Quillback

Gives you a reason to come next year. Like you need one, LOL.

Better to have the robot factory here than in China. Plenty of machinist jobs out there from what I hear, and again based on what I hear, those jobs mostly involve controlling machinery that does the actual machining.

We definitely need a "salad guy". I don't recall seeing a green, leafy vegetable for 3 days. We did have that sort of salad like dip, which is very tasty. As a matter of fact, I remember that someone chopped up some fresh cilantro and added it to the dip - so there was one green, leafy vegetable to be found - that is if cilantro is considered a green, leafy vegetable. Oh yeah, the Pisole (another excellent dish), had green broth.

I don't know what my personal low temp record is for going fishing, but I recall one morning where it was single digits on a Washington winter steelhead outing. I also caught a 15 lb. steelhead that day, my personal best, so I set two personal records that day. If someone from Minnesota sees this thread, they'll humble us all with tales of ice fishing in below zero temps.

David Allen Coe - was that the name of the musician for one of the songs he played? Want to get it right so I can look it up and find some music. Lyrics were great.

Yankee lures...

I have never heard any of the bios associated with hellbender restoration name gigging as a reason for the decline. I see no reason to restrict gigging on streams containing hellbenders. Poachers that are capturing them to sell in the illegal pet market aren't going to gig them for obvious reasons.

There are bigger fish to be caught. Fish a jerk bait on the White and you will have a shot at catching some very nice browns - assuming a certain level of competence on the fisherman's part and a boat is a big help. IMO it should be a special deal to catch a nice fish, not something that happens on a routine basis because bigger fish are stocked. Right now, if you go fish the White below Bull during the week, you might see a handful of boats during the course of the day. 40 miles (or more) of river teeming with trout with hardly any pressure. Not only that, but plenty of bird life and critters to observe during the day. Leaves are down, some great views of the countryside to be seen. It's a pretty good fishing experience, but you need to get out there and do it - not to be mean, but people sitting at home at their keyboard that aren't out fishing and enjoying what we have, but yet are critical of it - I don't hear these complaints from the folks that are out there fishing. I found it to be a privilege to fish the White this past weekend and I appreciate the folks who took me out there in their boats and gave me the opportunity to fish the river. I have zero complaints, well I could complain about the wind and the water fluctuation, but those are things a person just has to overcome. Having a challenge makes it better, right?

agree both places rock for fishing...but could we do better? and how do we get there? I don't know that we could do better, and at the same time please everyone. I'm happy with the way it is now, but I only fish below Bull a time or two a year.

Thanks!

Every time the Feds try and wiggle out of stocking trout on the White below Bull, the local lodges and guides rise up in arms. As Phil says, many, if not most of their clients are people that want to fish Power Bait and catch a limit, to be followed by a shore lunch Personally I think they've done about as good as can be expected as far as managing a fishery that can provide limits of stocker rainbows for those that want them, but yet provide some quality brown trout and an occasional nice rainbow. I have fished for trout all over this country, Taney and Bull are pretty darn good fisheries.

Biggest loser IMO is the budget. Last I heard this bill adds another $ trillion to the debt. Maybe it won't matter, we seem to muddle along even with 20 trillion in debt. But if there comes a day when it does matter it won't be pretty.

If you and Donna go, see if AGFC will let you borrow one of their thousand gallon fish hauling trucks. Bring back your possession limits of big smallies and stock them at Big M.

Well this person could be in big trouble, BCPD (Buffalo City Police Department) is investigating. They sent out the BCPD CSI team today to investigate. Not much in the way of evidence, but they did find an empty Zig Jig package and a half eaten walleye fillet in the area the suspect was last heard. The evidence was sent to the BCPD lab for DNA analysis. They WILL find who did this. Personally I suspect Miles, he strongly denied he was involved, but I am not buying it. And I thought his attempt to pin the tale on the donkey was weak and very suspicious.

That yelled "Whoo Hoo!" or maybe it was "Yee Haw" out by the lodge at 0200 in the AM and woke some of us up this morning? This mystery must be solved, Miles thinks I am crazy, or I heard a donkey braying, but Mike heard it also. I just can't remember if it was Whoo-Hoo, or Yee-Haw, being that it woke me out of a dead sleep, LOL. That aside, had a great time. The food was outstanding, and all of us are thankful to those of you that brought and prepared the food. Outstanding fried walleye/flathead/crappie/taters/onions. Some great fried mushrooms. Great breakfast made in a wok. Great pulled pork and homemade BBQ sauce. Killer deserts, some of the best cupcakes I have ever had in my life. Great homemade sausages. I probably missed something, there was so much food it was impossible to taste everything. Thanks to Ham and Brett for taking me out in your boats. Fishing was pretty good, tough conditions, some dirty water and wind made things challenging at times, but I think everyone did pretty well at catching some fish and had a good time. Hopefully we will do this again!

I was a bit lazy in my picture taking, here's a couple: A couple of shady looking dudes that blasted past us at high speed and spooked all of our fish. Up river from White Hole:

Sorry guys, been on the White river for a few days and missed the jig question. That's a Tightline jig, I think it is what they call "Mama Bream". 1/2 oz FB jig with a Yamamoto GP twin tail grub as a trailer. I have also used a 3/8 oz Nutech finesse jig in 3/8 oz with the same trailer. If the wind isn't bad I'll go 3/8, if it starts blowing I'll go 1/2.

Fellas, please leave me a spot in Cedar Gables if you get there before me, I have to stay there as my dog is with me and there is a no dog policy at the River Villa.

Waaaayyyyy back in posts #1 and #2 in this thread, the suggestion was fish fry Friday night, Muddy's BBQ Saturday night. Thursday night is grazing on whatever is available, and it sounds like there is plenty to graze on.

In the "Hotel" thread you started, Bill Babler offered to provide you some info if you PM'd him - give him a shout, you'll be glad you did. I haven't been out there for over a week now, but as Bo said, most of the fish were deep. I did get some smallmouth shallow, but no green fish, dragging jigs. Maybe this cold front will change things. Did see a report where some nice greenies were caught in the back of a cove on buzz baits, maybe that is worth a shot.

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Well I know that I won't be running 45 years from now.

You might want to post your question in the Beaver lake forum. My 2 cents is that some of those stripers will move back into the coves when the water gets cold. It can get dangerous to throw a jerk bait around trees.

There is room for you. We can try and remember to leave the doors unlocked if you come in late, dunno if anyone will be awake if you come in late. Might be hard to figure out where to sleep if the lights are out. Just don't wake up Griz, his moniker is Griz for a reason. We don't have anything reserved for Sunday night, if you and anyone else wants to stay Sunday night, I'm sure you could work something out with Miles. I am leaving Sunday morning.

I think somebody is, just can't remember who. I have tartar sauce (forgot to mention it) - I have 4 of those 12 oz containers of it - hope it is enough.