Quillback

Man, you may have found the secret. Good on you for figuring out that they wanted the blade.

Well those 3 kentucks were in 20 FOW right on the inside of a point near marker 23. That smallie was on a gravel bank that has a couple of boulders, i'd say it might have been 10 feet. The other few bites I got were generally a bit shallow, 10 or so.

I pull into a cove today, and fish about halfway back into it where another small side cove splits off. I'd say that side cove went back about 100 yards and if you ran your boat down the middle, you could cast to either bank. That side cove was absolutely filled with 1.5" shad. Incredible how many were in it. As far as I can tell they were unmolested by game fish. I sure couldn't get any bites and could not see any game fish activity. I have seen this before, and it always makes me wonder why there aren't game fish of some sort back in there tearing those shad up.

Got started a little late this morning, waiting for the temps to get above freezing. One of those days where it went from flat calm early to windier than heck in the afternoon. Fishing was tough, caught 6 total, all on a shaky head. Caught 3 Kentucks on 3 straight casts off one point, so basically I spent 6 hours catching the other 3 fish. Had some issues missing fish also, I think I missed at least another 6 today that I had hooked up for a second or two, but then they got off - hate to lose them on a tough day like today. I did catch a 3 lb. smallie today, he bit the shaky head and when I set the hook, I thought I had set on a stump or something, that fish was just rock solid and really pulled hard. Thought I was on to a 6 or 7 lb. largemouth, wasn't expecting a smallie, I just haven't been catching any sizeable brown fish lately. Water is still a stained green up the White, and temps were 47-50.

Good save, and you are right, it is tough out there.

Hopefully they will be doing the live coverage again this year.

Excellent!

Pretty good day, thanks for the report.

Excellent, glad to see you can make it!

Yep, I am also looking forward to some Cards/Cubs games. The pressure will be on the Cubs to perform as they are being touted as the best team in the NL.

Good stuff Dan - I think that WB is about ready to spawn.

Good stuff Hammer, you are right about the boats out there, I was wondering if it was a Monday holiday.

Nice ones Steve, some great fish on a tough day.

Cheese, the water is still a well stained green color, hasn't changed much in the last couple of weeks.

I was desperate, LOL. But, I had been reading so many reports of people getting them shallow that I had to give it a try. As I was easing back in there, I started seeing some shad, so I thought there might be a good chance for some bass to be in there, but lately I have seen the shad in cove backs and not gotten a bite. But yesterday they liked that little Balsa shad.

Sure was a beautiful day, fishing was slow, with a brief flurry of activity in the afternoon. Spent most of the morning dragging a shaky head and the Ned. Picked up a half-dozen doing that, and got my biggest fish, a 2.5 lb. Kentuck. Couldn't find a hot spot, just a fish here and there off points and chunk rock banks. Fish were in 10-20 FOW. Decided to try throwing a Bagly Balsa shad on windy banks, picked a couple up, then got back in the very back of a cove and picked up 4 largemouth on it. A couple of them were decent keepers. Fish were shallow, 5 -10 FOW. By then, I had put in 7 hours which is about my limit for a days fishing, so it was back to the ramp.

There's no age limit, but would like to see that if they are so young that you don't want to register them as an OA member, that at least they are fishing with an OA member.

You can show up then, just make sure your buddy signs up as a member on OA, which he can do any time. We want to give the trophy to an OA member.

Nice one! I like throwing the wobble head, looks like it is time to start throwing it around.

You can start anywhere (on Table Rock, at 0730) be back to Eagle Rock by 1430 for the weigh in.

Less than 2 weeks until 3/12. Looks like the weather is going to stay relatively warm until then, hopefully the water temp will warm up a bit, and if so, we may see some pretty good fishing! Here's who I have so far, I realize a few of you are maybes. Phil and Bill Muddy Water (Weighmaster) Ketchup and his better half FlatCreekReaper and friend M&M & friend Champ & Donna Pour Dennis and friends 5Bites Sore Thumbs and friend dwiebenga and Jim rps Ken Drish aarchdale@coresleep.com OlBasser dblades Macsimus and Daryk Campbell Sr. BenGillispie and friend cheesemaster and daughter twooldpoops Smithvillesteve Kbillb and Austin (Defending champ) Darren Combs and friends Andrewwsheperd Little Jasper and friend

Good stuff Ham, glad to see you're getting out with your dad and doing some fishing.

Yep, the good old grease pit bite.

Good stuff, and good luck on the tourney!

That ought to work!