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That's mainly what we've been catching, K's in the 12-15" range. Lots of fun on light tackle.

Here's the link, if anyone is interested: http://www.jannsnetcraft.com/fishing-lure-spoons/351500.aspx#

Thanks for the report Bill, glad to see you put your clients into some great fishing! I was on Cabelas yesterday looking at their spoons and the 1/2 oz white/char is out of stock - lots of folks must be reading your posts. Janns Netcraft carries a painted spoon blank that looks just like the Cabelas, I think they're 3 for 4.69 but you've got to add your own split ring and hook. The colors aren't the same either, dunno if they are any good but may pick up a few to check them out.

Sounds more like 5 hours of eating and drinking.

We saw a bunch of geese swimming in PC cove yesterday. Too many, I hope you harvest some.

I have a few mater plants left and some cantalope is still coming in. Other than that things are done.

That's a nice bass for this time of year.

Went out in Jeb's boat this morning, launched at 0545, back on the trailer around 1100. We fished mid-lake humps, points, and deep brush piles, caught about 2 dozen black bass (mostly spots), no big ones, mainly 12" fish and a couple around the 15" mark. Drop shotting finesse worms, and Robo worms caught the most, with a few on the Cabelas spoon and I think Jeb got a couple on a c-rig. Couple of short walleye, and at the end of the morning we ran into a white bass attack and boated 8-10 nice 2 lb. whites in a short period of time, then they moved off and disappeared. It was time to go home anyway, the pleasure boat traffic was getting annoying. Not a bad day for Beaver in August, maybe the cooler weather is getting them going. When we passed the PC COE launch, saw a bunch of boats getting ready for a tourney start, anyone know what tourney that was and the results?

Walleye spoon bite seems to be on, we caught a couple of sublegal eyes this morning on Beaver while bass fishing.

We did have one out, but it was yellow, so no hassles (so far) over it. Been using the marker quite a bit lately, and also the sonar.

Thanks for the heads up on the sale on Cabelas Real Image spoons, $1.99 is a good price. The hooks on them aren't that bad, not as good as Daichis, but not bad for a $1.99 spoon.

Jeb and I launched at 0545 and fished until noon. Pretty decent day numbers wise, 30 bass, with a handful of keepers, but nothing over 2 lbs. There was a fairly good bite on the FB jig early in the 15-25 FOW range, a few also c-rigging worms. Then later in the morning the drop-shot started working for us, with a few also coming on the c-rig. A couple on spoons. No walleyes - not that I'm complaining Saw the State Patrol boat out there today, center console Donzi with twin 225 Mercs. Would have loved to have that boat back when I fished saltwater.

It is sad indeed, I don't think I've seen this many drownings in a year on Beaver, but I've only been here 5 years.

Olive/Orange makes sense, that was a great jig color early this summer.

If it's top secret, I understand, but if not - what are your pet colors?

Yep, it's 10.

AR Gazette reported today that 7 adult and 3 calf elk in MO have died recently from the effects of heat and drought.

I just heard something interesting today, maybe you guys know this, but a gold medal winner gets $25,000, silver $10,000, and bronze $5,000. US swim team members get $75,000 for a gold in addition to the $25K. That guy Phelps made some pretty good money. Not that I have a problem with it, but it's kind of an eye opener.

Jeb and I were inspired by Bill's reports so we were pulling away from the dock at 0545 this morning. We picked a few up early in shallows off a point downlake a couple of miles from Big M, using 10" worm and a Gene Larew Salt flicker (I think that's the name). I had a couple of hard pullers come off the big worm, just could not keep them pinned. That bite shut off fast and we spent the rest of the day running to points and fishing off the ends in 20-25 FOW. Not a hot bite but we ended up with a dozen spots (a few right around keeper sized), a short walleye, (JEB got a keeper sized walleye right to the boat, but it came off before we could net it), and a nice 14" crappie. Got them on Drop shotting Zoom finesse worms and Cabelas and Hopkins spoons. Last fish came around 1030, and we were loading the boat at 1115.

When I lived in Washington state, the record "Rainbow" was caught. It was a triploid that had escaped from a fish farm net pen. Should not have qualified IMO, but it is what it is. http://wdfw.wa.gov/news/mar1998a/

Thanks for the great report, I haven't been up there for a few weeks, but this may motivate me to give it a shot.

Yeah it's tough in this darn hot weather, sorry to hear ou did not get anything.

That Italian made diesel they slapped into a Liberty was a disaster, they only did it for one year and pulled the plug on it as it was very unreliable. That aside, I have always been puzzled why American manufacturers haven't come out with a small diesel for autos similar to the VW TDI. I believe it's because it would jack the price up on a US small sedan if it were diesel powered.

Cool, good luck and hopefully you'll have some pics of some big fish.

My canteloupe are starting to get ripe, went out to the garden yesterday morning and noticed a couple of busted and hollowed out cantaloupe. I was pizzed. Don't mess with my lopes. Got out the trap, baited it with dry dogfood, set it out in the evening and this morning I had not one, but two of the little thieving buggers in the trap. They were relocated to a woods far away.