Quillback

Based on what they are saying, my 2 cents is that it is more about water usage and flow. Down stream farmers have been getting flooded out the last 2 years and I think they are trying to figure out how to manage water flow to avoid flooding.

Thought some ,may be interested or may want to attend the Branson meeting. https://www.arkansaswater.org/21-newsflashes/415-a-state-and-corps-of-engineers-white-river-basin-study

Saw this on another website, they are having a meeting in Branson, thought there might be some here that are interested. https://www.arkansaswater.org/21-newsflashes/415-a-state-and-corps-of-engineers-white-river-basin-study

A buddy of mine in Washington used to fish about 6 times a year, he was always buying tackle however. I used to kid him about buying stuff for his future "tackle museum" because he was never going to use it all. Another buddy of mine is always asking me about what I paid for anything I pull out of the tackle box. He'll ask me "What did that set you back?". I like to mess with him and tell him, "This is a special order color of Zoom Trick Worms, had to pay $49 for this pack."

Just saw that Daiwa now has come out with a Tatula "Elite" version, one is specifically made for skipping/pitching. A mere $250. Don't know what makes it any better than the SV version, unless this is a move to end the SV and come out with a reel that has the same features, but with a new name and a heftier price tag. Bastages! I remember when the first Tatulas came out they were on sale for around $90 and I think I remember seeing the SV's in the $130 range on sale. At those prices it was a good value, put it up there at $250 and there's a lot of competition.

Got an email from them a few days ago - they are going to be adding a bunch (50) tree based attractor sites on Swepco this winter. Much needed IMO, the trees in that lake are getting pretty degraded.

I'm a fair weather striper fisherman, I like May and November mainly because I like to go out and look for them on top. I am not looking for monsters, I'm not geared up to deal with them, perfectly happy to get fish in the 6 - 15 lb range on my bass tackle. My neighbor caught a 35 lber a couple of years ago around that May timeframe - out chasing blowups but I believe that he caught it on a Storm swimbait.

Fishing today on one of the Bella Vista lakes, there was a huge flock of teal hanging out, hundreds of them. Did not see the Billethead however.

It's on the page where you build your team, one of the columns for the anglers is "Own %".

Never have fished for redfish, have to do it one of these days. New Zealand would be neat, but I'll never do it. Striper fishing in the late fall off the east end of Long Island (from the surf) would be neat to do, but that's another trip I will never probably do. Surf fishing off the Carolina coast. Lake Michigan (Wisconsin) for smallmouth.

That's pretty neat, you'll have to keep us posted on how it goes. Now I'll be able to watch MLF and when I see you, I can jump out of my chair, point at the TV, and yell - I KNOW THAT GUY!

I think I've told this story on here several years ago, but here's a rerun. I was on a guided trip with a couple of guys from work off the west coast of Vancouver island. We were trolling for cohos, and it was one of those deals where the guide set up the baits on downriggers. What he'd do was take a preserved anchovy that he marinated in some kind of proprietary concoction, rig it on a treble hook, let out about 50 feet of line, attach the line to a downrigger ball, and then drop the ball down about 30 feet. Well when he let the line out there was a few seconds of time where that anchovy was sitting on top the water before he could get the line attached. One time when he was going through this process a sea gull swooped in, grabbed the anchovy and got hooked. So the guide, who apparently had this happen before, just dropped the ball down (the gull did not pull the line out of the release), taking the gull down under water. He left it there for a minute or so, brought up the ball, and handlined the gull in. The gull was about half dead and didn't resist at all when he de-hooked it. So we started to troll away, leaving the gull sitting on top the water where it was sort of feebly flapping it's wings trying to fly. About 10 other gulls showed up and started flying around the gull on the water swooping in on it from time to time and all of them were just screeching and making one heck of a racket. I'm watching this, and all of a sudden the other gulls scatter, and an eagle swoops down and grabbed that poor gull and flew off with it. Saw some whales on that trip also, I forget the type they were, but they were feeding on herring, they literally encircle a school of them, then they come up vertically from underneath the herring school until their heads would break out of the water, and they'd come up in unison in a circle. Now I didn't catch anything weird on that trip, saw some unusual stuff. Caught a few ratfish in Puget Sound, that is one weird and ugly fish.

Yeah I am still waiting on one of those sponsorship deals myself.

I have quite a few reels but don't have a single Lews. Maybe KVD can talk me into one. 😄

Yep, wet those bunks. You can get some pretty stout winches with lots of torque that will pull a fiberglass bass boat onto the trailer. If your Jon is aluminum, you can get a winch that will easily handle it, I bought one for my trailer, I can crank it up there if I need to (19 foot fiberglass bass boat), but power loading is my preferred method. I'm 62 with an artificial knee. If necessary I can back my trailer way in, far enough that minimal cranking is needed on the winch to get the bow to the roller - what happens then is that the boat won't be centered on the trailer, but if I slowly pull the trailer out, the boat will self center. It also helps to get either a step built onto the front of the trailer or one of those ladder deals so you can get off the bow of your boat to get to that winch without either trying to balance on the trailer rail or just jumping straight down onto the ground or water, which you don't want to do with a fake knee.

Just took a look at the field. One thing that really stands out is there are favorites, usually 2 or 3 in each group that are heavy favorites. Zaldain in group A is at something in the 40% range of being selected. That's a pretty safe pick and it would not surprise me if he won this thing. So do you gamble and go for someone else? Because if everyone is picking Zaldain oyu're not going to gain much ground by picking him. I'm leaning towards C. Johnston in that group myself, thinking a Canadian ought to be able to get it done on that lake. But, he's a pretty popular pick too.

Cool, you guys got some nice bass. Surprised to hear of all the rec traffic this time of year, but maybe it is due to the heat. Haven't been over to the Rock in a while, but should be soon.

Reading the link above it say that they reproduce sporadically which may explain why some years they are around and other years not.

Have some fun with them:

Didn't know they were in the lake. Pretty neat.

Pfffftttt...I bug him all the time for stuff. He's really good about getting it out ASAP, usually I get what I order from him in 2 days.

Well we have a couple of guys, SupremeKeenan and Bassmaster#1 that have a realistic chance of winning the TW group. Usually we're pretty secretive about who we are going to go with, but I think it would be fun to hear some opinions on who to go with on the AOY tourney, and maybe we can help those guys out - assuming they want our advice, they might be better off going with whatever got them where they are.

Uh-oh, going to be a run at the tackle shops on Fall Craw Bandits..😃 I don't mind catching 14-15 inch bass, on the right tackle it's a lot of fun. And why fish unless it's fun?

Good to hear, I think we have finally broken out of the hot weather cycle.

Cool, looking forward to hearing what the District 1 fisheries guys are up to. Used to be available on the website, but when the redesign of that website happened a couple of years ago, there was an info shutdown as far as fish stocking, habitat projects, and survey results. I do commend District 2 for keeping the public informed and doing a good job of letting us know what they are up to .