Quillback

Good to see you get a couple, looks like they are pretty healthy.

Watching the forecast last night, weather dude says now that the computer forecast is showing no rain for Sunday, but once again he is thinking the computer is wrong and is sticking to his guns as far a forecasting "heavy rain" for Sunday. But at the end of his forecast he says "Anything could happen". What a forecast! Accuweather is now predicting only clouds for tomorrow. I was hoping for a good rain that would get the creeks going in the backs of the coves.

Glad to hear you spanked them. Be interesting to see what this rain does to things.

Always good to hear fishing reports. Ned bite, interesting...

The dude who is predicting 3-5", predicted that we would get some rain this morning, it didn't happen. What was funny was the "computer model" said it would not rain here this AM, but he thought the computer model was wrong. Looks like it did rain some around Table Rock.

TV Weather Guesser was saying we could get 3-5 inches this weekend.

Just re-read this thread, someone brought it up in the general angling forum. An OA classic for sure.

I vaguely remember that thread. It's probably in the Table Rock forum.

I fished one of the Bella Vista ponds yesterday, still resisting the urge to chase the little white ball over hill and dale. I did go over to TR today, launched at Campbell point, brought one of my Bella Vista fishing buddies over. Long story short, should've just stayed here in BV. We caught a grand total of 4 bass, three of them smallies and one spot. Not one largemouth did we get. One of the smallies was around 2.5 lbs. for big fish. We got them on jigs. Could not find Babler's huge school of top water fish. very little top water activity. And of course the wakers came out about 10 AM and made things miserable. We were off the water at 1130.

Stradics are good, I have one and it hasn't given me any problems. I picked up a few Pflueger Supremes and Supreme XT's, the previous version when they were on sale before they introduced the current version. Great reels with one exception. That exception is that there is a little piece of metal on the inside of the spool that is part of making the clicking noise when a fish pulls drag. I've had two of those pieces wear out and you end up with a silent drag. Not a big deal and maybe they've got a more durable piece on the newest version, but worth mentioning. The Supremes also do not come with a spare spool.

Dang, that's pretty good.

No gauge here for me, but I'm thinking around an inch. Getting a little light rain right now, but should stop soon. Maybe the fish will think it is October and start biting.

For sure we'll have to get together and do some fishing.

That sounds like fun!

Yep.

Today I made myself throw a square bill and tried hard not to pick up the dragging baits. Stuck with the SB for about three hours, starting at daylight. Didn't catch many, but got 5, all largemouth, 2 were keepers. They all came on main channel chunk rock banks, up shallow. When I am by myself throwing SB's or other cranks, I'll position my boat parallel to the bank and throw down the bank from the bow, trying to keep the bait running near the bottom, kicking off cover. Caught about a 3 foot gar on the SB also. Caught another 3 or so on the Trick worm, one was a keeper smallie. Smallie was an accidental "deadstick" fish. Had a hard rain shower hit me about halfway through my retrieve, put the rod down, put on my rain coat, picked up the rod, reeled in the slack and he was there. Fortunately he didn't swallow it. Sun came out about 10 AM and that shut them down, I fished until 11 AM but did not get a bite after 10. The wake boat navy was also making its appearance so it was time to go. Surface temp was down to 83. This post has been promoted to an article

Champ probably cleaned out the inventory.

Yep they have a sexy shad type color, it's been out for a while.

I found them on Ebay (thanks Mojo), but I did not buy any. You guys should be proud of me.

What you guys found them somewhere? Not that I want to know where.

And others that may be interested in fly fishing for carp. http://mynorth.com/2017/07/vision-quest-world-class-carp-fishing-beaver-island/

I made a few efforts in the Indian creek arm after the lake came up. I could catch some 12-15" smallies but never could find the largemouth or spots except for an occasional one here or there. It had me scratching my head. But, I hear the mid lake area has been good for bass fishing.

Please, no more...

As much as I fish, I don't think I have ever seen divers out there spear fishing. I am sure there are some out there doing it and they can harvest some big fish, but I would think the effect is negligible on fish populations. It would be interesting to see what the impact of bow fishing is on a lake like Table Rock as far as the gar and carp populations. I know they shoot a bunch at that annual tournament. My opinion is that MDC should do a study to see what impact there is. Hard to set management goals if you don't know what you're managing. And maybe they know, I don't want to make assumptions.