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Sorry RPS I am unable to work this out, looks like I will have my son and possibly one more in my boat. Was looking forward to some secret walleye locations. Hopefully you can throw in with someone else. Good Luck! Past winners 2015 - Kbillb 2016 - Little Jasper 2017 - Carl W 2018 - Kbillb 2019 - Kbillb 2020 - Chip Covid 2021 - Kbillb?

RPS my son may be fishing with a buddy this year, if so you are more than welcome to fish with me. Unfortunately wont know for sure until next week.

Quill, my son and I are in. RPS, I will bring a salad of some sort. See you all then.....always a good time!

Had a similar deal on Saturday. Leaving Carter about 3:30pm, look both ways not a boat in site, cross the lake at a 45 at about 1/2 throttle. Start coming off plane about 100yds from the bank when some knucklehead in a white skeeter flies between us and the bank.....couldn't have been 30 ft from us. Maybe my bad for not peeking over my shoulder when crossing the lake, had my hoodie cinched down. Fished for 3 hours with smithvillesteve. Caught 2, one keeper on a small swim bait and one short on a jerk bait. Spent most of the day repairing cpvc pipes under the house. Was able to get hot and cold to the kitchen sink and water to the downstairs toilet. Still got some work to do, man we take that water for granted!

OK, got my schedule worked out. My son and I will be there to defend! Will bring a salad. Looking forward to it!!

Thank you all for another great tourney!! Enjoyed meeting and visiting with folks. A great day by our standards with 6 keeps, all scrubbing the rock crawler in transition areas on the main lake. Not much going on up the creeks for us. Had a great week with friends and of course fishing with my son!! Quill my son actually won the first tournament, I will get you his moniker if you care to update the past winners. A couple pics from the week....... KVD has nothing to worry about😏.

My son and I will be there. Champ, you guys wish I was throwing an A-Rig, cant catch a fish on that thing 😢. Quill, I will bring something green unless you say otherwise.....the cucumber salad seems to be good luck. Looking forward to it!! Oh and Ducky, thank you for the very cool plaque!!

Good stuff! Maybe just me but all my Megabass jerk baits seem to suspend nose down.......more so then other JBs?

Cucumber salad.

Hi Quillback I'm in with my son Austin and will bring a side dish like coleslaw. Will get Austin's member info.

Good call on the tourney cancellation!! Fished thurs-sat from Eagle Rock to Shell Knob with my son Austin, Smithvillesteve and a buddy. Pretty good bite with several keepers each day. Ned, jerk baits, jigs and cranks was the deal for us. Water temp was low to mid 50s. Although more color up the white better bite for us was around SK. We were there so went out for a few hours sat afternoon, pretty dang cold! Decent bite though, this healthy smallie would have been our best fish at just short of 20. Austin also caught his personal best, a beautiful fat healthy 22 LM on Thursday. Several nice eyes caught on windy points soaking deep running JBs. Austin cant make the new tourney date but I will try and be there. Gotta love Table Rock this time of year!!!!

Hey Quill, I'll be there with my son (AB_TableRock). We will bring a dish, not sure what yet.Good Luck and see you Saturday!

Thanks Champ and Vernon. No worries Champ, you deserve it and we won't tell Donna. I also ordered a couple, one as a Christmas present for my son. The only thing that gave me pause on these Tournament Lite's was the carbon vs the aluminum frame. Hopefully they will hold up as well as some of the other reels in the Lew's lineup.

Just curious if anyone has fished the Lew's Tournament Lite Speed Spools........LG1H or LG1SH? I see Cabela's has them marked down to $119 from $179.

got 2 for 119.....?

After working out some scheduling issues it looks like Austin and I will be there in attempt to defend the title. He tells me he did get signed up as an OA member. We plan on bringing food or something although not sure what. Will probably start out near Viney. See you around 14:30 at Eagle Rock. Hope we catch a break with the weather........have fun and good luck!!

Thank you Tim. Told him I would send you a couple of my old ones. I am on the road for a couple weeks but will send them out as soon as I get home. Very nice of you!

First off, a big Thank You to Quill, Bill, Phil, and everyone for putting together the first OAF Big Bass tournament! What a great event! I would have posted sooner but my air card didn’t want to play. Fished with my son Austin and we really appreciated the chance to meet the OAF folks that attended. It was also cool to meet and chat with some of our neighbors form Emerald Beach. All the food was delicious, and I agree the chili/macaroni dish and potato salad were awesome! Well Austin was fortunate enough to catch the winning fish and I couldn’t be prouder. He is a junior at UCM, no telling where life will take him so I always enjoy the times he fishes with old dad. You guys this is a big deal for Austin! He was cheesing ear to ear all the way home….I will always remember that boat ride. He couldn’t believe all the nice comments he received not to mention the goodies. Bo’s NuTech jigs, Dave’s Ned heads, the Lew’s rod and tackle from Sportsman’s Factory Outlet are all awesome and are more than a huge addition to Austin’s tackle collection. I did not catch the name of the person who contributed the gas cards but thank you. If I understood Austin also gets a couple of paint jobs from Tim Hughes, if so that’s great. The trophy is on prominent display and will always remind us of an amazing day. Apologize if I missed anyone, very generous of all you folks, Austin and I are truly grateful…….Thank You! As far as fishing we decided to run back to our neck of the woods and fished from Rock Creek to the mouth of the Kings. Started out fishing stick baits around timber on the main lake and picked up a few shorts. We worked our way back in to one of the creeks and found warmer water with some color. Well that was the deal for us, started throwing warts and caught several fish with 5 keepers on that stretch of bank, biggest being 17 inches. We tried a couple more creeks but no luck. Ended up going back to the creek we had caught fish in earlier and around 2:00 that’s were Austin caught our biggest of the day. Thanks again, the Champ (at least for a year) and I are already looking forward to next year!

Thank you Motorman! FYI the Overland Park store only had the blue lenses left, maybe 4 upfront in optics and another 10 or so on a pallet in the beverage section.

Emerald.......sounds good

Thanks Glenn, someone was asking so I passed it along. Probably saved them a trip. Sounds like a good idea just to stay away from the area for awhile. Good luck and I hope your wife buys the old stranded at the lake story.....never works for me.

If you are still there do you know if it's possible to get in and out of Emerald Beach? Thank you,

Fished from 2 to 4:30 Monday afternoon. Fortunately not as cold as I expected....very little wind and sunny. Stayed on the main lake and tried the spoon, deep crank and jig but no luck. Switched to a stick bait and ended up with 5 shorts. Went out again this afternoon for 4 hours. Again no takers on the spoon or jig and just a few shorts on the stick bait. Moved up the creeks and ended up with 3 keepers, all on the Wart. Best one a LM around 3lbs. Water temp was 44 to 45. The only boat I saw was the Dept of Conservation barge. Talked to one of the guys. He said they will be sinking cover from the Kings to Eagle Rock over the next couple of weeks. Apparently there will be a meeting somewhere around SK in early Jan where folks can provide input. Not sure of the details or if it's even open to the public. Happy Holidays!

Champ I have a 520c you could borrow, it's at my place near Viney Creek.

Thanks folks, my laptop died and I just got back to the real world. Redbud, a Staysee is a deep diving stick bait made by Lucky Craft. Fished the same areas Thusday through Sunday for a few hours each day. Not much luck on the bass but have been cathing walleye on the stick bait. Probably caught 10 over the last 3 days with 3 of those beeing keepers, biggest around 22 inches. Water temp has cooled down to lower 40s. Good Luck all...