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I troll often. Sometimes I am moving .4mph. Sometimes 3mph. I do this even in locations like the flat in front of Eagle Rock park. I often put out a marker or two. My line of insult is setting up within 200 feet in front of my path, cutting across my troll lines, and coming close enough to put water in my boat. I feel these are very reasonable. When someone invades these limits, I try my best not to lose my temper. Many times I succeed. When I pass fishermen I often try to share what I have discovered. It confuses them and often they leave. They must figure I am trying to mislead them.

Good on you Mike. I hope they enjoyed.

I miss Demetri's. JM knows his market. I bet it is good and stays that way.

I was not out this morning. Yesterday I could see to go on plane by 8:00/8:30.

I caught four midget bass and two bluegill. Two of the bass were on top in the fog. The other two came from 21 feet. I Marked many fish at that depth - all snug up to trees.

smoke and watermelon red flake as back ups to green pumpkin in soft plastic. pbj as a backup in jigs. good luck!

In many past posts I have referred to one of my walleye mentors as Chuck Etheredge. In the articles I wrote for Phil LIlley to post, Etheredge was his name.That was not his name. I used it to preserve modicum of privacy for him. I used the last name of his grandchildren, Ethredge. Today I attended his memorial fish fry and contributed all my freezer walleye. The least I could do was say, "God Speed, Chuck." and say his real name out loud. When I get older losing my hair, Many years from now, Will you still be sending me a valentine Birthday greetings bottle of wine? If I'd been out till quarter to three Would you lock the door, Will you still need me, will you still feed me, When I'm sixty-four? oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oooo You'll be older too, (ah ah ah ah ah) And if you say the word, I could stay with you. I could be handy mending a fuse When your lights have gone. You can knit a sweater by the fireside Sunday mornings go for a ride. Doing the garden, digging the weeds, Who could ask for more? Will you still need me, will you still feed me, When I'm sixty-four? Every summer we can rent a cottage In the Isle of Wight, if it's not too dear We shall scrimp and save Grandchildren on your knee Vera, Chuck, and Dave Send me a postcard, drop me a line, Stating point of view. Indicate precisely what you mean to say Yours sincerely, Wasting Away. Give me your answer, fill in a form Mine for evermore Will you still need me, will you still feed me, When I'm sixty-four? Whoo! nd I hope you snerior the same things,

I saw a you tube that demonstrated filleting the flying carp. Evidently more flesh/less bones than standard carp and reputedly tasty. I see an industry in the making. After all tilapia really isn't very good and yet it sells well. I guess the only problem would be the fact that netting is the only efficient harvest method.

I suppose 6-3 would insult everyone, right? Good. 6-3 you pick 'em.

Welcome from the top end of the lake. Glad you joined.

Me? Live bait? No. Not ever. Well, hardly ever. OK, sometimes, but I don't inhale.

Now that is an excellent response!

Chuck Etheredge of Holiday Island passed last night after a long fight with cancer. Chuck is the person that taught me the most about Table Rock walleye and he still holds the Holiday Island Marina walleye record with a 14.5 pound fish. He was only able to fish two or three times this summer but managed to catch yet another 10 pound plus fish on one of those trips. At his request, he will be cremated and his ashes spread over his favorite walleye hole. The family is planning a fish fry as his memorial. What a model for all of us.

This is meant to be a friendly discussion and airing of opinions regarding some comments I have read several times over the last couple of years. Things we "know": 1. Walleye have long teeth. 2. Unlike sharks, the side of each tooth is not sharp like a shark tooth. 3. Lots of Northern types fish for walleyes with 4 and 6 pound mono, especially when ice fishing. 4. People fishing Bull Shoals, TR, and Beaver seem to experience and report frequent break offs/bite offs, especially jig fishing. 5. The huge majority of those reporting the bite offs know how to tie good knots (examples are Quillback and Bill Babler) 6. Typically, walleye do not headshake like Northern Pike until later in the fight. So what do you think?

i feel for you. I worked hard Monday for a few small bass bites. I had to visit my go to spot for walleye and lost three lures for two fish. The hooks I marked, for what it is worth, were in tree/brush tops at 21 feet on flat bottoms of 22 and 23 feet near a 35 foot channel drop off.

KVD and Don Butler both won classics with less than 20 pounds for three days of fishing. It could be that type of tournament.

Safety courses and licenses are good ideas, but remember, to drive an automobile requires a license. Despite that certain drivers are still "killers" in disguise: 1. My large jacked up pickup with badass lights means you must move over when I am on your bumper 2. My corvette compensates, don'tcha know? 3. My wandering SUV means I am texting my other soccer mom girlfriends. No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the public and "dumb stuff" is the norm of modern life. See my Labor Day post for proof. Protect yourself.

