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I heard they are now getting them from the Arkansas river. Can't (legally) take them from Grand lake anymore, OK passed a law that prohibits taking live shad out of Grand lake.

Striper guides are unhappy with the new regulation, they've gone to the legislature to see if they can get the leg to overturn AGFC's decision. I'm with AGFC on this one, we don't want to have those Asian carp get established in Beaver.

I remember reading a couple of years ago that AGFC stocked a bunch of redear fingerlings into BS. Don't know if it made a difference in overall population, haven't heard anything since then. AGFC revamped their website recently and it just doesn't have the info that the old site had.

We must have seen you Bill, we were fishing near the buoys (our secret spot), I was in Jeb's boat. We got a few on top water, then three guys in a 12 foot canoe paddled up and tied up onto the buoy, so we left. We picked up some spotted bass later in the morning drop shotting brush piles.

As mentioned above, Viney campground has quite a bit of bank access, Big M has quite a bit of accessible bank, and there is a bit at Eagle Rock. Gets better when (if) the water goes down a few feet from where it is now, more bank is exposed. There are some neighborhood type boat launches on Viney cove across from the park, and there's another one at Emerald Beach. that provide more access. All in all, a lot of bank to fish in that area, you can stay busy fishing for a good chunk of the day if you want.

I like it!

Waiting for Wrench....

Well I don't think that MLB or NFL tickets are a bargain either. But, I remember when you could get a bleacher seat in Fenway park for $3. I'm not knocking JM either, good for him building this attraction and it's creating a few jobs I imagine. I'll probably spring for the $40 one of these days because it does sound like a really cool thing to see.

My neighbor used to hunt for antlers, but now he goes for a young doe or two for the good eats. He smoked some last year and gave me some of it, good stuff for sure.

That is a nice one for sure!

At that rate of growth there will be a world record swimming around Taney in a few years. I would think once they get in that 20 lb. range they start eating stocker rainbows.

One of these days I will go up there and check it out. Unfortunately ticket prices are pretty steep, $20-$30 a pop. Just looked at the price - $40 for an adult combo ticket.

Do a search on Elwha river dam removal if you want to look at sediment accumulation and removal. They recently took down 2 dams on that river.

Very nice! I keep wanting to go after some gills myself.

Phil must have reduced mailbox size, mine was a 166% full. Should be able to PM me now. Congrats Champ on the win!

Thanks for the report! I need to give that lake a try again.

Looks like a monarch in the first photo? AGFC is doing a tracking study, if you want to report your sighting. https://www.agfc.com/en/news/2017/09/06/help-agfc-follow-the-monarch-migration/ Saw quite a few monarchs crossing Table Rock when I was out fishing Thursday, the migration is on.

Ouch! I was going to say a Speedo. Not that I looked long enough to make a definite identification.

Well after watching Arkansas get beat fairly easily at home vs TCU, I am not optimistic for them either. They just looked flat and uninspired.

I have an internet challenged buddy that is looking at one of these Garmin's. $399 at Cabelas. It has Chirp, side imaging, down imaging and GPS. Unclear whether it has built in maps. Seems like a good deal, but checking to see if anyone has one, or has used Garmin and what you thought of it.

I'm going to say about 3 feet as a rough estimate.

My first time out on the big lake in a few weeks and I may wait a couple more weeks before trying again. Me and a buddy caught a grand total of 6 bass during the morning, and only one of those was a keeper largemouth, the rest being 12" fish. A couple on jigs and a few on c-rigs. Tried to find some deep drop shot or spoon fish and just could not find many bass out deep, usually September is a good month for deep fishing, but I just can't find them. The shad are everywhere from the backs of the coves to out in the middle of the channel. There are some scattered fish out in the channel chasing shad, but it is so hard to get on them, they just don't seem to be schooled up, at least not that I can find. Beautiful day, good day to be out fishing. Surface WT was 77 when I left. Only saw one recreational type boat and not a lot of fishermen out there either.

Speaking of Chicago and wild fish sales, there's a book out there, Game Wars, author Marc Reisner (you can find it on Amazon). Basically it is about undercover US fish and game agents going after poachers. One of the operations they conducted was on Louisiana poachers that were netting crappie and selling them in Chicago. Chicago seems to be a good market for freshwater game fish for some reason.

And it should be clearly labeled on menus. If they are serving Viet catfish, the menu should say so.

If it is fin clipped is it a triploid?