Quillback

Did you weigh that spot in the 2nd pic? It looks to be a TANK! Congrats on some great fish!

There's a couple of different approaches you can take now, go for numbers, or go for size. If you want numbers of 12-16" fish, it is hard to beat the Ned rig right now, little finesse jigs are also working well, match your tackle to the fish and you can have a lot of fun. You'll still have a shot at a couple of bigger fish even with the Ned. If you want to go for size, well that's always a bit more of a challenge, if you saw Bill Babler's latest report, he has been throwing big jigs, cranks, wobble head, and maybe a paddle tail bait here and there. There also appears to be a bit of a top water bite developing. Good luck, and I look forward to hearing how you do.

I'll send you a PM thumbs. My neighbor got into some this weekend, but I can't post his spot in public.

Foggy here this morning, but it looks to have burned off - I think I'll go over to one of the Bella Vista lakes and do a bit of fishing.

Couple of nice fish!

Finding an original WW is pretty cool.

Some TANKS!

Looking good!

Congrats on some nice fish!

It's been years since I caught some of those jacks, but I remember them as being crazy hard fighters.

Seems to have been a early bite, look at Bfergs report, they got on them early also. But who knows, tomorrow might be a later bite.

Nice ones, that first fish looks like a meanmouth to me. Bass are pretty tough fish, I doubt that laying them on the carpet, especially this time of the year, is going to do any permanent damage. I'd bet a dollar that when you lifted those fish off the carpet, you didn't see any slime left on the rug. With big, heavy fish that flop around, yeah I could see potential for harm, but I bet those fish in your pics are swimming around doing fine right now.

Excellent, those are some great fish!

I wanna be on the list too...

Some nice quality fish there, fun to get on the buzzer I am sure. I've been thinking about throwing the wacky worm myself, maybe next week.

Fished out of my buddy Jeb's boat today. Fish wanted to bite early today, in the freezing fog. Later in the morning, into the afternoon, it started getting slow, and we were off the water at 1:30 PM. We caught between 25-30, 4 or 5 in the keeper sized range. Most fish came on a 3/16 finesse jig, shakey head, and Rock Crawler. Got a couple on the drop shot also. Best quality came on the Crawler. Nothing big enough to warrant a trip to the taxidermist. Water temps were 51-53, water is still a dingy green color.

Little Sugar here in Bella Vista flows north.

I'll have to save my empties, I make it up to Springfield about once in a blue moon. DOMO-online has a 5 gallon case on sale for $137 which works out to about $27 per gallon, but they spank you with $30 shipping. Still cheaper than I can get it locally (that I know of), and it's delivered to my front door.

That is a good price, I wish it was local to me.

If it's blowing at Table rock like it is blowing here in Bella Vista, Champ won't have to worry about making long casts, just toss that spinner bait up in the air and the wind will probably blow it 50 yards down the bank.

Couple of nice ones, and that spot looks pretty good sized also.

Well at least you got out, dang wind kept me at home today, and will tomorrow.

That fish is a TANK!

Thanks for the report, it was a tad windy yesterday, went out and walked the dog this morning and there is a pretty good breeze blowing here today already.

Water is a little more stained than it was before the rain and cold, I'd say about 3 feet of visibility and a sort of greenish brown color.