Phil Lilley

About 25-30 usually.

denjac- those are programs offered by MDC. There are groups of all kinds who reserve their rooms for programs for no charge. I'm one of those groups. You don't see SW Fly Fishers either and they meet there every month.

How many facilities did you volunteer at? And for how long? Additionally, there were too many staff bumping into each other at times at the facility I was at. I don't understand this. What do you mean by bumping and why is that bad? I have a very similar story about my grandfather... Roaring River about 1968- I think I was about 10, may be younger. I was fishing. I got bored and handed by grandfather the rod. He reeled it in- I was done fishing and he wasn't going to fish- we were leaving. He got a ticket- no license- for just reeling in the line. Our family, myself and my grandfather laughed about the incident for years to come. No one was mad. No one holds a grudge against the agent or MDC. If my grandfather was wise and had forethought, he would have bought a license so he could help his grandson fish and not get in trouble. Real names - I mean names of agents and MDC personnel in his accusations. Sorry, I thought that was clear. Of course I didn't mean MDC.

Birdfan... You should know by now you can't come on this forum and throw around accusations without backing them up. There's too many people here that will call you on the carpet. If you have problems with MDC, don't cloud your points with unsubstantiated claims (MDC mishandling equipment/inventory)- it doesn't bide well if you want to make a strong case. For example, what Dabblemont has done with his claims about agents giving people tickets... he loses anyway he goes cause he can't back it up. He can't use real names or he'd be sued. So why even bring it up? ALL that you say may be true but if it's not presented in a culpable way, you loose your argument. If you say you saw all this first hand (tools being stolen), then so be it. If people choose to not believe it, then so be it.

I was told he bought it from you... my mistake.

You're selling your dad's boat!?!?????!?!!

Did you see anyone catching whites or crappie. If so, how far up? Did you get a water temp? Thanks for the report.

There are places in Bear Creek/Bull Shoals close to Tucker in Ark. but you have to find your way down to the water. Locals know the backroads... take a GPS so you know where to go next time. We fished Bear this am and the guys on the bank caught more than we did- which wasn't many. They were there just not biting.

Has to be the White... it's in Arkansas- Little Rock. Interesting.

Good news... the dozier is out.

I just posted a report on OA main page. Here's a couple of fishing buddy reports: #1 My dad and I were down Saturday through Tuesday. The fishing was tough with all of the water running but with persistence we were able to catch about 20 or so between us each day. Our best fish was a 15in Rainbow caught on orange power bait. We threw every color of power bait we had along with minnows and the orange along with minnows seen to do the best. The best fishing seemed to be from about a half mile upstream from lilley’s to Cooper creek. Saturday afternoon we anchored behind the 1st dock upstream on the opposite bank. We found some slack water and fished minnows under floats and did real well. #2 We took you up on the $29 per night offer and got back home yesterday. It was really nice to get away from here for a couple of days for fishing. We fished from the dock on Sunday afternoon. It was tough with the water running. I caught two in the first two casts on pink power eggs and then didn't have any more hits for the next two hours. JD didn't catch anything on Sunday, so I out-fished him....again! He made up for it on Monday, tho. We rented a jon boat and went up river to float fish our favorite stretch from above Trout Hollow back down to the corner. We were using a little bit of everything, power eggs, night crawlers, power bait, to figure out the hot bait. We did okay for the first several floats, with one or the other of us catching one per float. JD dug around in the bag and came up with white power worms, which he tried. That seemed to be the ticket, as we caught several per float after that. It was sunny with very little wind for most of the afternoon, which made it nice. The clouds came in about 3 pm and it cooled off. After the clouds rolled over the lake, we noticed a marked increase in the size of the trout we were catching. When the sun was on the water, the trout were really skinny and small (stockers), but after the sun went under, we began to catch longer and heavier rainbows in the 13-14" range. We caught our limits and released around 12 fish total for Monday afternoon, so we had fish to eat for supper Monday night. It wasn't one of our stellar fishing trips for catching, but we had a really fun time. The trip cured our winter "cabin fever" blues for the time being. As usual, the staff at Lilleys was outstanding in helping us. Curtis set up the boat with the fish baskets to help us in drifting without a trolling motor.

Actually I caught several nice trout downstream of the work last evening in the dirty water- 2 nice browns and a nice rainbow on a white jig.

Checked the article- no agents names.

I heard they are now. Could be soon.

"While most here seem to easily dismiss this man unfairly. He is a very qualified outdoorsman at a minimum equal to many of you here." "Many" meaning a couple? Don't be too quick to judge. I haven't dismissed LD... just pointed out the only thing that stands out in my mind on the guy. I'm sure he's written some good stuff (and been paid for it) but that doesn't automatically make him my outdoors advocate. I do think accountability is wise. Conservation commission would be one- right? For the most part, most if not all the MDC people I know personally are outstanding men. Sure you're going to have a few bad apples. Hopefully they'll be weeded out.

One of the banks that got hit the hardest is being repaired. About a half mile above the mouth of Fall Creek, heavy equipment has been moved in and rock hauled in to shore up the bank that was eroded from last April's flood. One condo was left hanging- literally- and that's where the work is being done. One of the dozers got stuck (pic). The crews are laying rock to get to the rig. One thing- the corp usually won't let you "recover" or add to the bank like this but I guess it's the only way to shore it up.

You're going out pretty early... so don't expect alot. If it's not windy, you're ahead of the game. I'd drift a minnow or shiner on the flats or close to the drop off to the channel and I'd start at Beaver Creek and go all the way to K Dock. Stay on the inside bends where the flats are. 10-12 feet of water is where we did the best. Expect light bites. Otherwise swimming minnows on the bottom same structure/areas. May be fish the bottom in the channel for whites from Beaver down past Cedar. Have to local where they are first. That will be the hard part.

Moved this so it would get more attention from those who fish at Montauk.

I'm not going to count them... I bet it's closer to 300. Some are gray only- something I noticed when I changed containers.

I have I bet a couple hundred white/gray marabou jigs. I think they are 1/80th oz, some with orange and some with chartreuse heads. Nothing wrong with them... I had them tied years ago by someone who needed the money. They won't sell here and I need to get them out of my office. $5 plus whatever to ship. Also - #18 orange soft hackles with brown hackle - 48+ - $12.00

Nice to have you, Lee. I think your son has been on the forum in the past?? It's looking to be a good spring for walleye on Bull this year... hoping anyways.

Babler said he and Beck caught all their fish today before 9 am. Couldn't get bit all day. If that was the case for Brian, then that trouble may have really cost him.

Jeremy Rasnick was there- said the weights were pretty incredible for the weather. I think it speaks to what kind of fishery we have in Table Rock right now. Babler and Beck fish today.

"BTW, I had the some head honcho for the Red River Lock and Dams tell me flat out that it wasn't ever about the fishing and that any fishing that resulted from COE projects was a bonus." That about sums it up......

No problem... it was bugging me too. I sent the ad co another email asking if they got a fix figured out.