Quillback

I thought the CO Pikeminnow was interesting, grows up to 6 feet long, that's one big minnow!

Always thought it was dark down there. This spring I was catching spots that were down 50 feet or so in somewhat low viz water, had to be just about completely dark where those fish were.

Kokanee and burbot too, dunno if you have either of those. I believe there are some unusual fish in the Green river above the reservoir too. I've seen the Green river when I visited Dinosaur Nat. Monument, looked to be plenty of access and since that section has no trout probably gets zero pressure. Fish - Dinosaur National Monument (U.S. National Park Service) (nps.gov)

That is a fish you don't see everyday. Caught a lake trout yet? Just read an article where they say Flaming Gorge reservoir has too many of them.

I was going to ask you about that yesterday, completely forgot.

One word - Peacocks. I hold grudges against those things.

The Hogville.net forum has some funny stuff today. Need to brace yourselves for more digging in his ear while constantly mumbling "things of that nature"

Hoop Hogs lost to NC after the Memphis loss, after watching a couple of games I see a team with talent, but they look lost on offense. Lot of athletes, but no shooters, you have to have 3 point shooters in the game today. A lot of new faces and I believe they will come around later this year after playing together for a while. Feels like last year all over again. I agree on the cord cutting with Pittman, and I also agree that why would any top recruit come to AR to play under Pittman next year? Pittman has a good reputation as a recruiter, that was supposed to be his strength, but I see him as being an old school recruiter and will have trouble in the NIL world of recruiting. They have to et an OC too, I can't see Guiton getting that job after yesterday. Maybe the strategy will be to bring in a new OC and groom him for the HC job. With TX and OK coming to the SEC, things are not going to get easier.

Arkansas couldn't even win the fight, they had 2 players ejected, MO only one. There's no light at the end of the tunnel.

Yeah they're everywhere now. Even showing up in people's houses for crying out loud.

That's pretty neat, I have shot a lot of birds, but never a woodcock.

Well I will record the game, that way if Arkansas is getting blown out I can FF through it. They are keeping Pittman, and as far as I can tell by reading and listening to various AR people, it seems to be a money move, if they dump Pittman they have to pay whatever it is they owe him on the contract plus sign a new coach to some big contract as you aren't going to get anyone to come here without a big guaranteed contract. I never got the impression that they wanted to keep Pittman because they think he can win next year. And Pittman himself gave an interview where he hinted that AR is not committing enough money to NIL which makes it tough to recruit. You can't help but think that next year the Hogs are going to be another doormat to the rest of the SEC. I have moved on the hoops now, AR beat Stanford yesterday and today play the other Tigers, the ones from Memphis.

Thanks, and may you also have a great Thanksgiving!

Where's DJ at? That guy hunts those things at night. @JestersHK You can hunt them with dogs, I'm way too old to think about doing that, but that would be a fun hunt.

Memorable catch rivals record-book brookie • Arkansas Game & Fish Commission (agfc.com)

Looks like a woodcock. They migrate through here in the fall, there are people that hunt them. It is something like a 2 week window before they are gone. To get one in your house is pretty wild.

Way to go, love the lasso pics!

Somebody must have thrown a switch somewhere as today was not nearly as good as Wednesday. Caught a couple of solid keeper sized smallies, and another half dozen dinks. The better ones were on the jig and a couple of the dinks hit a 3.3 Keitech. The bites were few and far between. Cloudy and drizzly today, maybe that is what did them in. Saw a few stripers on top, but not enough for me to consider chasing them.

I wonder how that development over by the KC bridge is going, the one on top of that red dirt hill. Gotta be some bucks involved there too.

Bikes, schmikes. Seems like every time I drive over to Cape Fair on HWY 76, there's something to dodge and it is never bikes. It is a curvy, hilly road with a 55 MPH speed limit. Couple of weeks ago, in the pre-dawn darkness, came around a sharp curve doing 50 or so and there's 2 dudes standing in my lane, there was a truck and and suv parked there, off the road for the most part, and those 2 standing out in the road, no idea why and didn't have time to look to see why they were there. If there had been a vehicle oncoming in the other lane, I don't know what I would've done, but there wasn't fortunately. Would've been a split second decision, either take those 2 out or take a head-on. No good answer.

Man, that is a big ol' brown, congrats!

NW Arkansas has turned into a bike Mecca. Hundreds of miles of dirt trails and lots of concrete. There's a whole culture built around trail riding. Jerseys, expensive rides, contests - kinda like bass fishermen. In spite of literally swarms of bikes on the weekends around here, it's not a problem. If I was going to gripe about road obstacles, it would be about RV's, people hauling 5th wheels, loaded dump trucks, loaded tractor trailers - get stuck behind one of those on HWY 76 near Table Rock for a fun time, I'll take bikes over that kind of stuff any day. Speaking of HWY 76, you'd be suicidal to ride a bike on that road.

Steep banks, no trees needed. We did catch a couple at the end of the day around some trees.

I don't see it, I agree it's a gamble that quite a few of them lose, but there is no shortage of people fishing the Opens and whatever the MLF qualifier is. BASS college series openings filled up in record time this year.

They were biting today, Sunday it was tougher than heck, today it was like a springtime bite. We put 28 smallmouth in the boat, 8 or 9 of them were keepers, no big keepers, but we had several that were in the 16-16.5" range. We probably had at least another dozen hookups that got off. Really light bites on jigs, most of the bites were just gradual load ups, no thumps or ticks. Best banks were rocky where the boat was sitting in 20-30 FOW and you could almost reach the bank on a long cast. Bites could come at any time from when the jig hit the water until you were about ready to reel it in to make another cast.