Quillback

So what government outfit is this that you are loading up vehicles to react to Covid/riots? Ya'll getting ready to go to war?

It is in Bass Times, I get a paper copy, sorry don't have a link. I agree that missing a year shouldn't have a big impact. And you are right on hybrids, they won't be produced either, the article mentions that DeGray is the only lake in AR that now receives hybrid stocking.

Something about the workers have to be in close proximity to each other harvesting the fish they use for brood stock. The article did mention that largemouth bass production is still on track. No mention of other fish. Nothing on the AGFC website BTW, or if there is, I could not find it.

I think it is just stripers.

Read today in Bass Times that AGFC will not be stocking striper fingerlings this year due to concerns over COVID. the whole process involves people coming in close contact so it's been cancelled.

They are there, but 'Girthzilla' covered them up with it's big gut.

Congrats on the new boat!

I'd stick to the gills if the kids are happy catching them. Crappie are very tough on this lake, I would not even think fishing for them with young kids. If it was me, I would have them fish night crawler chunks on gravel - they won't get hung up all the time and you should be able to get a mix of species.

I've always wanted to check that lake out myself.

Ham made the trip over here today, we fished Windsor lake today for Bream. Great day of fishing, we had some slow spells every once in a while, but pretty much found fish all day long. Drop shot with red worms, fish were fairly shallow, maybe from about 3 feet deep out to 6 or so. I estimate we caught 75-80, I kept half a dozen and the rest were released. A lot of 7-8 inch fish, with a few bigger and Ham got big fish honors with a 13" Redear, biggest redear I have seen come out of one of these lakes.

Sorry about that gash - probably had that same wind blow through Bella Vista early this morning, maybe for about 10 minutes it really blew, would not want to be out on any lake when that comes through.

Went over to Hook, LIne and Sinker today to buy some red worms for some bream fishing. They had some Speed Wakes hanging on the wall behind the cash register. So making a trip to get some worms ended up costing $50.

So 17 hours ago when you first posted you had your wife's permission to buy this boat, you should've had it by now, assuming it's worth the $2K and it's what you want in a boat. Don't give your wife time to reconsider, when the window of opportunity opens, you have to take advantage.

Just saw that Wheeler won the FLW series (new name for that series) event on Pickwick last weekend. $38K in winnings - dunno if that is a boat, which is my guess rather than cash, but still a nice haul. Wheeler is #1 in my book.

Neat deal there Marty - I love peanut butter and honey sandwiches! Got my first brussels sprouts today. Snap peas are coming on strong, but the broccoli is fading. Got a mix to sauté in olive oil, butter and garlic.

I guess there was a protest in Bentonville last night, 1,500 people, police broke it up, fired some tear gas - at least that's what I read in the local news.

I was on a business trip to Syracuse NY several years ago and stayed in a hotel that was next to a park like area. Lots of squirrels and I think just about every one of them was black. I'm pretty sure it's a color variation of a gray squirrel, but even though there are tons of grays here in this part of Arkansas, I have never seen a black squirrel here.

Some really colorful fish, glad to see ya''ll getting into them!

Went back today, it was a little slower for the stripers. My buddy caught one about 6 lbs. and due to either knot or line failure I lost one - I could tell it was probably one of those 5 lbers, not some giant. A lot of it is a guessing game, you maybe have 2-3 hours of prime top water activity early in the AM and if you don't find them quickly it's tough. We just could not find them today in good numbers. The real kick in the pants was that when we got back to the Indian creek launch there was a guide boat and another boat that looked to be a guide pulling bait right out in front of the launch and we saw them boat one. Probably could've fished out in front of the launch and done better than making a five mile trek down the lake. Chasing these fish can be frustrating at times. Black bass bite was decent today, we caught 15 or so, mainly spotted bass on top water and Keitechs. They are schooled up in places and when you get on them you can get some fast action.

Nope, high water has chased me away and forced me to fish Beaver, aka, the 'Dead Sea'. 😀

It's an Evergreen SB 125. I believe the color is called American Shad. Solid piece of hard plastic, casts a mile but yet walks really well.

I've got a milk run set up, several locations that I've found stripers at fairly consistently this spring. I start out close to Indian creek and work my way up lake to point 5 if I can't find them at Indian. Made it to point 5 today as there weren't very many near Indian. There weren't a lot of blow ups today, but I was fortunate to catch them on the few bites I got, caught 2 on top and one on a Keitech. Still getting 5 lbers on average, but I think the Keitech fish may have been pushing 7. Caught a few black bass too on top and on the Keitech, didn't get any good ones to the boat but had a couple that were decent keeper sized that jumped and tossed the Keitech. Bite pretty much died about 8 AM. WT 71.

Launched at Indian a little after 5 AM in my buddy Ken's boat. We looked for striper topwater activity and found some, not any kind of crazy schooling activity but some scattered blow ups. We ended up boating 3 and losing 2 others. All on top except one on a swim bait. No big ones, 5 lbers once again. They pretty much stopped around 7:30 AM. Black bass were fairly active early too. We caught 3 smallies that were keeper sized and several spotted bass on top waters and Keitechs. We were off the water at 9 AM.

I'm sticking to the one bass format for now, we'll see how it goes. I am soliciting logos to attach to the jersey - if you're interested in one for your business to be put on the jersey, PM me the image, needs to be .png, .jpeg, or any of the other common formats. Could be just plain text too, but let me know what text you want.

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