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Headed out this Am, 2 generators online at the dam, some 30 miles down river the higher water had not yet reached there. left the jacket at the truck made the 5 mile run up river and started catching fish one cast after another on a CD-3 Rapala, later switched to the White River Wonder lure, its larger and smaller fish dont hit it. caught a nice 2 lb Largemouth bass, 1/2 mile down river caught its twin! Now they tell me the river is to cold for largemouth bass and in the cold water bass dont hit artificial lures well. They fought hard too so me thinks people dont know crap about river bass. About half way back to the ramp drift fishing a huge brown trout slammed my lure tried not to pressure him, but he made a run and jumped and the lure slammed me right in the left eye and on the nose. Thank God I was wearing my sunglasses!!!! Did catch a 22 inch female spawned out brown lots of smaller brown trout 17 browns, 2lmb and 7 rainbows not a bad afternoon!! This after finding a freezer half thawed and fixing that mess

On the heat pump check the breakers and then look at the small wire going to the outside unit. Its normally like telephone wire and a mouse or rat could have chewed it. As for the propane leak there is a product looks like the mighty grip Billy Mays putty, that is made and recommended for propane line repairs. if you find the leak its really a simple repair with a pipe cutter and flair fittings, you may be able to get compression fittings that dont require the flair tool. If you are near Springfield Harbor Frieght has then for about half price of HD or lowes. Did the tech put the pressure meter on the line to see the drop in pressure? That will tell you how bad it is and he should have used a sniffer to help find the leak. or at lest narrow down the area to look at.

CAn't tell you about flies, but if you have a CD-1 Rapala in gold then you can use the flyrod. My wife bought me a nice light spinning rod, that will cast CD-1's and we tore the rainbows up yesterday, we quite counting at 50 fish and did n ot get on the water until noon and were off before dark about 5pm I think it was. One generator on and the fishing was very very good. so good that tomorrow after I get a walleye mounted we are heading to the river. We went with smaller lures for a change seems the large lures were way off.

Ed Walicki on of the finest men and fish carvers you would ever meet is dealing with cancer and not doing well, its reattacking him. keep him in your thoughts.

I go fishing to catch fish with the hopes of catching a really big fish. the species dont matter. if I was fishing for trout and caught a 50lb striper or even a 10 lb striper, even a 10 lb gar I would be happy. The gods do not deduct from man's allotted span the hours spent in fishing. ~ Babylonian Proverb Not to sure this is Babylonian, ever been there? I have dont not find a heck of a lot of water!! I do know if that were only true Grandpa Toad would still be alive today and healthy!!

Several times I have seen more herons than trout. yea once there were not many great blue herons but now they dont even migrate due to food factor. Herons need to be controled as do Cormorants. anyday on White River you see a hundred or more, plus they are already nesting, yes nesting evenin the cold temps I have seen them on nest.

First question is can I bring a big hickory stick? Just in case I have to whip a bears butt. Joking ok. Next I would like to be able to pull some molds from grayling, which of course means the fish will die, but the molds can be used over and over for making reproductions. We dont fly fish so is spinning rods ans assorted gear ok? After the first day must we have a guide? I have done Canada a few times and really like the no guide plan after the first day. John

Ah Chief now we know the rest of the story, cooking cornbread and heating lead all at the sametime. Mostly possibley the same stove.

I have heard from others that the bite really imporved duting the O2 injection, even below thw catch and release area. Now if its their imagination or they just had more confidence that's something to be debated. One thing certain is it reduced the stress on the fish.

Porposed taxes on cattle beef is $87.00 and milk cows are $175.00 Saw this on Ag Day on KY3. The person in chagres is claiming that cattle produce 105 gallons of methane per day and the tax will be on anyone with five or more head. Everything we eat is from Factory farms or CAFOs. While feedlots do have some stink, that is the hamburger on you plate the steaks on your grill and yes they are heavily controled. My wife was office manager on a feedlot in Nebraska when I met her, she also rode pens weekly to make sure of what was really going on. Much of the fecal matter from the feedlots does get worked into the fields for fertilizer.

I always get amazed at how people can read things and don't see the whole picture. Al, like the Buffalo river, I am sure must have known Herb VanDeven. Most of the people here would have rather lost their land to the dams, than to the Park service. eithe way the counties lost a lot of tax base. Take a drive thru the countryside in the Clinton to Greenbrair to Mulberry area, drive some back roads. You dont see a lot of wells, most are very well hidden. The authorities area all over them daily. Its the Feds and not state people. But one thing you have to know or should know, the drilling begain back in the 1980's. So far no accidents. Lots of infrastructor to support the projects. Sites are let very clean, just the pad and well heads. You see a lot ansd I do mean a lot of tank trucks hauling water. Lots and lots of jobs!!!! Right now thats a good thing.

