Quillback

Thanks a bunch folks for the best wishes, it really feels good to hear that from you all. I hope you all have time to keep me and everyone else updated on the fishing, it will be a while before I am out again, but I always enjoy reading everyone's reports. Recovery is gong well, pain is not as bad as I expected, and I can get around using the walker. If all goes well, I hope I can get out there again in 4-6 weeks.

I hope to get out there next year. Good to see the birds are back. Busting that drought that was going on a couple of years ago made a big difference.

It's been a tough fall (except for spoon fish), I have had a couple of good days, but then next time out it will be tough. I have one of those good days, and I think that this is it, the good bite is on, I found a pattern, I found where they are at, etc., but it just doesn't hold up. How much longer until spring?

Nice fishing there Terrin. I'll back Champ up on the STX recommendation, they can catch fish.

Wow, great fishing guys! I'm curious as to what you guys who stayed overnight thought as far as the lodging, I think you might have had 10 one night, did it work out well? Already looking to next year and wanted to see if things worked out OK, or if we might want to think about 2 lodges/cabins for next year.

Very nice!

I've heard the pheasant hunting has been good the last couple of years, had some good rain out there that busted the drought. I have a bird dog, but won't be able to go tis year because of a bad knee. Getting that knee fixed soon, so I hope to get back after them next year. Mike you may want to scout out that new AR wildlife area, the Devils Eyebrow, which is up off the Indian Creek area, I have seen turkeys up there by the lake in the past. I don't know what the regs are for that area, so you'd need to check.

Good to hear you got some on the JB. I have thrown several different models around, but have yet to get a bite on one.

Miles wife told me that if there aren't enough beds that you can ask them to bring in some more.

Man, if you only had some grizzly paws so you could leave grizzly tracks by their scent posts.

One of those days where it was flat calm early in the AM, then got blow your hat off windy later in the morning. Caught about 15 bass, only one made the keeper ,mark. Mix of all types, LM, smallies, spots and a mean. Got a few on the Ned, a few on a spinner bait (very shallow off wind blown gravel), and a few on the Rock Crawler. WT 58-59.

Neat video, saltwater feeding frenzy!

It appears she's got at least 3 hooded sweaters/jackets/coats on and has the hood up from each one. A buff is not needed when you're peering out from under multiple hoods.

Very nice! It is funny how these fish are acting, a guy can fish a lot of good looking stuff that should be holding fish and hardly get a bite, but once you find them they bite like they are starving to death.

Well congrats to you Tigger fans, your team played like it wanted to win. Wish I could say that for the piglets. I've watched a few football games in my life, and I don't recall watching many where receivers running deep routes were so wide open so many times.

Good stuff - Looks like a nice meanmouth.

Very nice, I like hearing the JB is working. I was thinking of trying one out next time, but I will throw one for sure.

Very cool. I have an eagle/seagull story myself.. Was on a salmon fishing trip on the saltwater off Vancouver island. The guide we were with was using anchovies for bait behind a flasher and running them off downriggers. He'd bait the hook then let off about 30 feet of line before attaching it to the down rigger ball. Well one time when he let the line out, a gull came down, grabbed the anchovy, and got hooked. The guide clips the line with the attached gull to the down rigger ball, and drops the ball down, taking the gull underwater with it. After submerging the gull for about 30 seconds, he brought it back up, the gull was still alive, but somewhat subdued so the guide was able to bring the gull in and unhook it without having to battle a fully energized and PO'd gull. Once released the gull just sat on the water flapping its wings and acting somewhat distressed, meanwhile we were back to trolling and moving away from the gull. A bunch of the gulls buddies showed up, and started circling the dazed gull, diving at it and raising a ruckus with their screeching calls. All of a sudden, out of nowhere, an eagle appears and swooped down and grabbed that gull and flew off with it. Truly a bad day for that particular gull.

I usually upload them from my PC. Sometimes I get that same error, but if I try another upload it will usually do it on the 2nd attempt. Sometimes it takes 3 tries.

Happy Thanksgiving guys!

What does the error say?

Have you been over to Bob Kidd? AGFC did an electroshock survey over there and they reported they saw quite a few bass and redears. I want to make it down there one of these days, just haven't done it.

Cold, cloudy and windy was the theme for today. It was very slow fishing for most of the day, tried the Ned rig, deep fishing with the spoon, Rock Crawler and a spinner bait and only caught a few shorts and one keeper smallie that ate the Ned. Around 1:30 PM, I was just about ready to quit, pulled into a cove that had the wind blowing directly into it and thought I would throw the Ned on a couple of rocky banks then be done for the day. I threw it a few times, got a couple of bites but the wind was blowing so hard that it made it difficult to fish that light bait, decided to throw a Deep Little N. Got the boat parallel to the bank over about 8 FOW and started throwing the DLN letting the wind push me down the bank. Had a pretty good stretch of fishing for about an hour, boated 10 bass, mostly largemouth and had a few others on that got off. No bigguns, but several keepers. Wish I could have done that all day. Water temp was a bit cooler, 60-61. The duck is still standing by the ramp.

It is creepy, and weird.

Yeah, sorry guys, typo. 61-62.