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http://www.trophytroutguide.com/articles/w...inbow_trout.htm This is copied from a email from one of my friends who is a Dentist, way up north. Maybe enough people can complain and get a seperate catagory for this fish. This rainbow trout from Lake Diffenbacher in Saskatchewan has been recognized by the IGFA as the new world record. This is NOT a rainbow trout....it is a genetically manipulated sterile, triploid trout which has no real relation to the natural article. All of these large rainbows in this lake (and many other places) are escapees from a fish farming operation with these mutant trout which exists on Lake Diff.. Arguing otherwise is moot as the fish has been DNA tested and been absolutely proven to be one of the genetically altered rainbows.....should this count as a record? Heck the thing was only 8 years old and for the first 3 years of its life was hand fed in a pen....until it escaped. The hatchery eggs are heat treated at a specific point in development and it causes the fish to not have the normal 2N set of chromosomes but a 3N set. Resulting in the fish being sterile and not having any energy wasted in reproduction efforts....something native, wild and hatchery fish spend tremendous amounts of energy on. These mutants can grow to 18 inches and 3+ lbs in 12 months My question is...should they count as records? Rainbow trout have one of the most storied histories for any fish and allowing genetically manipulated fish to replace those from natural and wild sources is just ethically wrong. But most of the line class records now are from these triploid rainbows....you can catch them on light line because they don't have remotely the fight in them of wild fish. Even the state of California acknowledges these fish in a different category. The IGFA is primarily a saltwater oriented organization.....otherwise there would be whining. BTW, the triploidism and tremendous "unnatural" growth gives them there astounding girths.....small heads and fins.

Tysons had a tourney out of Bull Shoals today and anothe from 125 Rec Area, I dont know that sponser. Cant tell you about hte bass but several large walleye were caught and three nice stripers over 40 lbs, two of the walleye topped 12 lbs and 1 nice 4 ln 2 ounze white crappie!!! Lower end of th elake was very clear vis about 10 feet maybe more.

The erosion the aux gates woould cause will be dramatic. for those who can remember the floods of 93, Milford Res. in Kansas cut canyones over 100 feet deep thru hard limestone exposing many fossils, same for Tuttle Creek. The gates will open 35 or 37 feet at Table Rock. Taneycomo is no where near the flood of the early 1970's we saw water in the Yacht Club in Hollister the trailers were all flooded and the buildings in Hollister south of the Yacht club, those buildings are where the wax museum started and an auto museum once were. We went down thru the south side of the lake where the new 65 bridge is, my wifes other grandfather had a home there in the 1970's she showed me where the water got up to, to the basement garage door. Yea, I understand that resort have to have docks and be close to the water but why build a home you could loose? So there could be another 10 feet or more water dumped thru Table Rock. I dont know how much the gates were opened back then but it certainly was more than the past few weeks. Someone certainly has fouled the records on water release. Raising the dam was a no-go due to the fact that to many people had built expensive homes next to corp property lines and the buy out was to much, to many people with money. To bad they dont treat the people there like they treated the people along Buffalo River. i.e take what we offer or loose out totally. In the 1950's the government wanted the Buffalo for a lake and hydro dam, but were fought off. Now with all the lakes full and nowhere to put the water, what next? People down around Mt View who built inthe flood plain are scared to death. Anytime the lakes are mentioned and the gates are threatened to be opened the wild rumors abound. I have to wonder why would you build a home in a flood plain? Yea I have friends that did it and they claim its worth the risk, but now they worry. One friends place is still flooded and his flood insurance adjuster is stalling. Luckly he was able to get flood insurance just last summer, Izard County not Stone but his address in Mt View. I guess I will get reemded over this post and maybe if we have that huge earthquake I too will be living in a flood plain when the house slides down hill. But still building in the flood plain and yea so it has not flooded like this since the 1970's or 1980's. Must be something to the idea of the flood as the resort just above the bridge at Nrofork built on stilts and I have seen a nice home on rainbow drive out of Cotter on stilts, stilits make sense I see them in other flood prone regions. John

I have a 50Hp Evinrude about a 1976 model, runs great would make a great motor for a 16 aluminum boat. all controls starts and runs well you can see it run. $450.00 John @870-429-5569

Neat shot of Beaver Creek. Around the bbend and on the left is my Father in laws old place, the green square field where the lake is to the corner off.

