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Never have done well with that Rage Monkey myself, but Rage Craws I have caught fish on. They work well as a jig trailer.

Nice ones! Cool tiger striping on the smallie.

Live coverage starts at 7 AM CT tomorrow on Bassmaster.com.

Check Outdoor channel Saturday and Sunday mornings, I believe they will re-run it then.

Locked and loaded!

Just watched a Hook and Look episode, it featured Greg Bohannon fishing Beaver with the show's host. Filmed in December. Outdoor channel. Looks like it runs again tomorrow AM at 0530.

Yesterday was a cold morning, so I fished banker's hours, 9:30 to 4:30. Sunny day with a fairly strong breeze kicking up early in the afternoon. Enough wind that fishing a Ned rig deep became a little bit of a problem on the exposed banks. All of the fish I caught came on the Ned, PB&J on a 1/8 head. Dragged it slowly on the bottom, maintaining bottom contact as much as possible. Best depth range for fish was 10 -20 FOW. The bass are on some banks, but not on others, it's hard to graph them as they are locked on the bottom and don't show up well - you just have to pick a likely bank and try it out, if you catch one you'll want to fish that stretch of water hard as there likely more than one there. The smallies are liking the sunny banks with chunky rock and/or ledge rock. I caught a dozen bass, 10 of them being smallies, 4 of the smallies were in the 15-16" range. Caught a 16" spot and a keeper sized walleye. Water is stained green up the Indian Creek arm, and clearer as you approach the dam. WT 47-49. This post has been promoted to an article

I see the same thing also, I'll have to give it some time to see how I like it, right now it seems harder to find things. I am thinking this change makes it easier to view on handhelds?

Hey C4F, here is the link to the OA recap thread. You should see it on the TR forum, just curious if you're not seeing it.

I have been a user of Seaguar Invisx 6 lb for neds and drop shot, have always like it, but the price has jumped to the point that a 1200 yard spool of Sunline Sniper is only $3 more that a 1000 yard spool of Invisx. Invisx handles well on spinning tackle, I wonder how well Sniper would do on spinning tackle.

Nice bunch of fish, sure is fun catching smallies!

I haven't fished it myself, and I don't know if it gets fished by many on here. I'm pretty sure it gets stocked with trout during the winter and catfish when it is warm. You'll definitely need an AR license to fish it, and a trout permit if you intend to keep trout. Any fees Rogers charges would be in addition to state permits.

Could not have asked for better weather for this time of the year. Cloudy morning, light wind, turned into a sunny afternoon with temps near 70 at the weigh in. I believe I heard some of the folks say water temps were in the 49-50 range, the water has cleared up considerably in the Eagle Rock area. Saw quite a few boats moving up and down the channel in front of Eagle Rock during the course of the day. Pretty decent fishing overall, heard numbers in the 10 to low 20's of bass caught per boat. Mid-depth crank baits, Rock Crawlers being mentioned the most, caught the most fish. Also heard of some being caught on spinner baits, ned rig, and a few on jigs. All fish being weighed in were subject to intense scrutiny. OK, to cut to the chase, the winner was Kbillb - Kbillb's son one the first OA One Bass back in 2015, so another trophy to place over the family fireplace. Very nice plaque made by Ducky Doty. It will have the winner name added to it and then sent to Kbillb. Here's the winning fish, 4-15 was the weight. I believe this fish held by Shark Bait was the runner-up, I was running back and forth between taking pics and flipping burgers, so I may have this wrong, but it was a fish in the 3.5 range. Had a great time, already looking forward to next year! Thanks to all who provided food and fellowship! This post has been promoted to an article

They showed a satellite view of the burns last night on the news. Healthy smoke trail coming out of that one in MO. Couple here in Arkansas and OK also. A good day to burn according to the weatherman.

Interesting. Weather is looking fairly decent, probably a good idea to pack the rain gear. Might be some good fishing with the forecast calling for a cloudy day.

Good deal! Did you go back in Indian Creek at all? Just curious as to the water color back there. Well curious as to what you saw as far as water color in the general area around the dam also. Much in the way of floating debris?

Glad to see you can come! If possible, add your son in law as an OA member so he can qualify for the trophy if he gets the big one. You have to be an OA member to qualify for it.

Welcome, and when you get out on Beaver, hopefully you can share some fishing stories with us!

Cool, I am going to try and get to Eagle Rock about 0600-0615. I'm going to hang around the ramp for most of the day.

Water color is about the same, may have cleared up just a bit.

Bankers hours today, launched around 0930 and fished until 4 PM. Threw the #5 Shad Rap for most of the day, fish are still biting it, but you do have to find them. I caught 20 bass today, 10 of them came off a 100 yard stretch of bank, and three others off a short stretch, the other 7 were scattered. 5 keepers. I did catch one Ned fish. They still seem to like the brown water, up on the bank, I slow roll the Shad Rap in front of the buck brush and usually the bites occur when I am ticking bottom. They are not slamming it, usually they just load up WT 49-50. Hardly any junk in the water now, only saw one floater out in the channel. Controlled burn going on today, really smoked up one stretch of lake. Smoke on the water! This post has been promoted to an article

That Duo looks pretty nice.