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I tried something in Rim Shoals two years ago. I put some loop velcrom on a Rapala, no hooks and trolled around had several fish take the lure but was unable to boat anyThey came off close to the boat. Also tried a frayed nylon rope trailer and did catch a nice male brown. The white nylon fray also caught several super small trout, the 6 to 9 inch fish. I am always worried when we go thru the C&R area, I will normally throw a single hook Rooster tail or a Jumbo San jaun worm, with a barbless hook but as mentioned we are going thru the area and normally have a few fish we caught up river. Just get worried a overzealous warden will someday think we kept fish fromt he C&R area. But really we have seldom caught a fish in the C&R that I would classify as a keeper.

Where do you get the boating permit for the year?

Ok, its far better than the fish being filleted. We saw a guide laying the knife to three nice brown trout at Wildcat yesterday. Incomming fish quarentined? Anyway can any tell me about BPS aquarium system in the Springfield store? Water filtration system? How do they dechlorinate the water? How often do the big fish die off? Could someone get a back stage tour of the facilities if they were doin an article for a magazone? Who at BPS is the contact person? As for the bug eyed fish, even small fish underwater tend to have that! I have watched a lot of fish underwater and they ae bug eyed. helps them locate prey.

I thought Rim Shooals was limited to one barbless single hook. I am sure I read that on the sign. Did not know you could use a barbless treble in any C&R waters?????

We put in at Wildcat and ran up river to Stetsons, my son caught a huge brown to large for the little net my wife grabbed and as y'all know White Hole is swift with this water, before she could get the larger net he lost the fish an honest 30 inches maybe large I have a 30 inch brown on the shop wall and this fish was larger! I ended the day with four browns three made the length two being skinny 26 inch fish. They looked like clones We were throwing large white Rogues. We dropped the wife off at Wildcat an she met us at Cotter. Batteries in the digital camera went dead or I would post pictures

I use 8# Vanish Flourocarbon, I dont think anything as small as 2/4 is needed. I have also went to 6 but my favorite is 8.

Yes, we do repaints and restorations on old mounts.

Does BPS quarentine the fish before introduction into the larger tanks at the store? Iheard they did but who knows?

Here is the pic. I promised last year of a fish I caught in Spain and mounted while in Europe. When overseas I did not have access to good materials and the mount was not what I wanted it to look like. Last year I decided to try to soak it and remount the fish with a better carved body here is the finished fish.

We had a lot of heavy rain last night early this AM, the river is way up this AM and muddy. Big Creek is out of its banks. The heavy rains, already saturated ground and more rain for Saturday, I would stay off the river this weekend. The upper end from Boxley to Ponca to Steel Creek may be fine.

11.3 feet at Calico Rock (flood stage – 19 feet) 11.6 feet at Batesville (flood stage – 15 feet) 22.5 feet at Newport (flood stage – 26 feet) 32 feet at Augusta (flood stage – 26 feet) 20.7 feet at Georgetown (flood stage – 21 feet) 26.4 feet at Clarendon (flood stage – 26 feet) Listening to a Mt Home radio Station the past week the Corp has been running 6-7 units all day long. and as you can see todays river levels below Newport are at or above flood stage. Even at the level in Batesville I know from living just three miles down river that the bottoms are flooded and water is backed up into Rutherford Creek covering a large portion of the fields. When we crossed BSD last week the water was pretty high within about 10 feet of the flood gates (estimate) At Augusta there will be several state Hwys closed due to water over them. Reports from on down river that Cache, Lil Angulie, St Francis are also flooded. With the idea that the White River chain of dams are flood control dams. I think things have fouled up and they are strickly operatiing for the SWPA money at this point. http://water.usgs.gov/waterwatch/?m=flood&w=map&r=us As you can see lower Louisianna is above flood stage along the Mississippi, Hell who knows.

Its about back to the nromal for this time of year, Snow access was fine with a couple people wading across and up river yesterday.

At Carver is harldy up a foot over where it was at low water three weeks ago. It shoul dbe an easy float with less paddling with a couple feet of water. River went down really quick this time. the srings and creeks around carver are back to normal.