The silver is hard to capture and along with that the skills of each taxidermist is different. To do it correctly take a lot of time few are really willing to put that much time into anything.. I developed a really bright silver technique but still does not do them justice. But its the brightest silver out there and I refuse to sell it out after 30 years I can say its mine and then you still have to detail the scales with a series of candy paints, which again due to their cost and the fact few taxidermist will spent the $$$$$$ Seems most are alwasy looking for the cheaper socalled better way and there is none, its eighter do it right and pay up front of the end quality will suffer. One of the big things today is using metallic powders, sad to say that they just dont help and are not any better than quality paint and knowing how to use that paint. hen there is the gloss cheap gloss always shows up!! Just like a paint job on a car the paint on a fish all starts with the base coat and that gets built on. But like you I have yet to see a mount or reproduction than does the tarpon justice!!!

I have done that at Tucker Hollow on Bull Shoals a few times, right now the light is almost underwater.

Well that has been my take on Bass tournament all along. I have seen people work a bass on the bed until they catchit then in the livewell it goes and off to some other place, dislocating the fish and her bed. If there are fry on the bed then bream over in and thats it the end. Days after the weighins I find lots of dead bass on the lakes. I will not bass fish until after spawn and maybe its time to stop bass fishing for everyone until after spawn. Maybe its easier to catch fish prespawn but I sure like the post spawn for all species better. Plus it gives the fish a chance to reproduce. Sure I keep some nice fish from time to time and do so post spawn. But with the pressure on BASS IN THE LAKES and the *&^%$# tournaments its all about the $$$$$$. Yep I make part of my living from people catching big fish!!!! The big fish just don't exist in the numbers they use to in Table Rock or Bull Shoals. Most states have seasons for bass in lakes, maybe its time for just that on TR and BS?????

Can I use my spinning rods and lures?

Taneycomo is also an unnatural part of the river. No damed lakes are natural so then management becomes a different sort of thing. Speculating on the effects is something noone really knows yet. Best bet is wait and time will tell as we all know. The effects on warm water lakes of White River are yet to be decided too.

Rapala in the CD-3 or CD-5 gold with black back. Rebel Crawfish crank baits in Green and brown. Water color is perfect today turquoise and clearing perfect for the rapala.

Leahill gate attendents shack. This is Tucker Hollow taken by the restroom, which is almost to the waters edge. Bridge at Shadow Rock Park.

By the time the water made it around the curves and spread out the power would be severly impacted and have no effect on Bull Shoals Dam. Beside the fact that B Shoals being at flood stage and Taney being as mentioned only about 30 feet higher at this point than the headwaters of Bull. Yep if Beaver or TR popped then there would be trouble.

Little girls first fish

Two days ago. Norfork Dam Ranchette access, this is the parking lot on the left of the ramp. lookedlike earlier it was up in the lot. Hwy 65 at Buffalo River looking to the east. Crooked creek at Rea Vally.

Thanks Bill I see Binks pamplet out everywhere. Just dont know what all this water has done to the fishing.

There was a 22ft rise at hwy 65 bridge but it did not reach the level by 12:00pm that it did in the last flood it fell about 12 -15 ft short. Norfork this afternoon was dumping enough water to fill the Empire state building every 7 minutes and tabler every 11 minutes At Norfork where you turn left into the parking lot by the launch area is where the water starts. Yep about fifty feet below the railroad tracks. I have some pics I wll try to post later. At Ranchette the water was almost to the top of the ramp in the parking lot. it looked as if it would have been hiring eithe r earlier or last flood. Water was muddy from Cotter up to Wildcat. Crooked was nasty and up flwoing hard, maybe thei will wash out the lower end a bit.

Powersite will become a class II rapid. We have had lots of rain down here, five inches in the last 24 hours. one of my ponds does not hold water and it is up over the dam this AM, thats about 6 feet of water. Buffalo River is up 9 feet at Carver. Down White River who knows what will happen?? Back in the 80's I saw Bull Shoals up and under HWy 14 at Leadhill near the school. also have seen Taneycomo backed up into Hollister, the curcle of buildings on the south of B-65, Wax museum and a car museum use to be there. The Yachet club and trailer park was underwater. Still lots of rain headed this way!

It was a MWR trip, close to Zaragoza.. Some American Military guys had flown the bass over and did the intital stocking. of Flordia Strain.

