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My post was done in jest, I would not recommend doing any searches on any of the phrases I used.

A seven keeper day ain't too bad for Beaver.

It only applies to black bass. This from the MDC website: Lab testing done by the Missouri food safety commission has found that black bass over 15" caught from Table Rock lake, contain unacceptablly high levels of Mercury, Lead, Asbestos, and chlorade. Lab rats, upon being fed small portions of Table Rock origin black bass, developed serious cancerous tumors and expired at an early age. The state of Missouri strongly recommends that all black bass caught in Table Rock lake be immediately returned unharmed to the lake, and should not be used as food by humans or their pets. Consumption of black bass from Table Rock lake could result in serious health issues or even death. j/k

There are quite a few cats in the lakes, the POA stocks them on a yearly basis. There's some big ones in Lomond and Windsor, when they do electrofishing surveys they've shocked up some 20 lb. cats. I don't fish for them myself, but have caught a couple while bass fishing. I'm told the best time to fish for them is after a hard rain that gets the feeder creeks running high. Set up in one of the coves where there is water coming in after a rain. Lake Rayburn may be worth a shot, the lakes bio said that during the last survey they saw quite few cats and they were on the skinny side, so they're hungry.

Thanks for those great reports Champ!

TW is my favorite online retailer.

Well they did manage to work in a little fishing in the last episode. Would've been cool to see Jonesy land an 8# smallie, could've been the highlight of the whole series! I missed the last hour, got sleepy and hit the sack. They'll probably re-run this thing about a thousand times in the next few months so I'm sure I'll be able to see it if so inclined.

I had a guy ring my doorbell about 7 PM last night trying to sell me an ADT alarm system. I told him it was really annoying to get disturbed by inconsiderate nitiwt salespeople in the evening. The guy got an attitude and left. I can't believe in this day and age there are still door to door salespeople out there. That brings me to spam email sales messages - does anyone on this planet actually open one of those emails and try and buy their obviously bogus products? Somebody must, because they keep sending those emails out.

We've got those also, but they can't seem to control it by themselves.

That's true, nobody to root for, complete idiocy on both sides.

Well I thinkl the A-rig is a special deal, seems as if the bass lose their minds over that thing and are not bothered by the braid or the wires. It will be interesting to see if this winter they bite it as well as they did last winter. I'm with you on using as light/thin as line as possible for casting distance and it's effects on lures. I think you get the most natural fall rate and action out of jigs and plastics with lighter line. But fishing around heavy cover such as cedar trees, I'll use heavier stuff. But nothing wrong with experimenting with different lines, one thing I've noticed watching the pros, is that they are always tweaking stuff and making changes.

Anybody else watching it? I'm disappointed with the first 2 episodes. It's way too long, seems to drag on forever and some of the acting is bad. I was looking forward to seeing it and now, after the first two episodes I don't think I'll watch the 3rd one.

Here in Bella Vista it's an ongoing battle with algae, here's a text of an email that our lakes biologist sends out periodically on the algae problem and treatment. They use 2 methodes to treat the algae, a copper based herbicide, and the application of nutrients to encourage plankto growth which is beneficial to fish and reduce water clarity - clear water allows sunlight penetration and encourages algae growth. Just wanted to note that your lake is now in good shape for the holiday weekend. A few weeks ago the lake erupted in a significant growth of substrate algae (filamentous algae) which is the slimy green stuff that grows on the lake bottom and floats on the surface. This occurred a soon as the water cleared to about 3 meters. We treated the lake shoreline areas a few weeks ago with a copper-based, unrestricted algaecide to kill off the substrate algae (the water is safe for all uses immediately following the algaecide application). We followed that with a nutrient application to the water to stimulate plankton growth which will outcompete the undesired substrate algae. That worked well in that the water bloomed in plankton which will help prevent re-growth of the undesired substrate algae. But the plankton bloom was a little too much last week and water clarity got to just less than one meter (3 feet) which was less then desired as stated in our state approved lake nutrient. Left alone the plankton bloom has dissipated and now the lake clarity is within the desired range of 1 to 2 meters (3 to 6 feet) based on the amount of plankton in the water. So the water is in good shape for the holiday weekend for fishing, swimming, etc. I hope you enjoy the holiday weekend.

Could be further south, I heard it from someone who heard it from someone else, you know how that goes.

Little later than I thought it would open. I heard rumors from a source that supposedly is in the know, that a Basspro is going in across 540 from Cabelas. Anybody else hear that one?

That's a good morning of walleye fishing at any lake in this area. Some good eats for sure.

Very nice!

Great report, that topwater bite is a hoot! I'm hoping I can get back out there next week.

I use the Palomar with floro, works fine for me, and it's so easy to tie. Moisten the knot before clinching it tight - very important with floro for any knot.

Price drop to $125, that's a deal at that price.

Hmmm, a bunch of old guys running around Taney wearing nuthin but a Speedo - that might scare the riffraff away!

Got a good hour of hard rain last night. Hopefully more coming later this week.

I was thinkig about shooting them a resume, but I think I'll wait a while after hearing that. I'd like to work there weekends.

Yeah guys like the pair you saw have to compensate for their tiny weiners. But it's not their fault, obviously being courteous and respectful to folks wasn't taught to them by their parents.

Throwing the ball to my dog yesterday in a mowed field near my house, when he'd run after the ball. he'd kick up little dust puffs as his paws hit the ground.