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Bill- Are you using marabou jigs or feathers?

I keep forgetting about that float-n-fly. I have the floats and the flies; I just need to use them. Thanks for the reminder, Bill.

A little chilly early but turned into a very nice spring day. I fished from daylight until noon. A lot of other fishermen out on the lake. Saw several kayaks, might have been a yak tourney going on. Bite was a little slow but not bad. I caught 10 bass, nine were smalls and one LM. No bigguns, 3 were over the 15" mark. Average size was good, had several near keepers too. Water has warmed enough that the smalls are pulling pretty hard, lots of fun on the spinning rod. I caught the first two on a little jig, the rest were on 2.8 Keitechs. Most bites were in less than 15 FOW. A buddy of mine was out too, he and his friend caught several good LM's and some white bass. I'm not going to say exactly where, but if you poke around in the backs of the coves you might find some white bass. WT 55-56

Thanks - I fished the lower end of Beaver yesterday, no eyes but some smallies. I do expect to start picking up some random walleye soon.

You had a good day, Upper White has been tough this year. Had a buddy that fished up there yesterday and he mentioned that there were a lot of people out fishing.

If they work really well can you let me know? By PM of course, don't want the other guys catching on. 😄

Catch a tiger by the tail(water) • Arkansas Game & Fish Commission

Those Z-Man baits are mean to other plastics.

Knowing my fellow bass fishermen like I do, I doubt anyone, including myself, will buy a soft plastic based on its biodegradability. The big question will be - does it catch fish?

I was wondering about the carp spawn, saw a few flopping around on TR, thought they may be close to spawn.

Beaver went to a 10 spotted bass limit with no minimum length maybe 3-4 years ago. I haven't heard of any enforcement issues. Not saying there haven't been any, but none I have heard of. Stockton has a 12" limit on spots, 15" on the other bass. I don't see enforcement issues being a reason to not consider changing the limit. You also have different size limits on cutts, browns, and rainbows on the tailwater rivers. If you've got people that can't tell a smallmouth from a carp, just imagine how many can't tell a cutt from a rainbow, or a rainbow from a brown.

There's a little vegetation, but it is just a little. Smallmouth are going to be close to the banks pretty soon if not there already. Might be going over there tomorrow so I'll hopefully find them. Lake has come up 7 feet, has some stain, fishing should be getting good.

Give Lillys Landing a call. Very clean cabins, reasonable rates and it's close to downtown Branson.

Nice haul!

Right now, if I am reading the charts correctly, they are running 14K CFS over the dam. The Kings has crested and is dropping fast, but it is still running 20KCFS into the lake. The James is still coming up a bit and is running at 14K CFS. Lake is up 4 feet and is still rising. I can't find anything that states how long they'll leave the flood gates open. Probably depends on how high they'll let Bull get and how much water they can run out of Bull. However, I think you'll be fine next week, I'm assuming you can dock your boat at the resort so you won't have to deal with flooded ramps. Weather looks to be nice all week, sunny and warm, would not surprise me if a lot of fish are up on the bank, fishing could be really good. You will have to look out for floating wood out on the lake, but other than that, things may work out well for your trip.

Love those smallies. Dutch got one about 3.25 lbs., a couple of weeks ago, it pulled pretty good. Beaver has been fishing good for smallies the last few years, but it seemed to slow a bit last year. It's about time for them to get going.

So did the danger sign stop you?

Stumbled across this today while stuck in the house watching the rain. From a couple of weeks ago.

Thanks - looks to be a little over 3" in the last 24.

It's started here again, wind, rain, lightning.

It hasn't been too bad here, took a ride yesterday afternoon, Little Sugar is up but not out of its banks. Radar showing a lot of rain to the east, south, and southwest and I'm guessing some of that will move up here.

I need to get a rain gauge. Little break in the rain here, but radar showing what looks to be another round moving in.

I hate chiggers too.

Internet has been down since this morning, connected through the phone hotspot. It's slow. Glad to see your mom didn't get hit by that tornado Marty.

Rain coming down here.