Have an old Olts, that works everytime. Also use a Olts 66 Goose call, I can out call m ost of the good callers with the Olts. Nothing sounds better than real wood!

Fish legally caught, its the fishermans choice. I have fried several 8 pound bass over the years and some huge walleye. not ones I have caught but some I knew were edible and the big ones cooked correctly taste as good as the small one. Tried a 10lb rainbow once, and it just was not much for eating quailty. Yea I had skinned it for a mount and not being legal to return the meat, I thought lots of nice red meat, man did it suck. Browns taste like mud, worse than farm raise catfish.

We fished yesterday, I called and they only had one generator on!!! So we had to go, just bows some of the best fighting bows in low water I dropped size of the lure to a HJ-5, had lots of bow slams it, like Grayling do. The low water made for a nice slow trip. when the sun started down it get colder than a well digger. Had many 15-16 inch bows, nothing else just bows. Laker, I have not fished the Norfork enough to know much about it, just some up bny the dam and one trip. With the White a bit closer its just our stop. We only fished from Whitehole up to the park yesterday. The slow river was great, lots of fly guys out there too. John

http://www.swpa.gov/generationschedules.aspx 866-494-1993 for current generator levels.

Rapala Husky Jerk 13, I took the factory rattles out and replaces the bearing and not the serperator, then repainted it like a rainbow. Heck it was almost as big as the brookie and the cutthroat.

My Exwifes family live just below Batesville, since we are still freindly I called to see where the water had been this past spring. It covered the lower bottom and crested near the high bottom. loosing almost 40 feet of bank last spring. the section below Oil Trough was under water, water also breached the levee as it does most springs at the Jackson county land. Taking 1800 acres out of production, Which is what was out of production over all the years due to high water. What is not mentioned is the amount of debrie cleanup required. The lower end of the river was flooded anyway i.e Cotton plant, Des Arc etc. That floods annually. its beyond control of the dams and nothing can be done to stop that. as the black and Strawberry, Lil Anguile and even Cache' River become involved. So the rains we had effects the rest of Arkansas way beyond the point the dams could help. So if it happens next spring nothing will help. Will it help the DO that has dropped in the summers and fall? Reports say it will but without studies with the higher water noone knows for certain. I dont know but it seems that 30 feet X 10 feet X 1 foot is 300 cubic feet. the added discharge would be less than one generator correct?

Last Weds. I took out a supreme 20 ft 48 inches wide, 20 hp 2 stroke Merc jet motor, at speed the bopat tends to wander sliding left to right, fairly straight but still wanders, Wildcat to the dam and down to Hurst then back to Wildcat used 6 gallons of fuel. Plenty of room for three to stand and cast lures. But I really did not like the sliding around. Under heavy generation I think it could be scarey. A freind that guides had a 25 HP Merc prop and he says at 3/4 throttle it slides around on the water. When compared to my 22ft aluminum with a 15 four stoke the alum. boat runs straighter, faster and uses a lot less fuel. Saturday the Alm boat with the wife and I used $3.00 in gas on the same trip. Now if I were buying a nnew boat I would go with a Shawnee or J&S because of the bottom construction allows straight travel without the floating around. 48 wide. and a 25Hp with a power lift. I have a 25HP 4 stroke prop Yamaha thats almost impossible for me to left from my seat. Bad back etc. I just cannot lift the heavy 20HP motor up and over rocks and logs. I think if I was guiding I would find a boat with a stick control in teh center, that way you dont run from front to back and can have one client in front and one in the rear of the guide. Just what I would do. J&S was $4000.00 for new 48 last fall, built my way larger front deck, two power livewells and my color, plus higher sides. John

Dano want a go fishin? been hard earned!!! The brookie was a total suprise and look full of eggs. The vut was the first one I have caught since last April or May.

