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  1. Quillback
    Anyone ever been bit by a snapper? Never have myself and I have never have talked to someone that was bit. They seem to be pretty ferocious, but never bite anyone. I am sure there have been people bit that were messing with them, tugging on a leg or trying to get a hook out of one. But I wonder if they will go out of their way to get you.
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    Biggest snapper I have seen (except for that monster they have at BPS Springfield) was in Massachusetts. Back in the early 70's when I was in high school, bass fishing with the old man, big snapper rose to the surface about 20 feet away, eyeballed us for a few seconds, then silently submerged, hard to say how big it was, but it dwarfed any snapper (except for the BPS one) that I have seen since then, and I have seen a lot of snappers.
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    That is a good day. I was out yesterday and was whupped by the fish. One in the boat on a spoon, and had a good largemouth get off right at the boat that bit a worm. I was trying to find deep fish, not having much luck at it, my usual late summer tactics just aren't working, just can't find any deep fish, they seem to be moving a lot, aren't schooled up. I may have to apply opposite psychology and fish shallow with square bills and top waters. Surface temps really dropped, I saw 85-86 as opposed to near 90 last week. Seemed to have killed what top water bite there was.
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    Thanks for the pics, hopefully you'll get time to take and share a few more.
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    Curious if that 6.9% rate of growth is annual or over the 2009-2017 time span.
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    A thread over in the Norfork forum where a guy is catching them 50 feet deep on spoons.
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    I finally had a good week, but it is too little, too late.
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    I back it into the garage, lower the motor, unhook the trailer and push it in the last couple of feet. They'll push OK on a straight line, it's making turns that is tough.
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    Well my guys dropped a bit, but I think I still have 4 fishing tomorrow. I believe the top 50 fishes the last day with the shortened tourney to 3 days. Number 50 is 6 lbs. and change from the lead, this thing is still really up in the air.
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    True that.
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    Well I lived for close to 20 years outside of Seattle and worked for a company that was based in San Jose CA. I'd tell people that I was going back to Arkansas to visit my folks on vacation and it was always funny to hear their reactions. I gave up trying to tell them like it is, and would just say stuff like, "Well the still broke down and Ma and Pa need me to come back and fix it". Or, it's fall and they need help butchering the hogs. People out on the coast really do base their opinions on this part of the country based on what they see on the tube. Of course that's not true for everyone out there, but quite a few. West coast is messed up now, way too many people. It is paradise lost, if the population was 10% of what it is now it would be a great place to live for an outdoors person. Still some great outdoors opportunity to be had out there, but you have to work to get to it. And fight traffic.
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    Might as well stock some gobies in Bull, then you'll have a Lake Erie south. Zebra mussels, walleye, yellow perch, smallmouth - just need some gobies. Yellow perch are tasty, I'll take them over walleye.
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    Ouch! Your better half has my sympathy.
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    It can certainly be tough. My advice when you're off on the ends of those long points over deeper water, if you're not seeing fish on your electronics you need to move.
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    Several of the guys on my roster this tourney are guys I have picked on many of the tourneys this year and they finally came through - well for one day at least.
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    Didn't get that much in Bella Vista, maybe 1/4" or so.
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    I'm living in NWA myself, and don't know of any places to get on besides public stuff. I would like to hunt them, but not in a crazy crowded situation. I'd pay $20 to hunt them. but that's about as far as I'd go. They just added about a 1,000 acres to the Frog Bayou WMA which is on the Arkansas river east a bit from Fort Smith. A lot of that land is old ag land so it is possible that the doves might utilize it. Hard to know without making a scouting trip.
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    Do you think that they moved from where you got them before, or were you seeing them but they weren't biting? Just curious, I know the last couple of times I was out the fish seemed to be moving around a lot which makes it tough to stay on them.
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    More information about "Big M area 7/26"
    One of those days where I couldn't really nail anything down, fished different kinds of structure using several techniques and baits. Caught one here and there and ended up with a dozen bass, biggest went about 2.5 lbs. The rest were 12-14" spots and LM's. Got the most on a Trick Worm fished on a Spider head. Got a couple of a c-rig, a couple early on a wobblehead with a Megabug, and one or two drop shot fish. A couple of brush piles that were in the 10-20 foot range held a few, a few out on gravel, and the early fish were back in a main lake pocket. There was some scattered TW activity, I was able to throw a Nutech Zinc spoon a few times on TW fish, had a couple of bites, got one about halfway to the boat that jumped a good three feet out of the water and tossed the spoon. I could be wrong, but I am thinking we may see some main channel, summer early morning, TW activity soon, I think they are just getting started. Lots of shad out in the channel for them to eat. Surface temp as close to 90 as it can get, I saw it hit 89.9 at one point. When I got to the ramp there was a husband/wife team (assuming they are married) launching. Husband in the boat, wife backing the trailer in. Husband yelling instructions: BACK! BACK! TURN! TURN! NO, TURN THE OTHER WAY! I SAID THE OTHER WAY! PULL UP! PULL UP! OK, NOW BACK! BACK! They got it done, you have to learn sometime right?
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    Well until you get something like Asian carp on the loose. To me it's just not worth rolling the dice and introducing another carp species.
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    Must be something to the name Ozark, if you're going to film it on Altoona or Lanier, why not call it Altoona (or Lanier)?
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    Yeah, I'd be a little concerned about introducing yet anther carp type fish. Not only flooding, but bucket biologists might decide they want to put these fish in other waters. But maybe there is more to this story.
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    SIO3, for that comment I gave you the "Sad" reaction. LOL.
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    I just gave you a reaction with a happy face.
  25. Quillback
    Well day 1 cancelled according to Bassmaster website. Bad weather.
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