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With the lake at 920+/- and a strong flow I would look for bait balls near pockets with run off near channel swings and downstream sides of islands or humps. Just for grins, I might also buzz bait early in and near newly flooded brush. You often put in at Big M and between there and Roaring River there are many such opportunities. Good luck and keep me informed. The doctor has cleared me to fish Labor Day.

I have two pork shoulders going in my smoker and remembered this thread. I thought I would bump it and post a recipe I created for a sauce that adds to the meat instead of hiding the flavor. Barbeque Sauce Like You’ve Never Had 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.

Must have been a fluke. There are no walleye anywhere near Owl Creek. Besides those big boats that anchor at Beaver Bluff will swamp you. Just move along.

I really like the War Eagle spoons. The built in swivel helps line twist and the stock hooks are better than the Cabelas - although if you change out to death traps that does not matter. Check out the cole slaw color.

I just read this interesting thread. Good stuff from many. Thanks. I am almost embarrassed to tell this, but my drive to the marina is so short the engine does not warm. If I run to Viney and back and do a lot of big motor trolling with my 75 Etec, I might use 5 gallons of gas and a half cup of X100 oil that I bought in bulk. The gas at the marina, of course, is more expensive than at a service station, so my bill for a long day might be $22 to $25. Days up near Beaver are more in the $15 range. To be fair I guess I would have to factor some portion of my slip rental and lift purchase. Lets call it $20 to $30 per trip. In a normal summer I will fish 2 or 3 times a week and in the Spring and Fall once a week.

I blush. Thank you. And no, don't bother to tip the spoon. Fish it exactly as Bill described.

1. I haven't been out in two weeks due to medical reasons. 2, Things change quickly this time of year. (See Bill Babler's posts recently) 3, Information that follows is based on experience and seasonal trends. Try a Cabelas or War Eagle spoon in 7/8 or 1 oz. White or white with chartreuse. Fish roll offs, drop offs, timber edges, and way out on flat points in 25 to 35 feet of water. Final note: I fish the upper end and find great success for wally. I think they are literally all over the lake.

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Thank you!

Solid advice. Also works well on a slow death hook for walleye.

Thank you!

Well done sir! Catch as many as you can for me.

Look. It works this way. The only thing worth someones life - yours, theirs, whoever - is your family. Protecting anything else with force is guaranteed to get you investigated, interrogated, possibly arrested, and possibly charged. Even if you are acquitted or not charged, I promise it will be the worst experience of your life. The court system is heartless, as it should be. Someday, I want one of you who touts firing a weapon to stop and talk to a veteran officer who has killed in the line of duty - or a vet - and ask them how it felt. If that blatant appeal to reason did not work, try this: Tell me in three sentences exactly how your dock or your boat is your castle?

Thank you for the kind words.

The Etec Evinrudes less than 150 hp have avoided the early Etec model problems experienced by the large versions. My 75 hp sips gas. fishinwrench will have the best info.

I managed 20 minutes on the water this morning.

Sears on line.

J Doc: Don't know if you are mature enough to have read Buck Perry's stuff in the old Fishing Facts. It swore by controlled depth trolling and used his "spoon plugs" to comb the contours up points and humps from shallow to deep. The other variable to him, besides depth was speed. He always hunted for the active feeding bite first then went after the triggered reaction bite if the first option did not work.

Amen.

That is also striper area.

I used the green until I switched to the depthunter. It changes colors every 25 feet: blue, yellow, green, orange. Every five feet it has a hash mark. You can dial in a certain length very accurately.

2.5 is a great start point. I have had 2 mph days and 3 mph days. One year, many years ago, on Broken Bow in Oklahoma (another mountain reservoir) the fish were stacked at a 22 foot thermocline and wanted the bait to bang off points so fast I swear my daughter could have skied behind the boat.

Smalliebigs, That is the manly behavior I try to teach. My respect, sir.

I hope so too!

Quill, You get the point. We work on jobs, culture, and community as the solution to bad schools. Not vice versa.