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Hope you can make it Les, boat or not.

Crappie Sampling on Beaver Lake Nets the Occasional Trophy Flathead Catish! Biologists in Northwest Arkansas recently conducted sampling for crappie in Beaver Lake, utilizing both trap nets and lead nets. This work yielded crappie ranging in size from 5 to 14 inches, with the largest individual weighing 1.5 pounds. Sampling will continue through December to finalize the evaluation. Flathead catfish occasionally entered the nets—an interesting observation during this work. Nets containing these large predators often appeared suspiciously vacant of crappie or bluegill, suggesting the catfish gobbled up the smaller fish! Trophy Flathead Catfish netted during routine Fall crappie sampling Trophy Flathead Catfish netted during routine Fall crappie sampling

That's pretty neat!

Looking at maybe fishing Roaring during the winter C&R season. Would a marabou jig qualify as a "fly"? Barbless, single hook of course.

Local news reported people were lined up at 4 AM at the Rogers BPS for the Black Friday sale. The heck with that, I went fishing! Started around 0830 as I wasn't going to go out at daylight as it was a bit too cold early for my delicate constitution. Spent the day bank beating throwing the ned, small jig, and Rock Crawler. Lots of nothing banks, but a few that held fish. Some main lake banks and one back of cove that had some shad. I caught 17 bass, 3 were barely keepers spots. Checked a couple of deep water places where Dutch and I killed them last November but right now they are barren wastelands. A little slow I guess, but I still enjoy getting out. Not too many fishermen out, rec boats are gone. WT 60, but that sure will drop with the cold coming in.

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Neat looking bow, lots of spots!

Hope ya'll have a good one!

Branson: Table Rock Project Office 4600 State Highway 165 Branson, Missouri 65616-8980

Take it to one of the Corps offices. I don't know what one is closest to you, I used to get mine at the Corps office in Rogers AR.

I've been checked twice in AR and I think 4 times in MO. Have not had any issues. Talked to a MO warden a couple of years ago in the spring and he said they were focused on walleye poachers at that time. Table Rock.

It's a Rock Crawler 55. Supposed to get down to 9-12 feet or something like that. You need a really long cast and relatively light line to get it down to 10 feet. There is also a mid-depth Crawler that is supposed to run 4-8 feet. Rock Crawler prices have really jumped, $12.50-$15 each depending on where you get them. Warts, as RPS mentioned, are more economical. They work pretty well too. Inflation has struck the crankbait market, prices are high.

Appreciate the response. Having comfy boots would be a priority for me as I would anticipate doing some hoofing.

Great photos! What did you get for waders and boots, and what did you think of them? Might be getting some myself soon, so reviews appreciated.

Forecast was for a cool, windy, and cloudy day and that is what it was. Based on that forecast I decided I was going to roll with a Rock Crawler all day. I did, and in 7.5 hours of mostly cranking I caught 15 bass with 4 of them being decent keepers. Smallest keeper was a 16" smallmouth, largest a 3.5 lb. largemouth. For those of you that fish the lower end of the lake, you know there are miles of good looking bank structure to fish a crank bait. I covered a lot of ground throwing the Crawler, lots of no bite bank, but when I did catch one there were usually one or two other bites to be had in close proximity. I had fun, but made a lot of casts and my 68 year old shoulders are barking at me this morning. With the wind, there was very little top water striper activity. I fished a few places with a Ned, but other than a couple of 4 inch smallmouth, nothing seemed interested in the Ned. WT 61-62

Sorry to hear of your condition, we've talked a time or two on the lake in the past. I'll email the guys in a local bass club and see if anyone is interested. If I recall, you are now located somewhere around Bull Shoals?

Cool - having live out there, there are certainly lots of possibilities for fishing salt and fresh. Chum salmon should be running up around Hoodsport WA this time of year, you can catch them wading off the beach. Of course timing is everything.

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