Quillback

Every year I think about going, maybe this will be the year. 😀

I hooked one on a plopper that got off. Maybe it is time to start throwing it more. Couple of big tourneys coming up, I think mid-month. I bet there will be a lot of top waters being thrown.

Dutch and I hit the water at first light and down the lake we went. A bit cool with a little breeze out of the east, pretty nice morning. Was hoping for an early top water bite, but it wasn't happening, very little top water activity except for gar. We broke out the dragging baits and caught some bass on the c-rigged craw, shakey head, and one or two jig fish. We caught 14 if I remember correctly and 4 were keepers, 3 of the keepers being smallmouth. The fish were shallow, I don't know if we caught any deeper than 15 feet. Rocky, gravelly banks were the best. A fish here and there kind of deal. Very little rec traffic out there today, Big M campground was about empty. WT 81

Saw one yesterday on the gravel drive beside the barber shop. Usually see them around Table Rock. There's a few that hang around my house. Seems to be the usual number I always see.

Went out yesterday with OA member Jeb up at Indian Creek. It was slow, we caught some 10-12" bass, Jeb did catch one keeper sized smallie. Some early topwater action, I was trying out a Lucky Craft Bevy popper, small 1/4 oz popper, hooked several decent bass on it, but every one of them got off. Rear treble on that lure is really small, I'm going to up size the hook. Jeb broke off a big ol' something, most likely a striper, on a popper.

I remember that there were trout in that stream, but I thought it was all in private land not open to the public. That's a big ol' chub Ham.

Weatherfish - Yet another species I have never heard of. Kudos on being able to get a bowfin!

Ditto.. Or a snowstorm.

None here that I know of. Chiggers and ticks are bad enough, don't need any extra biting bugs.

Thanks for the trip! It has gotten hot for sure.

Dang, that is pretty good, congrats!

Royals are now only a game behind Cleveland. They've got 7 games coming up against them, 4 at their place next week, then 3 in KC the following week.

I just about always use a Zoom Speed Craw. Green pumpkin/purple or Dirt. I have some Fries laying around somewhere, I bet they would still work, not too many people throw the c-rig anymore, fish don't see it that often.

Hoagies, yep. I was in Philly once for work, got a cheesesteak deal at the market that is downtown. It was pretty good, but the Philly types told me that was tourist food. My one and only PA hoagie experience. If it was a hoagie. Never have had birch beer.

Out early, beautiful sunrise. The fishing overall, is tough. Not many bites. Best deal for me was fishing a c-rig, it got me a couple of nice keepers. Caught a few spots out at 30 feet, but the rest were in 10-15 FOW. 8 bass total. Fished the banks on the main channel, didn't go back into any coves. Got checked by the warden. No short walleye in the live wells so they let me live to fish another day. 😃 WT 81.

I did some work in Bellville Ontario once, it's about 2 hours east of Toronto. Stayed there for a week. There were not too many places in that burg to eat. The hotel I was staying at had some of the worst food, outside of the Army, that I have ever had in my life. The other couple of restaurants in that town were just about as bad. There was a Subway, fortunately, and that's what I lived on while I was there. I can eat them (Subway), but compared to the mom and pop sub places that are all over the northeast, they can't hold a candle.

A goodun!

Never heard of a ribbonfish until now. If I caught one, I'd look at it and say there's no way this would be good to eat. But I'd be wrong.

I will pencil in Monday.

I remember 10 years ago an OK non-res license was pretty reasonable. If it $81 as you mention, that is disappointing. Quite a few fishermen from NWA fish over in OK.

Dutch and I were out at dawn, cool air temps and a nice full moon. We had a good crank bait bite last time we were at Cap Fair so we decided to start the day cranking. Pretty quickly we put 4 in the boat on a small square bill, three 12-13" spots and a keeper smallmouth. After that, things went south, despite quite a bit of effort and a lot of bank running, we never caught anything else on cranks except a couple of perch and a couple of really dinky bass. We went to the jigs and c-rig craw and scraped out another half dozen bass, a couple of them were keeper smalls. We mostly fished gravelly, rocky banks that were not too steep and I don't recall any of our fish being deeper than 10 feet or so. Off the water at 1100. I forgot to note the water temp. It's August, probably in the low to mid 80's.