Quillback

Couple of neat videos, first one is drone coverage, and it is fairly short. 2nd one is catching tarpon off the beach in the mullet run. Looks like fun!

That's very cool!

I was out today myself, up the White. They were biting up there too. Not the quality you had however, but I caught close to 40 bass and a walleye. Only one keeper. Had some bad luck on the keeper sized fish, lost several. The 90 size plopper was my best bait, lots of shad chasers, spitting up one inch shad. I caught some on jigs and the c-rigged craw too. I had a lot of fish miss that plopper today, some jumped right over it, others would hit it 4 or 5 times, finally get hooked, then come off. I had a LOT of action today. I don't think I caught one out any deeper than 15 feet. I'd go again tomorrow but have an appt. with the tooth doctor. Last 2 fish of the day, a double. Hooked the little guy and was skimming him across the water and he got blown up on 3 or 4 times before his beefier buddy got hooked.

Very nice. I might get out tomorrow. Supposed to be some wind, which I like this time of year.

SOCIAL HILL, Ark. – Officials with the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission said on Thursday that a mountain lion was struck and killed Wednesday night. AGFC officials said a motorist struck the lion on Arkansas Highway 84 near Exit 91 on Interstate 30 at about 10 p.m. This is the first confirmed dead mountain lion in the wild in Arkansas since February 2024 and only the third confirmed dead since 1975, they said. AGFC officials confirmed that it was a healthy male, measuring 83 inches in length from the tip of the tail to the tip of the nose, and weighing 160 pounds. Samples of the animal were taken and are being sent to an independent lab for analysis, they said.

From the fatality a couple of weeks ago: AGFC said the exact cause of the attack cannot be definitively determined but the investigation revealed that the bear was found to be malnourished, which is considered to be “highly unusual” for this time of year when food sources are typically abundant. The bear’s stomach was full of natural foods, the necropsy revealed. Microscopic abnormalities were found in the bear’s spinal cord and brain by diagnostic laboratories. This suggests the bear was suffering from underlying neurological issues, AGFC said. “The combined evidence of malnutrition and neurological abnormalities suggests the bear was not functioning normally,” AGFC said. “However, the exact cause of these issues cannot be definitively determined.”

Hey you combined a good work out with fishing, nothing wrong with that. 😃 Those grassies are strong fish. I have accidentally snagged a couple while bass fishing. Hard to get them to quit fighting.

Had my buddy Jeb with me this morning. A little on the chilly side early, but not a bad day. We had to work for our fish. I think we got maybe 10 total between us with a couple of nice keepers. Mainly throwing jigs and the c-rig. Best fishing was in the trees in Indian Creek, with the fish being in less than 15 FOW for the most part. We did go out on the main lake and try for smallies on the rocky banks, but we only had one that got off halfway to the boat. There were some scattered stripers blowing up in Indian, we threw top waters at a couple of them, but not bites. Little shad are everywhere in Indian, but other than a few stripers, nothing was chasing them. For whatever reason the bass weren't messing with them, at least not on top. WT 76-77

Nice looking fish!

Sounds kind of weird doesn't it?

Another attack. Fortunately no injuries. Trail association in Franklin County says 2 backpackers survived bear attack

I can't tell you which one was my first. I do have memories of fishing or being with my dad or grandad. My dad got out of the navy, went to school at Wichita State, and worked nights at the post office. He'd fish every once in a while, no boat, so local rivers and streams. He'd drag me along, I wanted to go and mom was probably happy to see us both out of the house to give her some peace and quiet. Once he was fishing the Arkansas river with me in tow. I wasn't fishing, but was there with him. The Arkansas was low at the time, lots of braids with some pools and generally a sandy river bottom and banks. I remember he was fishing a pool on a side channel that had a steep bank on the other side. That steep bank had some small holes in it. All of a sudden out of one those holes a snake shot out like an arrow right at us. I was maybe 4 years old at the time and that snake looked pretty big to me. I took off running and so did my dad. That's about all I remember, but I'll never forget it. I have never seen a snake do that again to this day.

OK, I'll try and keep that in the back of my mind, I'd like to fish it. Thanks for the BD wishes!

Maybe next year, it would be fun just to fish it once. None of my fishing buddies are tournament fishers, so have to do some arm-twisting to get a volunteer to co-fish.

I was looking for the results, should've looked here first. I fished on the upper White yesterday, caught some sub-legals on jigs and the c-rig up shallow on windy banks. There were a lot of people on the lake, a lot of bass boats and a lot of rec boats, mostly pontoons. Hardly any of the rec boats were skiing or doing anything except cruising up and down the lake. I have heard that Campbell Point is hard to launch because you have to back way in, but it must not be too bad if they held the tourney there.

Thanks - I enjoyed the video. If I could offer a little criticism - I fast forwarded past the spots where you were showing a sort of downward view of the front of the boat and the reel. I think it just looks better when you can see where you're casting. You do show that most of the time, which is great. Thanks again.

I am an early morning fisherman, one reason is I like to get through Pea Ridge before the morning rush hour and the school traffic gets going. It can create a half mile backup at the 4 way stop in the old part of Pea Ridge. There is a bit of a top water striper bite early and some bass also. I would think you could get some later in the day. Overall this is a tough time of year to fish the lower lake, I never do any good until about mid-November. But you can still catch fish, so what the heck, might as well get out and go.

What kind of food truck serves hamburgers? A patty wagon

One of these days I might get it. I have fun fishing without it, it's not that I hate it. I'd like to have it just to look around at stuff.

No final word, but looks like a bear is the number one suspect: Possible deadly bear attack under investigation in Newton County, Ark.

I've heard that from a few folks, that is, you can learn a lot just looking around with the scope.

Well it does look pretty good. Dutch and his wife were in Maine last year. I believe he said a lobster roll was something like $50.