Quillback

Nice fish!

Thanks Bill and Dave for the tips, I have been fishing the rig for 4 years now but still learning thanks to your info.

Looking forward to seeing your new Bird.

I was reading some blog, can't remember where I saw it, but the author was claiming that TB is not fishing as well now because they sprayed and killed a lot of vegetation on one end of the lake and there's been a lot of big fish kept and filleted. Of course I can't say myself if that is true, but the weights are sure down compared to the last time there was an Elite event on TB. Or it could be that the fish are in some sort of post spawn/spawn funk, moving around and are difficult to pattern.

I do have Wheeler, but the rest of my lineup ain't looking too good. I picked Carriere as he lives in LA and you would think he could catch a limit at least. I guess not. I have to quit taking flyers on guys like that or picking guys with good history on a particular lake, that strategy is killing me.

BFL and various other tourneys, add in nice weather, going to be a lot of boats out there.

I haven't even watched one stroke of the Masters this year. I'll probably catch the last round. That's about how much of a golf fan I am, I'll watch the final rounds of the major events, but that's about it. Hard for me to speculate who will be the ceremonial first tee shooters. I think they will have to let Tiger be one of them, but who knows, maybe Tiger will tell them to stuff it. Only other golfer I can think of is Mickelson that might be one of the ceremonial shooters. I can't say that I like Tiger as far as his personality, but I sure had fun watching him when he was at his peak.

I can't speak for how fishing is on that end of the lake, but there are definitely fish in the coves up the White river.

Nice fish, I like fishing those gravel points, haven't done much of that lately but maybe it is time to try.

That is an awesome looking course, almost makes me wish I could golf. I wonder if the PGA will have any events there? Johnny is also set to open the Wonders of Wildlife exhibit in Springfield this September.

Thursday I launched out of Eagle Rock and fished upriver. Water is still pretty stained up there, kind of a brownish green color. Started off pretty slow, and it didn't get much better as the morning went on. Wind started howling after a couple of hours so I went into coves thinking some fish would be back there on the sunny banks, but if they were, I could not show them anything they liked. Only place I could catch fish was on main lake chunky rock banks, got 2 on a Wart and another dozen on the Ned. Every fish was close to the bank. Wind was getting on my nerves so I left at 1230. 2 keepers. Today it was almost dead calm when I launched, cold and frosty, but it warmed up fairly quickly. Fishing was much better. Caught fish on a couple of deep spots near cove mouths, deep being 15-20 FOW. Deep fish were spotted bass and smallies for the most part. Fished the Ned deep and a little bit of shaky head with a lizard. Ned fished best deep, but did get a few on the Liz. Fished in a couple of coves and found some largemouth on the shaky head/lizard combo. 5-10 FOW around trees, slowly dragging the Liz. Caught several keepers, but none that were over a couple of pounds. Also caught an 18" spawned out smallie in one of the coves. Caught 29 today, didn't keep a good count of the keepers, but had something like 6-8. Water temps today were 57-59. A lot of boats out. I went a little crazy with the camera.

Better info here concerning Mizzou hoops than I can find in the media.

Top Water.

Next time my batteries need replacing I need to go there.

Love that name. Nice fishing Mixer, sounds like a lot of fun.

Nice day to fish, but had trouble finding any quality. Tossed cranks around to start, fished an area that had worked for me last week, but yesterday could not get a bite early on the cranks. Went to a jig and struck out on it also. Started fishing the Ned and a Carolina rigged lizard and picked up random, but small fish on those baits. Mostly 12-14" largemouth males that were on the bank. Wind picked up a bit early in the afternoon, so I decided to crank a chunk rock bank with a Wart, caught my only keeper sized bass on the Wart and a couple more small males. I'm pretty sure those males are on the bank ready to build beds, I did a little checking and saw what appeared to be a few beds in shallow water. Water is so murky it is hard to be sure, but I believe they are starting to build beds. Water temps were 58 main channel and 60 back in one cove I was in, and those are the temps that get those males busy. When I put the boat on the trailer, I saw something sitting in the grass a few feet from the edge of the ramp, looked like a crank bait, I thought no way, but it was a 6 XD. How it ended up where it was is a mystery to me, but there it was. Caught 22 bass, all short, except one.

I was out yesterday also, and saw some chasing shad on top, didn't have any top waters with me, so didn't throw at them. Time to keep a TW rigged.

Nice slabs! Congrats!

For a Rock Crawler, I would go and get it.

Congrats, that's pretty sweet getting that winning bass.

For those of us, as in myself, who need pictures.

I see some good bird habitat..

There's a lot of plastics you can use on the wobble heads too. Just about any plastic you can think of, worms, craws, creatures, flukes.

That spotted bass Edyer is holding is no slouch either.

Murphy's law of boating, when you need your bilge pump, it doesn't work.