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IS there a 07 or 08 2 stroke 15 available? Merc make a 25 hp in a jet and they all have a door of sorts that covers the jet and forces the water down and under for reverse. Yea I like the idea of the wider boat these days. The river jon is a bit narrow and taking other out fishing is ok, but our limit is 3 in the boat including me operating it. On the Comm. boat at 48 inchs what is the draft ? Thanks John

Supreme, yea it looks nice, but we all know looks don't catch fish. Shawnee, I don't know anything about these boats, hear they are good but don't know. J&S They have changed hands, seem to be nice boats. Next seems all the motors under 25hp are no built by Tohatsu. (except Hondas) Why would brand make a difference and why a jet over a prop. I have been looking at the J&S boat in a wider 47 inch bottom with either a 15 prop or 25hp jet. My thinking is the wider jet would float in shallowedraft and navigate some areas I would like to fish at low water. Thanks John

Sat. the wife and I headed to our favorite spots and wow was the rver low in the AM, so low in fact the shoals were not navigable. We were doing pretty well then when the water hit it was cloudy like heavy rains. Plus weeds looked like someone had been after the coontail with a weedeater somehwere up steam. This almost shut the fish down... Using anything just was bad, to much crap in the water. We finsihed with our limits but had to work for the better fish. Still these were under the normal size we keep.

I should have said we, my five year old nephew and I. We went again Friday and did ok, not as well. BUest fly we used was a black knat with a red stinger under a bobber. We tried an olive wooly bugger but not a single thing on it.

Hi, I saw your post, I bought one of the 25hp 4 stokes from Lilley. Its a good motor but to big for my 22 ft river jon. Starts easy, runs fantastic. I will take $1000.00 firm, it needs the forward gear replaced, I bumped a rock on white river and broke a tooth from the forward gear. Gear cost is $86.00 and two hours labor to replace it. The motor has a good prop, one bump from the rock, I also had a skeg gaurd built for it, that was $92.00 Gaurd bolts thru the lower unit mounting bolts. so it will not break the skeg off like those store built model. The motor will run fine and you can hear it run, runs fine in reverse. If I had a larger fiberglass river boat I would keep it!! But my Aluminum river jon this motor is just to big and it does weight about 150 lbs. I have went back to my 9.8 Merc at half that weight. I had the lower unit rebuilt by Bear Skin marine in July 07, that included all new gears, new prop, new shaft bearings that cost $850.00 then on the 3rd run iafter in White River I hit the rock and broke the forward gear and skeg repair.. So I have about $2300.00 in the motor, like I said I will take $1000.00 firm. Because it needs the forward gear. Thanks John 870-429-5569

O2 sensor,,,, thiese things go bad and sometimes dont showup on the code. I had one do the samething as yours. Never could find a code. So I was talking with the guys at Autozone and one of them ask about the egr valve, so I bought one and then the O2 sensors. Had one in front of the cat. and one behind it. Replaced both and it ran like a new one. I traded it when it hit 275,000 miles. Electronics suck, OBD II sometimes dont store codes for some odd reason.

While most people think that Spoonbills are plankton feeders they do hit larger lures. I have known of them hitting spinner baits and even jig and pig. I mounted one, well molded it and made a fiberglass reproduction of it that hit a Zara Spook. Nice fish and the lad was only 14 years old.

Zach is there pics of you in the flyshop at Gassville? I fihsed DRC yesterday for the first time and do have to say I have sledom cuaght so many fish in such a short time. Lost several large fish, the best I landed was a nice 20 inch brown. My best luck was on a black Catapillar I have tied for years, guess some would call it a wooly worm. Several on #18 Copper Jon. Tried the Y2K in orange and yellow not a strike.

Check the Scuba Dive shops, the better shops will have some on hand, and have flyers about others. The object is $$$$$$$$$$$$$. You really dont need a lot of flash underwater and the flash will bounce back from minute particals floating in the water. Like the orbs people take pics of, these are dust particals and the same happens in the water. You can buy underwater cases for almost and medium prices or higher end camera, those too are going to be $$$$$$$$$ but you get full function of the camera. My brother bought a sony camera and found a case for less than $500.00 Remember these cases are machined and have o-ring seals around each control. His is rated to 250 feet. google underwater cameras and the underwater camera cases.

