Quillback

The bad fishing karma Dutch and I encountered Wednesday must have moved your way.

Ohio has a law on cheating for sports. If it involves more than a $1,000 then it is a class V felony. They pleaded to the charge and won the felony conviction prize. They also lost their fishing license for 3 years which is the maximum under Ohio law. Here's the statute if anyone cares to peruse it. Section 2915.05 - Ohio Revised Code | Ohio Laws

I believe they won the boat in a tourney. Or they won another boat and traded it for that Ranger. But they are now convicted felons and get to deal with the consequences.

That's Ron. We call that spot "Ron's House". I know someone else that talked to him yesterday. Small world. 😃 I might have a Spook tied on next time, or a buzzer.

Did not see the other one. I bet you are right, snagged while spoonbill snagging.

118# Big head carp. OK state record. Caught in Neosho river near Miami OK. Got it from a Facebook post, so not official as far as I know.

It was tougher out there than an Oklahoma pork chop. It is fun to get out there and fish, but the fish could've been a little more cooperative.

Where is this lake? HAHA, just kidding - That fish is a biggun!

Thanks for posting that PDF.

So much so that they spawned on the transom and motor today. A bunch of them were spawning on the bank, and had my own personal shad school following me around. You'd think that I would've really smacked the bass, but I caught only about a dozen spots early on the Surge Shad before the bite ended once the sun came over the hill. Had a few opportunities with bigger fish, but could not stick them, and had a good one break off due to a bad spot in the line. Tried a Whopper Plopper for a bit and they would not touch it. After the shad spawn bite died off, I moved around to different spots and picked up a few more, but never got into them again. Could not get anything going with the Ned or the Keitech. Left at 11 AM, bunch of shad around the Big M dock too when I left. WT 69 when I launched.

Are both reels doing it on the same rod? If so, I'd think it would be something with the rod. Trying to think of where I have had rod tip vibration, can't think of it ever happening. Might check the rod tip insert.

I think they all migrated up the White river arm.

A bit of a Surge Shad bite this AM, scattered fish, some were out as deep as 40 feet, but my best one came right off the front of a laydown. Early they bit it pretty good and held on, but later in the AM, they'd swirl and slap at it, but wouldn't touch it. Got pretty windy about 9 or 10 and that put them down for the most part. Got a few spotted bass on the ned rig. Caught 16, with 4 keepers. WT was 66 when I first put in.

That is one fat fish!

That is a nice smalls!

I bet you were the only boat on the lake. 😀

Nothing wrong with catching 2 lbers on top.

Seems to be a weird year. Smallmouth on Beaver yesterday were in less than 10 FOW. They had not appeared to have spawned yet, but I am sure some have.

Nice find!

Photo tip for the micro fishers:

Sorry to hear that. That's a great smallmouth he's holding!

Another cold morning, still feels like winter out there at least early in the AM it does. We threw Keitechs and some of Dutch's home made paddle tails all morning. One of those days where you'd pick up one or two and then fish for another 15 minutes without a bite. I'd say most of our bites were in 5-10 feet of water, with a few deeper. We caught a couple dozen bass, mostly smallmouth, 5 of them were keeper sized. Dutch caught a fat spotted bass that we estimated to be at least 2.5 lbs. That was our biggest bass. Caught a couple of walleye and a 3 lb. striper. There was some top water striper activity early. Wind really started blowing around 9 AM, that made things a lot more challenging.

Hey Steve - I'm not familiar with that area myself. I'm going to give a rough estimate of about 5 miles from the Kings to Campbell point. Dunno about beaching. Maybe if Mr. Bill sees this he can give you a better read on things. @Bill Babler

I have a bunch of golf balls, I pick them up when walking on a trail that runs by couple of greens. They are used, some in great shape, some not, but I have more than I'll ever need. If any of you are golfers and want some, let me know and I'll bring them to the tourney. Free, I didn't pay anything for them.