Quillback

Cool, good luck!

Got on the water early, very little wind, a little chilly to start, around 50 degrees. Did some bank beating to start, threw a Rock Crawler, dragged a jig - caught 4 smallmouth, one was a keeper. Decided to go up Indian, but on the way there saw some stripers breaking and ended up pursuing them. They were all around, but finicky. Got one that went around 8 lbs. on a 3.3 Keitech, had one other on briefly. There were a few smallmouth that were near the stripers except closer to the bank, and I also caught 4 more of them, 3 were keepers. The stripers were chasing small shad, I did not have anything to match those little one inch shad and they were ignoring anything else I threw at them. I might go back for them this weekend and I'll be a little better prepared - small spoons ought to work. Might bring some marabou jigs too. WT 62-64

Well good luck Mr. Babler! I'm going to go tomorrow, but I am going to chase the brown fish on the lower end of Beaver. That new Berkely Ripfish looks like a good deep water bait too. I have a couple on the way here.

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I'll bring plates, cups, bowls and plastic ware.

Chunky fish!

There's a bedroom with a queen sized bed that now has your name on it. 👍

I booked the A-Frame for Thursday-Saturday night. Looks like it will lodge 4 comfortably. With tax it's a little over $200/night, so assuming we have a 4-way split, It will be $50 per night. Reply here if you want a reservation.

Just don't mention 2nd breakfast around Rick.

Guy put a cutout of a yak seat in his power boat so it looked like he was fishing out of yak when he took his tourney fish pics. Fisherman Caught Staging Kayak Pictures in a Bass Boat Banned from Tournaments for Cheating | Outdoor Life

I like that idea!

And windy! I've seen predictions from 17 to 23 degrees here in NWA for early next morning.

Doesn't seem like November out there, mid 70's when I left the lot around 1:30. Water temp is hanging in there at 64. Good day to fish, but not a lot of catching, I caught a little over 20 bass. 4 were keepers. They are biting the ned on chunky rock banks in 15-25 FOW. I did catch one on the Plopper, and a couple on swimbaits. Almost all spots except for a couple of sub-legal smallies. Lots of boats out there today, quite a few with power poles which usually indicates a tourney on the weekend.

Good to hear you're back! Watch out bass! There's a group of Bella Vista guys that had a club tourney on Beaver Tuesday. big bass format. Winner had a 3 something smallmouth - caught on a spinner bait.

Were they going to use those fish for bait? Some real dinks on the ground there.

That's awesome!

Don't carry a picnic basket. Just saw this story was dated February of 2024, thought it was recent. However there was another one killed on a HWY recently. SOCIAL HILL — A motorist struck and killed a mountain lion on Arkansas Highway 84 near Exit 91 of Interstate 30 in Hot Spring County at about 10 p.m. Wednesday. This is the first mountain lion confirmed dead in the wild in Arkansas since February 2024 and only the third confirmed dead since 1975. Arkansas Game and Fish Commission staff responded to the scene after the Hot Spring County Sheriff’s Office confirmed the road-killed animal and collected the large cat. The mountain lion was a healthy male that measured 83 inches from the tip of the tail to the tip of the nose and weighed approximately 160 pounds during initial measurements. The AGFC is collecting samples from the animal and will send them to an independent laboratory for analysis to determine its origin and age.