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4 Rainbows, 1 walleye, 3 blacks for the day. 1/8 oz Colorado spoons and cd5 rapalas.

Bill, Tony's is not overly spicy. You can always try it lightly and work up to taste. I love that stuff on fish, shrimp, ect. They don't currently have a low sodium version so we use a lot of old bay low sodium these days since the wife has some kidney issues. Tony's is our first choice so if walleye is in the mix, she calls Tony's. Jason, I've always released those things but we marked what seemed like thousands, so I thought I'd help the school. Kinda like helping the deer herd when we harvest a doe or two

Amazing how a bluegill will try to eat a #7 FS. What are they thinking??? I was raised on bluegill and crappie. We'd stop and just bream fish if it wasn't so hot. Dog days = trolling for us.

Ozark combo...

Bake it 23 minutes or until the crumbs look right at 400.

Bake it 23 minutes or until the crumbs look right at 400.

Mix some Tony Chacheres and Panko Bread Crumbs. Pat it onto the olive oil coated fillets.

One the water from 10a till 1p. Boated one 19" walleye, one 12" crappie, 1 white bass, 1 bluegill, and 6 bass, largest was 16". We fished the channel edges 15-25 FOW. Marked lots of fish but had very few takers for the #s we saw. Trolled small walleye runners...various colors. And something different this year that I believe has helped us boat more fish on the last couple trips is we've been using 6 lb maxima. Not sure if it gives the lure a better action but we're catching more than we were last month. Of course the big fish of the day got off. The wife thought she was hung up but I told her there's nothing we've trolled over to get her hung. Told her to just work it in slow and steady. We used light rods so it was bent nearly in half, then when it got fairly close to the boat, it let go. She had hooked a 6" Kentucky and whatever the larger fish was, it latched on for an 80 foot ride to the boat. The Kentucky had some good sized bite marks at mid body. Photos to follow.

Like others, I've been busy at work with almost more business than I can handle...but I'm not complaining. Off yesterday and today and had 30+ emails, texts, sales calls, ect. We did finally get on the water today at 10a and had a good 3 hours. I'll post a report with photos in a bit.

You can download the app, USACE Little Rock. It gives you the release times for all Arkansas lakes.

Very interesting on eating gar. I'll try anything once...might have to try some. I know my friends at Pecan Island, LA love eating gar fish.

Awesome day!

This was another guy...with a Lowe 195 Stinger. The wind helped with that 3 mph but that seemed to be the winning speed today. 20 seems to be the magic # for the prop.

I went out with a friend in his new boat. The slowest it would troll with his Merc 115 4-Stoke was 3 mph. When trolled against the wind the speed was less, but he kept his graph on sonar so I'm not sure of the speed then. For some odd reason, I caught all the fish today and most were caught with the wind at 3 mph.

Both of these fish are 21"...measured them three times. One thick, the other skinny.

Trolled 3.5" Walleye Runners from 10a-2p. Caught two 21", one 20", and a 15". Also a black bass and snagged a sunfish. 15-20 fow off points. Water temp averaged 59. Brutal wind and clear water.

Never worried about it, Terry. We're used to the big boats of Table Rock when they migrate to the dam in high water of late spring. Glad you had a great day with the eyes!

That's a great day, Blueman! We should've focused more on crappie today...saw those huge arches between the first point left and the first island and kept going for those YAK sized stripers.

lol! That was project day on the drift boat...installed the HDS 5.

Awesome T! We weren't so fortunate...only caught a couple of crappie.