Quillback

I fished from 7 AM until 4 PM today and I had to work for my fish, caught 20 bass, 5 were keepers. All spots and a few smallmouth. Ned rig was best bait with a couple of 2.8 swimbait fish thrown in. Some of the fish were really shallow. Most were in 10 FOW with a few out at 20. Fish were scattered, did not find any schools. One of those days where I moved around a lot, fished a lot of places. No largemouth, should be catching a few, but not. WT 52 to start, 55 when I left.

Good seeing you get them, they seem to be moving into more of a spring pattern.

Well it was another day of me being the net boy for Dutch's fish. He caught a 3.25 smallie and a 22" walleye. I got to net them. The bite was decent today compared to what it has been for us this year. We caught 31 bass and the lone walleye. We had 5 keeper bass with the smallmouth being the biggest. Ned rigs were our best bait, with a couple on a 2.8 swimbait and a couple on a 2.5" tube. For whatever reason most of our fish came from rocky or gravel banks. We could not get any around trees. We caught them in 10-20 FOW for the most part. Early in the AM we found a bunch of bass on a 30 foot deep flat. They just would not bite for us - we caught a half dozen of them, lost a few more. Really light biters, we threw everything at them with the Ned working best, but it was frustrating being over quite a few fish and not being able to figure them out. Quite a few loons around. We came across a half-eaten gizzard shad floating on top and once we got about 50 yards away from it, an eagle swooped in and got it. Always a neat sight to see. If you like redbuds, they are blooming now. WT 52 Here's the fish I netted:

Thanks - I was just curious about why those little combs went for so much money; I didn't want to buy any.

Bobber down! I like watching local fishing. 👍

I was in the local Harps today. They had honeycombs for sale, they were bite sized, maybe an inch and a half square. They were priced at $7.99 each. Seems excessive to me.

That's a good deal, getting out there with your son. And also, good to see you back in the fishing world.

When I was in Basic we had to go to UCMJ "training" a couple of times, and I think it was 2 hours at a time. It was in a hot stuffy room and they had us sitting crowded together on those lousy folding metal chairs. It was in the afternoon and of course we'd been training all day. There was a JAG officer seated at a desk in front of us and he read to us, in a monotone, the UCMJ. It was a battle to stay awake. The drill sergeants stood along the walls and watched us during this training. Anyone that nodded off was sent outside and made to run around the building holding their rifle above their head with a drill sergeant yelling at them the whole time. It's not an easy deal to spend 10 minutes running holding a rifle with your arms fully stretched out above your head. Fortunately, I was able to stay awake, but it was a struggle.

Well, well, Hogs moving on to the Sweet 16. Some of the pundits had picked St. Johns to win it all, I had not seen them play until today, but Arkansas looked more physical, athletic and bigger overall than St. Johns.

Sorry to see Mizz take the loss. I was hoping for an unlikely but possible AR vs MO in the Sweet 16. AR won, but it was not an easy win. Next up St. Johns. I give Arkansas a puncher's chance in that one.

Fort Lost in the Woods as we called it. Wonderful place (not).

That would be neat to get one that sized. It was great to fish with you and John, look forward to doing it again.

I've got an Ultrex Quest and I can adjust the settings through my Helix depthfinder. I have not messed with the scale settings, but Dutch has changed his because he was having an issue with the boat holding in wind (I think that was why he changed the settings), @Dutch. Here's the official explanation: Trolling motor performance can be impacted by factors including, but not limited to, wind, water conditions, boat specifications, battery health, wiring, etc. Boat Scale provides a method of adjusting how the trolling motor will perform to account for these and other variables. The Minn Kota trolling motor comes from the factory with Boat Scale set to zero. Boat Scale can be adjusted up (+2) or down (-2) to increase or decrease how the motor control software applies power while using a navigation mode like Spot-Lock. An example showing the need to reduce Boat Scale would be while using Spot-Lock and the motor is over-correcting or making frequent adjustments. In this case, try reducing Boat Scale to -1 to reduce this behavior. If the behavior continues, reduce Boat Scale to -2. An example showing the need to increase Boat Scale while using Spot-Lock would be the motor is drifting away from its target location frequently or needs help to make corrections. Try increasing Boat Scale to +1 to help improve the trolling motor accuracy in this case. If the behavior continues, increase Boat Scale to +2.

Do you have an Ultrex? There's a setting called "Boat Scale" which I believe you can adjust for wind to keep from getting blown off a spot.

Check this out, wind on Ray Roberts on one of the practice days for the Classic this week. (You can X out of the Milliken pop-up) Instagram

1st Taneyfest for me too. It was fun, I plan on being back next year.

I don't like fishing in high winds, so it looks like my next opportunity will be Saturday, probably will fish the dam end of Beaver and see if the lake smallies are getting feisty.

Yeah, I still remember the words to the marching songs. I was in the Army and even though we did a lot of drill, it wasn't as much as the Marines did. If I recall at the time Marine Boot Camp was 11 weeks, Army Basic 8 weeks. September 15, 2025 will make it 50 years since I reported to Fort Leonard Wood to start Basic. Time flies.

Marines marching is a sight to behold.

That's great Pete!

I always like to see them.