoli due the the insane amount of caterpillars here it's just too much trouble.

It was a challenge with 2lb test no doubt ! When she got close to the bank she kept trying to rub her face into the bottom but thankfully with a 7' rod I could reach out and turn her head the other way. I thought it was a 4-5lb striper at first because when it bit it took a lot of drag on a big run.

I think some of you,including myself will find this very interesting . Here's part 1 .

If theres one major thing I've learned about winter fishing is you better be there when they eat if you want to catch something. What I mean is their feeding window can be very short lived and the best time to be on the water now is early and late. The last few times I've been fishing this has proven to be exactly right for the way I'm fishing. I will be there for hours without a bite then when the sun gets low around 4:30-dusk. you better have your lure in the water! Same thing with the morning bite. 6:15-8:30 ish, and it's done. This happens every winter. During the middle of the day the shallow fish just don't get active where I'm at fishing from shore. Since Monday was such a beautiful day I bank fished for whatever I could catch using ultra light gear from 2-6pm. Didn't go to the walleye spot this time just a place where I can catch bass year round. Never had a stinking bite until ,yep,4:39 when this fish bit a 3" prototype swimbait on the fall in about 12fow on a gravel flat. The only bite I got therr but it was a nice one! I was there at the right time when this fish wanted to eat. She had probably seen my lure fifty times or more before it was supper time, or she moved up from the deep to feed idk for sure. Camera angle is kinda bad but I'm guessing it was 19". 3 3/4lb. She was longer than my elbow to past my middle finger tip. Anyway ...the tail is almost touching the ground there. 2/1 Different spot on the lake. Morning bite was on for numbers of small bass. Haven't done much winter bass fishing having caught the walleye fever in January 😄so .. Yesterday morning I fished from 6:30-10. They were already biting when I got there. Caught 13 largemouth from the bank ,all short, on a 3 1/2" jerkbajt and a 3" prototype swimbait . The bite was over by 7:30. Couldn't even get a strike after then and I tried at least five different baits and walked a lot of shoreline. Once again timing was critical to get bites. Had to be there when they turned on because after that it sucked . These bass were on a transition bank from ledge rock to red clay/gravel . Saw 2 crawdads walking along the bottom. Black and brown with orange pincers. . Now I guess the weather is gonna get nasty around here next few days. Soon as everything melts I'm gonna try for walleye one more time to see if they are still hanging around.

1/23 Hit the walleye hole today from the bank. Four hours without a bite and then around 4:30 they turned on. Used live minnows this time on a drop shot. Hooked 4 landed one. The other 3 cut my line and they were heavy didn't see them but they were definitely walleye. Didn't have a scale this time but I'd guess it was around 6-6 1/2lb. Had a huge gut!

Well I think I bought mine off eBay from joebass .. I've been using the 6 and 8 pound Superior for a couple years now. When Bull was flooded I was yanking crappie out of the brush with the 6 . Great abrasion resistance and strong , stronger than I expected actually. The 8 I've been using for finesse bass fishing and it casts well and also good in the rocks and strong knots.

Have you tried Sufix Superior? After the way I was harassed twice in the Branson BPS by employees I'll never shop with Cabela's or BPS again. John boy will never see another penny of mine. Some woman kept following me around trying to get me to sign up for something and I had to tell her to back the f*** off me after saying no 3 or 4 times. Then she waited outside the bathroom for me to come out and asked me again to sign and then called me an a hole 😃Have had nothing but problems there. They even tried to trick me into accepting the wrong model boat when I went there to pick it up. Actually had to get in my tool box and grab a tape measure to prove they were wrong. Even though I had a bill of sale with proof. Didnt want to buy a boat there but it was close and they had what I wanted. Yeah Idiots. Yes try the Superior it's great! Just don't buy it from BPS.

Nice work! I haven't painted a single lure for months. My compressor broke a long time ago and I plum forgot about it until today when I saw it out in the shed.🙁

First trip of 2022 and my first cast got this Spotted bass from Bull Shoals yesterday on a 3" finesse prototype soft plastic swimbait. Second cast.. caught 8 in about ten minutes then I guess they got spooked or left or whatever. Typical winter bite. I might have been a little late to the party too..don't know.

Here's a tip. Those bright sunny days the little pockets in the back of coves warm up . Not where you'd really expect to find bass in January but... I think it's an often overlooked pattern. Drag something that resembles a craw along the bottom. It's a fairly shallow bite too. Usually less than 12'. Even on a busy day you'd probably have it all to yourself while the typical winter fishing spots are getting all the fishing pressure.

Smithwick Rogues There might be a certain cadence and way you have to work and twitch em or they won't roll, and that special rogue roll is what triggers even more bites imo. I've yet to see any other jerkbait that has the same rolling effect and I've watched a lot of underwater demo videos and have tried other brands . I can get the old rogues to roll of course, the pro series, the perfect ten ect. But the elite 8 won't do it for me. It actually sucks imo. I've had to take a grinder to the bills just so they even wiggle. I have four and don't even use them and Ive tinkered all I want with them to try to make them roll. They won't do it. I don't use the spoonbills except for trolling walleye. I only like three brands of jerkbaits. smithwick, Rapala, Lucky Craft

Love em ! Probably the best thing in my tackle box for winter crappie. I don't catch very many walleye on it. I still had it rigged up on my crappie rod from earlier in the day. I'm usually using a susp. jerkbait or live minnows for winter walleye.

12/30 WT 52 Caught some crappie early and then got this fat girl in the walleye spot. 1/8oz jig w/ Gulp minnow 28 1/2" 9lbs..2oz