Quillback

I'm still debating whether or not I'll be there.

Benton CO AR, where I live, is now in a moderate drought condition. No rain in the 10 day forecast.

Where in NWA are you looking?

Keep it going!

Ad that ran in the 1946 in Popular Science Magazine - according to On the River.

Those crappie are some good eats. I ate my walleye last night, they are always tasty. I'm going to try and get a buddy of mine that lives in Neosho to fish crappie on Grand Lake this spring. I like to fish for them when you can go down the bank with a jig 3-4 feet under a cork and catch them. Love to see that cork disappear.

Beverly Hillbillies truck. Neat video.

Very cool, good luck! Any chance at an arapaima?

I have been digging them out of the rocks and trees, mostly spotted bass with a few small largemouth and smallmouth thrown in. Caught 11 one day and 15 the next. Some keeper sized spots, couple of fat 16 inchers being the best. Can't find any deep-water concentrations of bait, but when the water is calm, you'll see some scattered top water activity so there are some shad out there. Ned rig and 3.3 Keitechs have been my fish catchers, I have thrown jerkbaits and crankbaits, but lately if it has trebles on it, I can't catch fish with it. The fish I have been catching are sometimes shallow, as in 5 FOW or so. Some are out at 20 FOW, but near trees. Have not seen a loon this winter and only a couple of gulls, that stuff isn't happening on this part of the lake. I'm enjoying the fishing, enough fish to keep me going and the weather has been pretty darn good for this time of year. WT 49-50

Way to go! Any reduction in the number of those obnoxious honking and boat ramp pooping geese is a good thing! 😁

Musky - very cool!

I always heard that Jesse James wanted a trout stream he could fish, so he hijacked the Fish & Wildlife Service trout stocking train, forced the conductor to drive the train to the creek where they dumped the trout into the water. That's not true?

The midge pictures are pretty cool, they look like little birds. I'm no photo expert, but I think it would be really tough to get a shot of them like that.

I was out there too, but down the river a ways from you. Fished the ned rig, fish were scattered and for the most part pretty shallow. Seemed like spring fishing. It was fun, but as you noted, lots of boats out there. A fat meanie that I caught, I bet the girth in longer than the length.

Another spring-like day on Table Rock. Flat calm early, fish are close to the banks, good day for throwing the ned rig. Last weather report I saw, they are talking 70's next week.

Rick- Cody is unable to logon so he sent me the itinerary: 0800-0900 - 1st Breakfast 0900-1000 - 2nd Breakfast 1000-1100 - Morning fishing session 1100-1200 - Brunch 1200-1300 - Lunch 1300-1400 - Afternoon fishing session 1400-1430 - Snacks 1430-1700 - Field trip to Monkey Cheeks (see Cody for details). 1700-1800 - Dinner 1800-1900 - Desert time and consumption of leftovers 2000-2200 - Falling out of bed competition 2300-0200 - Nightime fishing at the dam (see DJ for details)

I have no idea where that is, but nice brown!

Allegedly, I have not been there myself to verify but was told they had a crane out there yesterday and expected to have it fixed end of day. It was hung up on a dock anchor somehow. Kudos to the COE for getting it fixed quickly, I thought it would not get done until after the holidays.