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I'll definitely consult with Marty prior to going. For me it would be more of a generalized fishing trip than focusing on natives. Might be able to find some overlooked bass fishing out there too.

Good one for sure.

So anyone bag a grayling yet? Thought this was interesting (see link below). Sounds like a good place for a road trip, grayling, Colorado river cutts, tiger trout and maybe some big brookies. One of these days I am going to do a long road trip out west, might put this place on my list of places to visit and fish. Brook Trout Fishing - Utah Fishing Hotspots | Visit Utah

Thanks for the report. Are you using crawlers? Thinking about fishing them myself, would like to get some gills once this heat wave vamooses.

I'm told the ER in the Mountain Home emergency room has a wall full of lures that they've pulled out of people. Every time I hear these stories of people having a treble hook stuck in them with a fish flopping around on on one of the other points it gives me the willies.

That is sweet, congrats!

Well today I was thinking of trying a double fluke rig next time I run across some top water schoolers. Ought to get some doubles if they are really going at it. Ran across this blast from the past.

Alright now, that's enough bragging up of this particular spot, there's much better fishing available down the lake in Beardsley and Aunt's creek. 😀

La Brea tar pits - Talk about a sticky trap..

Even I recognize that spot. @rps

Mr. McClelland has made it to the next round. From what I gather, this tourney is a best 5 tourney, but operates under the BPT tourney format. Couple of qualifying rounds, then an elimination round and then finally a championship round. Winner gets $200K. At least that is my understanding. Anyhoo, Mike is still in it.

Kids, HA! I'll be there tomorrow. But seriously, good to see you got them into them.

That was my last double several weeks ago, couple of whites on a top water. One was about 2 lbs., the other about 8 inches. I really don't want to catch them, but sometimes they show up.

I told a buddy where I got those fish, he went there and they were gone. Maybe they did head up to the James. 😃 Of course they aren't the size you need for your tourneys, I love catching them, especially on top, but they aren't what I'd call tourney fish.

How about the Ichikawa "King Kong" designed by Rick Clunn? 3.5" long and weighs in at 1 and 3/16 oz. I like the looks, but that is a lot of square bill.

I agree, great write up! Well I see Mike McClelland is leading day 1. Weights are pretty low overall, big change from the last tourney.

Walking it. If I ever buy anymore of this lure, I'm replacing the split rings right out of the box.

Glad to see you guys had a great time!

Started at daylight, decided to work a top water down the bank. Fished about a mile of bank, caught 4 bass, one keeper largemouth. After that, worked a few spots with a Keitech, could not find hardly any fish, put one spot in the boat doing that. Now it was 9 AM and things were looking grim... I was working a gravel bank, going down the bank, not getting any bites, and saw a couple of fish blowing up about 100 yards away. Got down to where they were and they just started whacking my top water. There weren't a lot of them blowing up, but they were hot after that Evergreen. I was using an Evergreen SB 105 which has 3 sets of trebles, and during this top water craziness, they managed to mangle the two front split rings and pull the trebles off. With my Evergreen out of commission, I switched to a 1/4 oz Kastmaster and caught several more. Then it was pretty much over. Swam a Keitech for a bit, caught a walleye that was just short of being a fryer, after I released it, cast back right into the same spot and just got hammered, big fish, pulling drag, nothing I could do with it but let it pull drag when it wanted to, I thought for sure I had a super sized wallie, but after several minutes of fish fighting, it turned out to be a really nice channel cat. Put a couple dozen in the boat, mostly 12-15 inch spots with a couple of smallies and largemouth mixed in. There are dinky 3/4 inch shad all over the place, but where these fish were there were bigger 3 inch shad. No doubt in my mind they were in that spot because of those bigger shad. But after a while the shad were gone and so were the bass, I headed back to the ramp a little after 11. WT was 85 first thing in the AM.

Yep, good one, catching them on a square bill is fun!

Not for now anyway, if it becomes legal, who knows? 😉

This question appears on the form you have to fill out to purchase a handgun: Question 11.e. “11.e. Are you an unlawful user of, or addicted to, marijuana or any depressant, stimulant, narcotic drug, or any other controlled substance?” It's a yes/no answer. I answer "no" as I don't use marijuana or any narcotic drugs, but I would bet if someone checks "yes" their application will be denied.

I see this technology in my future. I get a lot of followers when I fish the Ned in the winter, I don't see them until they are under the transducer with my current antique sonar. Be pretty neat if you could see them following the Ned.