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Skeeter, you have my apologies. It was my understanding that you were indeed advocating vigilante justice, which would only compound the crimes already committed. I obviously misunderstood your meaning.

Good to know, huntest. I've always had high regard for their products (except for the leakage issues). Anyone who spends the loot these toys cost deserves top-notch customer service if they have problems with it.

I shopped and thought long and hard before choosing Humminbird over Lowrance. Both have their advantages but it was the customer-service issue that swung me. When Lowrance first introduced the HDS series, they had big problems with the units leaking. One local guide who I won't identify told me he went thru SEVEN units in less than a year. And instead of things improving with their customer service, the horror stories only grew with all of these bad units coming back for replacement. That was several years ago and I believe they have the leakage issues fixed now. Not so much with the customer service, or so I hear.

mjk86, I believe there's more value in the GPS/2d sonar package. I have 998 Humminbirds on either end of my boat and the downscan is a nice toy that I'm still learning how to use. But all of your really good dropshot/spoon guides on TR will tell you they use 2D sonar as their primary view. I just believe the GPS would be far more useful to you than downscan.

Table Rock has "pretty" fish. Their markings and color is always just perfect and they hardly have a blemish on them. Nice job, Quillback. Might have to ease up there early Saturday morning and capture a few before the lake lice start buzzing around and the big wake boats start tearing up the water and playing their rap tunes at ear-busting levels. Bring on fall.

Hmmm, pulling water that hard would almost have to mean a pretty good ledge bite up in the James on deep crank baits, fb jigs and C-rigged lizards. Might even be able to slow-roll a swimbait like a Keitech Swing Impact on a weighted head off some of those ledge drops and channel-swing bluff ends. Haven't been up there to test it ... mostly just thinking out loud but it's food for thought. In addition to LOZ, which Bill mentioned earlier, the James fishes somewhat similar to Truman. When they're pulling water for power generation in the summer, it positions the fish pretty predictably on the points, bluff ends and channel drops. When they shut the water off, heaven knows where they go. Actually, I believe they bury up in the brushpiles or just rest until the water starts moving again. Table Rock's dam is not as big as Truman's, so it doesn't create quite as much flow. But it does create enough to activate the bait and the bass.

Glad it was of use to you, flyman. Not only are Bill and Pete very generous with their info, you can take what both of them say to the bank. Also, I believe Pete stores some older reports on his website as well. Not sure how far they go back but might be worth looking into.

Guide Pete Wenners posts a very detailed video fishing report on his website at hookedonbass.com. He fishes a lot in the James River area, so this weekly report always has some good information from up there.

Comments like this just put fuel in the tanks of the liberal gun-control wackos.

True words one and all. If you don't pay attention to the dock part, take the last part to heart. You CANNOT beat on these Table Rock fish in the least bit. They will clam up and not bite again until you go home. Been there, done that.

Don't do that, Denny. Then I'd have to hit the MOB (man overboard) button and make that stupid little man-falling red icon on the screen forever. Not sure I ever got rid of that one where I hit that button by accident when we were at Eufaula.

I wanted to go this morning but the threat of unemployment followed by poverty and hunger kept me home.

Troller, thieves have existed since that fateful day in the Garden of Eden when the first sin was committed. It isn't a ,matter of society being tolerant, it's a matter of accepting the fact that people are going to steal things. Hopefully all of this "testosterone talk" about vigilante justice is just talk. Otherwise, Bill is dead-on right that you are putting your personal freedom at great risk by attempting to kill another human being ... thief or not. There is a price for the convenience of parking your boat and gear in a dock in full sight of the human vermin that are thieves, and that price is that it might not be there when you get back. That's a simple fact of life. Bill and the others of us who trailer our boats are not the criminals here. We simply acknowledge the above facts and take steps to protect our belongings.

We are definitely having to change the way we fish, particularly in the hot-weather months, or suffer the consequences of not catching many. The glory days of beating the banks are long gone. I can still throw my power-fishing baits but I've had to significantly adapt my techniques. Used to be a guy could catch good fish up shallow 8-9 months out of the year. Now that's more like 2-3 months.

If you want to save yourself some time and get back on the water ASAP, take it to Fred at Ulrich Marine in West Branson. He will take good care of you.

Obviously the ol' White River summer pattern is on ... sum-r-here, sum-r-there. Run bluff ends all day and hope you come up with five decent fish. Sounds like the better bite is down the lake from KC to the dam.

Nice report, rps. Glad you had a good day and came home with some meat.

Nice Walter indeed.

To answer for QB, that's a Zoom Ol' Monster in the Candy Bug color.

Sounds like a great idea, J-Doc. Look forward to checking it out.

Hey gitnby, we had just gotten home from the dealer with it the day before, thus the ArmorAll on the tires, although not a bad idea for future reference. : Good thing that porta-potty isn't actually IN the boat coz Donna would never catch anything.

Donna and I are up that way quite a bit, too.

Glad we bought our new one in December. We were actually able to extend our Mercury coverage out to 7 years. Since we tend to hang onto a boat for a good while, it was the way to go for us.

If you have to worry about your fellow competitors ignoring this rule, then you have much bigger problems. A cheater is a cheater. He doesn't discriminate... not for long, anyway ... when it comes to breaking rules. He'll break every one of them if he believes he can get by with it.

Glad it's not that darned easy for me most of the time. I'd probably get bored if I caught them at will like some folks.