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Wayne guessyoumust be missing the loop, Steven McCracken and Jerry Combs caught two in Beaver Creek over the weekend of April 5-6 a 37 lbs 42" fish and a 41 3/4 lb 43" fish. Nice stripers by any means. They said they were fishing above the dock near the dock on the flats across from it. Something about the water being up over the mud banks. Since I have never fished there I dont know the area.

Water is still up about 5 feet over normally maybe more. Stained, with more rain predeicted this week the floating is good but the fishing is poor. Little buffalo is floatable from Jasper, even Crooked creek is floatable from Yellville to the White River. but the last miles are full of brush!!!

There was a news report a few weeks back. They found boxes being flown in from Korea. USFW found many boxes of these on a Korean Air flight. All were alive and did not need water to survive. Now found on both coast. The new show said it was expected that the fish were introduced by many of the people that bought them in the market place. Bad deal for native fish.

Even many years ago before AGFC stocked cutthroats the Rainbows would have the so called Cut throat markers you guys are pointing out. Most of these markers are simply part of the breeding colors also found on bows around the world to include many of the ones we caught in Europe.

Nice pics. Color like that in people can vary alot. bio diversity is great as it normally adds hybred vigor. Cutts are a subspecies of the Oncorhynchus as are rainbows. So what you are seeing is proababley nothing more than just a color genetic. Both fish are off the same branch of the tree so to speak. Like horses even though you have papered AQHA horses sometimes a paint horse will crop out. Pacific salmon fall into the close cousin branch of rainbows. Not unlike Brown trout and Brookies crossing to make tiger trout. Cutthroat will readily interbreed with the closely related rainbow trout, producing fertile hybrids. Cutthroat trout vary widely in size, coloration, and habitats. Though their coloration can range from golden to gray to green on the back, depending on subspecies and habitat, all populations feature distinctive red, pink, or orange marks on the underside of the lower jaw; usually the easiest diagnostic of the species for the casual observer. As adults, different populations and subspecies of cutthroat can range from 6–40 inches (3–100 cm) in length making size an ineffective indicator as to species. A cutthroat trout (most likely a Bonneville cutthroat trout) caught on the Weber River of Utah.There are 14 subspecies of cutthroat, including: Alvord cutthroat trout Oncorhynchus clarki alvordensis; possibly extinct. Named in 2002. Bonneville cutthroat trout Oncorhynchus clarki utah Coastal cutthroat trout Oncorhynchus clarki clarki Crescenti trout Oncorhynchus clarki crescenti (not an actual subspecies, but a form of coastal cutthroat (Behnke 1992). Colorado River cutthroat trout Oncorhynchus clarki pleuriticus Greenback cutthroat trout Oncorhynchus clarki stomias (threatened) Humboldt cutthroat trout Oncorhynchus clarki spp. (Behnke 2002) Lahontan cutthroat trout Oncorhynchus clarki henshawi (threatened) Paiute cutthroat trout Oncorhynchus clarki seleniris (threatened) Rio Grande cutthroat trout Oncorhynchus clarki virginalis Snake River fine-spotted cutthroat trout Oncorhynchus clarki subsp. Named Oncorhynchus clarki behnkei, 1995 & 2002. Westslope cutthroat trout Oncorhynchus clarki lewisi Whitehorse Basin cutthroat trout Oncorhynchus clarki spp. (Behnke 2002) Yellowfin cutthroat trout Oncorhynchus clarki macdonaldi (extinct) Yellowstone cutthroat trout Oncorhynchus clarki bouvieri [edit] References "Oncorhynchus clarki". FishBase. Ed. Ranier Froese and Daniel Pauly. 10 2005 version. N.p.: FishBase, 2005. Behnke, Robert J. Trout and Salmon of North America. Free Press, 2002. p 138. Behnke, Robert J. Native Trout of Western North America. American Fisheries Society, 1992 p. 65. This Salmoniformes article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by

With well less than a foot to go to top of flood pool, and last nights heavy rains, it was on the news today that the corp will open the flood gates this afternoon.... Plus run 2 gens full speed until the lake receeds.

Zero air gap at Ponce yesterday and the Carver put in is way to heck up, matter of fact big creek is still at a very high level. If you know Carver the water is to the top of the put in area, you have no gravel bar period, river starts where the road stops. Last night and yesterdays rain is sure to have raised it as the my leaky pond is full again this AM. I would stay off the river in my own boat or rent one with the waiver!!! Lower Buffalo, I dont know that you could paddle upstream to Buffalo City I am sure its over the White River levy.

Here is a reproduction from a catfish I caught on a beatle spin last year.

I checked a couple holes on Crokked Creek that had been filled with gravel for several years, one is over 12 feet deep now!!! The other is once again a hole. Did not catch anything as I was not fishing just using a 2 ounce weight to check the depth.

FFM, I bet that was the fish. big un!

Its their fish and they can fillet them iof they want to. I anot argueeeeeeeeeeeeing the point, the point I am making is there are big stripers in Bull. If you want to argue then pm me.

Removing them proves that the restocking has been a success! Once a good popualtion is established the best way to protect them is thru conservation not preservation. What you should be more offended and concerned by is people like Ted Turner and David Letterman putting up high fences to prevent deer, pronghorn and other large game from moving in the ranges.

