Quillback

That Depot is not the one I was thinking of. Looked at the menu, I like a good chicken fried steak. What would be good would be a chicken fried steak for breakfast along with gravy, biscuits, and a couple of over easy eggs.

The off limits signs are all under water.

Spent the day fishing with Dutch, luckily he made it to the ramp, he had an interesting driving experience this morning. I may not have the details right, but Dutch was on HWY 39 with a semi behind him and a couple of cars behind the semi. One of the cars back there decided it was time to pass the semi and Dutch at the same time. Problem was it was in a no passing zone with a blind curve. As the car came up on Dutch, here comes a car in the opposite lane, the passing car then of course cuts into Dutch to avoid the head-on. Fortunately for Dutch he was able to slow down enough to let that joker get in front of him without hitting him and having the semi take them all out. But it was a close one. The fishing today was good, most of the fish we caught were on shallow gravel banks with wind on them. Throwing the 2.8's and 3.3's right up shallow and working them back slowly. Water was stained. We caught a few back in coves, but the best bite was the banks on the main channel. Got a picture below of Dutch with a spot and you can see the bank behind him. That was a good bank - we caught a couple of keeper eyes, couple of nice crappie, and a few bass on that bank. Some of those banks don't have fish, some do, when you find them, they'll bite. We had close to 30 bass, 4 keeper eyes, and Dutch caught 3 nice crappie. Biggest bass was 3 lbs, somewhere around 7-8 of them were keepers. Caught one eye on a lizard, Dutch got a couple of bass on a shakey head, but everything else was on the Keitech. We talked to Macsimus back at the dock, he had caught a 19" smallie. WT 53-55

Yeah you can binge on arrowheads in Golden. Have not been to the Cassville one yet - what do they have there?

Plenty of 5-6 lb. bass being caught today. Looks like Watson will make the cut.

Nice sunrise pic! I have passed that diner many a time, but have never stopped in. One of these days... Have you visited the Golden Museum yet?

I have only watched a bit of the coverage, but they were catching them. Elites are going to be there in a couple of weeks.

Back of Indian is stained.

My 2 cents on the whites back there is that they come in on a good rain, hang around for a few days then vamoose. If this system that is coming through tonight dumps some rain , it may be worth going back there. The backs of some of the other coves would be worth checking out too.

Wow, going to be some fat trout.

Please, no more crank bait suggestions, I have more than enough...😀

Wired2Fish does one of these every year. It's getting harder to fool people.

And the season has started. Got the DVR set to record the Royals today.

Going to be a lot of miffed people that have spent the $$$ for FFS. 12 States to Ban Use of Livescope on State Fisheries - Wired2Fish

What a rainbow!

No boating for me yesterday, way too windy.

I'd take a 1/2 dozen smallies and a couple of nice Walters from the bank. Hopefully they got everybody safely out of the sailboat.

I didn't even think about going fishing yesterday. You guys are tougher than me.

Had a power glitch here yesterday too. It was just a brief on/off deal. Luckily for this area, the weather wasn't organized when it passed through here like it got organized when it moved further east. Just a lot of high wind.

I'd say well past post spawn, once they move off the banks. I always used Bandit 300's. White, Pink or bubblegum, anything but black unless you want to catch walleye and bass, black is good for that. My uncle fishes 300's in the Miss, crappie factories, they bite them all summer there too.

Big ol' walter, Congrats!

I have driven by that place a couple of times in the past, never had time to stop, but it was kinda neat to see it by the interstate in the middle of nowhere Nebraska. The Cabelas in Rodgers has a pretty decent selection of bass stuff, I rarely go in there as I order online a lot and if I need something in a hurry, Hook, Line, and Sinker is close and has a pretty good selection too.

There's a few roaming around the Indian Creek area, I know someone that caught 2 last weekend there, but I don't know if there are enough there to target them. They should start showing up in force in the lower lake by May. Point 5 area should start seeing some too.

Indian Creek tends to get less pressure than the mid lake area. More smallmouth on average. Not quite as much recreational traffic. Don't have to deal with the metro area traffic on the way to the lake either. If I was a die-hard tourney bass fisherman, or spent a lot of time crappie fishing, I'd spend more time mid-lake. It is a bit tougher to fish the lower end of the lake and getting a limit of 5 big bass is a challenge, but if that is not your objective, and you like to fish just for the fishing, Indian Creek and that whole end of the lake has lots of opportunity. Yesterday I saw only 2 other fishing boats. No one was ever even close to me fishing, felt like I had the whole area to myself. Solitude is tough to find these days. Once the camp grounds open it gets a lot busier. A lot of striper fishermen start showing up too. Which is another thing about that area, it can have some great top water fishing for stripers once May rolls around.

It was indeed a nice day. Eagles were flying, turkeys were gobbling, trees are starting to bloom. Looks like the weather is going to go bad for several days once again, grrrr....