Quillback

What's xreeks? Xtreme reeking?

That would be a neat thing to see. Maybe one of those big soft plastic rainbow imitating swimbaits would work? They make some really realistic imitations, pricey however.

I hardly ever see a malnourished bass, not that I doubt them, maybe it depends where on the lake they did the survey.

14 lb. walleye in the White river.

Thanks for the report, sounds like the Rock is still fishing tough. I fished Beaver today near the dam and it was slow as well, 3 smallies and an LM. I'm not complaining however, beautiful day to be out.

Could be they had reason to suspect those guys and decided to take a look at their cell phone usage to solidify the evidence. I'm curious as to what they planned to do with the pistols. Did they sell them as a lot, or did they try and sell them one at a time? Might be some buyers out there that are getting a little nervous. Bust 5 guys, one of them will probably lay it all out in exchange for a plea.

Well I spent about 20 years of my life living in Massachusetts, so I give a big NEENER, NEENER to you Pats haters. There were many years of wretched football for that team before they got on this run. I remember the 1981 "Stupor Bowl", when the winless Pats played the one-loss Colts in the last game of the season, the loser got the number one pick in the draft. The Pats "won" as in lost, used the first pick on Kenneth Sims, who was a bust. I don't remember who is doing halftime either, I always skip the halftime show too.

Yeah Ham, I saw it, my answer would be if you're going to run a log filled canal, you should do it at a safe speed. Absolutely avoidable, there's really no such thing as an unavoidable accident, except in the case of a meteor falling from the sky or something like that. To me, this is just about as bad as running full speed down the lake in heavy fog and using the excuse that you have to do that to get to better fishing.

Not bad ideas, Basfis. Suspension and requalification would get their attention. And there have been other accidents where no one was hurt that didn't receive nearly as much attention. I remember a few years ago where Ike ran his boat up a 3 foot bank. Miraculously neither he or his marshal were hurt.

Total take really would not have been worth it, 600 Berettas and some other stuff. Divided between at least 5 people. And they probably were not going to get retail for what they stole. They'd be lucky if they netted $30,000 - $40,000 each, and that's assuming they found a buyer for the lot.

I'm not a great tourney advice source, I'm more of a fun fisher, fishing for bites rather than the 5 big bites you need for a tourney. I'm reasonably confident you can catch fish on the Ned rig, might get a limit, might get a biggun, but I don't know if it's a good strategy to get the kind of bag you need for any good sized tourney with a good field fishing it.

Hey if you ever get down here, let me know and we'll go out and try and hook some fish.

Don't know much about those Prion things myself, but when there was that "Mad Cow" disease outbreak a few years ago, it was caused by Prions, supposedly people got it from eating infected cattle. There seems to be a lot of unknowns about prions, but if you get them, you are hosed.

Fished with my buddy Mike Tuesday afternoon and most of the day Wednesday in the Indian creek area. For the most part, we fished Ned rigs, very slowly with most of the fish we caught coming in 10-20 FOW. They have been scattered, one here and there, usually around steep rocky banks with or without timber. The bites are very, very sluggish, you'll feel that rod tip get a bit heavy with a bit of a rubbery feel, and when you feel that, it's time to set that hook. We boated 10 Tuesday afternoon and 15 Wednesday. No bigguns, but some keepers, a couple of nice 2-2.5 lb. spots in the mix, but mostly smallmouth. Only one largemouth, Kind of mystified as to where the LM's are hanging out. Haven't seen much striper activity, had a school pass under the boat once, then they were gone. Saw some shad balls, but not many, didn't see any dying shad or dead shad. Water temps were 45-47. Very few fishermen out on that part of the lake, saw 2 other boats Tuesday, and never saw another boat yesterday. A couple of pics: This post has been promoted to an article

Does fishing Beaver today count? Fished with a buddy today in the Indian creek arm and we caught 15, mostly smallies, nothing very big, 4 or 5 of them were around keeper sized. Ned rigs fished slow and deep.

Pretty fish, caught some of their lake dwelling brethren today and yesterday.

Good job Baxter!

Ouch! It's good to be young, that fall would probably put me down for a couple of weeks. Have to laugh at the irony, "Perfect texture for running.".

Sure that's not a carp? It's ugly enough.

Alright, I'll be looking forward to doing some hunting.

Well they have passed a short term funding bill in the Senate. Guess they will have to go around and unlock all the gates. And I agree, this is very stupid.

Went to Kansas this December with Phil and some other folks. We were fortunate to be able to hunt on private land and saw quite a few quail. I got there a day early and me and another guy that rode out there with me hunted a WIHA area and kicked up two coveys there, and saw some pheasants on another WIHA parcel. It convinced me that there are birds out there on public land. I have a GSP and plan on going out there next fall. Be happy to hook up with some OA folks if you guys want to make a road trip or three next fall. Just have to hope there isn't a drought out there this year as that can really negatively effect the birds. I don't have any local bird hunting spots around here, they are just about extinct in this area. I keep saying I am going to go scouting for them in May when they are whistling, find some birds and see if I can get access to where they are at. Just too darned busy fishing then.

Welcome to NWA, lots of fishing in the area, you can stay pretty busy fishing if that is what you are looking to do. Might want to get some Hot Spot maps of Table Rock and Beaver, they show the ramps, contour lines, structure, and give some advice on spots to fish. The maps helped me a lot starting out here.

It is, and probably worth more than the pole and reel combined.