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That area has been tough. I know a good fisherman that has tried the back of the creek thing around there and it has not had much luck with it. I'm somewhat tied into the grapevine of some folks that fish that area, and no one is killing them. I have seen some pics of some nice fish being caught, but you've got to work for them and you won't get a lot of bites. With all that being said, there's probably someone spanking the bass in that area. Seems like someone always does.

Today I was using braid with 10 lb. fluro leader. About 6 feet of leader.

Gustafson won the Classic. I had him in my lineup but took him out at the last minute and put in Lester.

When you don't get a lot of bites, it makes for a short report. I caught a smallmouth right off the bat on a jerk bait on a gravel point, and another one off a laydown about 15 minutes later, and then went through a dry spell for a few hours. Finally found some on one bank that had some docks and brush piles, just going down the bank throwing a 2.8 Keitech and the ned. Caught 5 on that stretch, and by then it was noon and time to go. Fish were in the 10-20 FOW zone, WT 51. Water is still clear in some areas down by the dam, 20 feet of visibility, in the coves and up Indian, you've got maybe 5 feet of viz. There's a few stripers in the area, I had something really whack the Keitech that was a hit and run, could've been a striper. Saw a few stripers on top early, worked a top water for a bit, but no bites. Some debris floating around some of it is big stuff you don't want to hit.

If you're only going to get 2 bites, it is nice when one is a 4 lber.!

Nice chunky fish!

Looks like it has peaked, James has dropped down to 10K CFS. If they keep dumping water, it should start going down.

Looks like the Corps has pushed the release up to 20K CFS. James is still around 30K but dropping.

I don't know how much the Roaring River kicked out, but I doubt it was anywhere near 40,000 CFS. They have been releasing about 2K CFS from Beaver, but they have cut that down. looks like the Kings briefly jumped up to near 10K CFS, but that is dropping also.

Looks like the James has peaked and is finally coming down.

Wow, that is a bunch!

No number 1 seeds left. K State has a shot.

Drove around a bit today, not too bad. Some gravel on the roads, lakes got muddied up with some debris washed in, but that's about it. he really heavy stuff look to have fallen just to the north of me. Beaver has only come up 6 inches or so. Just noticed that they've cranked up the release on TR. 16,000 CFS, but there is still 30,000 CFS coming in from the James.

Cool, I want to watch that one.

I do, and as a matter of fact I believe Arkansas is playing LSU and it is on ESPN. I have it setup to record. I'm way more of a MLB fan than college baseball, but I will watch an occasional college game.

I never knew there were any K-State fans. Thought everyone that lived in Kansas pulled for the Jayhawks.

Golfers have their own set of complaints about other people on the course.

I guess I'll pull for K State now.

It's raining here pretty good right now. Bella Vista is drained by Little Sugar which eventually sends that water to Grand lake, but what storms here usually moves NE towards the TR area. Looks like the Kings drainage is getting some now too.

Thanks, I am tempted, I used to like catching cats, but just don't have the desire to go out and get them like I used to.

Thanks for posting that, I was curious where the bulk of the rain went. Roaring river must be, well, roaring.

The can't shoot, rebound or pass Arkansas team showed up last night and got whupped. Gotta give credit to UCONN too, they played well. All things considered, making it to the Sweet 16 was better than I thought they'd do.

That's pretty neat - I have always wanted to go to a spring training game or two, but I would probably go to AZ to watch the Mariners.

So you need Latin names to make it official, eh? Plains Longear - Lepomis aquilensis Redstripe Longear - Lepomis sp Ozark Caddoan Longear - Lepomis sp Ouachita Gotcha now Dave, you gotta go and catch them.

I drove through there that Wednesday and I wondered why there were so many people fishing. Looking up stream from the bridge there was probably 8-10 people wading. In about a 50 yard stretch.