Quillback

I have read some newspaper accounts of people getting some serious jail time for collecting arrowheads on federal property. It's not worth it.

That's cool, as far as eating, in my opinion those blue are better that stripers.

Well kinda slow for me, I caught 3 LM's 12-14" fish on a McStick. Caught those fish on a couple of gradually sloping points with wind and sun. Caught them in a 45 minute span and the other 4 hours I fished was skunk city. Saw quite a bit of shad on the FF, but no predators around them. My FF doesn't have a temp probe and I did not drop the thermometer so no info on water temp. Only saw one dead shad, so I'm thinking it hasn't dropped enough for a shad kill. Saw a couple of guys beach their boat on a gravel bar that has emerged with the low water across from the bend at HS bend. They were searching the gravel for something, arrowheads maybe?

Checked out the Horseshoe Bend COE ramp this morning, no ice, ramp is dry. I may haul my boat over there today and see if there's any cooperative bass in the area.

March 3 through March 6, according to the schedule. They could be facing some nasty weather.

I think what this says is that he did not have a license (or permit) for elk. But he may have a hunting license. I wonder what a "raptor violation" is?

Saw this in the weekly AR Game & Fish report. AGFC wildlife officers arrest two on game violations PRUITT - Arkansas Game and Fish Commission wildlife officers arrested two individuals in Newton County for violating state game laws. Linda Morgan of Fairview in Marion County and Lewis Weeks of near Marble Falls in Newton County were arrested after officers found them with four unchecked deer and an elk. The two were taken into custody after the officers found elk and deer carcasses on Weeks’ property. Weeks was charged with an elk hunting violation, no hunting license, four counts of failure to tag and check deer, possession of a controlled substance, possession of an instrument of a crime and driving on a suspended license. Weeks also was given two warnings for doe deer prohibited and a raptor violation. His total bond was $8,130. Morgan was charged with aiding and abetting in a violation, hunting without a license and was given a warning for interfering with a wildlife officer. Her bond was set at $500. The AGFC’s Cpl. Shawn Smith, Sgt. Kenny Seay, Cpl. Les Gustavus and Wildlife Officer Matt Garcia were involved in the investigation.

Based on dollars per inch, this is one pricey bait. http://www.tacklewarehouse.com/Moreau_Baits_3_Topwater_Frog/descpage-MB3TF.html

The message I'm getting is that Missouri has a shoot on sight policy on mountain lions, shoot it and tell the enforcement folks that you felt threatened. Only hitch in the giddy-up is they won't let you keep the carcass.

Yep I agree, we need to know the root cause of these die-offs if possibile.

Overfishing ended because the fish were almost wiped out. If and when fish stocks rebound, we have to make sure overfishing does not again rear it's ugly head.

Ysp some white stuff here in NW Arkansas, but forecasters are saying there will be a weekend warmup.

Interesting read on Haley. http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/kansas-city-chiefs-are-legit-but-coach-todd-haley-is-a-fraud-010311

It was ugly, what a disappointment.

Way to go Champ! Nice to see some bass being whipped!

WASHINGTON — First, the blackbirds fell out of the sky on New Year's Eve in Arkansas. In recent days, wildlife have mysteriously died in big numbers: 2 million fish in the Chesapeake Bay, 150 tons of red tilapia in Vietnam, 40,000 crabs in Britain and other places across the world. Blogs connected the deadly dots, joking about the "aflockalypse" while others saw real signs of something sinister, either biblical or environmental. The reality, say biologists, is that these mass die-offs happen all the time and usually are unrelated. I still say it is UFO's,

More dead fish, but in Chesapeake bay. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40947831/ns/us_news-environment/

No prob, sometimes it's hard to tell when people are kidding around or not.

They know the difference, do you?

For the record, the fish in Lake Norwood are Saugeye, not Sauger. And I don't know if there are enough of them in the lake to make it worthwhile to target them. You also have to be a property owner in Bella Vista to fish the lakes here or fish with a propert owner.

Oprah killed the blackbirds?

Actually a sub-sonic sonic boom is created when a aircraft flies BACKWARDS and breaks the sound barrier, since no earthmade aircraft can exceed the speed of sound by flying backwards, it was obviously a UFO flying backwards that created the sub-sonic sonic boom. So it's obvious, a UFO killed the blackbirds.

That's either a really big fish or it's a really small guy.

The Benton County Daily record had a short article about the tournament, the winners said they used crawdad colored cranks, jerkbaits and jigs. Targeting windy banks between Prairie Creek and the dam. One of the members of the 2nd place team was the son of one of the members of the winning team, they weighed in with 14.94 lbs. 3rd place was 14.7 lbs.

Yesterdays paper reported a Drum dieoff in the Arkansas river, upstream of Little Rock, several thousand kaput, but other species not affected. Fish and Game folks are scratching their heads, they took a few away for analysis.