Quillback

Great trip! I watched a fishing show where they were fishing somewhere in that area and catching big yellow perch, I mean big ones. Looks like a great place to fish with lots of diversity. Did you hear a lot of pheasants? Never have hunted in that part of the state, but I believe there is a lot of public land there to hunt.

Neat trip, going out west is always fun so much neat stuff to see and do. There was quite a bit of petrified wood in Washington where I used to chukar hunt. It had all been encased in lava and was exposed over the eons as the lava rock eroded away. There's some chunks on the shore of Beaver lake near the COE parks, little stuff, no big logs.

I will miss the online Bargain Cave, I have picked up some stuff at great prices there over the years.

Can't say I am ever happy when asked for my SS#, especially if it gets stored in a database.

It's like we've gone from winter right to August. Weatherman last night was saying we might hit 100 latter part of next week. I'll have to dig out the drop shot stuff and the jigging spoons.

So sorry to hear that.

That is a neat fish. Didn't know they existed.

Looks like a neat place to visit. Amazing how much stuff JM has built - the Pyramid, Aquarium in Springfield, and golf courses. Now that I think of it, I believe the Pyramid was existing and JM took it over and converted it?

Some great fish there, congrats!

Glad to hear you and Pat got into them!

Wow, that is crazy!

I did a search on St Louis Cardinal internet radio and got quite a few links, here's one that seems to work, you can click on the channel you want to listen to. http://www.freebaseballradio.com/StlouisMay.html

Very nice!

Nothing natural about the big impoundments around here, if there was some way to manipulate largemouth so that they'd grow bigger, I have no problem with that.

Dang, that's just a bunch of bad stuff happening - hopefully the worst is over!

Man, that sounds like fun! Congrats on a great day!

In lieu of Dave's heads, I have been using these. Stout, very sharp hook, fiber weed guard. Heads are unpainted, I touch them up with a black sharpie. And they work very well, been using them this year quite a bit. http://www.tacklewarehouse.com/Hayabusa_Baby_Shooting_Ball_Football_Jig_4pk/descpage-HSBFBJ.html

Hook, Line, and Sinker has 2 locations, Rogers and Bella Vista. They have Ned stuff and I am sure will be helpful if you ask. My 2 colors in Zinkerz are PB&J and Dirt. Sometimes I will use Canada Craw which has some glitter, but PB&J and Dirt I use 90% of the time.

Interesting - I have never seen that on a smallmouth I have caught in Table Rock or Beaver.

Saw that they got the cat, it's den was located near the scene of the attack, didn't have to track it far. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/animalia/wp/2018/05/21/something-was-wrong-with-this-cougar-animal-that-killed-biker-injured-another-was-emaciated/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.8107567b2e23

What Ham said, and I'll add that if I didn't have a weed guard on them then I there's a lot of places I would not throw them, near cedar trees for example, that I'll throw one with a guard.

Temporarily. Might go over there tomorrow.

Just want to warn you that this top water striper bite will turn off before long.

Had to go again this morning, got to the launch at dawn, 2 boats had already put in ahead of me. Launch area was fog free, but once I got about 500 yards from the launch heading back into Indian it was pea soup. Chugged slowly back to where the bite was yesterday. Got there it was still very foggy with some breeze. Not much top water activity that I could see, but I decided to work the bank for green bass and fire occasional casts out into the channel, working the Havana. Didn't take long and I got an explosion out in the channel, got a hook up and eventually boated a striper I would estimate at about 10 lbs. Kept up with this pattern and caught some green bass and several more stripers. All of the rest of the stripers were 5-6 lb. fish. After a couple of hours the sun came out, what little wind there was died off, and the fishing got really tough. I tried some banks that had been producing smallies, but only got a few 12" brown fish on the Keitech before I called it quits at 11 AM. Surface WT 77.

Yes sir, there's a couple - there's one at the dam, I believe it is called Dam Site park - but I have never used it. Then there is one at Indian creek which is about a mile or two from the dam by water. There's also Lost Bridge North and South. These are all COE parks/ramps.