Billing problems, dropped calls, service outages, etc. are all more common with Alltel among the folks we have known that have it than with any other service. Altell sucks in South West Mo and North Arkansas. I cannot tell you the dropped calls and Lord forbid you try to call the day of a Razorback Game in Fayetteville or Little Rock. For 45 miles down US 65 from Bellefonte to Leslie you have almost zero service excpet hill tops and no mobile service. Zero from Batesville to North of Salesville on Hwy 5 and from Harrison to Fayetteville forget it until you are almost to Springdale. I have tried four different phone with Altell and they all sucked. Here at the house you have to hold one foot up, left arm out and wiggle your ear to get receiption and we are within a mile of two Altell towers. None of the others are any better and the public service commision dont care about cell phone service.

Wife's Uncle lives right on Grand and he says its way up and water is moving.

The Aux. dam has several but the old dam has ten total flood gates. I am anxious to see with the additional water over the weekend if they open the others, we spent the weekend in the head water area of Kings River and it rained like an SOB. Little Buffalo Was up not flooded this afternoon. Kenner Creek was way up and the rain was heavier to the west than we received.

Those methods are fine for a tick bite or two but I too am a tick magnet and they are swelling up this year early. Most times this early in the year bites seldom swell onme but man its going to be bad. I iht a pretty shallow creek fishing yesterday and caught 21 ticks in about a two mile walk. If the bite does not start getting well in about four days you may need Dr help.

A few will not hurt you, I think saltwater mussels are better. I will stick with scallops and clams. They ones I have tried were chewy like overcooked clams.

I recived an email, someone is suppose to have caught a 41" female brown from White River. Mans last name is Hogue. The email did not know if it was a 41" brown or a 41lb brown. either way huge fish. Figure someone will have a link or pics.

Isee where twomore large stripers were caught on Bull Shoals. Mike Worley of Yellville with a 42" 38lb fish Al Denninger of Theodosia with a 44" 41lb striper

I think you will see smallmouth fishing improve over the next few years. This heavy flow is just what we have needed.

I have seen the Forsyth park underwater a few times. Anyone remember when they used a tug boat to pull the tow board off Powersite years ago? My Late Father in law had a house at the mouth of Beaver Creek and we have seen water within 50 feet of it. On BUll Shoals I have seen the Tucker Hollow camp ground where the first several sites near the ramp were underwater, we caught bats on fly rods one night and could not get to the first two tables. Also does anyone else remember the water in Taney getting up into Holister on the south side of the B65 bridge and covering where the traile rpark is? It also covered the area across the street where the wax museum and car museum use to be.

Not in a Weber but I fillet the fish, place on foil. Then use fresh oak branches cut across the grain. Turn the fire on low and smoke about 30 minutes until the meatis opaque. Its fantasic better than pork and I love smoked pork.

Thanks Phil! Every large aquarium I have been to has this, to include Sea World Cabelas and the ones overseas in Berlin and Spain. Also a friend has lots of photos of wild fish from a fellow in Minn. ( I think) and the wild fish show it too. maybe not so badly bt they do show it. So it may be just from eating well. When fish are removed from the water they dont show it or not as well. I tried for years to photo them underwater in the lakes but wild fish are really hard to take good photos of with normal scuba gear. You almost have to have a rebreather. I have a freind that libes in Cozamel, She does a lot of underwater video for dive trips and even the Marine fish show it and many times much worse. We have speared Red Ssnapper and other fish in deep water and ther eye will popout of when brought to the surface but thats from really deep water. Thanks for the info Phil. John Yep I certainly can believe in many cases it from physiological disorder too.

Not the ROck but Buffalo is wild!!!! within five feet of the road the road on the south side at Carver. The flood stage sign is about 1/2 way covered by water. Water was to the out house parking lot ay midnite. When I stopped on the bridge at carver it was about 5 feet under the road bed. We finally got out and drove to the HWWWWY 65 bridge and its full bank to bank, you can drive about 100 yards off 65 at the access and water is about 15 ft under the 65 bridge girders Heres Bull Shoals for thoday the 19th. http://www.swl-wc.usace.army.mil/WCDS/Repo...ata/Bulsdam.htm Flood stage is 695 Down close to Sylamore/White River its within 12 inches of some hoems with garages. reaching levels of and over the 1982 flood. Who allowed these people to build that close to the river? How do they get flood insurance? If fishing is going to get good on Taney I sounds like I need the bass boat for the water with the gates open, darn its in the shop with prop shaft and water pump being replaced.

Wiith two units running and the water still cold, if he drowned and is under a log it will be sometime before the gases in the intestinal tract will float the body. Back in the early 1970's a man from Boone Couty drowned in Bull Shoals, it was a couple maybe three months before he floated. In 1993 during the big floods a man and his friend were floating the Smokey Hill in Kansas, their canoe turned over and he was never found. I helped search for him as part of the Search and Recover team using a boat with two 454 Chevy motors and Berkley Jet pumps. Sad if he did this to avoid going to jail. Plus Mexico extradites(SP) these days. A friend who is in the Army(MP) sent me an email where he had been to Mexico City to pickup three AWOL soldiers the Mexican police had detained.