After Suba Diving for years on Table Rock and Bull Shoals and Greers Ferry, I find not many fish use brush piles, mostly bream. After about 3 years the attraction of the pile is gone for some reason. We find more and bigger fish where there are log laydowns, these include bass and walleye, they do hide under the logs, these logs need to be about 10inches in dia or larger. In years to come after our lifetime the highland res. will become largemouth lakes again. the water will warm thats a fact. The best thing for fish survival woould be for the corp to hold the lake steady with the shoreline brush being covered for a couple years. Maybe the fisheries should look at intrudicing lake trout into Table Rock, Ark. did some stocking of lakers years back and they did very well. But most people had no idea of what the fish was, just a trout is all they knew.

We fished Taney Friday and Saturday, did pretty well trolling Gold CD=5 Rapalas during the day, nothng big just solid 14-15 inch fish. Friday night we stayed on the lake until 1AM Sat and count several really nice bows on CD-5 Silvers raps. Saturday night I was using #13 Rap jerk bait and lost a large brown at the boat. I have found that in the lower lake below Branson trolling works better than above Branson. This was a repeat of the previous weekend.

I have had the tak Annualed at the shop on south Campbell, the name slips me at this time. I do know the price of compressor and filters and certainly agree with the answer you posted. But that's all in relation to "if" the smell bad. Since there is no bad smell to the tanks, no oil smell nothing I decided to have the tank Annualed again by a shop in Little Rock. Well Lead Hell refused to fill them again. I know the shop in LR is up to snuff, they dive a lot and don't take short cuts, heck my ex-wife used to be one of their instructors and I have been one of the non insturctor on Gulf Spear fishing trips. So I do have the experience and yes I have filed a complaint especially after the 2nd annual and a fill from the LR shop, and Lead hells 2nd refusal. A few days later I pulled the net off one tank and the boot, then sent another diver over to LH and they filled the tank along with a steel tank that had no annaul, matter of fact no hydro in 11 years. But since the freind was a regular customer of LH they filled tha steel tank and after the diver told them i was a 2200 psi tank they ran the psi up 2500 for a "Good Fill" We have taken pics and sent them to the proper authorities. Since the owenr group has not paid the taxes and required guess the docks will be up for sale. Its not the first time the owner group has failed to pay thier part.

Nice fish!! that brown should be in the 13lb or better range!!

I do know a large brown was ulled from the White Hole area that was dying. But that color even for a color change is super dramatic, even if it had been on ice for several hours. At any rate its a nice fish.

I do fish the C&R area, but I have a rod rigged with a barbless hook spinner. I even catch a fish once in awhile, But I am quick to release it. Heck I am even quick about releasing fish in the other areas. I do know that some of the people I saw with overlimits were in fact guides with customers. Over the last two weeks I have been writing names and boat id, to even include taking some pics to ID the bad guides. Guess maybe some per pressure might help. I am afraid the the number of poachers is far larger than many imagine. At Ranchette I saw a guide lay rocks on fish because they had died in the livewell. A small boy later lifted the rock and these fish had revived. I know and understand wardens cannot be everywhere all the time. So then its up to us to put perpressure on them!! Anyone thought abouit putting a sign up saying "Poacher someone is watching you!" I sure have. John

We have fished seven times over the past two weeks and the size has not been as good. I think the tourist pressure has taken the river over. We did a float from the dam to Cotter Sunday, I saw several guides and their clients with way over the limit!!! These are junior guides I think who are trying to build their rep. Many had undersized browns!!! One was bold enough to have five undersized browns and cleaned them in full view at Cotter!!!! There was only two him and his client all day long as we saw them several times. Just kinda burns me when people keep over the limit and undersized fish. So if you younguns are reading this be aware, someone is watching and will be taking pictures!! Is your reputation worth the risk? We have caught a lot of fish but not the sizes and not near as many the last two weeks. Its going to be slow I know with the high water from generation and plus for the next few weeks my schedule is busy, busy, busy. But we will hit the river. Sunday looks good I am already missing this weeks Wed. trip but work calls. We finally have the 25hp on the boat, man it moves great, has enough power to idle and hold it own in the current. We had to build a transom extenion. to make it taller, some braces, a trip to Fenton Welding for a skeg guard. Uses less fuel than the 2 stroke but the four stroke is a bit heavier than I would like. The need for speed take hold and it will rip up river with three people. I went to a three gallon gas tank, which is about right for our normal trips, the electric start is sweet!!! I am to old and broke up from my miltiary days to pulling on a motor all day long. Catch a big un John

Same guys that have a "World record Brookie" Its photoshoped

Drum will fillet out just like a bass or walleye. there are not a lot of bones. Some really nice thick fillets, one of the few fish that I think really grill well.

