Quillback

Geese are infamous poopers and spreaders of E coli.

30" is a brute! I punched that into a fish weight calculator and got 11 lbs. and that's assuming normal girth. I wonder if the AGFC has ever considered stocking triploids?

You guys look awfully...relaxed, LOL. Glad to see you got into them, and thanks for the report!

LOL, you must listen to the same weatherman I do.

I always see question where people are asking if trout are still being stocked in Bull. From the AGFC District 2 newsletter they apparently are stocking them this spring. Stocking: So far in 2013 our fish hatcheries have stocked 175,238 rainbow trout. We will begin stocking lake fish later in the spring. If the Bull Shoals reservoir trout have not been stocked in March, they will be stocked the first week of April. The lake should receive about 30,000 rainbows from net pens operated at 3 marinas or resorts.

War Eagle makes a great jig also, I like their color "Pond Scum Perch".

Man, I need to get back out there before you guys sore lip them all! Probably won't get out until Tuesday at the earliest. Dang!

Very nice fish and thanks for the report!

Count me as another "leave well enough alone" voter.

Maybe we should send Al Gore to China? But seriously, I believe I saw that China has passed us as far as being the number 1 pumper of CO2 into the atmosphere.

Good meeting you Riverfish, you had a great day!

Thanks!

Wow that guy was really loaded, if he has a conscience this will be with him for the rest of his life.

OK, I'll stick to green pumpkin

Thanks, good idea, maybe find some big mamas by dropping a creature into their living room.

Launched out of Big M today at 0600 with Jeb in the back of the boat. We zipped out to some gravel points that have had a topwater bite the last couple of weeks and we did find a good bite that lasted for about an hour, got a bit of wind across the points and it put them down for some reason, you would have thought it would have really fired them up, but it didn't. After that we fished buck brush throwing shakey heads and jigs, picking up fish here and there and an occasional top water fish. The bite really slowed down about 1030 and we were on the trailer at 1:30 PM. We did pick up a few more in the last cove we fished c-rigging. Ended up with close to 50 bass, no big ones, but a couple of 2.5 lb. bass, quite a few chunky 13-16" spots and a couple of smallies. Lots of fun. Jeb did a little Jika rig fishing, got a few fish with a trick worm on it. Water temp 71 when we left, visibility about 6 - 8 feet. Moss has pretty much disappeared in the area.

I was getting my TW bites around a couple of gravel points, most of the fish were in about 3-10 FOW. But there was surface activity all the way out to mid-channel over 50+ FOW. I didn't chase those fish, but they were there.

It was a tough call, just didn't want to deal with cleaning fish.

HAHA, that is funny!

Yeah I meant store it, we did have a place that offered reasonably safe storage, but for political reasons it got shot down, so now we just store it all close to the plants that produce it. It's the dumb option and the unsafe option, but why be smart about things?

Started off with a bit of a topwater bite, only put 6 topwater fish in the boat, but good keeper sized LM's for the most part, spots weren't participating in the topwater bite for some reason. After the top water shut off, did some shaky heads, craws, and jigs but couldn't get anything going, picked up a dozen or so on that stuff but smaller 12" fish for the most part (I'm blaming it on the weather change). Back on the trailer at noon. Threw a Rage Tail Lobster at a dock, felt a bite, set the hook and hooked into something that felt like a water logged stick. Felt a little movement, and I thought maybe it's an old T-shirt that's been sitting on the bottom. Got it up to the boat and saw that it was a walleye. 19" fish, but I was merciful and released it. Water temp 70, 6-8 feet of visibility.

Nice pics, thanks for sharing! Jitterbug, I'll be darned, I have some that I haven't fished in years.

Thanks for the report, and glad to hear the slime is getting off the bottom. That stuff drives me crazy. I might be out there tomorrow if the next round of storms don't mess things up.

Thanks for posting that, that's in the range of what I found, I figure around $20 K for my house. my electric bill runs about $1500 a year, so if I could save $500/year on my bill, it would be 40 years to break even, leaving out any maintenance expenses that may pop up along the way.

We figured out a way to dispose of spent fuel, but it wasn't politically acceptable.