That is the boat I saw!

Tanney has many things to recommend it. Trout at the dam and on down for a while . Small-mouth, large-mouth, and sunfish down near its end. Tablerock has it all. Trout at its upper end near me (60 river miles away) plus 3 bass species walleye white bass crappie and sunfish. Enjoy!

Precision Trolling measures the line from where the line enters the water. I measure the line from whre it leaves the rod tip. For baits like the Deep Little Ripper, I will have 50 feet +/- out from the rod tip to the water.

Long way from State Park to Beaver and - I'm sorry - LOTS of big fish water between there and where he was.

Thanks Bill. I used my iphone to take the picture and I use Picasa software to crop, adjust contrast and color, add the water mark and resize for posting. Even a blind pig ....

Went out early in the fog and ran up river past Beaver. Two small bass on top water. I switched early to walleye hunting. Fished both a slow death rig and a crawler harness on channel edges 12' to channel bottom. Only small bass. Around 10:30 a wrapped Skeeter (Rigid Industries LED Lights) with two anchor poles came by me headed toward Houseman. Odd, very odd. Around noon I headed back down lake and stopped at the submerged brush and timber where I caught one yesterday. I managed two today, 20 and 25 inches. I used a trolled reef runner knock off with 175 feet of 10/2 braid from the rod tip (125 feet the way the Precision Trolling counts it) to put the lure 21 feet down. While I was cleaning the fish we had a disaster at the Holiday Island courtesy dock. Some people loaded two old Goldens and an old Great Pyrenees on a pontoon and went up the hill to help the old grandpa down to the pontoon. The Great Pyrenees jumped the rail for the water but didn't make it. The choke chain had him mostly out of the water. I ran over and finally got the lead untied so the dog could swim at the end of the lead. The folks came back down the hill (slowly) and when the woman (60ish and well fleshed) saw her dog in the water she jumped off the dock to the dog. I don't know what she thought she would do. Arnold Schwarzenegger in his prime could not have lifted that dog out of the water onto the pontoon deck. Anyway, several of us finally dead lifted the dog vertically onto the pontoon deck, but that left the even heavier woman still dog paddling. Well, it seems the pontoon ladder was worse for the wear after a past dock collision. I had to borrow a hammer to reshape the bent ladder pivot so we could deploy it. We finally got the lady back on the boat and grandpa loaded. I returned Alan's hammer and just as I walked up the man was bent and untying the mooring rope. I heard him but his wife did not, "And she wants to know why I don't like to come to the lake anymore."

Good BBQ sauce is traditionally a secretive affair. However, I am an "open source" kind of guy. I'll post my most recent combination for all of you to try. If you improve it, you are duty bound to post. I took an internet recipe for Carolina style mustard sauce and changed it to make it more "friendly" without changing the sweet and tart that I liked. Ingredients: 1.5 cups yellow mustard 1.5 cups tomato sauce 1 cup (packed) brown sugar 1.5 cups apple cider vinegar 1.5 cups beer 2 Tbs. Chili powder 1 Tbs. black pepper 1 Tbs. Worcestershire sauce 1 Tbs. Liquid Smoke 4 Tbs. butter 1 Tbs. Franks Red Hot sauce 1/2 tsp. onion powder 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder Method: Combine all ingredients in a non-reactive sauce pan and simmer over low heat without boiling for 30 minutes. The sauce will need to rest for a few hours in the refrigerator so the vinegar softens and melds. Yield will be 3.5 pints of sauce.

From several responses I gather I have not made myself clear. I apologize. You can see pictures of my rigs in the article I wrote for Phil to post: http://www.ozarkanglers.com/white-river-walleye-on-worm-harness/ In that article, the hooks shown are Owner down shot hooks I have snelled to the tag end of the line. Nowdays I use regular round bend offset J hooks and a Palomar knot. If you look at the pictures you will note a bobber stop. I thread enough of the worm on the hook before I Texas rig it to cover the line between the eye and the bobber stop. That way the hook is in the middle of the worm. I use a 1/0 but a size 1 would work nicely. I realize I am not doing things the way they do in Canada, but I am not fishing there where they have sand flats and rock reefs. I fish Table Rock where all structure has brush, trees, old automobiles, and trot lines. Those hazards are also the reason I use float beads instead of the traditional plastic beads. BTW I tie harnesses with 10 or 12 pound and my main line is Power Pro Depthunter 10/2, which would probably test out at 20 pound. When I break off, it is at the harness knots. However, quite often I merely bend the hook open, allowing me to recover the goodies. Hope that helps.