Quillback

Drop shot may be the ticket on those fish you saw.

I have always liked the white War Eagle 1/2 oz jigging spoon. Dixie Jet spoons are real popular with the guides on Table Rock, I don't know if you can get them locally, but HLS might carry them, as a matter of fact, might not be a bad idea to go over to HLS and see what they recommend. I use these blanks for flutter spoons, if I want white, I'll spray them with Krylon white spray paint. I am partial to the hammered finish. http://www.lurepartsonline.com/Online-Store/Casting-Spoons/Premium-Finish-Casting-Spoons.html

Yeah that is weird, almost sounds to me like they were checking you out with the idea of ripping you off.

Saw that last week, they were around a brush pile, if I dragged a bait through the pile I would almost always get a bite, if I was off to the side, nothing. Lots of fun when you can find them bunched up like that.

I was up in that area a few times in May/June, only had one day where we got into some smallies fairly well, catching them dragging football jigs off gravel points. There were a lot of shad, maybe they are still around and you might find an early top water bite. I would bring some spoons, jigging and flutter, in addition to the drop shot stuff and some Carolina rigs and football jigs. I don't have any location advice other than what you are thinking.

Hey Ketchup, I live in Bella Vista and fish the lakes quite often, they fish pretty well, but overall I can usually catch more in Table Rock, Better chance at big bass in the BV lakes however. Like Doc says, you have to own property in BV to put your boat In the lakes. And it costs about $200 total to register your boat (if it is over 17'), part of that $200 is for your photo ID which you'll need to bring a guest fishing with you. Anyway, if you have any questions about BV, send me a PM. Champ188 and Donna live here also, they'll be happy to give you feedback also. If you're a golfer they can give you the lowdown on the golfing.

Walleye, schmalleye, I'd be really happy with those green fish.

Those are some chunky smallies, looking at the builds of those fish, I bet they are some hard pullers.

Get some Ranger stickers and use them to cover up the Triton logos.

There's still 3 available, hurry before they are gone! There's a listing on Ebay for $108.00 each.

I believe Bill Babler is running a center console for his trout trips on Taneycomo, you might give him a shout. I used to run a 17" Whaler Montauk when I trolled for salmon, sturdy boat, never gave me any problems. (Motor is another story). Not a boat I would want to use for bass fishing however.

Dang, they just rolled out FLW live coverage, would've been fun to watch some of the live fishing. Other than that, I don't care that much, I don't follow the FLW at all except when they come to Beaver.

Nice video. There's a few grass carp here in the community lakes stocked for weed control. A few winters ago I accidentally snagged one while fishing a jerk bait, certainly did some pulling before the hooks came out. A nice looking fish, nice shiny green coloration. I will see one every once in a while when the water is cold, laying on their side, on their back floating on top the water, they look like they are dying, but I believe they are feeding on something. I like to sneak up on them when they are doing that and poke them with a fishing rod - it freaks them out!

I haven't thrown a spinner bait at night, but fishing a week ago on one of the Bella Vista lakes, the guy with me caught a 4.25 bass on a black spinner bait with a #6 Colorado blade. He had a red Menace Grub on it as a trailer. I like to throw a 1/2 - 3/4 oz wobblehead with a black/blue creature bait of some kind. I just don't do much night fishing.

Just saw there was a 4.2 at 8:47 AM just outside Cushing OK.

Anyone notice a jolt a few minutes ago? Felt a jolt here followed by a little shaking.

This could be a heckuva business opportunity for a solar business.

That's a reasonable point, if you're a working dude with family, and can only get out maybe 20 times a year, it would be cheaper to hire a guide. Not to mention you have to have insurance, pay for maintenance, fuel, and all the other boat expenses.

I would be surprised if this originated from the COE, I could be wrong about that, but I have to believe this came from "above".

Thanks for the link. I am hoping your division 1 buddies publish a newsletter also.

Amazing how much boat prices have jumped in the last few years. But they are selling them.

Going to make recharging trolling motor batteries interesting, especially at night.

First one I have seen, except for a glimpse or two of one off the side of the road.

I was thinking of the drop shot myself, didn't have any of that stuff with me. I saw a few on the graph out in 15-20 FOW underneath the boat and I bet they would've bit a drop shot, or a spoon. Had a couple spit out 3" spoon sized shad.

Launched early again today, 0530 or so. Went over to a nearby gravel point and caught a few early, got my biggest of the day, a 3 lb. LM. Fishing the c-rigged Trick worm again. Saw some bass busting top water, but couldn't get them to bite my top water offerings. Fished a couple of other gravel points, picked up a few here and there. Then I fished a brush pile that sits on a gravel point in about 15-20 FOW, off a cove mouth, it's a brush pile I have fished in the past and sometimes it is good for a bass or two, but today it was loaded, caught over 20 bass off that pile, mostly 12-14" spots, but also a few keepers, 2 of the keepers were LM's,the only 2 LM's I caught off that pile, but they were both keepers. Again on the c-rigged Trick worm. (Old Purple and Candy Bug). Caught a bunch of fish today, 35 or so, mostly 12-14" spots, only 5 keepers. Not one smallmouth, but did catch a meanmouth. Surface WT was 86. Saw a bobcat today, pulled into a little cut in a bluff wall, made a few casts on one side of the cut, moved the boat over to the other side, saw something moving on the bank, thought it was a fox, but once I got a good look at it I realized it was a bobcat. It just slowly walked away and disappeared into the brush. Didn't have time to get the camera and get a shot, I needed to change lenses to get a good photo and the cat just didn't give me the time I needed.