Champ188

I'm another member of the No Braid Bunch. For me, it's more trouble than it's worth on Ozarks highland reservoirs. As for casting, you gotta match the rod to the purpose and then do as the guys above say and let the rod do the work for you. I'm far more of a winder than a stagger and part of the reason I have the all-day stamina that I do is that I let the rod load and unload, which takes most of the work out of casting.

Live grasshoppers are a local favorite for catfish in late summer. The bigger the better.

It is commonplace to see trailers and boats without permits.

Yeah, hard to do anything with them in that case. Shame that some folks just don't seem to give a flip. Too bad the warden wasn't around to cite him for wanton waste of fish/game.

I was assuming they were still alive, even if only barely. I would not take home someone else's dead fish. On the rare occasion that Donna and I have killed a legal bass in the catching process, we will ice it down immediately and take it home.

NOBODY enforces the darn POA rules anymore, believe me.

Hope it holds up for you. Good luck with your fishing efforts.

Hope you took them home for dinner, moguy.

I can almost assure you that if you tell Ulrich you're here on vacation, they'll bust their hump to get ya back on the water.

Topics like that are evergreen ... with new people coming along all the time, it's critical that they learn the importance of taking care of the resource. Otherwise, you meat guys are gonna run out of anything to eat.

I brought up the subject but credit goes to aarchdale for supplying all of the how-to in his follow-up post the other day. No wonder his fish swam off unharmed after the derby he fished. He obviously knows how to take care of them and is diligent in doing so.

Now that's funny I don't care who you are 😂😄

Translation: We're now old enough to have taken the bait one time too many and are sticking with what we KNOW works.

An old fishing buddy in Jessieville, Ark., should be credited for that term. No one else could say "Boy, it's jest lizard hot" with quite the same country drawl as Gary.

Joe is definitely a good example of what OAF is all about.

When it gets lizard hot, shallow areas like the Campbell Point ramp lose all of their oxygen, so "releasing" them there is no better than tossing them on the ground in the parking lot. And they're already stressed from the livewell/weigh-in experience. It all adds up to a death sentence.

Aw man, I was really looking forward to another one of those reports about how easy it is to catch em right now, night or day, from one end of the lake to the other. 😆

Never gonna happen Vernon 😄

Probably right, Bo. May have to drag it down a gravel road on the way to the lake. 😀

My boat is cleaned up/reorganized and the motor needs a good run. Been 5-6 weeks since it's been in the water. Might go tomorrow (Friday).

Same goes for me. One of the blessed things about Table Rock is that on any given day there are several ways to catch fish. I am just not big on vertical fishing. Maybe I got my fill of that during the four years that I lived in Pensacola. I had a friend who owned a restaurant and I regularly helped him catch snapper, grouper and triggerfish. It got very old in a hurry dropping straight down to those things and reeling them up. I certainly do not want to diss anyone's brand of fishing. I'm glad we all like different things. Otherwise everyone would be trying to copy my jersey, steal my fishing spots and run away with my wife.

Productive outing all around.Thanks for the report.

I keep hoping I get old enough one of these days to stop getting mad when my fishing buds want to go home after a mere 8 hours. Or stop wanting to play a full round of golf after working 4 AM to 2 PM outdoors in the heat. Not there yet.

You da man, arch. Thanks for taking such good care of them. I've heard good things about that G Juice. Just haven't tried it coz I've always had great results with Rejuvenade. It is so nice to have a ton of members here who respect and care for the resource.