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KVD was working those cranks pretty fast. I tend to fish them a little slower, might have to speed up.

A bit of a stain for sure, could provide some opportunity, water is still fairly warm, get a bit of wind and could be a good shallow water bite.

The seller has not been back since posting this. Hey Boej, if you're legit, let us know, otherwise this will get deleted.

@bfishnThat's pretty neat, except for the marriage killing part of it. Those Waltons are up to something, they had that fairly large land purchase a year or so ago, but have been pretty vague about what they are up to.

KVD fishing during the Big Bass event held recently. New show that will run in 2025. Catching smallies on a 3XD, looks like fun!

Thanks - All this time I lived here I never knew that place existed.

Just curious how you got cold water to raise trout, how many you raised and where you sold them?

Drove over to Indian Creek today to check the ramp. All is well, the ramp has been moved up, water is clear and did not see any wood floating around. Since I was going to the lake, might as well do a little bank fishing, so I brought a spinning rod and some small swimbaits. Pretty windy and the waves were crashing onto the bank. It creates a mudline in the water that in places goes out into the lake from the bank 5 -10 feet. I caught several smallmouth that were either at the edge of the mudline or right in the dirty water. None of them were of any size, but I did lose one that was a good fish that I only got a glimpse of. It was fun, I get a kick out of walking the bank and catching a bass or two. I planned on only making a few casts but wound up fishing for close to 3 hours.

77-78 lake wide. The outlet was running but it was not the usual 90+ degrees there. They've done some retrofitting to the plant so I don't know if that was the reason for the cooler water, or if it was running water but the plant wasn't burning coal, or maybe some other reason.

Video interview of John Stein who I believe heads up District One for AGFC. It's a about a year old and he mentions a plan for the new ramp. Also some interesting stuff on fish habitat for Beaver.

Fished Swepco for the first time this year in Jeb's boat. We got there at 0530 to insure getting a place to park in the small lot, 2 boats putting in ahead of us, but it never got so crowded today that the lot was full. It used to be you'd see maybe 3-5 boats on the lake on a weekday, but those days are over. In spite of the intense pressure, the lake still boots out some quality fish. We caught a 4 and a 3.5 on big worms, and several more in the 1.5 to 2 lb. range on c-rigged Zoom Speed Craws. Most fish were close to the bank. We caught 15 or so bass in a morning of fishing. I've heard reports of better days for other people that have been there lately, we're blaming our relatively slow day on a brisk east wind. On the way out, talked to a guy at the ramp who says there are plans to build a new ramp with greatly expanded parking. That's the first I have heard of that, but it's needed.

Beaver and Table Rock up over 4 feet. That's a lot of water!

Yes, thanks for the link tjm. Shows around 5.5" here.

Table Rock and Beaver are both up about a foot and a half and still rising.

That's some good fishing!

Seemed to be a lot of rain last night, woke up several times to the sound of rain pounding on the roof. I need to get a rain gauge.

I agree, very good read! One of the things I liked about living in Washington, and something I miss now, is having lots of hike in only places to fish. Amidst stunning scenery to boot.

I don't know how much we've gotten here, maybe an inch or so. Light rain right now. They are still calling for rain tonight and tomorrow.

Last time I was over at Talbot, and that's been a few years, they had a drop box over by the MDC bldg. where you could drop the bands.

Glad to see some rain.

Several rounds of showers and thunderstorms are expected Saturday through Monday, with widespread heavy rainfall amounts expected. Widespread rainfall amounts between 3 and 6 inches will be common, with locally higher amounts in some places. Severe thunderstorms will also be possible, especially from late Sunday through Monday.

Very cool!

Haven't seen a fox for a few years now. There was a period of time when they seemed to be all over Bella Vista. Always reds.

That is super getting that big musky on the fly!