Quillback

Watching Live Mix today - Zaldain sets the hook on a "Big One"! Turns out to be a drum... First fish I have seen hooked.

If BassTrakk is accurate it looks to be another TOUGH day. I watched some live coverage yesterday and a bit today and I have yet to see a fish caught. Tough time of year to be fishing around here.

My uncle rented a place for a few days that was about a mile or so away from the dam, this was back about 5 years. Went over there to fish with him one day and there were a couple of big walleye living underneath the dock. You could see them but it with the current and depth you couldn't get anything down to them.

Well this one should be interesting, fishing Tenkiller which is about 2 hours from my house. I hope to have some time to watch live coverage. Might be a front coming through Friday so could see some rain.

It wasn't a bad year for me, had really good summer squash, for some reason the squash bugs never were much of a problem. Tomatoes were good for most of the month of July, got some decent cukes and the beans were good early in June. Not much left now, wilt got most of the tomato plants, still have 3 plants left with a few green tomatoes so may get a few more. Planted some beans in early August, they are doing well and should get some in October.

I bet the worm, fished under a float, would work for steelhead when they are in the rivers.

I fish Beaver and Table Rock, and what has me scratching my head is that as far as I know they aren't closing down any of the Beaver parks, and down by the dam at Beaver there are 4 parks almost within sight of each other. It's a nice area to camp and very popular so I'm not complaining, but I see Table Rock as being much busier and from a business perspective Table Rock has way more resorts, etc., than Beaver. The COE folks at Beaver also seem to me to be faster at jumping on maintenance issues at the ramps too. One of the darn dock cables on the Big M courtesy dock has been broken for over a year and last time I was there it still wasn't fixed. I was trying to stay out of this thread because I know it does no good, kind of like yelling at the TV when you don't like what some politician has to say.

This was one of my favorite episodes, and it was downright scary when I saw it as a kid.

Yep, pretty much the way I feel about it.

Are they still doing new episodes? I watched one time and was done with it. I admit to being hooked on Gold Rush, I record it and do a lot of fast forwarding, but there's something about gold mining that I have always found interesting. Speaking of moving dirt, they move a LOT of dirt.

What killed Star Wars for me were the gun battles where the storm troopers would fire about 7 bazillion rounds and never hit anyone. But, when the first one came out the special effects were pretty neat, at least for that time.

That's not bad, you found them and got some bites which is tough to do this time of year. Come back late October into November and they should be biting top water. They are tougher to fool in the fall than they are in the spring for some reason, but I was able to catch a few last year tossing tail spinners at the boils.

Some good bream fishing to be had around here. I only fish for them once or twice a year, I keep telling myself to spend some more time chasing them.

Man you think they would change that rule, so many bass fishermen are now using braid with a leader.

Wow, that longer than 6' tippet thing is indeed crazy.

Cool. I bet no one in the world will have a setup like yours for weighing and reviving those big boys. Mr. Morris needs to get a replica mount for the display room they have at the aquarium.

Don't know where the State Park launch is - down by the dam? I don't follow the stripers once it gets hot, but spooning should work if you can find them. They should be down in the lower end of the lake now.

That is really an incredible fish, congrats Bill!

Wow, what a beast! Congrats Bill!

I don't know that area you're fishing in, but I know that down by Big M where I usually fish it can be really tough unless you're on the right spots. It's a tough time of year too.

Good deal, glad you and the family had a great time!

Nice chunky fish!

My grandad was a Missouri Bootheel farmer and back in the 60's they left pretty wide cover on the fence rows, I can't remember how wide, but I guess 30-40 feet. There were always quail around and they lived in those fence rows. Farming practices changed, and there's just nothing left for quail in that part of the state on those farms. Last time I hunted out in central and western Kansas there were quail around on public and private property.

They are practically extinct around here. They are creating a bunch of quail habitat on the Pea Ridge battlefield, but you can't hunt there. Edit: Pea Ridge battlefield not Prairie Grove.

I was grouse hunting in Washington state, for spruce grouse, which was usually a futile effort, but the season opened for grouse before the other upland birds opened. Out strolling through the woods, dog started circling and sniffing around the base of a big spruce tree, didn't see any birds, no points so I thought he was probably sniffing some varmint. Finally got him out of there, walk away abut 30 yards and hear that loud noise game birds make when they are flying and watch a couple of grouse fly out of the top of that tree. Another time a group of us were walking across a recently mowed hayfield to get to another spot, my dog locked on a small clump of dried grass, I walked over there thinking, yeah right - got about a foot away and a hen pheasant jumped out of there, I was looking right at her and never saw her. I learned to trust that dog. Sometimes he'd give you a false point, but if he got locked on something there was a good chance there was a bird there.