Jed Hollan at the Little Red Fly Shop said the Greers Ferry Power House is limiting water releases because of flooding along the lower White River. If the lakes should rise to "top flood pool," the Corps of Engineers will have to open all gates and turbines and we will have what is called an "open river." This does not bode well for people living or farming near the White River. The only upside is that fishing on the Little Red right now is incredible! We have a couple of customers who, frankly, rarely catch many fish. One gentleman, who fits precisely in that category, came in the shop the other day and announced that he had landed 60 trout that morning on a woolly bugger. Another customer came in from two hours of fishing at JFK Park. Using a small midge pattern, he landed a lot of fish, including 24 trout in 25 casts. Until the White River drops to 21 feet on the gauge at Georgetown, the fantastic fishing should continue unabated. The water in the river is somewhat murky in spots from the last two rain events, but the fish are striking at everything including: dry flies that mimic the tiny midge (size 22 or smaller in cream or black), American March brown (size 14), elk hair caddis (size 14-16; tan or black) or Adams (size 18-20). Sub-surface flies that are working well include the sowbug (size 14-16; UV tan, UV peacock or light gray), zebra midge (size 16-22; red, black or chartreuse), San Juan worm (size 16-18 pink or red), pheasant tail (size 16), red butt (size 14-16), green butt (size 14-16) or woolly bugger (size 8-12; olive, brown, or black). Greers Ferry: As of Tuesday, the

I got lucky once and found some surfacing feeding well twice. but that was luck. I would like to learn more and catching stripers constistantly. Anyone willing to help? Will trade?? John

Thats really neat that AK has the one 24"er per year in effect. I hadn't heard about that, but were planning a trip to the Little Red soon. AK is ALASKA. AL is Alabama AZ is Arizone AR is ARKASNSAS AR has not yet went to the 24" one fish per year limit and I hope they dont. Its protection rather than conservation. We who hunt and fish dont need more protection its conservation we are in need of. Sadly many times the things the biologist want does not happen, rather groups put pressure on the law makers that really have no foundation. Such as the fact that making all of WHITE RIVER FLY FISHING ONLY! I pay probably pay more for my trout fishing on White River than most on theis board, I also fish Taneycomo, its 54 miles one way for me to fish either and I do this one to three times per week. How many lures do I buy every year, lots my monthly trip to BPS is something near $200.00 for lures and line no counting gas. Last year I spent nearly $5000.00 of fishing White River not counting my many trips to Taneycomo or Bull Shoals I agree we need strict conservation of smallmouth especiall thru the years when we have weak rain and the holes in the creeks fill in. Depedning on what is happening I have to buy a deer tag, buy a turkey tag, buy a trout stamp, buy a trapping license. So why should GIGGER and GRABBERS not have to buy a special permit. I remember the day when Bull Shoals lake had LAKE TROUT, yes true LAKERS not just rainbows and browns, but LAkers were stocked and hell noone knew what to heck they were catching, even browns were stocked by the AGFC. Lkaers got no protection and did very well in Bull Shoals. Suckers have aplace in the eco system, maybe that is why smallie fish has dropped of some in certain streams. Everyyears I get a few spoonbills to mount, but I alwasy wonder why waste sucha huge old fish? Same for Alligator gar, I have had several calls on 200lb plus fish over the years I then wonder why did the bowfisher have to kill that grand old fish? its 100-125 years old and done in by someone with an arrow. Why not chatch tag and release then. If trout as so sacred then other fish deserve the same treatment no matter what the species is. Protecting one fish over another is not right by the standards already placed by some on this forum. others think their fish is the only one that needs help and protection. Maybe then tag and check the fish like Arkansas does deer, bear and turkey. Why should you be allowed to grab two or three 80-lb spoonbill? they hurt nothing I know of. Is one not enough? I know I use to see many grabbers at lockand dam #1 at Batesville and now no spoonbill are to be found. Keep grabbing the breeders and soon there will be none. Conservation not preservation is the key!!!

Like running deer with dogs, sometimes a tradition needs to pass. Snagging, grabbing and gigging I feel need to all go away. along with baiting bear. If its going to be allowed as a tradition then it needs to be done traditionally, nothing more than a gas fueled Coleman type lantern. Maybe its time for special gigging permits, like some states sell turkey tags and deer tags, maybe a gigging tag. After all Arkansas is talking about going to a one 24" brown trout per year with a brown trophy trout tag and it being checked like a deer.

Mt Home has a lot more choices of where to eat and shop than Harrison. Plus a lot more places to fish with White River, Norfork River, Buffalo River, Crooked Creek and Bull SHoals and Norfork lakes within 30 minutes drive. If you want another experience you are 60 minutes from Batesville on the middle white river and there are some huge walleye in it along with stripers plus largemouth, smallmouth and spots. Some of the best Bluegill fishing I have found anywhere!!! Marion County has affordable taxes.