Quillback

Made some modificatons to the menu. Does someone want to bring lunch meat and bread? Not sure if we need it, but if you guys want to bring sandwiches out on the boat might be a good idea. And maybe someone can bring a case or two of bottled water. I think we will have 16-17 total people, but still a few who have not definitely committed.

Poor ol' Frank, I kind of feel sorry for him now, everybody and their brother is going to be after him. His nice quiet life of living under a dock eating freshly stocked rainbows is now over. Bunch of crazy dudes from St. Louis that never sleep are going to be harassing that poor fish 24 X 7. HAHA, just kidding guys, go get him!

Dave Reeves, who has caught more fish on the Ned rig than ever will, always says to swing for the fences on your hook set.

Congrats Paul!

I did not see a single shad yesterday, saw a few small bait balls on the finder, but that was it. I was surprised not to see any.

Welcome Jaybill and looking forward to seeing you there! I'd say bring any kind of picnic type food you feel like bringing, I can't think of anything specific.

Got in the water around 0900, it was 38 degrees, cloudy, misty with some bonus wind thrown in. Weather stayed that way all day, except the wind did die off a little in the afternoon. Fishing was decent, got a dozen bass, 3 keepers, and a walleye that was just short of being a keeper. All on the Ned, with most of the fish being around trees in 15-20 FOW. Slow dragging on the bottom. Had a lot of bites that I missed, tried a couple of models of Ned heads and used a setup with braid and one with InvisX, didn't seem to matter what I used, the fish were just not staying pinned. WT 43. This post has been promoted to an article

Yeah it didn't happen. And if it did, it was probably a car full of teenage girls.

So tough guy, did you go out and talk to the people whose car you wrecked?

Nice morning today, would've been fishing but have a morning appointment. Might go tomorrow.

Yes sir, I am certainly looking forward to fishing the White. Hopefully catch some of those brown fish with spots on them.

Yep, bit and hung on, made a couple of surges at the boat, jumped a couple of times, but I was able to get it in the net. They fight a heckuva lot harder than a 5XD.

That's usually about the time I roll out.

Got to the launch about 1030 in the AM. It was 35 degrees, cloudy and windy. I have forgotten what nice weather feels like. The wind did die down about 2 PM and the sun even came out for a bit, it was almost nice. Fishing was slow, caught 9 bass, 2 were keepers, all Ned fish, usually they were in the 10-20 foot range. Had a bite on a tube, missed that one. Fish were scattered and hard to find. Could be the water temp had gone down a little, it being around 43 degrees, and that made things tough. Caught a 6XD also.

I'll bring coffee.

I just go with trying to be as quiet as I can whenever I am fishing. Don't like my shadow or the shadow of the boat to go over anything I am planning to fish.

I did get out today, windy and 35 when I launched at 1030, stayed that way until about 2 PM and it almost became sort of nice for the last couple of hours.

Putting a booby trap intended for humans in the tall grass by the road is a POS move. Yeah you got lucky and got your intended victims and fortunately they didn't get killed and fortunately some neighborhood kid didn't end up getting spiked.

I can only speak for the Grand lake blues, but they are a cut above channels caught from that lake.

I remember a time, maybe 25 years ago, where the guides on the White below Bull would do doughnuts on deep holes that were holding browns, theory being the browns would get agitated, move around, and that would get them to bite.

That one cracks me up, how do they expect a dog to know it has rabies? I know that is not the intent of that law, but if you take it literally... BAD DOG! You have rabies, quit running around!

Yep, good chance those farmed raised catfish came from overseas and they aren't channel cats. They do taste good however. But I'll take a 3 lb. blue cat from Grand Lake over any of them.

Awesome! Jigfest, less than 2 weeks away...