Quillback

Bringing the Germans with you?

Dang, they are proud of them! I wonder if they use a pre-Rapala wart?

Randy, they are still swimming, every once in a while I like to fry up some fillets, but not very often.

DJ, we may need all that stuff. I am starting to think maybe we should bring down brats and burgers and grill them one night.

Put the boat in the water about 7:15 AM and fished until 2:30. Is was a cloudy, misty morning with little wind. Started off on a long rocky ledge and stayed there for a good chunk of the morning, with the flat water there was a bit of top water activity, bass were coming up and swirling on shad. I caught several on a Pointer 78 and picked up a couple of good crappie also on the Pointer. Once the Pointer bite got slow, I switched out to the Ned and picked up some more bass, slow dragging on the bottom. Once the bite died down on the ledge I bounced around fishing some points and steep banks. The fish got squirrelly, I bet I had another 8 bites and every one of those fish got off. Only other boat I saw today was Tom from Eagle Rock, he was catching some too. I caught 13 bass, good keeper ratio today, 6 or 7 were keepers. WT 42-43 This post has been promoted to an article

Yep, looks like Mo Craw with a purple belly instead of orange.

Yep, I think FLW has done a good job. For me it's more about where they are fishing, if there's one live on TR or Beaver or Grand, I'll probably watch some of it. This Florida stuff, I watched a couple of hours yesterday, maybe 30 minutes today and probably won't watch anymore until Sunday and that probably won't be a whole lot. My 2 cents is the BPT needs to cut down on the length of their tourneys, 6 days is way too much in my opinion.

GoPros instead of a cameraman. All the big boat pro tours are about pushing product as much as competition. BASS live and FLW live have their commercials too.

Nope they don't fish out of kayaks or allow them in these tourneys. But there are kayak only tourneys where they don't allow bass boats. And those kayaks have all kinds of electronics also, depth finders, little power poles, electric motors, etc.,

Jut watched it. The guide sure seemed to be amped up, talking a mile a minute, he had good info but it came at you pretty fast. Surprised to see Cherry Creek is such a good walleye lake, it is right on the outskirts of Denver. Not much else close by, it has to get hammered.

Electronics not much of a factor in this tourney. Shallow Florida stuff.

Well good luck my friend and I agree, getting older catches up on us.

Well you guys got me to look at the Regatta page - it's a 6 day event, 40 boats per (well I did not check the number on the last day), that tells me it's a BPT event, not one of the cups.

There are some guys that wouldn't be fishing any differently if it was a big 5 tourney, Ish and Sporher (dunno if I spelled that right) being two of them. I've watched a lot of "Big 5" live coverage that can be pretty boring too. That drop shot fest on the MO river in South Dakota probably being the most boring one I've ever watched, not that I stayed with it long. To me it has a lot to do with what lake they are fishing and the techniques rather than what they are targeting.

Drowning is a bad way to go, I'll do my best to avoid it.

I know there is a wallie fisherman or two on here and looking through the channel guide today I see that the Jarrett Edwards fishing show is about the Slow Death rig, that's all the description has, but I have watched his show before and he does a good job and always walks though how he has things rigged. I think it starts at 1030 AM (Sportsman channel), and I'm sure there will be reruns.

I wear my life vest, usually will have the kill switch hooked up (If I remember to hook it up), and putt around the lake like a cranky old man. Why not have it all?

And BH, we are glad you are still here with us. I think at least 50% of the drownings on Beaver lake I hear of on the news or read about, are young people that either swim from the shore or jump in off a boat. Hard to know what exactly happens to them because if someone sees them when they drown, the story is they saw them struggling, then they went under and never came up. Sad deal when it happens.

Heck stock some in Table Rock, see if they survive. If they do, with all the shad present, could be some big stinking browns.

I always wear mine on the water, but haven't walked into a restaurant with one on (yet). Reminded me of this scene from Back to the Future:

It looks to be around 11 or so.

It was so bad they had me laughing. Looked to be a decent top water bite, but it was hard to tell as most of the time when they had a fish on they'd only show it when they were swinging it into the boat. I don't recall them saying one word about what the lures were so I have to assume it wasn't one of their sponsors products.

That is cold for a cottonmouth to be out. No wonder it was mad.

Way to go Lance! Sunday was a nice day, wish we could get a week of weather like that.