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Don't forget Table Rock Craw. I'm surprised no one has come up with an Arkansas Craw color. 😄

They are biting right now, key is locating them. When you find them, they'll bite. WT 60-62 today.

I might come over there for a day, depends on driving conditions. Is Brett doing a fish fry?

Next time you see Phil ask him about the brown bears in Alaska.

I remember this attack - I used to fish the Kalama when I lived there, so it caught my attention at the time. WDFW searching for cougar, alerting residents after Kalama River angler accosted | Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife

Hard to tell by the pics, but looks pretty scrawny, might be a youngster that got kicked out of another cats territory. Washington had a population of a couple thousand, and with all the time I spent in the outdoors hunting and fishing, two times I caught a glimpse of what I thought might have been a lion. 30 years ago you could hunt them with dogs in Washington, PETA types ended that, they can still be hunted, but pretty tough to get one without dogs. A handful get shot every year by deer and elk hunters. So now that they aren't hunted enough to keep the population under control, they can be a problem.

Looks to be true. Mountain lion killed by Missouri deer hunter, investigation underway

Hey Devan - Did you use the ladders or fish off the bank? Does not look like anyone else is around either.

They have them on sale for $3.75 at Lurenet.com.

Thanks for the trip Dutch! It was a slow day. Nice day however, saw 72 degrees on the way home.

Another warm November day, when I hit the road in the afternoon it was 72 degrees. If you like to fish in the dirt, you can take a left out of Big M, head down lake a few miles and you've got brown water. Stay around Big M or head upriver and it is relatively clear. The fish are biting if you can find them. I caught a few spots in the Big M cove on a top water before I launched the boat. Once in the water, found a good-sized school of spots on some flats, caught some there on small swimbaits, Ned rig, and jig. Called some friends of mine that were on the water, they came over and caught close to 50 of them on spoons and jigs. All spots with a few keepers mixed in. I had some fun with that school but wanted to try some other places to see if they were holding fish. Found a few here and there on the crank bait and finesse jigs. Caught my best bass of the day, a 3 lb. LM, on the crank bait. One of those days where I got a lot of bites but had trouble hooking them or keeping them on once hooked. Can't explain it, it wasn't like they were hard bites to detect but just could not turn them into fish in the boat. I bet I missed 20-30 bites. Had fish chase baits back to the boat, had one that came out of the water after a ned right as I lifted it out of the water. caught it out of the corner of my eye, so didn't get a good look, but it was a smallmouth, crazy fish they are at times. One of the crank bait fish had 3 of his buddies follow him to the boat, had that happen a few times when fishing the spotted bass school. Fun day, lots of action, put 22 with 4 keepers in the boat, but should've boated more. WT 63-64

63-64 yesterday on the upper White.

Love those smallies!

I saw Marty's hand at the Squirrel Cookoff. The recovery was amazing, you'd never think it was as bad as it was.

KVD was working those cranks pretty fast. I tend to fish them a little slower, might have to speed up.

A bit of a stain for sure, could provide some opportunity, water is still fairly warm, get a bit of wind and could be a good shallow water bite.

The seller has not been back since posting this. Hey Boej, if you're legit, let us know, otherwise this will get deleted.

@bfishnThat's pretty neat, except for the marriage killing part of it. Those Waltons are up to something, they had that fairly large land purchase a year or so ago, but have been pretty vague about what they are up to.

KVD fishing during the Big Bass event held recently. New show that will run in 2025. Catching smallies on a 3XD, looks like fun!

Thanks - All this time I lived here I never knew that place existed.

Just curious how you got cold water to raise trout, how many you raised and where you sold them?

Drove over to Indian Creek today to check the ramp. All is well, the ramp has been moved up, water is clear and did not see any wood floating around. Since I was going to the lake, might as well do a little bank fishing, so I brought a spinning rod and some small swimbaits. Pretty windy and the waves were crashing onto the bank. It creates a mudline in the water that in places goes out into the lake from the bank 5 -10 feet. I caught several smallmouth that were either at the edge of the mudline or right in the dirty water. None of them were of any size, but I did lose one that was a good fish that I only got a glimpse of. It was fun, I get a kick out of walking the bank and catching a bass or two. I planned on only making a few casts but wound up fishing for close to 3 hours.