Wed. I was invited to take a couple teachers out on the river. These two guys were like heckle and jeckle. One had borrowed a Supreme with a 2 stroke 20hp jet. We hit the water at 7:30AM, since they had borrowed this boat and knew nothing about the river. I was their guide so to speak. The motor seemed cold natured, not to odd for the typical 2 stroke Merc. we put in at Wildcat, as the motor warmed we drifted down river with five units running. before we hit the wire the old ferry wire, I put the motor in gear and almost nothing seemed like a fouled plug, so I headed back top the truck. It took almost an hour to go 1/2 mile against the current.... Heckle and Jeckle could not decide what to do, they thought I was just playing it safe. once at the ramp I pulled the cover to fond NGK plugs in the motor and a cracked insulator on t he top plug. H&J thought the day was done, finally after lots of talk the decide i was right run tot he parts store in Flippin and get plugs!!! Of course the plugs were odd sized 13/16 wrench borrowed and in two minutes the plugs were in and we headed back to the river. The motor ran fine the rest of the day. We caught a lot of fish the weather was great!!! lots of stocker bows and only one small brown. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ++++++++++++ Friday the wife and I fished with our boat. same area Wildcat to the park. She did her power bait thing and I used my favorite White River wonder lure. Just across for the end of Bull Shoals State park I caught a foot ball brown female, 16 inches and a 17 inch girth, fat fat awesome fish. we drifted on down to past Newlands and I caught a couple small bows and a brown. We motored back up river repeated the drift, I caught my Brookie 10 inches and fat. We drifted on down. There is a place where some gar are hanging out they have been there all year since the floods, caught some bow there. We drifted on down and up and across fro Gastons I caught a nice 23 inch Brown male, great fight, as I netted him, my folding net folded, he flopped and the net slipped out of my hand, now I was fighting the fish and the net. Wife managed to get me her net and all was saved. The fish has great color!! As we neared Whitehole, another nice brown smashed the lure, after a bit of a fight and handling the boat thru the south side shoals of the river, it was in the boat. this fish did not have the vivid orange and yellows, but lots of red spots, big red spots and red striped on the lower tail, 21 inch male. We drifted on down catching more bows as we were about halfway thru the narrows is when I finished my Grand slam the cutthroat hit and wow did it fight, almost 14 inches long the second largest cut I have caught on the river. My wife was quick to make the comment, "Wow you got your GRAND SLAM!!" then is when it dawned on me!!! Yea it was cloudy and colder than Wed. but it had been a great day with lots of cast and lots of cranking to get it. I am not sure that musky are the only fish of a thousand cast!! Brookies on the White maybe too.

Put pressure on the judge!!! since many of you carry cameras, take pictures and go to the papers, send them to the PA and the judge, and go right up the ladder. Maybe a citizens group could be visible at night like neigborhood watch programs.

Exactly this ain't english class!!! Sam just dont anchor in the White River with high water, or we will be draggin the water for your body. Sam as Phil said its on the lead in page. Plus if you dont like the way I type to bad, I aint changin now. made it thru three wars and a police action be around the world to boot, jumped out of planes and lots of things not pleasent to talk about, and you want to bitch about my writitn. Hey simpler than that DONT READ IT!!! LMAO. Here Sqanto' http://www.guardonline.com/?q=node/49788 Cya. headed out on the river tomorrow

Take a look at the lake today or tomorrow, at Shadow Rock park. the level of the lake is .4 over the five additiobal feet that needs to be added for the min flow standards. Thats right 4/10th of a ft over the proposed new level. Post some picks of shadrock to go with it.

Sam with 19 post, so correct the mistakes and show me how it should have been done. AND explain the princiles of english.

The Corp has a Standard Operating Proceedure for flood control on Bull and Norfork, they dont have a lot of leeway to play with. This spring and summer was bad, down stream everywhere was flooded, not since 1932 I think is the year that the towns of Cotton Plant, Clarendon were flooded this bad. (remeber the Johnny Cash song, How highs the water Momma. yep its about that flood!) anyway. There is still a long way to go to drop the water to power pool level and then for the flow you would have just five feet over that. Being that I have been fishing on the upper end many times when the rock pile below Powersite was plainly out of the water and almost impossible to get around. Plus it was a long way below the ramp at Shadow Rock, way down the gravel bar. adding five feet to power pool will not get to the park or even to the ramp my sources in Mt Home tell me. Maybe they are wrong. I dont know but I tend to believe the people involved in the Min Flow. The Min flow was originally agreed to by the Governement in the first study before closing the gates on Bull. SOmewhere buried in the libary of Congress is the booklet, it has a light green milky cover. I do know last January 08 the gates were almost closed no generation, much of the area from Rim Shoals to Ranchette could not be nagivagted. Its was drag city, one generator on is all that would have been needed to have a good min flow. Had that occured in warm weather or low DO, there would have been thousands of dead fish, to prevent the possible death of the fish is what what the Min flow is designed for. Now since I have not been to Shadow rock in several months where is the water level now? Its way down out of the park, and there is still a long way to drop to reach the five addinitional feet over power pool. Arkansas has two walleye rearing ponds on Bull, both in the Leadhill area, one on east Sugar loaf (older but serviceable) one on west sugar loaf in my old duck hunting area, (completed about 2 years ago) AGFC releases over 2 million Walleye every year from these ponds. http://ozarkanglers.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=201 More water adds more habitat, look at the bass spawn on Bull this year!!!! www.agfc.com/pdfs/fisheries/mgmtplans/walleye_saugeye_plan.pdf Most that fish the Powersite area will agree big stripers are possible, big walleye are possible. So I just dont see the problem with five feet over power pool level. I have fished Bull Shoals most of my life, from 1965 until present. seen its ups and downs. Sometimes as mentioned is all about the right place the right time, nothing else matters. As for Shadow Rock Park, what I see is Taney County now has a ton of money they are needing to spend, why not someone in Taney County take the lead and see about a new and better fair grounds with more parking somewhere?????