Quillback

Been a Sox fan for most of my like, used to live outside of Boston. So I naturally hate the Yankees. I remember the days of the Willie Wilson - George Brett Royals, Sox would come to KC and always have a tough time.

Cool, I'd offer some advice but it's been a few weeks since I've fished Windsor, I keep meaning to get over there. Good luck and I'll be interested to hear how you do.

Might be time to unleash the bigger Keitechs on them, Lake Fork Tackle has come out with a paddletail Magic Shad that I like the looks of, haven't fished it yet however.

Yeah I saw a lot of slime in the point 23 area in certain spots. I hate that stuff.

I'll have to check out that website, thanks! Nice rig rps. So do any of you think this rig is better than fishing t-rigged plastics are far as catching more bass? Sounds like it gets hung up less which is a plus, but the bottom line for me is whether it puts more fish in the boat.

Yeah that bridge would be very dangerous when the water is at the right level, especially for boaters not familiar with the design.

Sorry to hear about your friend. Here's a link to a BBC board thread on this, shows some pictures of the bridge at low water and explains how the accident happened. http://www.bbcboards.net/bbc-lounge/371872-deadly-boat-crash-ky-lake.html

I've been using heat shrink tubing, Senkos last a lot longer than using the O rings with heat shrink.

Pitching wasn't good last night, I really want them to beat the darn Yankees.

Little Sugar was angry and brown yesterday, so you might be getting some muddy water. Are you going for LM or panfish?

I didn't see any three weeks ago when I was last up there. Back half on Indian creek was really stained, it may have cleared up since then, but hard to say after this latest big rain. I may drive over this weekend and take a look.

Good idea Snakem, I'm going to try that.

Funny to see that SM caught on a fluke, I caught one yesterday that spit up not one, but two white Zoom flukes. I caught him on a Shakeyhead - that was one dumb fish.

Congrats!

Yeah they showed some pop last night, hopefully it continues. Starting pitching has been decent also.

It hasn't come up as much as I thought it would, but maybe it's still got a ways to go.

Got out a little late this morning, wish I would have left earlier as there was a decent topwater bite early. I didn't catch any big fish on the topwater, but had a few blowups that looked to be good sized fish, for some reason the bigger fish were missing it or knocking it sideways and the smaller guys were finding the hooks. I was using a Yozuri Wack-o which is a 4" pencil popper that also has some walk the dog action. Sporadic topwater blowups would happen in the backs of coves and pockets and if you could lay a topwater on them, they would usually hit it. Caught a couple on the grub, a few on the shakey head, and a couple c-rigging the UV speed craw. Got about 20 total with a couple of keepers, mostly spots, couple of smallies and a few LM's. Water temps were 64-64.

OK, one more "final" thought, if the aim is to increase the number of quality bass, it might make sense to have a slot limit on spots, for example, release spots that are between 15-18 inches. Tournament guys might not like that however. Texas has quite a few lakes with slot limits and those lakes provide some quality fishing in spite of the heavy pressure. Of course Beaver isn't a Texas lake as far as habitat.

My final 2 cents is that based on my personal experience there are a lot of small spotted bass in Beaver, I'd rather catch 10 keeper sized fish in a day than 30 little spots. Make the regulation change and let's see what happens. If the consequences are bad for the overall fishery, then they can roll It back.

Wow, you guys got hammered, 1.5" here in Bella Vista.

I may be a little slow on the uptake, but one thing I've learned is that when Champ says things like a lure is "junk" or don't fish in a section of the lake as there are "no fish there", well go fish that spot and use the junk lure.

Meant to say 1122 and still rising.

Half a game behind the Tigers and playing the Yankees this weekend.

Looks like it's hitting 1123 and still rising.

Bill Babler has said that he's been told by the MO bios that spotted bass in Table Rock take 6-7 years to reach 15", which is what they're seeing in Beaver. Maybe in the rivers they grow faster?