Quillback

They have the Spring Classic Sale which I believe is still going on and they mail out a circular for that. This World's Fishing Fair deal is a new event. I have not seen anything published as to what will be for sale.

Love redears, some nice ones come out of the Bella Vista lakes, but they aren't nearly as abundant as the gills.

Nice bluegill, getting close to the time I like to fish for them here. I'm ready for some fried gill fillets!

Good job Jacob, 14th out of 246 boats is pretty good.

It was 49 in a couple of places near Big M, a couple of days ago, so 48 would not surprise me.

The online ad just mentioned that there would be stuff on sale, but didn't mention anything specific.

Most likely wasn't going to go, but hearing that, not going for sure.

Watching some live coverage, couple of 3+ just landed on jerk baits. They are using the FFS/jerk bait combo. Watching Jordan Lee work a Stunna, just giving it a couple twitches, pause maybe 2 seconds, twitch, repeat. He caught one of the 3+ doing that. Vinson just caught a 2.1 spot fishing a JB around docks. Steve, you might want to bring a few JB's with you. 😃

Used to use the para cord/split shot thing steelhead fishing. Steelheaders called them "slinkys". But it was a c-rig style set up, slinky-swivel-several feet of leader with a gob of salmon eggs.

That's some great fishing Mark! I would volunteer to hold down the back of the boat for you tomorrow, but have stuff to do. Good luck!

Got some bites, but small fish, 22 bass and a couple of short walleye. Only two keeper spots that squeaked in just over the mark. Caught more than half on the Ned rig, but maybe another 7 or 8 on the "Free Rig". Free rig, if you don't know, is basically a Texas Rig, but instead of using a bullet weight, you use a cylinder type drop shot weight. And the drop shot weight needs to have a wire loop rather than the clip on line tie so the line slides through it. I fished it dragging a full Zinker. Fished the banks in coves dragging it on the bottom, caught one here and there, but mostly spots, thought I would have shot at some sizeable largemouth, but other than a 14" LM, it didn't happen. Nice thing about the free rig is that it does not snag nearly as much as a T-rig. WT was 49, big wind started blowing around 10 AM.

Hey Steve - There's a BPT going on there right now, don't know if you know about it, but if not here's a link where you can watch the coverage. It will at least give you an idea on water color and what the pros are catching them on. We Are Bass Fishing - Major League Fishing I have fished it a few times, only had one good day there and that was with jerkbaits in the fall. The lake has a reputation as a good crank bait and jerk bait lake and it sure wouldn't hurt to pack a few jigs. I like the area on the south side of Monkey island, several coves to poke around in and the main lake bank is facing south. Where are you launching at?

That cutt is a neat looking fish.

Keep it coming Marty, I enjoy reading this stuff. You probably know about this guy they found frozen in the Alps that died roughly 5,000 years ago. What is neat is his clothing and shoes and how it was made. They also found some stone tools with him. Ötzi - Wikipedia

OK, guy is trying to sell a boat here, posts not related to that have been deleted.

A couple of lakes here in Bella Vista have it. Loch Lomond, the biggest lake, I think around 700 acres, got it pretty bad a few years ago. Grew right up to the top of the water, but the lakes group runs mowers on it, kills it around docks, and introduced a bunch of grass carp. They over did it last year and just about wiped it out. However, the bass population exploded on Lomond. I was having great days fishing 1/4 oz kastmasters over the weeds, perfect size to imitate the small shad whose population also exploded. Very healthy fish in the 1-4 lb. range, a blast on spinning gear. And the best bite was in late August through September when all the other lakes around here are slow. Well last year wasn't so good once the milfoil was gone. Plus word got out and the pressure was unreal. Sure was a hoot while it lasted.

That's interesting that people are releasing them. Hopefully over time the other species will adjust to them and won't be such easy prey, because it doesn't sound like the snakeheads are going away or can be exterminated.

HAHA good one!

Never found any bones there. It was probably a village site where they lived as that whole area flooded annually in the spring. The mound is gone now, farmers in that area have manicured their land to where it is as flat as a pool table. Used to be quail on the farm that lived in the fence rows, but the fence rows are all gone too. My grandad had 200 acres, grew cotton and soybeans and made a good living doing so back in the 50's and 60's.

I remember that Blackwater being mentioned and the article said pretty much what you are saying - to get to the good snakehead fishing you needed a kayak. Didn't realize fishing for them had gotten popular, but makes sense, they fight hard and are good eating.

Not a big trout fan myself from an eating standpoint. As far as baked, I would cut up lemons and onions, put into the body cavity (whole trout, gutted with head on), put some butter pats on one side with some more lemon and onion slices, then sprinkle some paprika on it. Wrap it up in aluminum foil, bake at 450 until done, might take 20-30 minutes. You can also put them on charcoal or on a campfire and cook them that way. If you leave the head on, when done you can scrape the meat off one side, then lift out all the bones in one piece by lifting the head and pulling them out.

I recently saw or read something about snakehead fishing in that area and they mentioned some places on the eastern shore that were pretty good fishing for them, dang it wish I could remember where I saw it. Anyway it sounded like they might be worth chasing and provide some good eating material.

I agree. Just doesn't seem to be taking hold on Beaver.

My grandad has a farm in SE MO that had an Indian mound on it. The mound wasn't high, kind of a rise in the ground. Used to pick up broken arrowheads there when I was a kid. My uncle, when he was a kid, picked up a shoe box full of nice points, when he went off to college my grandma tossed them. She was a practical woman, those points were just junk to her. My uncle never forgave her for that. 😄 Found a few broken ones here and there while chukar hunting in Washington. Also found a few places where they flaked points - flakes and chips all over the place but no points.

The slime is showing up on the lower end of Beaver too. Water is real clear this year. Also getting some milfoil, the milfoil doesn't seem to do to well, it's been around for a few years but it has been pretty sparse.