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I have several, (spy baits that is, not bad teeth) they sure look good. I might bring them with me next time out on the Rock to try on suspended fish, if I can find any suspended fish that is.

Good deal, sounds like a great trip. There's been a couple of those heavy down pours here in Bella Vista this week. Lots of water in a short time frame.

I have not seen the Duel. Have you thrown it yet? I'm curious if it wakes well.

Combination wake/prop bait. 4 inches long, weighs an ounce. It looks promising, but you never know with Megabass, some of their baits are great, some not so much.

Well done!

I had one of those Plopper hooks break at the shank on a 2 lb. bass.

I change out the hook on Wiggle Warts, I won't fish one with those lousy hooks they come with. When I did fish them using the stock hooks, I bet I lost 50% of the bass I hooked on them. Now I use those Mustad short shank KVD hooks on Warts and I boat probably 80% of the fish that grab the Wart.

Doesn't Bo drive a red SUV? Just kidding, LOL. Well you put up with adversity and still managed to catch some fish.

A true pig!

Just happened to run across this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkJj9rRW6d0

Ol' Bugle lips! Nice healthy fish, I bet it pulled hard.

Cool, glad to hear you got into them.

I can't hit a golf ball when I'm sober, I can't imagine what would happen after a few beers.

Speaking of Ploppers, 2 weeks ago I was throwing a 90, the only one I have in that size. It broke off on a cast and landed in the water, no big deal I thought, I'll just troll over and get it. I start moving towards it, and I see a fish swirl on it, Plopper disappears. Hung around for a couple of minutes to see if it worked loose from the fish and float up. It never did reappear.

Seems to be a revival of the Plopper bite. Nice fish!

Swimming a Keitech has worked well for me this year. If they are busting top, I'll throw some kind of top water at them, if I can get them to hit it, great, if not I'll swim the Keitech. Even though you'll see fish on top, you'll usually also see a bunch 20-40 feet down on your graph. Slow rolling that Keitech to them will often work. You'll get a lot of bites on the drop, that Keitech tails kicks real well when it is dropping. Something that also has worked for me in the past, is throwing 1/2 ounce jigging spoons at them, as soon as it hits the water, rip it, let it fall for a second, than rip it again, repeat until you get it to the boat or a bass grabs it. Flutter spoon, as Tim says, is another good option. I think if you look at some of Bill Babler's latest reports you'll see some tips on what to use and how to work it.

Awesome! Doggone 4th of July weekend is getting in the way of my fishing, I won't be near that lake this weekend myself.

Daiwa hit a home run on the Tatula, especially at $90. The one I have casts well, doesn't backlash more than any other BC I own, feels well machined, and a smooth drag. I have heard some complaints that they are a bit big compared to other BC's, and I'm sure it's an issue for some, but not for me.

I do something similar, no dill, add black olives, tomatoes, Feta cheese, Greek Vinaigrette dressing, and now you have a "Greek salad". A good way to use up some of those garden cucumbers.

It is not too bad early, but later, about 10 AM it starts to pick up.

Very nice, I love those big spots!

Something I have noticed, is that I have hardly caught any brown fish on top this spring. Maybe that brownies being much more numerous up there by the dam, accounted for the poor TW bite up there. Could be that they need clear water to get going on top.

I couldn't tell you, but it's worth a shot.

Fished the last couple of mornings, caught fish on a variety of baits, but never hammered them on anything specific. Had early top water action both mornings, on the 29th is was brief, but the fish were in one spot, whereas today the fish were scattered in the main channel chasing shad and the bite stayed going for a while, if I could get a bait on them, they would hit it, but just could not find them schooling to get a good, consistent TW bite. I got a couple of keeper large mouth that were just out in the middle of nowhere, but hit the top water. It's hard to pin them down when they are roaming around out there. Yesterday the Keitech bite was decent for fish down 15-30 feet off a couple of steep, rocky points, but today that bite just wasn't happening. Today found some Ned fish and a few jig fish. Jig fish and Ned fish were right up on the bank off rocky banks. Caught 40 bass in the two mornings, might have had 6-7 keepers, nothing over 2 lbs.

Top water bite depended on what end of the lake you were on. Mid-May this year up the White was the best top water bite I have ever seen in my 8 years of fishing up there. Once the shad started spawning, the bass went nuts. I'm hoping once fall rolls around, it will get going again. I remember last fall there was a brief, but good Whopper Plopper bite - I missed that one, grrrr...