Quillback

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

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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.

That's some good fishing. Sorry to hear abut the shoulder.

Thanks guys for the compliments. And if you ever want to catch dinks, I can put you on them! 😃

It moved through here, it wasn't too bad, some heavy rain.

When fishing with some of my elderly fishing buddies, I have learned just to go ahead and yell when I am talking to them, because if I don't, they'll say Whut?. So it's better just to yell it out the first time instead of saying it in a normal level, and getting back "Whut?" and then having to repeat it all over again at greater volume.

Hearing aids are in my future too. Living around a lot of old folks, the worse thing is having to yell at them so that they can hear you. And everyone pushes off getting them until they are practically deaf. I'll probably do the same. The good hearing aides are expensive too, and they've got tiny batteries you have to periodically replace. 20 years ago I would come down here and visit my folks, when the TV was on they had it set incredibly loud, I'd turn it down when they weren't looking. Now I have noticed that I crank up the TV myself. A lot of us on this site are getting old, here we are talking about dental implants, dentures and hearing aids. 😀

You made me look it up - it was worse than the one I posted.

I would've called that Ross Goose somebodies pet duck that escaped from the farm. Shows how good I am at waterfowl ID.

Hey you got a good resupply on your swimbait stash. Looks like a dozen.