Quillback

The folks that lived down the street from me bred Pomeranians, well the wife did. They have since moved away, but the wife was thinking of breeding them again. Anyways they had a couple and if they were outside and saw me, they'd come running towards me barking all the way. They were combed out like cotton balls so you could not see their legs while they were running so it looked like they were levitating over the ground. Big panic one day when one of them disappeared, turns out the dog hid underneath a bed, but for several hours the search was on!

Sending up the bat signal for Marty @BilletHeadhe can make anything taste good. If he says they aren't any good to eat, then they aren't any good to eat. 😃

I bet they'll work. I know someone that boated a 7+ walleye on a Rapala Ice Jig a couple of weeks ago.

Just walking out on the dock is enough I am sure. I have to walk my dog several times a day, it is unbelievable how cold it is with that wind blowing.

Good luck Phil, it is cold out there!

Not me. What would get you is getting out of the water with that arctic wind blowing. Brrrrr......

Something has to control those darn cats.

Well, you don't have to worry about other fishermen getting in your way.

I'll have to watch it.

Just a dusting of snow here so far, but radar shows some on the way. I don't know how cold it is, but it is ridiculous out there right now.

Bfishn @bfishn, claims the stripers will be biting in this weather. Does make me wonder if there is anyone out there fishing on Table Rock, Stockton, or Beaver. Has to be a least one boat out there somewhere.

The leading edge of the front has just arrived. Walked the dog at 0500, wasn't too bad out. Now the wind has picked up and temps are dropping.

Good to hear!

No thanks.

They look like comfortable seats, what do you think of them Dutch as far as comfort?

Had to get out before the Big Chill. Not a bad day to be out, chilly, but the wind wasn't too bad. There were some bites to be had, 2.8 Keitech and the Ned rig both produced. I caught 13 bass, 2 of them were spots, but the rest were smalls. 4 keepers, all in the 15-16" range. The Ned fish I caught were in the trees back in Indian. Keitech fish were out in the main lake basin, rocky points with wind were good. Some fish were shallow, 5-10 feet, but you could get bites out to 25 feet. Fish are scattered, you have to keep your head down and keep fishing and eventually you'll run across some. WT is still at 51, but I bet we'll see a dip.

Nice fish, great pics!

I think I'd rather stand out in the dark, cold and wind than take a trip down old 71. That road was brutal!

"Bitter cold, windy, and dark." Man you gotta suffer to get an AR river sauger. 😄

Sounds like a neat place to fish except for that darned rip-rap.

It was my privilege to take you. Always good to make new friends too.

Might get a little sketchy in a few days.

Looking good!

Too cold for an early start today, so I waited until late in the morning and was fishing by 1100. Decent fishing today, there were some dry spells with no fish, but every once in a while I'd find a few grouped together and would get a couple of bites. My first three were on the Ned rig, but I decided to go with a 2.8 Keitech and that worked better. My two biggest smallies came in 20 FOW slow rolling the Keitech right off the bottom. The other fish ranged from right on the bank out to 20 feet. I caught a dozen bass, 10 smalls, one LM and one meanmouth. Spent all my time around the dam basin area, never went back into the trees in Indian. Only striper activity I saw was a couple of swirls near the dock at the Indian Creek ramp right after I got the boat on the trailer. If a feeding frenzy had broken out I would've gone after them, but a couple of swirls and that was it. I saw one other bass boat and a couple of rec boats. No striper boats to be seen. WT 51 Thought this mean was a good looking fish: My two best smallies: