Quillback

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I am fine, kind of an old man slow motion fall onto the carpet. And in all seriousness I blame Minnkota for a bad design on their lift cables.

Something else that happened to me yesterday on Beaver. My STEEL trolling motor lift cable snapped, this isn't the lousy nylon one that comes with a Fortrex, but the lousy STEEL Minnkota replacement cable that I put in after the lousy nylon one snapped. Just finished installing a TH Marine steel replacement cable. I think I am going to start replacing them every 2 years as a PM procedure, falling backwards into the cockpit is not good. Again, I have to wonder, coincidence, or is it the 'Vernon Effect'?

Talked to my buddy Ken today, he kept some of the stripers we caught yesterday and cleaned them. What was interesting is that he said they appeared to have not spawned, females had egg sacks and the males had sperm sacks. I thought that was interesting that these fish would still not have spawned by now and that they are still down by the dam.

Something I'll keep in the bac of my mind and maybe try it this fall.

Fall planting might be worth a shot. I planted some broccoli seed once in early August, the time it is recommended to plant it here for a fall crop. It came up fine, but cutworms got every one of them. When would you plant the Choy seeds for a fall crop?

Never have tried the Choy. Did you plant it as seed?

I don't fish squarebills enough. But when it is on, it's a fun way to fish. I like the ghost colors if the water is clear.

Text of an email I received from them: District 1 biologists collected adult Black Crappie, Redear and Bluegill Sunfish from Beaver Lake to stocked into the nursery pond to produce fish that will eventually be stocked back into the lake. The nursery ponds allows adult fish to spawn and the young fish safety from predator's to help with successful growth. The pond will be fertilized to provide ample food for the young fish and the pond will be released in late summer or early fall. Staff finished the collections on March 5th and Redear and Bluegill are very close to spawning, by being present in shallow water and appearing full of eggs. Fishing should be good right now for these tasty fish!

Vernon you are scaring me, this bad weather arriving at the same time you do can't be a coincidence. I had to turn the heat back on last night for crying out loud! Anyway, hoping you find some good fishing!

Way to go guys! Hearing some good reports from the area I fish too. Once this weather gets back to a place that my delicate constitution can handle, I am going to give them a shot.

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That's why I still have my 8 year old Humminbirds. I keep waiting for them to finish with rolling out the new technology because I'm afraid if I buy something now, it will be obsolete in 6 months. 😃

2/3 of the water in that lake comes from Arkansas, you Missor-ites should be thankful we let you fish there. 😃

Looks like one to me.

That would be challenging, to get one to bite on the fly, but today was a day when I bet you could've.

I only harvest the stuff that the buzzards are pecking on - you know then that it has properly aged.

Called my buddy Ken yesterday after I got home and we decided to get out early and see if we could find the stripers again today. I always worry when I run into some fish and invite someone to go that we'll get there and won't be able to find them, but they were in the same spots today that they were in yesterday. We had some really good top water action early, from daylight until about 8 or 8:30. We boated eight stripers, and had a couple others to the boat that got off. Shad appear to be spawning, the stripers herd them up near the bank and go to work on them, they don't stay up long so you have to get on them when they do come up. When they get going on those shad, they lose their minds and will just destroy a top water. I was using an Evergreen SB 125, and Ken was tossing a spook, but I believe any walking type bait will catch them, the key is being there when they blow up. No really big ones, our fish were in the 4 - 10 lb. range. Ken kept several for the frying pan.

From the videos I've seen of the production lines, the workers are masked up, wearing some kind of coverall outer garment along with gloves. I'd speculate that wherever they are picking up the virus it is not in the plant unless it is in a dressing room or some place where people are gathered together.

Got to the Indian Creek launch about 0545, there was one boat there already getting ready to launch. Couple of guys that are always there when there are stripers on that end of the lake, when I saw them, I thought it could be on. Started fishing not too far from the launch and the stripers were feeding on top, not crazy schooling activity, but mainly isolated blow ups. Caught 3, not big by striper standards, but 4-5 lb fish. Had a couple of big ones take a swipe at my pencil popper but never made a hookup on a bigger fish. Only lasted about an hour, then they pretty much shut down, except for one last striper that blew up on the deep side of the boat when I was working the bank for smallmouth - he took 3 swings at the bait, and on the last swing he touched it, but didn't get hooked. Smallmouth fishing was tough, caught 7 and one spotted bass, biggest smallie was 17". Threw 3.3 Keitech on a 1/4 oz head for the smallies. Forgot to bring my camera, couple of cell photos.

Man if I saw someone shaking as they advanced towards me needle in hand, I'd be outta there. Got mine at Mercy in Rodgers, first one wasn't bad, but the second one was a little sore and I felt a little off that day. Sure beats getting the shingles though, that stuff is nasty. I get the annual flu shot, insurance covers it, it's painless, don't see any reason to not get it.

I'm not worried too much about myself either, but I am concerned about others in my life. And I am certainly more careful.

Those pills can make a man feel mellow. However the messing up of the digestive process made me get off those things as soon as I could.