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I would rather have a spot lock trolling motor or something of that nature as to have those.

AHHh ok that explains it

Did not get there till 1 pm and off the water by 4 pm. I went towards shell knob and there was 3 boats in most of the coves, found one cove nobody was in but that did not last long as 2 more boats pulled up. Messed around there for a little bit and stopped at a couple other places then turn around and headed towards eagle rock and did manage to find 2 strays one was off of a wind blown point with chunk rock and the other was and the other was off a chunk rock bank in about 25 foot of water. Caught the first one on a wiggle wart and the other one on a sexy mouse spinner bait. Lots of boats out today and several tournament guys out racing around. Wind was pretty strong wish i would of had a spot lock trolling motor, water temperature was 54 to 57 degrees and about 2 foot visibility in some spots.Missed a nice guess i set the hook to early and he got off and i love my spiral wrap crankbait rod. This post has been promoted to an article

Drain valves for live wells, has a live well in front and in back...Looks like a Champion you working on.

I can drink the diet coke and i can eat the ham but no bread for me....lol...im on a ketogenic diet..

I was just thinking about driving 3 hours one way up to wrenches and get my complementary tune up and lower unit service and 10 bucks and a shirt for a sponsorship from him..

I get roughly 3.5 miles to a gallon on my 1995 135 Mercury pushing my 17'6" champ, if i run it wide open we get about 3mpg if i run it around 4500 rpms i get about 4 mpg.

Finished my first spiral wrap rod. 8 foot MH moderate fast action MHX blank bought some different guides for it that stand a little taller, cheap guides at that...lol

I have a one piece and 2 piece 6'6' medium ugly stick spinning rod and no complaints on my part, bought them at walmart 49.99 a piece.

I just put 6 month old gas in my trucks and saved 5 gallons for mower.

mountain Grove Arkansas got hammered by tornado.

That's awesome Congrat's!!

No matter what kind of scoring system a cheater is going to cheat, plain and simple.

Congrats on the new boat!!!

I guess that's why i suck at fishing here in the Ozarks is there is no lilly pads or grass beds..

I haven't even seen a lilly pad here in the Ozarks...lol Use to love dragging a worm across the lilly pads and the bass crash it, really gets the adrenaline flowing.

Beautiful Al!! Great work...photoshop is only as good as the person using it, i have tried my hand at photoshop and i get completely lost...again Great Work...

So i take it none of you guy's never fished with dragon flies before, well i haven't either but i have seen bass tear the water up to get them down in Florida in heavy lilly pad cover.

Nice Quill! thanks for the report..

There have been several studies on bass returning home from where they where caught and results aren't that good in most instances ....just some googling i did.. https://www.bradwiegmann.com/fish-biology/39-fish-biologist/127-todd-driscoll-is-a-district-fisheries-management-biologist-for-texas-parks-and-wildlife-department-where-he-has-worked-for-10-years-he-received-a-bs-in-fisheries-biology-from-kansas-state-university-and-a-ms-in-fisheries-management-from-mississippi-.html https://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/24320/20140314/how-much-do-bass-fishing-tournaments-hurt-the-fish

When you release fish 20 - 50 miles from where they where caught you bet your bippy it has an effect on the fishery. Them fish have no way of finding there way back where they where transported from. Seen tournament guy's from out of state park on TRL all the way up to eagle rock and that's a pretty long haul.

Table Rock has a bunch of tournaments also this month FLW is coming the 20th of this month..

12 miles from KC boat ramp to Aunts Creek boat ramp, according to map.

I confess that i use swivel clips on my spinning reels to attach the baits, it may hinder the action and presentation of the lure but it helps to prevent some of the line twisting associated with a spinning reel.