Quillback

I've heard the same thing as Ness has, it's cheaper to toss someone in prison for life that execute them. Mainly because of the appeals process, the special care needed for someone of death row, etc., I'm not against the death sentence, especially for this specific case, but as a dollars and cents issue, it's a wash. I would however like to see swift justice in this case. Make his trial a priority, give the inevitable appeals priority and get it done with. Execute the perp, or life sentence, it doesn't matter to me. Life without parole is a death sentence, just takes longer to get there.

Yes there are smallies, best area for them is on the lower lake near the dam, but you can get some mid-lake also.

BTW, for the record, China is the #1 producer of carbon emissions, in fact their increased emission rate has outpaced the reductions made by western nations (US included). China's emission rate is increasing at a rate of 13% per year. At this rate, in another 5 or 6 years, the extra emissions created will have the effect of dropping another United States onto the globe. 6 years from now we could completely cut our carbon emissions to zero, but if China does not slow down it would have no effect on total global carbon emissions. Not that we should not do our part, but if China continues down the path they're on, we won't make much of a difference.

Walleye, schmalleye, who cares about them? How big were the spots? Just kidding of course, nice eyes! Good bag for this hot weather.

Paper had a little more info this morning, the victim, a 42 yo male had a history of seizures, so it's possible he had one while swimming. They're going to do an autopsy. Plenty of people in the area, but after he went under, no one could find him until the divers got there.

Yep that lake is a crappie factory, I'e heard something like 200,000 to 300,000 crappie are taken out of it every year. Seems to be quite few blue cats also, we picked up four blues while trolling for crappie. Not big ones, 1-2 lbs.

Fished Sardis the last 2 mornings in my uncle's boat. We trolled Bandit 300 cranks. The new minimum length for crappie is 12" at Sardis. We caught somewhere north of 100 crappie, but only 18 were keepers. It's unbelievable how many crappie there are in that lake that measure 11"-11 7/8". Maybe in a couple of months, but certainly by spring those fish will get above 12" and there's going to be a lot of limits filled. Chatreuse was the hot color, followed by anything with pink. Stay out in the deep water, 25 - 30 fow seemed to be best.

Good question, It seems it would be foolish to put 1800 lb.s of water in your boat and then tow it to another lake. Do they have inboard pumps that they can fill these tanks/bags? Pump out mechanisms? Just asking because to regulate this we'd need a law that prohibits arriving at the lake with full ballast. If they're going to fill these ballast tanks it should be done on the lake, and then there should be a requirement to empty them at the same lake when you leave. And a big freaking fine if you don't follow the rules. Or a better law would just be to outlaw taking on ballast to generate a wake - but that probably would be tough to pass.

You got young men + scantily clad young women + beer, good chance there will be some fights break out. Doesn't matter what generation, this stuff would have happened back in the late 70's when I was in my early 20's, except in those days there probably would have been a cloud of reefer smoke hanging over the whole thing. Not that I condone this of course.

Great report, thanks!

How much honey will they produce in a year?

Yep looking forward to seeing those shirts. I hope you'll carry a 2XL in long. With long sleeves. If so, I'll order one.

BTW I see you mention using the reel for crappie and bluegill also. Where a baitcaster can get real finicky is tossing light baits, say less than a 1/4 oz(tossing light baits into a wind is really a challenge). It can be done, but it's tough when you're just starting out. Making sure you have a rod that is in the weight range of the bait you're tossing is important also.

Well we got lucky in choosing the right place to start fishing once we got on the lake. And we were lucky to have that topwater bite happen close by where we were fishing. Good conditions also, weather was cool to start the day and the water trash stayed off the lake until about 0900.

"Sky carp" - That is so funny!

Good idea!

Well then, kudos to you Chief also.

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Jeb and I launched out of Big M around 0530, we went down lake to a spot that has a few points fairly close together. We found a fairly good early bite, c-rigging plastics (OL Monster, Speed craw). That bite died down fairly quick, but the water got flat and a topwater bite started, I got a few on a pencil popper, while Jeb picked up a few on a Hopkins spoon tossed at the boils and a drop shot. The topwater bite lasted about 20 minutes, once it died we fished several points and picked up a few more fish on the Speed craw. I had a few bites on the FB jig, just could not stick them. We left at 1100, a little over 20 fish into the boat, but just a handful of keepers, biggest about 2.5 lbs.

Yeap, If I was going to plan a trip to Beaver and had flexibility to choose dates, I'd pick mid/late-October. Weather is USUALLY pretty nice, daytime highs in the 70's, and the fish are biting. If you can go during the week, you won't encounter as much boat traffic as you would in August.

OK, I won't call you names, if you behave likewise. Sorry, but I still don't agree with you about the viability of this riverkeeper idea. I don't see the logic of saying that existing government agencies can't address this because they aren't flexible, don't have any money or whatever reason you can think of. So let's create a new government agency? Yeah that will work.

Never really thought of using a frog on TR or any of the White river lakes for that matter. But may have to try it next spring after seeing this video. There is some advertising in this, but the guy is fishing TR and catching bass. http://www.tacklewarehouse.com/vlogpage.html?ccode=VLOG201

Because they're spending your money.

Well I could say arguing that the government needs to spend more money will solve this and every other problem isn't getting us anywhere either. Sorry, but I can't see what is wrong with asking government to properly allocate the money it has to address issues such as drunken river canoers. Just because YOU think it's a good idea doesn't mean it is. Our nation and many of the states are burdened with huge debt because thoughtless people like YOU think the answer to every problem is to throw money at it. That attitude isn't getting us anywhere except deeper in debt.

I have yet to see a government agency that will admit to being overfunded. They all have "budget problems". The money is there, it's a matter of priority.