JMax

Thanks Lance super helpful info for a newbie

Probably not the right forum, but joined Ozark Anglers a couple of weeks ago and have only been lurking (almost 100% on the Beaver Lakr forum). Super happy to have stumbled onto this. I have played around on Beaver lake for over 30 years but my first fishing trip was this past December. Beaver is a super intimidating fishery but I "forced" myself to just get out there and mess around. This site and the contributors are a wealth of information and I just wanted to say thanks. Information about wiggle warts, Ned rigs, crappie trolling has already proved valuable. I have lots of questions, most that have probably already been asked and answered, so my apologies. I am definitely still clueless, but have had "small wins", albeit most of them by accident. Literally during my first trip last December I thought I would go out and try and catch some crappie. Mike at HC dock told me to have a Rattle trap ready in case I saw any surfacing shad. I did, trolled up to them, and on first cast caught a 24"+ striper. For a second, I thought......."dang, this is easy". Fast forward to this summer and my wife and I were trolling near the water intake between HC and MN and she snagged this paddlefish! When she saw it she exclaimed "I CAUGHT A SHARK", she's been excited ever since that she "caught" this behemoth. I'm usually south of the Hwy 12 bridge in a white 2005 18' Ranger. Feel free to stop and say hi.