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Ouch! I was going to say a Speedo. Not that I looked long enough to make a definite identification.

Well after watching Arkansas get beat fairly easily at home vs TCU, I am not optimistic for them either. They just looked flat and uninspired.

I have an internet challenged buddy that is looking at one of these Garmin's. $399 at Cabelas. It has Chirp, side imaging, down imaging and GPS. Unclear whether it has built in maps. Seems like a good deal, but checking to see if anyone has one, or has used Garmin and what you thought of it.

I'm going to say about 3 feet as a rough estimate.

My first time out on the big lake in a few weeks and I may wait a couple more weeks before trying again. Me and a buddy caught a grand total of 6 bass during the morning, and only one of those was a keeper largemouth, the rest being 12" fish. A couple on jigs and a few on c-rigs. Tried to find some deep drop shot or spoon fish and just could not find many bass out deep, usually September is a good month for deep fishing, but I just can't find them. The shad are everywhere from the backs of the coves to out in the middle of the channel. There are some scattered fish out in the channel chasing shad, but it is so hard to get on them, they just don't seem to be schooled up, at least not that I can find. Beautiful day, good day to be out fishing. Surface WT was 77 when I left. Only saw one recreational type boat and not a lot of fishermen out there either.

Speaking of Chicago and wild fish sales, there's a book out there, Game Wars, author Marc Reisner (you can find it on Amazon). Basically it is about undercover US fish and game agents going after poachers. One of the operations they conducted was on Louisiana poachers that were netting crappie and selling them in Chicago. Chicago seems to be a good market for freshwater game fish for some reason.

And it should be clearly labeled on menus. If they are serving Viet catfish, the menu should say so.

If it is fin clipped is it a triploid?

Welcome, and here is the thread for you. http://forums.ozarkanglers.com/forum/4-upper-lake-taneycomo/

This is not a subject (keeping of bass) that usually ends well.

Son!

Well, I could complain about that stinking Bassmaster fantasy website, slower than molasses and I have to refresh it sometimes when changing pages. And I am still unhappy about Ish Monroe's flop early in the season.

Man, I gotta get out there, maybe next week. Congrats on some nice fish!

Good to hear, I'm hoping this cool weather will get them going.

From AGFC: The dwindling population of the endangered Ozark hellbender took a positive turn last month when Arkansas Game and Fish Commission biologists released more than 100 of the rare aquatic salamanders to the Eleven Point River. It was The Natural State’s first stocking of captive-bred hellbenders from a breeding program at the St. Louis Zoo, and part of a larger effort to restore populations of the endangered species in the Eleven Point, one of only three streams where Ozark hellbenders persist after decades of declining numbers. “We’re stocking the captive-produced Ozark hellbenders to try to maintain the population and hopefully to bolster the population,” said AGFC herpetologist Kelly Irwin. “This is the first time that we’ve released individuals back into the wild in Arkansas that were reared from the wild or captive-produced egg clutches.” Ozark hellbenders were placed on the federal endangered species list in 2011. The species inhabited the Spring River in robust numbers as recently as 30 years ago but has disappeared from the Spring over the past 15 years. “What was once a very abundant population in the Spring River has gone extinct for all intents and purposes,” Irwin said. Although there’s no conclusive evidence that pinpoints an exact cause for the hellbender’s decline, several factors likely have contributed. Loss of habitat has been a prime culprit, with increased sedimentation causing the large rocks and boulders preferred by hellbenders to be smothered by gravel and silt. Increased nutrients or toxins from runoff also may have affected the animal’s aquatic habitat. Disease may play a role, as well. Chytrid fungus, a disease attributed to major declines and extinctions of many amphibian species around the world, has been documented in Ozark hellbender populations. The Missouri Department of Conservation has witnessed similar declines in Ozark hellbenders on its side of the state line. Missouri officials began working with the St. Louis Zoo in 2002 to establish a captive breeding program, capturing animals from the wild and allowing them to breed in artificial streams at the zoo. They also collected eggs from the wild and hatched them in captivity. The captive-breeding program produced its first Ozark hellbenders in 2011. Since then, the Missouri Department of Conservation has introduced roughly 3,500 animals into the Eleven Point, Current and North Fork of the White rivers in Missouri. “The Ozark hellbender is an animal that’s been declining for many, many years, and we’re trying to do our best to save this animal right now,” said Jeff Briggler, the Missouri Department of Conservation’s state herpetologist. “Propagation is one of those things that you don’t always want to get into because it can be expensive, but we really felt like we had no choice. Based on current populations, this is the best thing we can do to save this animal in the long term." Briggler said population models showed the Ozark hellbender likely would’ve gone extinct in 10 to 12 years without stocking the salamanders from the captive breeding program. Arkansas’s first hellbender release in August added 113 animals to The Natural State’s population. Each hellbender was implanted with a microchip that will allow scientists to track movement and survival. “Admittedly, Ozark hellbenders are not the most charismatically appealing animal,” Irwin said. “They’re not a large game species or a beautiful bird species of some sort, but they’re very important indicators of our environmental system health, a canary-in-the-coal-mine species. As the Ozark hellbender population goes, so goes the quality of your fisheries resource.” Like all species, Ozark hellbenders are part of the food chain, and they represent an important part of Arkansas’s natural heritage. “Their lineage goes back to the end of the age of dinosaurs, some 65 million years,” Irwin said. “It would be a shame to lose that.”

Sweet ride!

Weather right now is pretty awesome, if you like cool ,mornings and low 80's later in the day. Fishing is still probably a bit tough, but good weather to fish in.

Lots of bugle mouth roaming in Beaver lake. For whatever reason, they really like the Indian creek arm. A carp fisherman could do really well there I believe, not much bank access to the coves where they hang out, so it would be good to have a boat if a person wanted to chase them. I have never seen anyone back in those coves fishing for carp.

What's a "rough"? Why would anyone hit a golf ball anywhere except onto the fairway or the green?

Hello Tackle Warehouse...

I like the fish on a paddle pics. Showing them on laying on a ruler is kinda boring (I have taken plenty of ruler pics myself), and half the time you can't read the numbers anyway in some of the pics. If you're an experienced fisherman, as most of the folks on here are, you can tell a nice fish when you see one, no need for a ruler.

He'll probably buy you a beer (or three) to NOT throw on a Speedo and "sexy" netting.

If you've got an optical department at WalMart you can get the little cloths fairly inexpensively. They also sell a "big" little cloth, like a foot square.

I don't know of any. Might check to see if they allow camping on one of the islands near the 12 bridge, that would be the only possibility I can think of.

Thanks for the report. Hopefully the boat traffic lessens after this weekend.