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spent 3 days over at Stockton instead Ketchup. 3 out of 4 guys got turkeys. You can guess who didnt get one! The crappie fishing over at Stockton was hit and miss. One of my buddies who is pretty good stick over there got his limit monday afternoon. Jigs in 8 to 12 ft. SLOWWWWW. Tuesday he got shut out and he fished almost all day. I struggle over there crappie fishing. Coming down to Pomme this sunday afternoon. Will probably go over to LOZ and fish a couple of days but will give Pomme a shot. Any updated info on Pomme?

Thanks boys. I sincerely appreciate your input. And the bass always have my attention Ranger!!!

Any crappies moving up shallow yet? Coming down monday to turkey hunt and thought i might try for some crappie. Thanks boys.

We fished friday afternoon for 3 hours in a cold nw wind in Duck Creek. Thats where our abnb was. We caught 11 bass with 4 keepers. Big at 2 lbs. But i was thinking this is great! Sat was bluebird skys after the front and we struggled. We went to Drowning Creek. Only caught 7 bass but i had a nice 2.14 LM. Sunday the wind was brutal with 40 mph gusts wo we were really limited in where we could go. We went to Honey Creek and both of us got shut out. Its embarrassing to type that! Yesterday was a beautiful day to fish. Cloudy with light winds. We waited out the rain and fished from 12 to 3. Had to leave for home. But we caught 11 bass with 4 keepers and i lost 2 nice fish. A nice little cut on the north side of the lake down by the dam. Found a nice stretch of chunk rock bank and they were in there relatively shallow. Hated to leave i think we could have had a great day. Grand reminded me of LOZ. Lots of docks. No standing timber. Water color was great. Mostly 57 to 58 water temps. I would definitely go back. Once again thanks to all you boys on here that offered up some info.

Nobody has posted on this Grand Lake site on OA in over a year and a half. But i thought i would give it a shot. I have a trip planned for Grand Lake this next week end. Meeting my son in law who is coming up from Dallas. I've never fished Grand Lake and neither has he. I was looking for any info i could get. Not your fishing spots. Water temps, water color, part of the lake to focus on, baits, anything to help us out. Any info is greatly appreciated. Is there anybody out there?

Where's good Ol Bo when we need him? He would have hauled some of these 4 lb smallies up to Eagle Rock!!

Unbelievable Bill. 5 smallies at 20+ lbs. Thats Seth Fieder stuff!!! Why do we fishermen have to suffer in rain, sleet and snow to catch fish?

Thanks again for the info boys. Got you PM Dave. Thanks a bunch. From asking for advice for long underwear to sunglasses you boys are the best!

Thanks for the info boys. Really appreciate it. Not sure where we are launching Quill. I'll be meeting my son in law there. He lives in Dallas. Grand lake is about exactly half way for the both of us. He's a working man still so it is a weekend deal. Fri, sat, sun. Sounds like it will be crowded. Sounds to me like, according to you boys, find clean water and power fish relatively shallow. Once again i sincerely appreciate all your info.

I realize that Grand Lake is one of the lakes on OA site. However, no comments on there since late Nov of 2020. I have a trip planned for Grand next week. I've never fished there before. Any advice would be welcomed. Thanks.

Always enjoy our OA tournament. Its fun to see you boys. Thanks Quill and Mike and anybody else that did all the legwork

Just got back from fishing O.H. Ivie lake in west Texas. The hottest big bass lake in the country. The week before we got there some dude caught a 17 lb bass. In the middle of a nasty cold front. We were blessed with great weather. Anywhere from the 60's to 80 degrees when we left. Mostly sunny days and little to no wind. Water temps were low 50's when we started on tuesday and saw 62 when we left sat. Beautiful lake. Table Rock clear. Lake is basically flooded brush. You cant cast to a bank. Flooded bushes out to 15 feet. A flippers paradise. My buddy's boat and he is a bank beater. I caught two fish casting into the flooded brush. One on a spinnerbait and one on a swimbait. My other fish came on the outside of the brush on a jig in 15 to 20 fow. My buddy had a 5 lber and several 3's to kick my butt! He loves throwing a weighted wacky. I talked to 3 young guys on the ramp thursday that had an 11, 9 and an 8. All on A-Rigs!! And about every boat we saw were throwing A rigs. An older guy on the ramp told me they throw A rigs at fish they locate on Livescope in the deep trees. I threw a Yum Umbrella Jr rig everyday for a little while. No luck. I'm 70 yrs old and i just cant throw that thing for very long. Its a beautiful lake out in the middle of nowhere!! The day we left i read where some dude had a 13 lber. I'll go back next year to chase that holy grail, a 10 lber!!

