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It does look similar to Emerald Beach, and the background is fuzzy which I apologize for, but it is not Emerald beach.

I never have been in a situation where I had to shoot somebody, and I have not led a sheltered life. I'm more concerned about some of the lawful citizens who carry. A few months ago there were some car break ins in a sub division in Pea Ridge. 3 handguns were reported stolen out of 3 different owners vehicles. What were the owner's intents? Maybe they are worried they'll get into a road rage situation where they need to shoot their way out of it? There is no need to arm yourself when you go out for a drive here in NW Arkansas. I am not anti-gun at all BTW, have several myself.

That does look good.

HAHA, no, but it is close to Big M. Not Emerald Beach, BTW.

A 10 keeper day on Beaver is not bad at all. Spotted bass on Table Rock were biting really lightly too yesterday - must be the water. 😄

There was a good spotted bass bite yesterday, Ned rig was working well on bluff banks, steep rocky banks, and around timber. Fish were anywhere from 10 to 30 feet deep, most being around 20 feet. I'm either slowly dragging the Ned rig on the bottom, or hopping it down bluff walls, but it's a slow hop. For the most part they are really biting lightly, sometimes they'll thump it, but many of the bites are barely detectable even using braid with a leader. I'm catching very few largemouth or smallmouth, yesterday I caught 2 largemouth, and one smallie, but caught close to 20 spots. I did catch a few on a 110 sized jerk bait. I think if I would have thrown the jerk bait all day I would have caught more on it, but the Ned rig is just getting more bites for me right now. Got some background in this pic - who knows where it is? Broke Back fish - but he was a keeper! This post has been promoted to an article

I moved this thread, it hasn't been about Table Rock for a few pages.

Well I would like to try some of the new Ned style baits that are coming out, see if I can find anything better than a cut in half Zinker. Probably won't find one, but what the heck. I want to fish crankbaits more than I do now, maybe this will be the year. I want to spend more time pan fishing for bluegills and red ear, especially on Table Rock. Hoping for relatively stable weather in May and June and if so, hoping for a good top water striper bite. If Ham beings Waldo over to the upper White, I hope I can snag a ride with him.

Lear?

There's some shoreline access in the Holiday Island area near the marina, but across the road. The COE parks downstream, Big M and Eagle Rock have some shore access, but with the lake at 916 it is somewhat limited. Once it gets to around 910 there is much more accessible bank. There's also some neighborhood ramps in Viney that have a bit of fishable shoreline. Best thig to do is get out and do some scouting, you'll find places to fish. Just about all my bank fishing on Table Rock involves dragging a Ned rig - a couple of years ago, the lake level was at 907 in late February and myself and a buddy were catching a lot of bass from the bank. Walleye run up the White early in the spring, then there is a white bass run. You might be able to intercept some off the bank at Holiday Island.

You guys had quite a time. 😃

You ever use the Gallery? It will let you load up to 100 pics in one folder. Hit the browse tab above, then click on gallery. You'll first have to create a folder for your pics, then you can up load them. So what is your estimate on that brown that got away?

Fish fry with all the trimmings.

Had a great time, food was excellent, and so was the fishing! I fished one day with Ham and one day with Zigjigman. They are both good fishermen to fish with, very experienced boat handlers also, and I appreciate very much the opportunity to get out and fish with them. Friday I fished with Ham. we fished his Super Secret spot and I am not even going to mention what access we launched out of. We caught plenty of trout on Zig jigs, Ham is meticulous about keeping track of how many he catches, and me not so much. I was having so much fun fishing that I lost track of how many I caught, Ham probably caught twice as many as I did, but I think between the two of us we boated 100 trout. Mostly rainbows, a Cutt or two and Ham caught some good browns (I remember catching just one brown). Ham caught several browns making precise casts into the trees with a jerk bait as we floated down the bank in the main channel. I wasn't as successful in that as Ham was, but caught a couple of rainbows on the jerk, and got a kick out of watching Ham catch those browns. We caught some good sized rainbows on jigs, biggest was one that hit the 23" mark on the board (caught by Ham). Several more in the 18-20" range. I've got a few pics, sometimes not the greatest pics, but these fish are hard to photograph as the just won't quit squirming around and we want to get them back into the water quickly, so I apologize for the picture quality. Saturday I fished with Richard on the Norfork. The fishing was great, I doubt that we had more than anytime where we went more than 5 minutes without a bite. I did have a little downtime tying leaders and replacing lost jigs, but other than that the bites came fast and furious. We caught some good quality fish mainly in the trophy area, Richard caught an 18" rainbow which was our biggest I can remember, and we had a number of quality bows in the 14-17" range. All on Zigjigs. I estimate we probably caught between 50-60 trout in about a 4 hour window. Jig color didn't seem to matter a lot, I'd say tri-color olive is my favorite, and we also caught them on ginger, black/green and green/orange. There's a fair number of cutts in Norfork, I think we caught a half dozen, all quality fish. Only one brown that I remember. As an aside, Eric (N9bow) caught a 20+ inch rainbow right off a boat ramp, hopefully he can post up the pic. On Saturday we got out on the river a little late, Richard knew of a little food place, I think it is named Heidi's - it's about the only place in Norfork to eat, right on the main drag - she doesn't open up until noon in the winter, but she saw us looking in the front window, apparently we looked hungry so she let us in. She had a BOGO on these fruit turnover deals, I ordered a blueberry and a peach, they were delicious. Kind of like one of those Hostess fruit pies in appearance, but much tastier. I recommend stopping y Heidi's if you ever roll through Norfork. I believe she also makes sandwiches, and will soon be doing breakfast. And of course, there are tasty pastries. Kind of neat to be able to eat some good food, then mosey down to the river and catch fish. Here's some pics. The next to last pic with the fish in the net, is I believe, the 23" rainbow.