abkeenan

Nice report and pics. Thought about coming down this upcoming weekend but the FLW boys (200+ boats) will be launching out of State Park. So I am not fighting those guys plus the already crowded dam area on a weekend. Think I will just come down the following weekend and hopefully the temps get back to normalcy. Leonardo DiCaprio isn't looking too crazy now I guess. Just kidding, he's an idiot.

Nailed it. Well said.

Don't remind me. Make it quick. Make it painless. Please.

There isn't a dock roof in all of Beardsley that doesn't have lead "hail damage" from me.

Quit fibbing. There aren't any libraries in Arkansas, nobody in the state can read.

No wonder why your fishing reports are always a day or two late. lol.

I never knew you were my neighbor! Should have known it was you with all the paint chips in my motor cowling and lower unit from flippin' my friggin' dock stalls.

Nice report Quill. Nice healthy looking fish. As far as the pontoon....just about every time I go out now I see a boating maneuver I've never seen before...and not in a good way. Speaking of pontoons, I saw a Harris Crowne model filling up on gas at State Park Marina last time I was down. I've always thought of pontoons as nothing more than floating barges that can accommodate a large group of people. Very basic, very boring and not much in terms of performance but do the job their were intended to do. Our family has a Bennington tri-toon and it does a fine job for what it is. Then I saw that Harris Crown. I must admit they are sharp. I don't think I could justify spending that kind of $ on a pontoon but they are neat in their design. I will give them that much. The one I saw had a 350 Verado off the back of it and I see on their website they have models that can carry twin outboards. Not sure how long they have been on the market but that was the first one that I had seen or noticed on the water. So you don't have to google them:

I get emails from OA when a member sends me a message here. So not sure why I didn't get the mass email you sent out. Either way thanks for the heads up on this developing (literally) situation. Seeing Table Rock trending towards being LOZ is nothing short of a nightmare.

Haven't gotten anything as of yet.

Great report and screenshots. Thanks much.

Thanks for the report and looking forward to the videos. Be sure to post a link when your son gets it up on youtube. Although I hope it's not another BS Fishing report.....heyoooooo!

Captain probably wanted to see how all these 20lb+ sacks are being caught with his own eyes.

Nice pics and report. Clevenger?

Does frost accumulate under bridges?

I thought I told you to stay upstream River Rat. You come down stream and I'll give you the paddle alright. You and I are agreeing in different a round about way. The 4 or 6lb test is going to be better for the small baits due to casting distance and not inhibiting the action of the bait. All I am saying is that I USED to believe the fish would have a better chance of seeing the 8 or 10lb over the 4 or 6lb line and thus spook the fish. I don't believe that to be true anymore after the umbrella rig ordeal.

Hahahaha. Exactly. But, I mean, Wally "Mr. Crappie" Marshall uses yellow line and he is the master of that finicky fish. So again, line color I don't believe matters much, if at all. But yeah....I wouldn't be caught dead using it.

The A-Rig deal forever ruined me giving two rips about fish being able to see the line. Before that I was still cognizant of line size/diameter and color/transparency. Only thing that matters to me now is how the line affects the bait I am using. So line type (mono, co-poly or fluoro) and diameter as it relates to breaking strength, amount of stretch, rate of fall and cranking depth is all I care about these days.

Isn't that the truth. I guess golf and fishing are similar in that regard....just when you think you have it all figured out....next time out...wham! El stinko! Swing plane is off and you can't hit a ball straight to save your life. Or think you have the fish figured out and go out the next day.....not a sniff!

Roland Martin does.....how do you think he came up with the fool proof Color-C-Lector?

That video makes me think of line also. Remember when Cajun Line came out with their red line? Using the info suggested in that video was their selling point that red gets filtered out first thus the Cajun Line was the most invisible of all lines. Also, remember when red hooks were the rage? You will get more bites on a red hook than a bronze or nickel hooks. But if red is filtered out first wouldn't those hooks be LESS visible to the fish or completely invisible beyond the 15 foot'ish range? Quite a few people also use green mono on Table Rock as it blends in with the natural green tinge/stain that lake has for most of the year. But according to that chart green is in the mid range, if not beyond, of being filtered out last. How does that make any sense then? Just like anything else you can take data and skew it anyway you want to argue your point. I guess in the end it gets back to fisherman being a gullible group who falls for snake oil marketing time and time again. And I'm okay to be part of that group!

That's a heck of a round Vernon. Especially with your meltdown stretch of holes and from the tips no less. The thing with golf is that you have nobody to blame but yourself for a poor round. But with fishing there is quite an array of reasons to blame for an unsuccessful outing: too calm. too rough, too windy, not enough wind, lake lice, too sunny, too late, too early and if none of that works......it wasn't me the fish just weren't biting. Just one of many reasons that fishing > golf.

I'm not much a mudcat like you river guys. Only time I fish the brown waters is when Long Creek is chocolate milk after TR gets hammered for a few weeks or month of rain. A few years back it was as muddy as I've ever seen it. There was a good jig and shallow crank bite there as a result but that is a rare event to have that much color. I think fish in those conditions are using their ears/lateral line for thump/vibration to hone in on meals more-so than fish using their vision in clear water. That's the only reason I would think that maybe having that bright yellow or solid black might be a little better in those super lo-vis water situations to help get some more attention. But yeah, in the end they are eating the same stuff as the rest of the fish in the lake.

What's his phone #? lol.

I am on the side of giving color a little too much credit most times. I like to keep things natural looking since I fish the clearer section of the lake around the dam. So I don't throw a lot of chartreuse or black which guys in muddy water typically throw. I stick to greens and browns on pretty much all my soft plastics or craw imitators. Any moving baits like swimbaits, spinnerbaits, topwater, cranks (non-craw/wiggle wart type cranks), jerkbaits, etc I am usually throwing a shad pattern in various forms of whites, smoke, silver/chrome and stuff that flashes. Bass are an aggressive species and will attack just about anything that moves in the end. But upping your chances of getting them to commit by matching their normal forage only makes sense and of course should lead to more fish to the boat....in theory.