Quillback

Better check mine - I have Cox, if they pull this "Sports Package" extortion thing, I'll be a little upset myself.

Yikes! Did they just cancel it recently?

Saturday - Rain changing to snow - going to be a good day to watch fishing shows, and playoff football, and college hoops.

Seth - I am on cable and they show it as a new episode on Bull, sounds like they screwed it up on your channel guide.

I was watching some outdoor cooking show a few years ago, can't remember its name, but it was something along the lines of "Eating nasty critters". They went out and shot some crows and then cooked them, I can't remember how they cooked them, but they claimed they were edible. I don't plan on trying them myself.

Maybe they heard you, they did show what they were fishing for the most part. But I hear you on the fish swinging, it gets to be too much at times. I record it myself, one of the reason is that I can fast forward through the commercials and some of the repetitive fish swinging stuff. They give a pretty good look at the buzz frog deal that was working well on the top water fish.

Monday AM I was getting the boat ready to launch at Big M. There was a rig parked in one of the spots at the top of the lot and as I was getting my boat ready I heard a kind of thumping noise coming from that trucks bed. I looked over and I could see a crow perched on the bed and the thump was still going on. Had to walk over and check it out, got close and the lookout crow took off, and his buddy in the bed flew out. Looked in the bed of the truck and there was a bag of deep corn, which was obviously what the bird was working on. Got the boat in the water, the crows went back at it, but the guys who had launched were across the lake so I motored over and told them about it. Saw them back at the dock at the end of the day and they said they when they went back, the crow had worked a small hole in the bag, so they put it in the truck cab and got back to fishing. There's always a couple of crows around that ramp looking for something to get into. When I park my truck, there's usually one sitting on the boat gunwale looking for something to pilfer. Fished Monday and Tuesday, fishing for me was not too hot, caught a couple dozen bass on the Ned rig, with only three keepers. Weather was pretty nice, so I am not complaining, I enjoy getting out. Talked to a couple of people that were fishing jigs, they aren't tearing it up, but they are getting a few with some being decent sized.

Talked to a couple of guys that were pulling out at the Big M ramp, they said that it took 18 and change to win.

The show was interesting, I expected those guys to target spotted bass, but it was mostly flipping cover or throwing topwaters on the bank for largemouth. Another show this Saturday.

I have seen them with the buggy flag deal, and that is good. I don't want anyone to think I am mad at kayakers, I might get one myself someday.

Dang kayaks, they are becoming a 'thing' on the Bella Vista lakes too. Should be illegal to own a camo painted kayak unless you are duck hunting. They are hard enough to see as it is, but going out in the lake with boats buzzing around at 50 mph in a low lying camo colored kayak is nuts if you ask me. If we're going to have any new requirements, then maybe we should focus on making those boats more visible, as in bright orange, pink, or chartreuse. 😄

That's a line stretcher there, congrats!

My grandpa on my mom's side of the family wouldn't fillet a fish because he considered it wasteful. So when I visited my grandparents as a kid when we had fried fish, I spent a lot of time picking around bones. I miss my grandparents but I don't miss trying to eat those whole cooked bream. If I'm going to eat a fish I fillet them. Only exception I used to make was to cut chinook salmon into steaks for grilling.

I'll bring the dogs, I think I saw someone else is down for the chili.

Good grief, those spots are fat!

Some tanks you have there buddy, congrats!

I'll bring the utensils, cups and so on. I'll keep an eye out for any that are bio-degradable. I'll also bring the small charcoal grill that I had last year. I can bring dogs and buns too. Be great if someone brought some chili for chilidogs. 😜

Couple of the lakes here in Bella Vista are overpopulated with 10-12" largemouth, they are pretty tasty, on a par with walleye, crappie. I'll keep a few walleye and a striper or two, and some bluegill, and that will do me for a year as far as fish. Sam's sells some fresh salmon rolls stuffed with some kind of shrimp stuffing, it's pretty good. I have eaten wild trout, hatchery trout, trout from rivers, trout from lakes - I don't think it's much better wherever it comes from.

Hey buddy, come on down!

I think there is a lot of that going on.

Regatta listings show only one tournament today, out of Mill Creek. American Bass Anglers, 30 boats. Only two listed for the entire month.

Love those fat spots!

M&M had done the research and has determined that Saturday, March 21, is the best date for our annual tournament. Putting this out as an early alert. Haven't gotten the permits yet, anticipating that we will, but once Mike gets the permits we'll make it official. Come on down!

Did you decide not to be a ref?

Yep, like it when it is on local lakes, I see it as a fishing show more than as a competitive event. Birge did whack them on that spot, amazing how many bass were there.