Quillback

Pretty sure since Joe Bald is closed down as a COE park that it is free. I don't know the whole lake, but around Big M there are quite a few neighborhood ramps that are free. Viney has a couple, there's Emerald Beach, I know of a couple in Carter branch. I couldn't tell you how to get to them, but they are there.

Well I went out today and zeroed myself, well technically speaking I did catch 3 very small bass that putting all three end to end might have made a 15" keeper. Thought I had a pattern down with the Keitechs but nothing doing. I did have a good fish of unknown species break me off on a tree back in Indian creek. That fish was on a Ned rig. Shad all over the place near the top, why the black bass and stripers aren't feeding on them is a mystery to me.

I like Rainbow Shad and Sexy Shad in the clear water and in stained water I'll throw Sight Flash.

3 bad tourneys in a row for me, so now I am just playing for a 1 in 10,000 chance to win the week over the whole world and get the free stuff.

Yes, I also thought it was good.

Just saw the movie Anthropoid . It's about the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich by Czech agents dropped into Nazi occupied Czechoslovakia during WWII. It's tense and grim, but worth a watch IMO.

"lance you look like a strong young pup".

Launched out of Indian Creek, early in the AM, was hoping to find some stripers chasing on top, but there wasn't much activity. Think I saw a couple popping shad, but not enough for me to chase. Spent some time chasing smallies, caught half a dozen, 2 were keeper sized. What worked best for me was tossing a 3.3 Keitech on a 1/4 oz head in 20 FOW, letting it sink to the bottom, then slowly reel it in. I targeted rocky points and gravel points, but the rocks seemed to fish the best.

Looks like some great weather!

I'll let you know, Indian creek area would be a tad bit closer for you I believe than driving to Bella Vista. I think it still may be a little early for the fall topwater bite, but with the recent cold mornings they may be going.

Well good luck out there Bill. I think I will go over to Beaver tomorrow and see if there is any striper topwater activity, if there isn't then I'll be forced to try and catch some black bass and that could go badly. I wonder what the results were for the Homer Sloan last weekend?

Went back today, caught a few more than yesterday, but only 2 were keepers and they were both barely keepers. No nice smallies today. Caught some on the Ned and got a few throwing a 1/4 oz Kastmaster at fish on top. Had to get it on them right after they came up or else they would not hit it, fan casting around the boat does not work at all with that Kastmaster. Big M dock is in too shallow, it is useable, but today the contractors that move the dock came in as I was leaving and they put yellow tape across the front of the walkway as it is "dangerous" to use it. I asked them when they would move it out, they said by the end of this week.

Canada Craw and PB&J.

I have read a couple of reports where people have mentioned catching fish on the Ned rig, so I had one tied on this morning. Threw a buzzbait for about 10 minutes, didn't get a look, but saw some fish chasing shad so I knew I was around some. 2nd cast with the Ned and I hooked a pretty good fish that got off, so I decided to fish it. Action was decent, put 15 bass and a catfish in the boat. Mix of smallies and spots, did not catch a largemouth. 4 were keeper sized. Rocky points and steep rocky banks were holding fish, and I was getting bites in 10-20 FOW dragging bottom, except for a couple I caught throwing the Ned at shad chasers, ripping it and letting it drop. Looks like some great weather ahead this week, so I plan on getting out a time or two this week. Surface water temp 70 degrees.

Wally Marshall Crappie Classic is going to be running then too.

You could also fish the OA One Bass Virtual tournament too. You could win a boat from the Big Bass Tour and a plaque from OA!

Send Phil a PM describing your problem - I haven't heard of anyone else with this issue myself. Are you using a computer or a handheld?

Same for me, best guy is at 33. Got Keith Combs at 78 and Harvey Horne at 77.

Yeah it is hard to figure this stuff out - last tourney I picked a couple of guys from Michigan thinking they would have St. Clair down, well they didn't. I'm so far behind that I swung for the fences on this one and picked less popular guys rather than the highly favored ones, at this point I have nothing to lose.

Got out at daylight today and threw the buzzer all morning. Caught 2 keepers, neither anything special, and 3 shorts. Lost another keeper smalls that jumped 3 feet in the air and tossed the buzzer. Probably had 8-10 swirls and pops that missed the bait or barely grabbed it. Certainly not hot action but enough to keep me fishing the buzzer up until 11 AM. Fish were all probably within 15 feet of the bank, usually around rocky stuff. There were some out in the channel chasing shad but could not interest them in the buzzer. Threw a squarebill for just a bit and only caught a couple of micro-dink bass on it. Saw water temps between 71 and 74.

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No need to apologize, welcome and good luck!

Walking across the top of one of the dams on a local lake, dam runs east-west, had a pretty stiff wind blowing out of the west/northwest, probably 20 MPH or so. Saw maybe 8 or 9 monarchs come over the dam from the north and then fly south directly across the lake. You wonder how they can fly across a 20 MPH wind and hold a straight course but they do.

Interesting too that they are seeing rainbows that looked to be naturally spawned.

I need to fish it more, bit of a drive for me and it's all on I-49 through the traffic. AGFC has stocked walleye fingerlings in there, they were doing about 5,000 per year. Probably not a lot of them have survived into adulthood, but there could be some good ones in there.