Quillback

Called Rileys today and booked us in the Cedar Gables place, which is the one we had for Jigfest #1, and I believe you are stayed there last year for Jigfest #2. They quoted me pricing, $220 for the first night, and $235/night for Friday and Saturday nights. I believe we have 5 staying Thursday night so that works out to about $44/person, Firday night with 7 it is about $35 per person, and again with 5 Saturday night works out to $44 each. I forgot to ask them, but I don't think they take credit cards.

Look up at the top of the page, 2nd toolbar, has a tab labeled chat. Click on it and you will see an option to "accept and enter chatroom". Click on it and you will be in.

Good idea m&m, I'll try and remember to do that in the chat session.

Let's do it again, chat room, 11/17 7 PM. Think of a topic if there's something you want to ask about. I'm thinking we can talk jerk baits as it is getting to be that time of year.

Let's do it again, chat room, 11/17 7 PM. Think of a topic if there's something you want to ask about. I'm thinking we can talk jerk baits as it is getting to be that time of year.

Let's do it again, chat room, 11/17 7 PM. Think of a topic if there's something you want to ask about. I'm thinking we can talk jerk baits as it is getting to be that time of year.

It would not surprise me if they are in the lake. If not now, it's just a matter of time.

It's all about having fun, sounds like a great day.

OK here is what I have so far. Thursday night - Me, SIO3, Griz, Phil, and Duane Friday night - Me, SIO3, Griz, Little Red, Terrierman, Lane and possibly one other. Saturday night - Griz, Little Red, Terrierman, Lane and possibly one other. Ham will be there to visit and fish.,

Interesting article today in the spots section of the Arkansas Democrat Gazette. According to the author there is a bit of a feud going on between the AGFC and the MDC. MDC has been stocking stripers in Bull Shoals since 2012, and this is against the wishes of the AGFC. The director of the AGFC, is now threatening to stock stripers in TR, which would is opposed by MDC. A silly spat if you ask me, but yet there it is. Interestingly, the reason both agencies give for not wanting stripers in Bull or TR (Mo not wanting them in TR, and AR not wanting them in Bull) is that they might disrupt the fishing for other species. But yet, when you question AGFC about stocking stripers in Beaver, they always claim that stripers have no effect on other species. Here's a link to the story: http://www.nwaonline.com/news/2015/nov/08/bull-shoals-stripers-spark-feud-for-ark/?sports-outdoors

Did you see that desperation lateral on 4th down in overtime, that was turned into a first down, which lead to a touchdown, then a 2 point conversion to win it? Unbelievable!

Good stuff, I hope Mizzou fields a good team this year. Aggravating thing about SEC basketball is that it is almost pre-ordained that Kentucky will finish a top the heap.

Nice quality smalls!

Last time out, I don't think I got a jig bite either, but I'd still give them a shot. Might try dragging a FB jig really slow.

That's it, Sidney NE. Never have been in the store, but have driven by it a couple of times.

I can't tell you a lot positive based on my last trip, we did get a few on the Whopper, including a 3 1/4 smallie so it might be worth throwing around early. If there's some breeze on the banks, a med depth crank like a Wart or 3 DX might get a couple. Ned rig will also get an occasional bite. A few of the coves have fish, look for coves with shad. Next time I go, I'm going to spend some time poking around in deeper water, 20-30 feet, either using a drop shot, spoon or dragging a football jig. Good luck!

You mean the store in Kearney? I think that's the name of the town. There you are cruising down the interstate in the middle of nowhere Nebraska, and out in the middle of the plains that Cabelas store appears with it's walkway bridge across the interstate. Pretty neat.

Except that those Ploppers are never in stock. Best delivery system in the world is useless if you don't have inventory.

There are some studies out there regarding Crayfish predation on Zebras. Just do a search on "Zebra mussel crayfish predation". Crayfish will eat Zebra mussels, but hard to know if it will lead to a population increase of crayfish. Here's a couple of excerpts: "Crayfish typically attacked a zebra mussel by using the first and second pairs of walking legs to orient the sharp edge of the shell so that it could be chewed with the mandibles. Smaller zebra mussels (≤5 mm) were commonly ingested whole, but larger shells were cracked open. " "In general, our field experiment suggests that lakes and streams containing O. rusticus populations may experience slower colonization and lower overall densities of zebra mussels than systems lacking crayfish. Consumption of zebra mussels by O. propinquus and O. virilis in our laboratory experiments suggests that natural populations of those species would also reduce natural zebra mussel populations. If smaller crayfish had been used in the field experiment, they would most likely not have consumed the larger mussels. However, smaller crayfish may be capable of exploiting intercobble spaces inaccessible to adult crayfish. Densities of juvenile crayfish are often higher than those of adults (Lodge and Hill 1994), and this higher density may result in an even larger impact on small zebra mussels than revealed by our field experiment. Certainly, while crayfish may act to reduce populations of zebra mussels and while the presence of large populations of zebra mussels may provide a novel food resource for crayfish, it is unlikely that crayfish can reduce zebra mussel populations below densities that are ecologically im- portant."

Imagine if this had been the starting QB at Bama or OSU, it would've been all over the national media for days. But, I wouldn't have heard about this if it wasn't here on OA.

I bet backing the trailer down the ramp is a challenge with that setup.

Back in the day when I worked in the software industry, we used to call stuff like that an "Undocumented Feature".

It went well, in my opinion. We'll do another in a couple of weeks.

Yeah it's kind of weird for that area of the lake, I can't explain it, but the few fish we caught were mostly nice smallies.

I haven't trolled for crappie on the Beav in several years, but when I did, I used Bandit 300's. If it was early in the AM, I might fish a 200 for a while, but the 300's are hard to beat. I also liked to use a Shad Rap tail dancer. I have gone over to Sardis lake in Mississippi a few times to fish we my uncle and we troll 300's there (so do a lot of people). We always get a good sack of crappie, those lakes over there really kick out the crappie.