If not Steel Creek, there is erbie and Ozark. Erbie hardly ever has anyone camping at it.

Steel flex, I was told that the product would need to be reapplied every two years under heavy use. The person that told me that was the owner of the boat factory at Clinton. But the problem I have using it is if you knock a hole in an aluminum hull is getting it welded with the contamination fo the epoxy.

We were over thru Gassville and they have the roof back on and looks like they may be adding on to the back or just replacing missing pieces. We dropped down to Ranchette to fish and man the tornado went right up Crooked Creek to the 101 bridge and turned north. I did not know there were some many house in that area!

Living in Kansas you need a deep Vee boat, to cut the waves, cause you get big waves with those winds!! I lived close to Coucil Grove for almost 10 years, fished Milford, CG lakes, Tuttle Creek and several others and you get some waves. Yo also want to opt to the motor closest to the rated horse power, with kids you are going to end up pulling them on tubes and maybe skiing. Also with the bigger motor you can really trim up the motor and get that boat nose up in the air to cross high waves!!! I have a Lowe 170 with a 90HP Johnson, top speed is 52 mph on a good day average it 47 mph. fuel use is low at 3/4 throttle, its 17 feet and not bad fot two people, three grown ups it gets crowded when fishing. The drawback is its rivetted. The price was right very right so there are some trade off's. The boat is rated for a 120 HP motor and if I was buying I certainly would go with the 120 or at lest a 115. Reason is sometimes storms can slip up on you and when you need to get off the lake the extra speed is wonderful. Plus at 3/4 throttle you can get just as good a fuel economy as with a smaller motor. Its also easier on the motor IMHO We have a 100lb thrust trolling motor and canpretty well manuver around upper Taneycomo with several generators on holding behind islands We seldom have to use the trolling motor on 100%, which when fishing Bull Shoals or other lakes we can use it all night and most times only use 50% of the battery charge. We Dont have a built in battery charge but that would be nice and get a big one if you do, quciker charge means if the fish are biting you cn be out on the water again sooner. You need a 12 volt plug up front you may need a spot light some night!!! I have a Hummin Bird 565 up front and a much cheaper one at the console, I will update the console this year to another 565. Get a spare tire and wheel for the trailer!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Lots of storage and locking boxes.

This is the thrid time I can remember the flush. seems like 1996 and maybe 2000? Just wonder what it will do to the fish, thats a lot of water. It probabley something that shoyld be done at every dam once in awhile.

Idle speed, to most that means a wake 2 feet tall. Maybe its time for a speed limit too. When we fish Taney its in a Lowe 170 with a 90Hp johnson and sometimes I feel like we are in a rubber raft the way we get rocked and have taken water over the sides from those huge bass boats throwing large wakes. Even cost me a propshaft at the launch ramp and a new prop. There is not excuse for rude behavior on the lake.

I get the book, I have thought about dropping it because I see less interest on hunting and fishing than I think it should have. Some issues are almost void of hunting and fishing articles. I really like the Arkansas book, lots of hunting and fishing info, but even our last governer hunted ducks. JOhn

Thanks for the support. With the 2009 size limit if 24 inches on browns its going to slow a lot of skinmounts down in tha size range, so I am working on my own line of replicas in those sizes. Yes, it can be repainted, I repaint a lot of fish every year, I will take a pic if a fish I have hanging here and post it. Smmallies are awesome they can be from black to bright, if you have a pic or two of your live fish I can get pretty darn close on the markings and color. john

Mount I entered in these two shows. in the Masters Fish. Best Paint, Best Reproduction and Second place Master, Best Fish of Show in Arkansas Southern Regional Show, Best Reproduction, Best Paint and Second Place Masters Fish

I took my nephew a few months back, it can be pretty good we did see lots of large fish prespawn. I agree carry a big net. Olive wooly booger worked pretty good as did a jumbo black knat with red stinger.

Trav, I told ya so.

Like all tailwaters depends on generation. My brother lives in Vegas, they have had some nice days and some skunked days. Theres some big bows there but getting the access to the river is bad very bad.