Quillback

I went in pursuit of the elusive walleye yesterday, and they were elusive, I did pick up one keeper that was barely over the 18" mark. Also caught a nice 15" rainbow. Talked to sevral other folks that were targeting walleye, none of them had caught one. Lots of active trout in the shoal areas, wish I had brought my trout stuff with me. There's a shoal about 2 miles below Houseman where there's a brush island in the river, trout were feeding on surface flies there, if you're a flyfisherman and have a boat, I think you could do well down there. And from what I saw, you would have them to yourself, I didn't see any trout fishermen down there. Being that far below the dam, they probably aren't recent stocker fish either.

Bring on the new site! As I have said before, I would like to see more Oklahoma coverage. And the entire state of Arkansas.

Sorry to hear that, I did like their tackle selection, and they had a lot of boat stuff also.

That's a long ways to go on a Monday night from this area. Maybe he can give one locally sometime.

Quite a few in NW AR, Bella Vista Lakes (I would be happy to post info there), Lake Fort Smith, Joe Kidd Lake, Weddington, SWEPCO, Leatherwood.

Way to go! Glad to see you guys had a good time.

Thanks for the advice. That's why I'm going to containers for tomatoes, my garden soil seems to now have tomato fungus issues. So I'll try the tomatoes in containers and plant other stuff in the garden. I have a gravel yard, so I won't have a problem getting gravel for the containers

I'm thinking about growing tomatoes in containers this year. I have heard 5 gallon buckets work good, but that seems a little small to me. Anyone done it before and had good luck?

I have a couple of inflatables in the boat, they aren't supposed to go off due to rain, and I usually vamoose when I see rain coming in, so I haven't really tested them in a rain storm. I like them, especially on hot summer days.

And have a Bella Vista Lakes forum also

Maybe you could have state forums, one for Arkansas, Oklahoma, etc. Then under Arkansas you could have sub forums for cold water fish (trout) and warm water fish. Or you could have rivers and lakes forums under the state headings. No matter how you break it up. I would like to see other AR lakes like Greeson, Ouchita, Dardenelle, just to name a few. Some of the Eastern OK lakes also. It would help if you got people that fish those lakes to post reports. I don't know what the best way to do that would be. Maybe go out on some of the other boards like Crappie.com and do some recruiting. Crappie.com has a states forum, you might want to take a look at if you haven't already.

There's a good article on SWEPCO in today's NWA Democrat Gazette. The bios have been out electro fishing it, bottom line is there are good numbers of healthy bass in that lake. They are speculating that the reason the fishing has been slow is that there's so much forage in the lake that the well fed bass don't want to get off their fat, lazy butts to chase lures.

How many for $5.00?

Glad to hear the power is coming on for folks. Can't wait for spring time fishing and wam weather.

Got home early this AM from a business trip to Charleston SC. Left Atlanta at 10 PM, the plane got to NW AR about 11 PM and could not land because of Fog/ice, so we circled for a while and then went on to Tulsa. When we got to Tulsa they put us on a bus and we made it to NW AR at 0230 AM. My vehicle had been sitting at the airport. probably had about 3 inches of ice on it, so I had fun knocking all that off. Finally got home about 0330. Lots of dark areas out there with no power. Lots of limbs/trees down. Definitely a lot more ice in the area south of the airport and in the Springdale area than there is here in Bella Vista.

What is a riggen stix? Never heard that term before.

Dang that thing is a bruiser!

Maybe when the whites are running in the Indian creek area we can have a get together and go after them. I am afflicted with that thing called work so it would have to be a weekend day.

I had my best luck trolling for crappie, after the spawn, in the mid lake area around Monte Ne cove.

I trie for crappie last spring in the coves around Indian creek, fished minnows around the brush, only picked up 2. Water was way up, maybe that had an effect on them. I'll have to try it again this spring.

Sounds like the meth heads are branching out into a new line of business.

I went up the Indian creek cove last spring, the water was up so I could not ge back in all the way, but I did not see a creek back there, do the whites hang out in the cove in front of the creek before moving up and I assume spawning in the creek?

I fished it mainly for crappie last summer trolling crankbaits, I would like to try the whites this spring, what do you use for them when they are in the back of Indian creek?

They seem to be everywhere now, I work out of my house and a cuple of days ago looked out the window and saw a big bird cruising by, I see a lot of Turkey Vultures around here which at first I thought it was, but it turned out to be Mr. Baldy. First one I have seen near my house. Then yesterday I am just across the line into Missouri on HWY 71 filling up with gas, notice a big bird circling around high in the sky, yep you guessed it, another Eagle.