Quillback

This guy has done well by me and he stands by his work. But, turnaround time is usually 4 weeks or so. http://www.delawarevalleytackle.com/

Excellent!

Well I caught one of those 'eyes myself today, on a DD22. With me it's just dumb luck to get one. Bass fishing was slow, caught 5 on Trick Worms and that was it. One of the slowest days I have had in a long time.

HAHA, you are very funny. Yeah, I would go fish Big M, but I found a huge, and I mean HUGE school of 7 lb. smallmouth downstream from the SK bridge. They are just smashing top waters, as a matter of fact, I just got back from the doctor's office, had to get a cortisone shot in my elbow it was so sore after fighting so many of those hard pulling smallies. They are easy to find, just get out early and idle away from the bridge, keep going until you see them blowing up. If you reach Kimberling City without seeing them, then you've gone too far. Turn around and idle back, repeat until you find them.

Glad to hear she is doing fine, I don't think I would have gone fishing 3 weeks after mine was done.

I am sure your are familiar with those big foam hands that make the we're #1 sign. We need a big foam hand that is flipping the bird. Somebody flips you off, you can retaliate with the big foam hand giving the middle finger salute.

Launched early with OA member Muddy Water. Can't say that we found any spectacular fishing, but we worked hard at it, and had around 30 in the boat (maybe 5 keepers) by 1 PM. Got a few early on jigs, then it slowed down for a while. Bite picked up around 10 AM and our best fishing was from 10 to 1 PM. We found fish off steep banks, and most of them were off the bank a bit in 10-20 FOW. Zoom Trick worm on a Charlie Brewer Spider head and jigs worked best for us. Mix of largemouth, spots and smallies. WT 80-81.

Thanks for that info, my favorite launch is back in business!

Hackney really whacked them.

Glad to hear you made it out OK.

Is Ducky fishing for rainbows this year?

That's a pretty good bite you found Cheese. First good TW bite I've heard of in a while.

I recorded it and will watch it later. I thought I saw somewhere that there are 6 episodes? I'm hoping they didn't squeeze it all into one hour.

Send board member Macsimus a pm, he lives up there. I'd bring a Whopper Plopper 130 or two with me, smallmouth should eat them, and you may get a musky to take a look at it.

Must have been someone else.

Hey Nancy - Do you and Al have keep your boat in a slip in the point 23 area? I think that was Al we talked to yesterday morning as he was getting ready to go out.

There's my buddy Mike with a 3 lb. bass he caught on a c-rigged Rage craw. Fishing was tough, had to work for them. A bit of an early bite, found a few bass on a stretch of gravel that was between buck brush and tree lines banks, they were in there feeding early in the morning. After that it got tough, with a fish here and there. Around noon we got into another one of those wakes crashing into the bank bites, and had a 1/2 hour or so of a decent bite. Best baits were jigs, c-rigged craw, and Mike got a couple on a square bill. Later in the morning I started fishing a Trick worm on a Charlie Brewer Spider head and got some bass on it. I was gliding that worm, pull it off the bank and let in swing down, doing a little reeling, no feel thing, like Ned fishing. We caught about 20 bass, a few decent largemouth, a couple of good spots, the rest 12-14" fish. Surface water temp was 83.

"Son, lay your rod down and put on your life jacket." I have this image of Clint Eastwood delivering that line.

Yikes, I better go back and edit that.

Wow, great bass for this time of year!

I think it is, seems to have a lot of spotted bass in it, but has a dark green color.

I went through a pack and a half, plus a few Zoom Fat Alberts, and a couple of Paca Chunks.

Seeing how big I can make the pics pixel wise before I get an error. Site software must be limiting picture width/height. I edit them on my PC, save them to a bigger pixel size, but the pics are the same size on here no matter what pixel size I save them as. Ok, saved it in the gallery, then selected "Big" for the image and made it bigger.

Fished Monday with Muddy Water, cloudy morning which helped the bite, hard part was finding what banks they were on, when we found them we had some good action, if we didn't find them, we'd get hardly a bite. Steep banks with timber or flooded bushes were the best, just had to pick a bank and fish and hope it was a good one. Fish were right outside the bushes for the most part, but a few were out deep, or followed the bait back to the boat. 1/2 oz jigs were the best bait, Robert got a few on the Ned. We got about 30 total, maybe 1/2 dozen keepers, but no big ones. had one about 3.5 come off at the boat. Today I was by myself, found a good early bite in shallow water off a gravel point, got a half dozen spotted bass dragging the 1/2 oz jig in the shallows. They stopped once the sun got over the hill and things got tough for a while. Water was dead calm, sun was out, not good. Fished some of the banks Robert and had done well on yesterday, not much going on them today. Picked up one every once in a while, but it was slow. Tried c-rigging the depths, not much there either, though I did get a keeper sized largemouth in 25 FOW. Hit one last stretch of bank before going in, bank was getting a lot of waves from the wake boats and that generated a bite, caught 10 in my last hour of fishing, all on the 1/2 oz jig. Finished with 20 bass, 4 keepers, again nothing notable size wise. Got about half my bites swimming the jig. I would cast to the bank, hop it a couple of times, and if no bites, I would swim it back, sometimes I'd pause it on the swim, let it fall and they'd hit it. Or they'd grab it while it was swimming. Using a Strike King Rage Craw as a trailer, good action from the claws. No top water bites. WT around 80, water is a dingy brownish color with a few feet of viz.

Congrats on some good fishing!