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Anyone been pinched by a helgy? I haven't, but always kept an eye on those pinchers.

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Let's give it a few days, but as of right now there is not a reschedule date. I'll leave it up to majority vote about rescheduling.

No smallmouth or means yesterday. Caught a couple of short walleye and couple of short largemouth, but everything else was Kentucks. I'm not going to throw the rig, nothing against those that do, but I don't like fishing it.

Went back yesterday, good bite again for Kentucks, caught a couple dozen mainly on the Ned with a few Keitech fish. It got pretty windy about 10 AM and that pretty much shut down the catching for me. Tried a crank for a bit in the wind, but no bites. Heard of a 6.7 that was caught yesterday on the Roll Tide rig.

Pretty good article from a small paper. When I went over the bridge I saw someone out in the river with a headlight and I assumed they were etting there to claim the spot, then read in that article that people were getting out there at 1 AM to get their spot. It is an event for sure.

I drove through there about 6 AM on my way to Table Rock. The parking lot at the admin bldg. was packed, vehicles on the road waiting to get in, vehicles lined up to get out. Might have been a news truck parked there too, but I couldn't look around too much. Campground looked to be full. Hope everyone there had fun.

Fished with Dutch today, we launched at Big M about 0630 and fished until 1245. Air temp was 36 when we launched and 71 when we got back. Really nice day and the wind didn't get up until after we left. The fishing was decent, we boated 36 bass total, 7 or 8 keepers, a couple of 3 lbers one a spot and the other a smalls. First two fish we caught were smallmouth and after that it was Kentucky time, we caught one largemouth and what looked to be a meanmouth but the rest were spots. Most fish were off steep banks and points with rocks and trees. Most were on Ned rigs. We caught maybe 4 on 2.8 Keitechs on gravel. I had some issues with fish-get-off-itis, I bet I hooked at least 8 that seemed to be hooked but got off. Had a lot of very light bites that would load up a bit, then drop it. Dutch had a pretty good sized fish on for a few seconds that got off that we never saw. WT ranged from 46 early to 50 when we left.

Was back in Indian Creek on Beaver Saturday. Area of a couple of football fields in size was wall to wall and top to bottom full of 2 inch shad. No birds feeding on them, and very few bass around them. But some of them were dying, very few percentage wise, but there was a bit of a die-off going on.

Long ways from MO to OK.

Tree frogs were hollerin' a couple of days ago.

I've got a dog after bird story for ya'll. When I lived in Washington I had a German Shorthair that I hunted with just about every weekend during bird season. Very birdy dog but a bit of a knucklehead. I traveled a lot for work and boarded him at a kennel down the road that also doubled as a bird dog training outfit. Sometimes they'd get pointers that just weren't interested in birds, they'd try different techniques to try and get them to get interested in hunting birds, but some dogs just would not work out no matter what they did. One of the things they tried is they'd put a live bird in the dogs kennel and leave it there - I don't know if that ever worked, but it was something they'd try. The kennels the dogs were in were about 10' long and 4' feet wide. There was a concrete wall in that back that was 8' high and ran along the back of all the kennels. The side walls were concrete and maybe 3 feet high with chainlink on top. At the back of the side walls, there were chain link metal posts embedded into the concrete and there was a gap between the post and the concrete wall, the gap was just a few inches, maybe 3 inches. So they put a bird in a dog's kennel that was 4 kennels down from the one my dog was in. Next morning when making the rounds they saw my dog was in the kennel of the dog they had put the bird in, he had eaten the bird and all that was left were some feathers. The only way he could have gotten there was to squeeze through the gap between the posts and the wall, and he would've had to do that 4 times to cross over from his kennel to the one where the bird was located. How he could've gotten his head through that gap, let alone his body, is something that seems impossible, but that's the only way he could've gotten there, short of unlatching the kennel door going out and doing the same at the other kennel, and not only that, but remembering to close and latch the door behind him. The people that ran the place had never seen a dog do what he did, they were amazed. I kept him outside in a chain link enclosure, he figured out how to squeeze through the gap in the door so I had to bungee that up. Then he figured out he could push through the bottom of the chain link. I'd get up in the morning and see him on the front porch, took me a while to figure out how he was getting out of the kennel without squeezing through the door, but I had a side window that looked out on the kennel and one day I watched him squeeze out underneath the fence - he yelped as he was doing it, but he made it. I got some wire wraps and wrapped that chain link to the bottom fence bar and that put an end to his escape antics. He was a great bird dog, shot a lot of birds hunting behind him.

Thanks for the info Bill, I might get out there Tuesday.

Good to hear the JB is working!

Won by Justin Luetkemeyer who had 5 for 18-14. 2023 Phoenix Bass Fishing League Table Rock Lake - Major League Fishing

Dave, good to hear you can make it!

Got to go fishing with Mark today, and sure was a good day to be out on the water. A little chilly to start, but became halfway decent by late morning. It was a quality over quantity day, we had 15 or so, but I believe 8 or 9 of them were over the 15" mark. No giants but some chunky fish in the 2-2.5 lb. range. Mostly smalls with a few spots and one largemouth. Best baits were Keitechs and Ned rigs fished slow on the bottom in 10-25 FOW. The back of Indian creek is filled with 2 inch shad. An area maybe the size of two football fields. From the top down to the bottom. You'd think there be a bunch of finny predators chowing down on them, but we only caught one spot amongst all those shad. Never saw anything on the fish finder but shad, the eaters just weren't there. Some of the shad are dying, but it is a very small percentage. I really expected to see a lot of other fishermen out there today, but we saw 3 boats total all day, and we covered a lot of water. WT 45-47

If you want some free eats, come to the OA One Bass at Eagle Rock, your occupation doesn't matter.

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It's an email, I can forward it to you, and anyone else that wants it, PM me with your email addy.

Shoot Rick, sorry to hear that.

Mitch, you got a mention in the Bassblaster email. And so did OA. "Mitch Fields started Tackle Max Lures and yep one of the fist baits is a hellgrammite. Thanks to ol' bud Keith for the heads up. Can't link it, it's at forums DOT ozarkanglers DOT com"

Thanks, I am going to save those 2 sites.

I am going to do that one of these days. Do you have the guide's website?

He has some nice looking jigs. I have so many jigs, I need to fish them more.