Quillback
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Sweet! Congrats to your better half!
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Snagged a complete, rod, reel, and crankbait set-up last year on Beaver. Unfortunately is wasn't a high quality setup.
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A couple of beautiful bass, thanks for the report!
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My problem is that when the weather is nasty, that is when I want to sull up and hide.
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Wow, great fish! Alex, you are a big fish catching machine. Interesting that you are getting bit in the clear water but not the stained.
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Look like they should catch fish.
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Yesterday it was fishable with very little debris, at least from Owl creek down to point 23. But, I hear Roaring river got pretty high, might have kicked out some muddy water. Lake level hasn't gone up much so I don't think you will see any more debris out in the main channel. Maybe someone was out there today and can provide an update.
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Seems to be a good year class of slightly bigger spots that are around that 15" mark. Fun fish on the light tackle.
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Looks like a blast.
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Nice ones, Whit. That is a tank of a meanie!
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Just came out this year I believe. Kind of like a Shad Rap, but a bit heavier in a comparable length. Shad Rap probably would have worked just as well today.
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Mandatory meanmouth pic. Fish were really biting today, I waited until 1100 AM for the storms to pass through a set a deadline of 5 PM for leaving as they were predicting storms and did not want to get caught in one. In between, caught over 35 bass, even split between a 3/8 oz Bagely's Balsa shad and the PBJ Ned. Didn't fish too many places as they were stacked one I found them. A bluff end, couple of pockets on the sides of gravel points, the gravel points, and a few working buck brush banks. Pretty much stayed in the green water, and shallow 3-6 feet deep. Mostly 14-15 inch spots, a couple of smallies, means and a few largies. No monsters, biggest was a 3 lb. LM on a Menace grub, the only Menace grub fish and the last fish of the day. Don't think it mattered a lot today what lures to use, I think any reasonable springtime type bait would have caught fish, they were just biting. Water temps were 58-60. I don't think the males are making beds yet, but they are in there taking measurements.
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View attachment: HPIM0834.JPG Mandatory meanmouth pic. Fish were really biting today, I waited until 1100 AM for the storms to pass through a set a deadline of 5 PM for leaving as they were predicting storms and did not want to get caught in one. In between, caught over 35 bass, even split between a 3/8 oz Bagely's Balsa shad and the PBJ Ned. Didn't fish too many places as they were stacked one I found them. A bluff end, couple of pockets on the sides of gravel points, the gravel points, and a few working buck brush banks. Pretty much stayed in the green water, and shallow 3-6 feet deep. Mostly 14-15 inch spots, a couple of smallies, means and a few largies. No monsters, biggest was a 3 lb. LM on a Menace grub, the only Menace grub fish and the last fish of the day. Don't think it mattered a lot today what lures to use, I think any reasonable springtime type bait would have caught fish, they were just biting. Water temps were 58-60. I don't think the males are making beds yet, but they are in there taking measurements. View attachment: HPIM0835.JPG -
Ugh, not good.
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Good deal Hammer.
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Looks like it has the coloration of a LM, but has that diamond like pattern of a spot.
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Nice try...
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I have to laugh at that. Yesterday I was coming through Pea Ridge on my way back home from fishing just as school was letting out at the middle school that is right by the road. Saw a gal walking on the sidewalk, I'm assuming she was there to pick up one of her kids, anyway she was barefoot.....and pregnant.
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"100-foot Table Rock models" HAHA, that is a hoot!
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Son! Another big fish. http://www.kansascity.com/sports/outdoors/article16397354.html
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I talked to someone yesterday who tried to get back into Owl creek (I assume you mean the Owl creek off the White river channel). He told me it is full of floating timber and he could not get back in it. I did not go back there myself, but that's what I was told by a reliable source. Just something you might want to check out yourself beforehand if you are planning on fishing it tourney day.
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Son! On the Trick Worm. http://www.gon.com/article.php?id=4179&cid=158
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A football for sure.
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How things can change in a day - shallow water gravel bite was gone for the most part. I blame that on a lack of wind on those banks that held them yesterday. Could not get anything going, caught a dozen on the Ned, mostly small fish, may have had 2 or 3 keepers, but they were squeakers at best. Probably most consistent bite was on brown water banks in the coves, had a couple of good tugs on a Menace grub, but could not pin them. I think if I could do it all over, I'd work those brown water cove banks with a t-rig plastic that is visible and moves some water. Big Old jig with a trailer with active claws may work also. Water did clear up a bit today, still some brown water, but it is fishable. Surface temps were 56-57 with a couple of places showing 54.
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As I understand things, they are a smallie/spot cross as you mention.
