Quillback

I did not know that some of the Godfather's had a chicken buffet - I'd do that instead of the pizza.

Great day Ham!

I was throwing one for a bit Friday at schooling fish, I put one in the boat on it while Jeb probably caught 1/2 dozen in the same time frame on a spoon. I put it away at that point.

Thanks Champ, glad to see you and the better half got into them!

Thanks for the report Bill.

Looks like they are cancelling again today. I think the plan now is to fish Monday.

Might be looking at a wild card spot.

Nice to see those bigger fish!

If there's not 6" of snow on the ground, we might be able to sit around a campfire in the evening also.

They should be embarrassed, good grief!

I'm fine with the filming.

Happy Birthday Phil!

I bet it gets pretty nasty out there in a strong wind.

Went out today in my good friend Jeb's boat, got to hold down the back deck and make sure it didn't float away. We started at dawn, fished a few points with c-rigs and jigs and pulled out a few bass to start the day, after doing that for an hour or so we started motoring down the lake towards the mouth of the Kings. On the way there, Jeb spotted some schooling bass chasing shad on a do nothing beach area that we usually just pass by on the way to wherever it is we are going. We probably caught around 50 bass in that area, spoons, topwater, and drop shot. Typical fish would be a 14" spot at about 1.5 lbs. Some were smaller, a few bigger. Also a few largemouth, mean mouth, and one smallie. Just a huge school of black bass chasing shad in 20-40 FOW. All told we caught around 70 bass today, maybe 10 were at 15" or better. Sun came out about 11 AM and it got tough after that, and we were off the water about 2 PM. Water temp was 75.

Might be worth a shot, I'm just not much of a braid fan.

Very nice!

Yep, I don't see any reason not to bring him. Except that if the fishing was as good as last year, he may get spoiled.

Yeah I think up in the north woods, 40" is the minimum those guys shoot for.

Interesting that the Antarctic ice cap is growing, and it's 4 times larger than the Arctic ice cap. "Meanwhile, Antarctic sea ice is poised to set a record maximum this year, now at 19.7 million square kilometers (7.6 million square miles) and continuing to increase." http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/

Sorry you can't make it. It's hard to find dates in that time frame as it's bookended by Thanksgiving on one end and Christmas on the other. Only leaves a couple of weekends.

Are there any BIG muskie in that lake? 48" or better.

One of these days I'd like to make it up there.

Tigers games are in KC, going to be interesting to see what attendance is.

Yeah I agree, must sweep. Royals won last night, Tigers lost, so now I believe they are half a game back. It's really one game as they have that suspended game to play with the Indians, and barring a miracle that will be a loss.

Rained some here in Bella Vista yesterday afternoon, and it has rained pretty well this morning also.