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Had my buddy Jeb with me this morning. A little on the chilly side early, but not a bad day. We had to work for our fish. I think we got maybe 10 total between us with a couple of nice keepers. Mainly throwing jigs and the c-rig. Best fishing was in the trees in Indian Creek, with the fish being in less than 15 FOW for the most part. We did go out on the main lake and try for smallies on the rocky banks, but we only had one that got off halfway to the boat. There were some scattered stripers blowing up in Indian, we threw top waters at a couple of them, but not bites. Little shad are everywhere in Indian, but other than a few stripers, nothing was chasing them. For whatever reason the bass weren't messing with them, at least not on top. WT 76-77

Nice looking fish!

Sounds kind of weird doesn't it?

Another attack. Fortunately no injuries. Trail association in Franklin County says 2 backpackers survived bear attack

I can't tell you which one was my first. I do have memories of fishing or being with my dad or grandad. My dad got out of the navy, went to school at Wichita State, and worked nights at the post office. He'd fish every once in a while, no boat, so local rivers and streams. He'd drag me along, I wanted to go and mom was probably happy to see us both out of the house to give her some peace and quiet. Once he was fishing the Arkansas river with me in tow. I wasn't fishing, but was there with him. The Arkansas was low at the time, lots of braids with some pools and generally a sandy river bottom and banks. I remember he was fishing a pool on a side channel that had a steep bank on the other side. That steep bank had some small holes in it. All of a sudden out of one those holes a snake shot out like an arrow right at us. I was maybe 4 years old at the time and that snake looked pretty big to me. I took off running and so did my dad. That's about all I remember, but I'll never forget it. I have never seen a snake do that again to this day.

OK, I'll try and keep that in the back of my mind, I'd like to fish it. Thanks for the BD wishes!

Maybe next year, it would be fun just to fish it once. None of my fishing buddies are tournament fishers, so have to do some arm-twisting to get a volunteer to co-fish.

I was looking for the results, should've looked here first. I fished on the upper White yesterday, caught some sub-legals on jigs and the c-rig up shallow on windy banks. There were a lot of people on the lake, a lot of bass boats and a lot of rec boats, mostly pontoons. Hardly any of the rec boats were skiing or doing anything except cruising up and down the lake. I have heard that Campbell Point is hard to launch because you have to back way in, but it must not be too bad if they held the tourney there.

Thanks - I enjoyed the video. If I could offer a little criticism - I fast forwarded past the spots where you were showing a sort of downward view of the front of the boat and the reel. I think it just looks better when you can see where you're casting. You do show that most of the time, which is great. Thanks again.

I am an early morning fisherman, one reason is I like to get through Pea Ridge before the morning rush hour and the school traffic gets going. It can create a half mile backup at the 4 way stop in the old part of Pea Ridge. There is a bit of a top water striper bite early and some bass also. I would think you could get some later in the day. Overall this is a tough time of year to fish the lower lake, I never do any good until about mid-November. But you can still catch fish, so what the heck, might as well get out and go.

What kind of food truck serves hamburgers? A patty wagon

One of these days I might get it. I have fun fishing without it, it's not that I hate it. I'd like to have it just to look around at stuff.

No final word, but looks like a bear is the number one suspect: Possible deadly bear attack under investigation in Newton County, Ark.

I've heard that from a few folks, that is, you can learn a lot just looking around with the scope.

Well it does look pretty good. Dutch and his wife were in Maine last year. I believe he said a lobster roll was something like $50.

Went over to Grand yesterday, fished for blues out of my buddy Kens boat. It was slow, we put 8 in the boat ranging from 1 to 4 lbs. Dragging shad in 25-35 FOW. We had some fairly old frozen shad for bait and that may be the reason for the slowness, fresh shad are much better bait, but we have not been able to net any. Lots of pelicans and egrets south of Sailboat bridge on and around the small islands. Monarchs are moving south, saw quite a few flying across the lake. Still lots of rec boats out and about, Grand is one busy lake.

It's amazing humanity survived those tough times without a can of Vienna sausages to fall back on when the going got rough.

No cave paintings of pizza either. Can you imagine how harsh life was without pizza?

They are all the sterile version.

Good deal! Fishing is always fun. Bunch of people out on the lakes too during the week. I don't know if anyone works anymore.

That's what it was - too much "grass". They over stocked, I don't know what formula they used, but it was way too many. I used to fish 1/4oz Kastmasters over the grass this time of year, and on a good morning would catch 20-30 bass in the 1-4 lb. range. That's gone - you have to work hard to catch 2 or 3 bass now. I thought I would never say this, but right now Beaver Lake fishes better than the BV lakes.

I can understand that. They need to remove the grassies, the lakes, manager stocked way too many grassies in Loch Lomond and they totally decimated the fishing in that lake. So now they need to be removed. Outside of dynamite, bow fishing is one of the most efficient ways to remove them.

I remember reading that one of the hairiest Coast Guard jobs is being on a rescue boat that patrols the Columbia Bar.