Quillback

I like black in low light or stained water.

Yeah that's what I'm always asking my fishing buddies when we go fishing on a Wednesday and there's a bass boat for about every hundred yards of shoreline. Who the heck does all the work around here? And if they are not out fishing or water skiing, seems they are out driving around. Cars all over the place at 10 AM during the week. Just too many of us.

A well trained bass hound is worth its weight in gold.

Went out last night from 6 to 10 PM with my neighbor and we fished Indian Creek. Fishing was slow, I caught two keeper sized smallies - one was 18 inches, and had a couple of strong pullers get off the jig. My neighbor lost one at the boat, and that was about it for bites. Fished a black 1/2 ounce jig with a black twin tailed trailer. Fish that were caught came from 10-15 FOW around timber and rocks. Surface water temp was 91.

Some beautiful fish there. Fat and healthy looking for this time of year.

Picked up an Evergreen Shower Blow 125 (kind of a kinky name), walks very easily and has a cupped face so it is pretty splashy, similar to a Gunfish except I believe it is a better walker. It's heavy, casts a mile, and comes out of the box with scary sharp hooks. Yellow Magic Havana is another good walking bait, it will also roll when walked and all the colors have reflective sides, so you get some flash thrown in the water with the rolling action.

The bowl of goop doesn't look very appetizing.

I admit to wearing the "Face Burqa". I wear it all the time when I am out on the water and the sun is over the trees. I also use sun screen. Had a few pre-cancerous growths removed a couple of years ago, so I am not taking any chances. Sun screen works, except it doesn't do a good job on your lips. It is hard to find a buff that has the same logos as my jersey. My many sponsors insist that if I have one of their logos on my jersey, then I must have it on the buff.

Saw some at the grocery store the other day. Didn't buy any, mainly because I don't think I have ever gotten a good peach at a grocery store. I admit to being real picky with peaches, but I do like ones that are homegrown and picked when ripe.

Indeed! I am impressed with Billet's culinary skill.

That's not bad. I was over on Windsor yesterday morning early. No good fish for me that I boated, I did lose one before the sum came up that was pulling pretty hard. Caught a bunch of 10-12" bass c-rigging a Trick Worm. Is there a lot of green slime on Lomond? It was pretty bad this spring.

Did you hear any quail whistling?

Well I saw the early morning moon, launched on one of the Bella Vista lakes at 4 AM. Nice and cool morning, little 12" bass were biting good, but didn't get any of those 3-4 lb. fish like you did. I did have one on that was pulling pretty hard, but it tossed the jig.

Nice - doesn't look like you were too far off shore either.

Those bluff/rocky/steep banks could hold redear, maybe that is what you were seeing on those types of banks.

Saturday summer time boat ramps, I have come to expect that if I go out on a Saturday there will be someone that will throw a monkey wrench in the works. I like your plan of attack, I have been meaning to do that myself, fish for bass early, then break out the redworms. Only difference is I would bring home about 10 of those gills.

Rapala has come out with some craw imitations for the DT series.

Please, no more baits...

So would they have been charged if they spent their adolescent and teenage years working in an air conditioned building?

The arms race thing with high schools and especially colleges is out of control. Arkansas is paying Bielema $4 million per year, that's ridiculous. Colleges could cap a coaches salary at say $250,000 per year, which is darn good money, and I bet you'd have people lined up out the door for those jobs and we'd have quality football, no different than what we have today. Then there's the upgrading of athletic facilities, basically colleges just keep spending more on facilities to aid recruiting, it does nothing for the football we see on the field, but it's a must in the recruiting wars. And Arkansas spends all that doggone money and loses to the like of the Toledo Rockets, sheesh...

Yes you would be sure to tick off some of your sponsors if you did anything that might cover up any of their logos. I do think that's a great idea to attach the bag to one of the power poles. Might I suggest one of those red Arkansas Hog flags for your other Power Pole? A nice big flag, about 6' X 4'.

Those flies must have polished off all the dead stinky Zebra mussels left behind by the falling lake levels. Now they are going after......humans!

Picked up a Pradco Deep Little N. Looks identical to the pre-Pradco ones, but it does say on the package that they are now made in Guatemala. I'm sure it's a good business decision for Pradco, but hate to see another US based business bite the dust.

I like Owner Hyper wire myself, relatively thin diameter wire compared to some other rings, but they are strong and do not deform when you are putting them on or taking them off. I use the #2's for the 90 Plopper, jerk baits, and medium sized cranks. #3 for 130 Ploppers and bigger cranks, top waters. If you look at them (Owners) on Tackle Warehouse, they have a chart with inner/outer dimensions and breakage ratings. Might be more info than anyone wants or needs, but it is there. Unfortunately it is not there for the other brands of rings, so it is hard to make comparisons. I really like Texas Tackle split ring pliers for those smaller rings like the #2.

Thanks for posting that newsletter. Always interesting to read, even though I never fish those lakes.