I was hoping Jaybill was not going to be there after beating me last year by 2 oz. Do i sound bitter? Just kidding Jay. Want to let everyone know that KBillb's son Austin Blais will be fishing in this tournament out of his Dad's boat in honor of his late father. He is a member here. Looking forward to the event and seeing you boys.

When we going Dock?

Beautiful fish Snagged. Congrats.

Nice fish Targa98. I dont target the LM bass very often at Stockton. But i know there are some nice ones in there. Couple of years ago i heard there were a couple of 9 lbers weighed in in a tournament. But somebody brought in a 7 lb smallie that stole the headlines! I go there and target walleyes or smallies most of the time. Its getting that time!!!

Mike McClelland had a great video on Youtube, i think, about early spring prespawn baits. One was the RockCrawler. And he talked glowingly about that Falcon cranking rod. If i was going to buy a new cranking rod i think i would be contacting Mr Babler. Just sayin.

Thanks Phil for posting this info. I was just down there for 4 days with 3 other guys. We really struggled with the numbers. Catching maybe 8 trout a day. But we had some really nice trout caught. I personally caught my 3 biggest trout ever on this trip. An 18.5 inch brown, a 20 inch rainbow and a 21.5 inch rainbow that went 3 lbs 4 oz. My co angler had 2 18 inch trout and another buddy won our mini tournament with a 3 lb 10 oz rainbow. We appreciate your info Phil. Thanks a lot. Hope to see you over at the OA annual tournament on Table Rock.

I was backing down my boat a few years back at Stockton. Crabtree ramp. A guy on the dock started waving at me frantically to stop. He pointed out several nails and screws were in the water on the ramp i was going to use. Thank goodness he was there. I just assumed it was some dumb teenagers. Never thought about dock workers. There are 4 ramps at Crabtree and the ramp i was using was right next to the dock. Maybe i need to apologize to all the dumb teenagers!!

Really appreciate you guys putting all this together. I hope to attend again this spring. Its always nice to talk to some of you guys and put a face to a name. It will be sad not having my fishing partner, Kbillb, with me. He really enjoyed this event. He will be with me in spirit.

You and Dock In It are killing me!!!!!

Next we will see players opting out during the regular season if their team has no chance to reach the playoffs. The only option in my opinion is to expand the playoffs to 16 teams. But get ready for a lot of blowouts. See the semis. That will put it at 14 bowl sites to use. Get rid of all the rest of the bowls. Nobody cares anymore. Empty seats and tv ratings are way down. If you are that worried about too many games for these players get rid of two noncon games that are usually played v directional schools. Division 2 has a 16 team playoff. I guess thats ok for those players? I am a closet K St fan. My youngest son went there. My dad loved Jack Hartman. So i tried to watch that bowl game last night. What a waste of time. LSU played their JV last night. No qb to play. Their entire defense was missing. Congrats K St but come on man!!!

Question for you graph boys. I bought a used Crestliner this past spring that has a small 5" Lowrance graph on it. Trolling motor is a 24v Minnkota Terrova with the transducer in the head. There is a cable that allows one to use a Lowrance. I went to Bass Pro the other day to possibly upgrade my bow graph to a Hummingbird, which Minnkota is tied to i guess. Wanted a bigger screen with downscan and sidescan. Guy told me i couldnt do it. All i could use with that trolling motor was 2HD using a Hummingbird or a Lowrance. Unless i wanted to mount a transducer to the trolling motor but highly recommended NOT to do that with spot lock. Wires get all messed up i guess. He said my only option would be to upgrade the trolling motor. Is this correct info? Guy sounded very knowledgeable but i am a 69 yr old clueless tech guy. Thanks boys and have a Happy New Year.

Hang tough buddy! You're my Pomme man!!!

Hi Kjackson, I have just sent the photos of my boat to this site. Please let me know if you can view them. If not, I can send to your email address if you want to provide it. Thanks.