Quillback

Yes I am special, at least that's what my mom told me.

I don't know if I agree with you guys, a couple of weeks ago I could not get bit on the A-rig over at Windsor, switched to jerkbaits and caught 8 or 9 bass. Jerkbaits don't look like craws to me But Beaver is a different situation of course. But I've seen spots spit up craws in January when the A-rig was working real well.

Stumper, AGFC must not like you, they send me a reminder every year, maybe because I renew mine by mail?

He is guilty of killing a big ol' full of eggs female spawner for naught. He should get 5 years hard labor for that.

Very nice, thanks for the report!

I was out walking the dam on Lake Windsor here in Bella Vista yesterday, there was a guy fishing the dam throwing the rig. I asked him how he was doing and he replied that he had only caught a couple of small ones earlier in the day. I've talked to several people fishing the rig at Windsor in the last couple of weeks and none of them have done very well, Windsor is about 400 acres, has a good bass population but gets heavy pressure. One guy throwing the rig all day can pretty much cover the entire lake. I'm thinking that the rig has become over exposed to the bass and now they have become "conditioned" to it. It worked well earlier this winter but not so well now, next time I fish there I probably won't fish it. I think in certain situations the rig will still produce, but it's days of glory are over. As far as tourneys, I don't care if they use it or not.

Not the right rod for me, but that's a heckuva deal on a GLX.

I fished that lake 15 years ago with my dad, we caught a few bass that day. It was in May as I recall and the crappie fishermen were out in force, you could have almost walked across that lake jumping from boat to boat there were so many out there that day. Nice looking lake, lots of timber.

Great reports Bill, those are some quality fish you're getting!

After now hearing the dude's a criminal, and he's told 2 versions of how he caught the bass, I'm hoping the AGFC takes a serious look at that fish to verify that it did come from that lake, he didn't find it floating and decide to tell the world he caught it, or it did not come off a trot line. This whole thing is starting to sound "fishy".

Latest rumor is that it was an A-rig rigged with 3 Mann's Jelly Worms and 2 Zoom Trick worms.

He probably did catch it on an A-rig - he just didn't want to let the secret out so he changed his story to the worm (manufacturer yet to be determined).

The story in that link says he caught it on a Mann's Jelly worm in Tequila, story in yesterday's Democrat Gazette says it was a black, 6" Culprit worm. A couple of different stories on how it was caught depending on the news source.

Cool, if true that's a heck of a bass. Never heard of lake Dunn.

My guess is he set out to fish cranks for the show, it is sponsored by Strike King, so I'm sure they wanted to show him catching fish on SK cranks. KVD is also known for being a crank fisherman, and he catches amazing amounts of bass on them. I think he did pretty darn good for a post cold front, bluebird day.

The "Strike King Pro Journal" show featured KVD on Table Rock last fall. He was using a Strike KIng square bill, Sexy Shad I believe, fishing on a bluebird day after a storm front had rolled through in October. He looked for stained water in the creek arms, and ended up with around 20, 8 being keepers by his estimation. He kept the boat parallel to the bank and very close so he could keep the crank in contact with rocks and timber. Only problem with fishing this way, if you have a backseater he's going to be blocked.

3 big stripers sounds like a good day to me, thanks for the report, glad to hear you got into them!

Thanks for the report!

Link to training video: http://www.youtube.com/embed/hN2gMP3Q2Z4

Me and Jeb launched out of Houseman first thing in the AM yesterday, fished up and down river, throwing various artificials and never had a single bite. They really started running the river water starting about an hour after we got there, I don't know if that is good or bad for the bite, but it was really running. Weather was cold, windy, and sunny, probably not the best day to go walleye fishing. About 0930 we trailered up the boat and headed over to Beaver, Indian creek arm to bass fish, and wouldn't you know it, Jeb caught a nice 23" walleye on a jig. Seems we catch more walleye when we're bass fishing than we do when we target walleye.

I drove over the White River on 412 about 2 weeks ago, water was brown, there was a story in today's paper about bass fishing up War Eagle, water muddy there also. They did catch some bass on a black crankbait. Good luck if you go, and please let us know how the fishing was!

It is amazing how much tackle is being sold, a lot of the paddletail swimbaits are sold out on the online tackle distributors. Swimbait rods are sold out. I saw on Tacklewarehouses' site that manufacturers are now building rods specifically for A-rigs. It is good for the tackle industry, not so good for out wallets.

I was out yesterday also, but I was fishing the Indian creek area, I was targeting black bass with the A-rig, but did not get a one, I did catch a 10lb. striper on the A-rig, which I was grateful for as I haven't had a fish fry in a while. That was the only bite I had all afternoon. Talked to three guys fishing out of a bass boat, all three were throwing the A-rig, they had caught 8 bass, and had caught 20 on Saturday, so it definitely did slow down on Sunday. Beautiful day to be out, but tough fishing.

Next big advance? Maybe 3D DI and SI, course you'd have to wear the 3D glasses, maybe they'll come out with polarized 3D glasses, LOL.

Very nice! Some good eats there.