Quillback

Z22, glad to hear the Speed Craw worked for you, it's one of my favorites, but I have to give my fishing buddy Jeb the credit for showing me how well they worked. That GP/Purple is my #1 color also.

Yep, most are good folks.

I am disappointed in the Lambs this year. And I agree Bradford is looking like a bust. It's too bad, I had high hopes for the guy as little as 2 years ago.

Cool, I've been meaning to get out and throw one around.

Lots of trollers going for walleye up on the White river section of Table Rock. If they come by me, I'll just wave and ask them if they are doing any good. Plenty of fish to go around, no need to get upset. Once I was fishing in a friend's boat, we pulled into a spot, BEHIND a couple of guys who were trolling down the bank, and they were a good 200-300 yards away. They immediately turn around and start trolling towards us, no big deal, we start fishing the spot and about 10 minutes later these guys are trolling behind us about 20 feet away. I turn and ask them if they are doing any good, and the older of the two starts screaming at me about how we ruined their spot. I just laughed, which PO'd the guy even more. After this, they pulled in their gear and left. Strange encounter, guy must have forgot to have his morning coffee or his meds.

Fished around Big M this morning, didn't find a great bite, but I managed to pick up a few. Got lucky and ran into some top water schoolers around 8:30 at the mouth of a small cove. The bite didn't last very long, but put a few LM's into the boat throwing a Strike King Sexy Dawg. After that, picked up a few on a c-rig tipped with a Zoom Ultravibe Speed craw in Green Pumpkin with gold flake. Got a decent spot dragging a Keitech rigged on a swing jig type football head. Threw a jig around some chunk rock, but no love on that. Caught 10 bass, with a few keeps. Water temp 76-78.

That is excellent, man those big spots are fun, I'm still looking for them however.

Getting any smallies on the tube?

http://www.tacklewarehouse.com/Z_Man_Zinkerz_6pk/descpage-ZMANZKR.html

Thanks for the report, good to hear the spinnerbait is working.

Yeah Fisher certainly needs some more seasoning. And I agree Smith is under pressure, but he still hangs on to the ball to long, he's got to learn how to make quick reads and get rid of the ball. I can remember watching Marino, the guy would drop back and throw, this was when he was wearing a knee brace, three step drop and throw, he's never get sacked as there just wasn't time for the D linemen to get to him. And from the stats I've seen, Smith could not throw the deep ball in SF either, that's one of the reasons they got rid of him. Crabtree blossomed when Kapernick became the QB. What I like about Smith is that he doesn't throw dumb passes, he's aware of his limitations and does a good job of not throwing INT's. At least for now.

My point is there are few quail left compared to 50 years ago. And 50 years ago they thought quail would always be abundant.

You could have said the same thing about Missouri quail 50 years ago. Hoping everything remain status quo is nothing but that, a hope.

Very nice!

Didn't see the game, but I hate to hear about an infield single with 2 outs in the ninth to break up a no-hitter.

Another problem I see with the Eagles approach is QB survivability, Vick has been knocked pretty hard already. They might need Manziel AND Vick to make it through a season.

Yeah I agree, but I would not think of the sucker population as being an unlimited resource.

Those are some great fish, congrats!

Saw a ticker blurb last night, Royals have the best record in the AL since the all star break. Baseball scheduling is weird this year, for example the Red Sox played Colorado last night. IMO teams should be playing division foes now.

If there's any silver lining as far as Chiefs vs Denver, it is that the Chiefs don't play them until 11/17. Maybe by then they'll be a little more used to Reids offence and they'll be playing like a well oiled machine. (Yeah right). KC's defence has played well so far, hopefully they can keep the Bronks from scoring too many points, if the Chiefs are in catch up mode that will be a problem, Smith is just not a good enough QB to engage in a shoot out with the Bronks.

Used to fish for steelhead in Washington State, but I never fly fished for them. Steelheader.net is a forum you could check out, there's a separate forum topic for fly fishing, not much activity anymore on that site, but there's a lot of archived stuff. I know that the fly guys always talked about egg patterns for steelhead.

That's what they said about passenger pigeons, bison, Atlantic salmon....They can be cleaned out.

Started at daylight, picked up a few near some docks that were on a secondary point. After that just picked up 3 random bass. Caught 6 total, with only one keeper. A few on a Megabug, and one each on an Ol Monster, jig, and Trick worm. Talked to another fisherman that has fished the White channel quite a bit and he had only picked up a handful himself. Water temp 77-78.

I've got a Shimano Crucial 7' 11" deep cranker. It also casts long and makes working the deep crank not something that kills you. Can't say if it's better or worse than the other rods mentioned as I haven't fished them.

My cousin was the mascot while he was there and they were still the Indians. That was 25 or so years ago that he went to school there. Needless to say he is a HUGE Arkansas State fan.