I bought a 22 f river jon and trailer from a friend over at Hardy. I have ran a 25hp 4 stroke Yamaha, the hp is right but he 4 stroke is a bit heavy. with three people I can balance the 25 out for shallow water, but with two people the stearn is a bit deep for my liking. I am going to build a taller transom for the 35hp. Current motor is a electric start 110 merc, 9.8 hp, the motor being older may have 7hp at the prop. It works well with two people but three is a bit slow. This boat is so long that it will float over most logs or rocks that are just an inch or so under the surface. I would maybe like to trade the 25hp 2002 to a 2000 or later 15hp might be interested in trading for a waterjet with electric start. I currently have the 25 in the shop for lower unit, repair and skeg gaurd build. Goota love waiting for parts!!

We hit the water a bit earlier today around 9:30am. Had a guest in the boat my cousin Sarah. She has never fished until today. One lucky gal, she managed to catch a 23 inch male Brown trout!!! We caught several bows on small spinners about any color. then the water started coming up. The bite slowed. My son went to his favorite crankbait and caught a 19 inch brown and backed it up within minutes with a 15 inch brown. We decided that to help Sarah out we would drift the deeper area of the hole. We rigged her up with Power bait and it was not long until she hooked up on the big brown, beginners luck? Nope just a good guide!!! lol. The water dropped pretty fast mid afternoon, we dropped Sarah at the Rim SHoals access and headed on down river. Bite was still slow on what normally triggers bites. So we slipped to the powerbait and the bite started again this was about 6:00pm. Just before the sun started to set the bite took off on spinner baits in about any color. We finished the day with 47 rainbows, 7 cutthroat and 19 browns. When we hit the ramp time was 8:52pm, but most of the bite was the last three hours. We are trying a new 35mm camera, it has a waterproof case, I used it scuba diving so we will see. Thursday or Firday will be the next trip. Then Sunday I am taking one of my Military buddys down ont he river to see if he can catch some fish. Tightlines John

I thought, well no just knew it was you as per cartoon on here. You boat looked a bit crowded but I am one who likes room. Today I did see two very large bows where you were drifting, these were really big bows. I have a large black knat with a spinner I use when drifting thru Rim. have lots of followups. but then if I tied it smaller it might catch fish. The knat is almost 3 1/3 inches long lol. The long red river jon is me and family, son and/or wife.

n=wonder why this is not shpowing up?

We caught lots of smallies, nothing large well over a pound. See report in White River. Even the non fishermen were slow in floating to Hasty, water level requires lots and lots of paddling. My recoomendation would be unless there is 25 inches of water at Ponca dont bother floating until Bakers Ford on down. John

Earlier my son and I tore up the trout. He normally catches 6-8 brown trout I finally beat him with 24 browns for the day one 7lbs brown male and a 4 lbs female. Plus a ton of rainbows. Then yesterday we hit the river again, fishing was slow with 6 generators on line at Bull Shoals dam. I caught 14 browns northing over 2 lbs, several nice rainbows and two cuthtroat trout and a nice largemouth bass. My son again was back on top with a large brown trout, 18 inches and about 4 lbs. Not bad with all the water. Today we hit Buffalo River, its a warm water river and has smallmouth bass, rock bass aka goggleeye, bream and largemouth bass, This river is just a few miles frm the house and full of people and canoes. We did very well on the smallies, catching over 50 fish, nothing large bit lots of 1 lb brown bass. Everyone that was fishing wanted to know what we were using. We just lol and called it the White Water Wunder stick. Just something the boy has whipped uphand carving. We are headed out to White River tomorrow, so if you see a big red boat just wave! John

Brownieman, I have a 22ft river jon, never really been up on the Norfork. But we run the White a lot. It sets higher in the water than glass boats, so we can get to some areas others cannot. Current motor is an older 9.8 Mercury, its fine for two people but three is a bit of a load on it. Do have a 4 stroke 25 HP Yamaha, it the shop for lower unit rebuild. The 25 is about right but the 4 storke is a bit heavy. John