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I left Holiday Island early enough to pass Eagle Rock before 5:30. Top water fished the mouth of Panther Creek. 11 fish, mostly small spots but I did score a barely legal largemouth and a 17 inch smallmouth before I moved on. I fished the finger points on the flat between Owl Creek and Rock Creek without success. I was throwing both my Top Dollar and a Mikey Jr. By 7:00 I was walleye searching. Between then and noon I caught well over 20 bass in 21 to 30 FOW. Three would have measured. I hooked 3 walleye. The best was the first, and the one that got off at the boat. The second was barely short and the third was barely legal. The walleye were all between 21 feet and 25 feet deep and hit a slow death nightcrawler. Water temp at HI was 78/79. At Rock Creek 82/83.

Josh: All of the TR regulars have stories about the riff raff. Unfortunately, the only way to avoid thee types is to be where they are not: On the water at 5:00 AM and leave at _:__ AM. On Bull Shoals. On the water at 8:00 PM and leave whenever. Mid-week not weekend. October and April. Having said that, I plan to go out tomorrow and fish until noon. However, my wife says I have no sense.

Moved here for the 2002 - 2003 school year after raising a family in Tulsa. Don't think anything could get me to move back. Moved here for the 2002-2003 school year after raising my family in Tulsa. Don't think anything could get me to move back.

http://www.ozarkanglers.com/table-rock/trolling-for-walleye/ http://www.ozarkanglers.com/white-river-walleye-on-worm-harness/

Now why would he assume you were from my state?

The recipe is solid, but the buttermilk bath has greater value for striper, white bass, and catfish filets. With walleye it becomes a gild the lily step, IMO. Buttermilk is acidic and will tend to break down the protein, but not as bad as pineapple juice. With striper and white bass, the effects are useful for the tougher flesh near the place you remove the red streak. On large catfish the area near the removed yellow streak can stand the same treatment. I use the buttermilk soak every time I want to fry chicken - of course I add a liberal amount of Franks Hot Sauce to the buttermilk. Give you some ideas?

Awesome!

Bravo!

To hit 20 to 30 feet requires several specific things: 1. Use 10/4 or 10/2 braid. 2. original series wiggle warts hit 26 feet down on 250 feet of 10/2 braid 3. Cabelas Walleye Runner hits 30 or 31 feet down with the same amount of line out Read the article I wrote for Phil that he has posted on the forum site for mor information. BTW Hunter91 and Powerdive know what they are talking about.

No one enjoys paying taxes, whether they be income, sales, property, luxury, excise, estate, or "sin" taxes. However, since Summerian and Egyptian times, many things that all of us want and demand are best acquired through all of us paying a share. Police, firemen, roads and bridges, national defense, meat inspection - the list is astonishingly large. This is the very reason I find those who demand across the board cuts in taxes so amusing. Really? You wanted only one lane roads? You want half your fire put out? A bridge that only reaches mid river? An army that fights half a day? Medicine or meat that may or may not be safe? Emergency declarations for Moore, Oklahoma but not New Jersey? Give me a break. BTW, Arkansas and Missouri taxes (of all types combined) are among the lowest in the United States, and the United States ranks low compared to most industrialized nations.

drop shot live or drop shot plastic? anyone gone to the spoon yet?

If you are like me, you don't pay attention because it isn't worth attention. For the brief period of time between the yellow journalism of Hearst and Pulitzer and the founding of 24 hour news as entertainment shows, you could find accurate, non speculative, and frequently unbiased reporting - if you were careful and learned how to read more than one source. As soon as rating and dollars began to flow from entertainment news, that short heyday of real journalism disappeared again. The NY Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, And LA Times and dozens of other legitimate papers - and the traditional network news - have had to adjust their approach to be more like MSNBC and Fox. Otherwise they die financially. Mencken and Murrow are crying.

They lost me with the E series. I had two self destruct. I have tried a number of alternatives since. In my boat now: Pre E series Shimano Curados on my walleye rods for trolling and worm dragging. Revo SX on my big jig rod (It will be the next replaced) Lews Tournament Pro on my crank bait and Mikey Jr. rod. Okuma Helios on my ex fast tip small jig rod. (This is an experiment based on a Tackle Tour very positive review) Revo MGX on my Top Dollar and popper rod. As I use the Okuma more often I will report what I think. As for the tournament pro, it is the one that keeps pace the best with the Revo MGX - at about half the money.

Although I am tempted to answer that it depends, I won't. Most years good top water action starts in May and continues through early July. The high point is usually end of May to about now. In August you might have a good day here or there but it is tough - unless a spontaneous shad massacre occurs near you. After the weather turns in the fall, we have a brief revival of activity. Through divine and inspired mess up I have not had a really great day this year, but others have. A really great day is 50 fish or more with one or more limits. I remain hopeful.

I fished the same hours up here at the other end of the lake. I threw my Top Dollar and a Mikey Jr. They preferred the Mikey Jr. 13 fish with three keepers.

Yes, but you fish it different. To get it started when you make a long cast, you put your rod up and reel fast to pop it up and into its wiggle. Then you can slow down. If you try to start it slow, it wants to run just under the surface.

Went out early this morning. Several small bass on a Mikey Jr. wake bait. As many missed as connected. Since I was not killing them on top water, I switched early to walleye fishing. I ran two rods, one with a real night crawler on a spinner harness and one with a slow death hook rammed through a Keitech Swing Impact 3.5. I fished 14 feet to 30 feet. I found bass at 15-16 and at 23-27. I ended with something over 20 fish with 4 keepers. I also found bluegill and catfish. Not one walleye. The Keitech caught more fish than the worm on harness. I ran into a friend from another message board and he and his two guests had six walleye in their livewell. The said 16 feet. I admitted they had bested me, but I didn't like it. For you who fish for bass exclusively, that Keitech on a C rig would put you on fish

Keep the 9 Wt. Put it in the corner and admire it as a relic of days gone by. On the other hand, brown trout over 10 and smallmouth over 5, in flowing rivers, might merit something more than a fairy wand.

beavers and other creature baits

Unfortunately, the morons to which you refer are doing exactly what the morons that elected them want them to do.

Yes Bill. Query to the crowd: At what point do we stop learning?

Been to the ER twice now. I own and use a boga grip with needle nose pliers - every time.

Jika rig a sweet beaver through there.