Quillback

Excellent!

That's some great fishing, thanks for the report!

Yep, congrats Stacey!

You beat me to it. :-)

Send a PM to dtrs5kprs, he makes the best ones out there in my opinion, and very price competitive with the BPS heads. A couple of things I do not like about the BPS heads - No weed guard, and I do not like the molded on bait keeper. I also like a #2 hook. (OK make that 3 things). All that being said, I'm sure you could catch fish on them, but that is not the best option. Again, in my opinion.

Good stuff, thanks for posting. Zoom 4" Lizard on a shroom head, may have to try that once the water gets a bit warmer.

Well shoot, he's 16 lbs. back going into the last day. Probably not going to win, but he does have a shot at 2nd.

The cover is all under water I don't know if you know this, but the MDC website has a map showing "fish attractors" as they call them. Quite a few of them in the White river channel. A guy could stay busy all day just fishing those brush piles. Here's the link: http://mdc.mo.gov/fishing/places-fish/fish-attractors-map

86 bridge, gateway to the lower lake. Taken from the dock. Sandbar, top center of picture, in front of moving boat. If the water comes up a foot by next week, the bar will be barely submerged. Stay in the channel. There is a marker buoy to channel side of the bar.

No, did not bring the rods. Only one rig in the lot and only saw 2 boats. Kind of surprised, I expected a lot of people to be out today.

Overflow parking area, there's only about 12 spots at the ramp. Plenty of parking here, it's about 100 yards away from the ramp. Park vertically on either side like my truck is parked. Road to ramp from overflow parking. Do not take the little road that branches off to the left, it leads to a dead end at a camping spot. Ramp with dock Parking at ramp. Exit road is at the back of the lot, it loops around to the right and goes back over to the overflow lot. Looking up the lake towards Holiday island from the dock.

You've got the Lost Bridge ramps practically in your back yard. Indian creek arm can provide some pretty good fishing at times. Which reminds me, I need to get over there.

Good deal Jim - Glad to see dblades is joining the crew. I have kept the roster updated on page one of this thread, as we've had some folks cancel, but others have joined.

Thanks Ness, I've read some Mafia stuff myself and also quite a bit about the depression era gangsters. 'Public Enemies' by Bryan Burrough is a good book about the Depression era crime wave and the birth of the FBI. The investigation into the "Kansas City massacre" where 4 police officers who were escorting gangster Frank Nash were gunned down outside the KC railway station is part of the book. Dillenger, Bonnie and Clyde, Pretty Boy Floyd, Baby Face Nelson - covers them all. And of course the FBI's involvement in all this. Hot Springs AR gets mentioned quite a bit, the place was a gangster vacation spot back then.

Good pics Phil - what camera are you using? Curious as to the resolution also as shown on the forum, are they 500 X 328?

Based on my luck up that bleeping stretch of water, I believe it.

They are showing pre-season games on the MLB channel.

Should make for some great Cards vs Cubs games. All the prognosticators are touting the Nationals in the NL this year.

Tons of cover, lots of trees, rocky points with trees, brush piles, bluff banks, chunk rock banks, bluff ends and gravel points.

Don't worry about it - if you want to post a report, go ahead. I would not give out exact locations if you get into some fish, but it's certainly no secret that there are walleye in the upper White river. I only incidentally catch them while bass fishing, so I can't give you any advice, but one thing to keep in mind is that the AGFC always does their walleye brood stock netting on the upper Kings around March 15.

Big sacks of fish.

Yes that is a good point. On the last Google image above, right across the channel from Chain-o-lakes, you can see a sort of brown looking spot. That is a sand bar/island. It's low lying, has a warning buoy on top, but make sure you stay to the left of it. There is water between it and the east bank, but do not go between it and the east bank, stay to the left in the channel. Many of the coves in this area are full of trees, and some of them have trees right at the cove mouth. Some of the tree tops are barely submerged and hard to see until you are on top of them. Use caution if you go back in the coves to fish.

Go Red Sox! Watch out for the Cubs this year.

105 lbs. according to the paper.