Quillback

You are en fuego with the Walters!

Ozzy Osbourne?

Hang in there buddy, LOL. I hear you on that Ultrex, I want one, but my Fortrex is still running fine so hard for me to justify putting in an Ultrex.

Thanks for the report Bill, haven't been on TR for a few weeks myself, probably going to hold off until school starts and Labor Day weekend is over. Good to see your clients getting some in the meantime!

Nice bunch of Walters!

Well I won't have to drive to Springfield anymore for the Spring Classic sale.

Got the boat launched just as it was getting light, made the decision to go back into Indian creek and fish the trees. Fishing was tough, but got some bites, mostly on the Nutech 1/2 oz jig. Caught a couple on top water also. 3 keeper sized bass, and 4 or 5 shorts. Dragged the jig in 10-20 FOW and every once in a while I'd get a bite, no pattern except they were around trees, and there's a lot of trees back in Indian. Left at 1030, bite went from slow to slower and the wake boats were making their appearance. Sons of guns were out early today, had the first one wake me out around 8 AM. Couple of fish stories: Hooked a small, 10 inch or so spotted bass on the little popper. Got it close to the boat and could see a couple of bass with him, trying to steal that popper, both of the fish chasing were keeper sized. Stopped reeling and let the little guy swim around hoping one of the bigger fish would get hooked. The little dude jumped, threw the popper, and as soon as that popper hit the water, a keeper sized largemouth grabbed that bait and I got him in the boat. Later in the morning, dragging the jig, I hooked a fish. Got it halfway to the boat and it got hung up on a tree. Messed around with it, I could pull it in some, but then it would just hang up dead stuck. Could still feel the fish on so I kept trying. Gave it a few feet of slack a couple of times, it would swim off a ways, but would not come unstuck. Finally got over the tree, gave it a lot of slack, fish swam off again, once again I took up the slack and started dragging it in, but it got hung up right at the top of the tree, I could see it, but could not quite reach the fish. Let it swim off one more time and it finally got off that tree. Got it in the boat, turned out to be an 18" smallmouth. Surface temp 82. This post has been promoted to an article

"She's like the highway between Dallas and Fort Worth - no curves."

Just took a look at Tat's type R on Ebay. a whole bunch listing for $59. What is very suspicious is I see 3 different sellers and they all have feed back of zero. Something ain't right.

Cool, hope it goes well.

Noticed that the seller has zero feedback. Heckuva deal for sure, but it sounds too good to be true. I noticed that they have the type R for $59 also. Wish I knew for sure it was legit.

I stink at estimating fish from photos, but sure looks like at least a 5 lber to me. Congrats!

That is some great fishing!

I think he should go ahead and take his family, the fishing is out of this world!

Maybe I'll watch that later. Maybe....

Launched at daylight, fished until 1130 today. It was a cloudy morning so I hung in there a little longer than usual, but the best action was early, after 9 AM it got slow. Found some top water fish off a steep, deep bank first thing in the morning. Mix of small spots and largemouth. Caught them on a small popper, ultra light spinning rod and 6 lb. test. Makes catching a 13" spotted bass a lot of fun. Top water bite lasted about 30 minutes, then shut down for the most part, but several times throughout the morning I would see a few come up and chase shad. They are eating really small shad, the shad look to be about 3/4 of an inch long. Last time out I saw bass suspended over deep water on the sonar. They would hit a drop shot, but it was hard to get it in front of them. I wanted to try something else, so decided to bring some spy baits with me. Never have had much luck with spy baits, but clear water, small shad and suspended fish made me think it might work. First cast with one I caught a 17" largemouth, which would be the biggest fish of the day. Caught a few more smaller fish on the spy bait, but never could get another good one on it. Had at least a half dozen bass grab it and get off, those small trebles, though sharp, just don't do a good job of keeping fish pinned. Caught a couple of smallies on the Ned rig in 15 FOW, got a couple more on a c-rig with the UV Speed Craw. This post has been promoted to an article

Some good fish for this time of year. How was the boat traffic?

There's a point across from the Dam Site park where there's a drop off almost straight down to 100 feet. They were coming up there this morning feeding on shad. Mostly small fish, but saw a couple of pops that may have been from bigger fish. real intermittent, maybe every 5 to 10 minutes they'd come up for about 30 seconds. That was the only place I saw any consistent top water activity. May shoot right over there next time early and see what happens.

Launched at daylight, fished until 1030. Fishing was spotty, caught a dozen bass, biggest was a 14.5" meanmouth that I measured. Caught a couple of smallmouth and a spot about that size. rest of the fish were 10-12" spots and largemouth. C-rigged a UV Speed Craw, tossed a Zoom Finesse worm on the drop shot, and caught 2 on top water. Fish were mostly deep, 20-25 FOW off rocky/gravel points. Surface temp - 85.

Surprised you were able to get so close without waking it.

With a forecast for cooler weather I decided to make the trek to Table Rock. Had a location tip from rps, and the fish were where he found them last time he was out. They were all deep, 20-30 FOW, not a lot of them on the finder, but enough to fish for. I caught most of them on a c-rig UV Speed craw with a couple of drop shot fish and one on top. Put 8 in the boat before they just stopped biting about 0830. I spent too much time messing around with baits trying different stuff, if I had stuck to the UV Craw I'm pretty sure I would've boated a few more. You just don't get much time to fish before they shut down and the rec traffic starts going, I was off the water at 1030. Must've have been some kind of Master Craft get together today, had a pack of 8 of them come by me, talk about wakes, holy cow, thought I would get seasick. Surface temp was 85. This sorry looking bass was my biggest. This post has been promoted to an article

Congrats!