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Yessir, there were all kinds of shad in the idle zone - we fished in there for a bit, but didn't catch anything.

Cost of fun to me is whatever I have to spend to fill up the truck and head out fishing. I have a good old time catching spotted bass on Table Rock, or bluegills here in Bella Vista. Always happy to bring someone along. I do plan at some point to do some more travel and fishing, snook in FL, smallmouth up north somewhere, catch a big musky, redfish in the gulf, maybe do some Montana fly fishing, surf fishing for stripers off Montauk, there's a lot of fishing out there to be done. If I had Gates type money, I'd probably have a 1,000 acre pheasant hunting spread somewhere and a 1,000 acre private lake. Of course friends and family would be welcome to come on over and fish and hunt. I'd give a lot of money away too, that guy (Gates) has way more money than I could ever spend.

Shiners, good grief! Must be the reason for the long delay in posting the results, have to weed out all the cheating. If the rumors on all this cheating are correct it has me wondering if they'll do this thing again.

I think that is who I meant by Mike, took him off the lodging list, I now have us at 17.

Nice fish! I was out today, but not nearly as good results. Where the deep ones was last week, they ain't now. Caught a few on the Ned rig, a couple of deep ones on the grub and that was it.

Don't like them either, I always change them out. They are brittle too, real easy to break getting them out of a fish.

Got to fish out of the back deck of my buddy John's boat today which I appreciate. Fishing was a slow, we boated half a dozen small spots, and one keeper walleye. Kind of a weird morning. John caught the keeper walleye on a top water, I have heard of people getting one on a top water, but this is the first I have witnessed. Coincidentally John's wife had commanded him to bring home some fish to fry, so it worked out well to get that chunky walter. John hooked a good smallie on a crank and it immediately got hung on something that we think may have been fishing line. We could see the fish, it was a good one, I bet 3 lbs. minimum, it was about 3-4 feet down, and we made a couple of attempts to net it, but it was just at the limits of as far as we could get the net down, and the fish finally pulled off and disappeared - we were able to get the crank back. As we were idling thought the PC idle zone, we saw a hawk pounce on something on a rocky point. As we got close the hawk flew off carrying a good sized snake. Snake must have made the mistake of coming out to warm up in the sun. I have never seen a hawk get a snake before. Could not tell what kind of snake it was, but it looked to be 3 feet long. Even though we did not catch many fish, it was a good morning to be out on the water. Didn't see any striper activity or striper boats. Plenty of shad in the PC no wake zone.

Nice fish! I have found that sometimes those deep fish will be hard to hook and other times you'll get nine out of ten bites in the boat.

I don't have Jeff Timms on the list, I have Mario with Clyton? Maybe that was Clayton and I misspelled it? So I think we are still at 18. But if we're in the 17-19 area we still have room.

I have 18 people as of now. We've got the River Villa, Bunk Lodge, and A-frame reserved. We can do 18.

You guys done good! I know that spot. 😉

Watched them play the Shockers the other night. It was not a well played game. Mizzou looked really bad and the arena looked to be at least half-empty. Is the Cuonzo era over?

Yes, I think they call that Plum Apple Green or something like that. I have seen Champ catch bass on it over here in Bella Vista. That is his favorite "secret" color and model. 😄

I was more of an expert 12 years ago when I could really catch them on the JB. Last few years I have gotten really dumb on fishing those things. I have been getting a few on the Table Rock Shad color early and then they seem to quit biting it. There's been a little bit of top water activity early too and I'll throw the JB at them when I see them on top. Sometimes they'll hit it.

I read somewhere that Yamamoto sold his business to one of the fishing tackle conglomerates, can't remember which one.

Good to see another stretch of river restored. A lot of that kind of restoration work was and is ongoing in Washington. The big daddy of them all has been the removal of 2 dams on the Elwha river. Lots to read on that if you are interested, do a search on Elwha dam removal. Field Day Friday: A peek into the former reservoirs of the Elwha River – Wild Steelheaders United

Heard a 2nd hand report of a very experience TR fisherman that fished Big and Little Indian yesterday and had 2 bites with no fish in the boat. Bo always used to say that this lake can fish small at times.

Same old, same old, best bite was deep with the grub. They were a little deeper today, 40-45 feet. Shad were down there with them. 5 inch Yammamoto grub in Natural Shad. I believe they have stopped making the 5 inch in Natural Shad, you can get 4 inch, but not the 5's. I caught a few on the jerk bait early, but no size. Caught a meanmouth on the Ned rig, and all the rest of the bass I caught were spots. Caught 20 of them with 5 being keepers. There were not very many people out there today which surprised me, I thought with it being such a nice day that you'd be able to walk across the boats. I think I saw maybe 6 boats total today. Several eagles out there riding the thermals, always neat to see them.

Almost 5 feet long and 55 lbs. Man, that is a brute! Muskie weighed at UPS Store challenging Minnesota record | The Globe (dglobe.com)

Cold with a strong north wind blowing here. Getting ready to stuff the bird and then stuff the bird in the oven. Looking forward to eating some turkey with family. Happy Thanksgiving!

That's great! Man it was windy today, kept me in the house, but good to see you got them.

Slinkies were popular in Washington for steelhead and salmon fishing. I used pencil lead myself, get some hole punch pliers, you can snip off whatever length of lead you need, flatten one end, punch a hole in the flat end and hook your swivel up. Snaggier than the slinky, but a lot easier to make. I would use a baitcaster too, that way you can thumb the spool and let line out to let your stuff slide down with the current.

Glad to hear you can make it Eric - have you heard anything from Mike?

I asked him about a month ago if he was coming and he was undecided at that point.