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Fished from daylight until about noon. It was disappointingly slow, I though I had some things figured out from last time I was there, but they pulled the old switcheroo on me and left me buffaloed. I caught 3 bass, biggest was a 15.5 inch meanmouth. They did not want the Keitech at all today, caught one spot on it and the other 2 came on the Ned, and they didn't seem to want it too badly either. Fished deep, shallow and in between on locations that should be producing this time of year. Caught a striper that I didn't weight but might've gone 4 lbs. on a Keitech, and that fish was close to the bank. Fought pretty hard on the spinning gear.

Here's what's on the Corps website: Special event or activity permits will not be issued; those permits that have already been granted will be considered for revocation based on the Center for Disease Control’s guidelines. So I interpret that to read that if a permit was issued prior, than a tourney could still be held unless the Corps revokes that permit. The State Patrol has Regatta permits issued for quite a few tourneys in April on TR. I am speculating that the tourney directors also applied for their Corps permits at the same time, so I bet there will still be more tourneys happening.

Crappie may not be up on the banks quite yet. How big were the gills? Were you getting them on crappie jigs?

Pretty much so, I don't fish mid to upper part of Beaver much anymore.

Once it gets warm enough for the wake boats and all the other water lice, it could get ugly out there. This may be the year I take up basket weaving.

I talked to somebody that said the Eagle Rock lot had a BUNCH of rigs.

Last I heard it was still out off the bank and sideways.

Yes, I haven't seen the whole thing, have about 15 minutes to go, but it was high, I think they said about 6 feet. It was up a lot more earlier that year so it had come down quite a bit. Fishing was decent for an early fall fishery, they aren't catching a lot of bass, but some decent quality, couple of 4 lbers. Largemouth and spots, haven't seen a smallmouth yet.

Some slime in places, but it wasn't but an occasional annoyance.

Yeah another thing that peeves me is this arbitrary assignment of dates when things MIGHT reopen. Covid isn't going away anytime soon, it's not going to miraculously disappear by say May 15 s an example. We need some benchmarks on when it will be OK to reopen things so that people can plan for when to get back to work or school.

12" bass are pretty tasty, no need to feel guilty about keeping some if they are overrunning a lake.

Today on the Outdoor channel. I believe 1 PM central. Probably will rerun Friday AM.

One of the annoying things about this whole outbreak is that every government organization, federal state, county and city are issuing their own guidelines and rules. And it's a daily thing, doesn't seem to be any long range planning or thinking going on, just a lot of day to day reaction to the latest news or appeasing the media who are asking the same questions over and over again at the seemingly endless news conferences being held at every level. Govt. needs to be working on making sure food gets to grocery stores, utilities still function, health care supplies are getting to where they need to be and so on, rather than closing boat ramps. My latest annoyance is this recommendation at the national level that people should wear face masks - well where the bleep are you going to get EFFECIVE face masks? And I do take this whole thing seriously, I'm not a naysayer.

Might be time to send some emails to local politicians and the governor. No need for a fishing ban. I imagine most pols are not serious fishermen if they go at all, and they probably have an image of opening day at a trout park as to what fishing is.

This years' Classic will air on ESPN2 at the following times: Something to watch, this year's Classic will air in 3 installments (times are Eastern): April 5, 11 AM Day1 April 12, 10 AM Day2 April 19, 10 AM Day3

Something to watch, this year's Classic will air in 3 installments (times are Eastern): April 5, 11 AM Day1 April 12, 10 AM Day2 April 19, 10 AM Day3 On ESPN2.

Market has certainly taken a hit, but this has been a long Bull run since, I believe it was March 2009 when the S&P 500 bottomed out around 670. Don't know the exact close today, but I believe it was around 2450. I've always looked at things with a long view, and I firmly believe we'll recover from this, my view isn't as long as it used to be now that I am 62, but I'm still looking out to about 20 years. The one thing you don't want to do unless you are in financial dire straits is sell at a market bottom.

Nice boat, fish should've treated you better.

Those are some great fish, congrats!

Dude, you struck gold!

I have an uncle who is an avid fisherman, he has 2 sons, my cousins, who absolutely will not go fishing. My uncle would force them to go fishing with him when they were kids, and it just ruined them for fishing.

Just got back from my weekly trip to Wally World. They've made some changes - you can only use one entrance, there's a sort of barricaded pathway you take to the door, and every 6 feet there's a sign telling you to maintain 6 foot distance. They had a gal passing out shopping carts one at a time, she was wiping them down before giving it to the first person in line, and there wasn't really a line, store was about normal as far as the number of people in there at 0930 on a weekday. The store was fairly well stocked, fresh meat and hamburger available. However still no TP or hand sanitizer.

Good idea on the plastic bag!

Well I am eyeballing people a little more closely in the store and I will wait for someone to get out of the way if they are front of something I want, basically I avoid getting close to anyone. I also keep my trips to the store at a minimum.

Nice mask Randy, and good on the folks that are making them. If don't have sewing skills, there are tons of UV Buffs out there still (kind of surprises me there hasn't been a run on them), made out of stretchy material and in a pinch you could probably use one to hold a filter.