Quillback

I just about always use a Zoom Speed Craw. Green pumpkin/purple or Dirt. I have some Fries laying around somewhere, I bet they would still work, not too many people throw the c-rig anymore, fish don't see it that often.

Hoagies, yep. I was in Philly once for work, got a cheesesteak deal at the market that is downtown. It was pretty good, but the Philly types told me that was tourist food. My one and only PA hoagie experience. If it was a hoagie. Never have had birch beer.

Out early, beautiful sunrise. The fishing overall, is tough. Not many bites. Best deal for me was fishing a c-rig, it got me a couple of nice keepers. Caught a few spots out at 30 feet, but the rest were in 10-15 FOW. 8 bass total. Fished the banks on the main channel, didn't go back into any coves. Got checked by the warden. No short walleye in the live wells so they let me live to fish another day. 😃 WT 81.

I did some work in Bellville Ontario once, it's about 2 hours east of Toronto. Stayed there for a week. There were not too many places in that burg to eat. The hotel I was staying at had some of the worst food, outside of the Army, that I have ever had in my life. The other couple of restaurants in that town were just about as bad. There was a Subway, fortunately, and that's what I lived on while I was there. I can eat them (Subway), but compared to the mom and pop sub places that are all over the northeast, they can't hold a candle.

A goodun!

Never heard of a ribbonfish until now. If I caught one, I'd look at it and say there's no way this would be good to eat. But I'd be wrong.

I will pencil in Monday.

I remember 10 years ago an OK non-res license was pretty reasonable. If it $81 as you mention, that is disappointing. Quite a few fishermen from NWA fish over in OK.

Dutch and I were out at dawn, cool air temps and a nice full moon. We had a good crank bait bite last time we were at Cap Fair so we decided to start the day cranking. Pretty quickly we put 4 in the boat on a small square bill, three 12-13" spots and a keeper smallmouth. After that, things went south, despite quite a bit of effort and a lot of bank running, we never caught anything else on cranks except a couple of perch and a couple of really dinky bass. We went to the jigs and c-rig craw and scraped out another half dozen bass, a couple of them were keeper smalls. We mostly fished gravelly, rocky banks that were not too steep and I don't recall any of our fish being deeper than 10 feet or so. Off the water at 1100. I forgot to note the water temp. It's August, probably in the low to mid 80's.

Still some good fishing! A buddy of mine, fishing on Table Rock, ran into a school of walleye, he caught 8 on a jigging spoon pretty quickly, but only one made the 18" mark. The rest were 17-17.5, close but not cigars.

Looking good for sure!

Yeah, I'd probably think it was a piece of junk.

Amateur fossil hunter Eddie Templeton usually knows when he’s onto something. Having scoured creek banks in Mississippi since he was a kid, Templeton has made several stunning extinct mammal finds, including a mastodon mandible, numerous bones from a giant armadillo-relative, and even a saber-toothed cat’s foot bone. But his latest discovery may be the most unexpected. Templeton was wading through around 3 feet (almost 1 meter) of water in a creek in Madison County on August 3 when he stumbled across a giant tusk partially exposed from the mud bank. The conditions weren’t great for fossil hunting, he said — the water had been blocked from draining downstream and there were no exposed gravel bars — so he hadn’t anticipated making a find of any particular importance that day. Coming across the 7-foot-long (2.1-meter-long) tusk, which turned out to be completely intact, and sharing it with George Phillips, the curator of paleontology at the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science, proved him wrong. Phillips confirmed the tusk belonged to a Columbian mammoth, a distant relative of the woolly mammoth. Columbian mammoths lived during the end of the Pleistocene Epoch, making the fossil anywhere from about 11,700 to 75,000 years old, Phillips said. The tusk, which could be anywhere from 11,700 to 75,000 years old, was found partially exposed from the mud bank. - Courtesy Eddie Templeton “It was exciting to find a big piece of a tusk, certainly. But it was particularly exciting that it was a mammoth,” Templeton told CNN. “After the geologists got there, and we started uncovering it and realized that it was the entire tusk, from tip to base, it was even more exciting. So things just got better as the day went on.”

Close finish between Swelbo1 and Nomolites,

Dairon Blanco, 2 HR's last night including a grand slam, 7 RBI. Royals are now 4 games out of 1st in the Central Division.

That's an efficient use of a dozen crawlers!

Got hot quick yesterday.

Couple of sky shots from this morning:

Rained on and off all night, and still some T-storms around this morning. It was needed. A lot of lightning around 7:30 PM last night it was like strobe lighting out there. High altitude stuff.

Thunderstorm is overhead, getting some much needed rain. It ought to cool things down a bit too.

Nice pics. Looks shady and cool, but maybe not.

I am now toast. I started off well, but the last few tourneys have been brutal.

98 and there's still time left today to add a degree or two. Time for my afternoon stroll, I'll be packing some extra water. Looking forward to October. Which isn't too far away.