Quillback

That wind really blows on that section of lake. Looks to be little to no wind in the forecast for Saturday. It's getting to be that time of year to always have a spook ready to toss at the stripers. It's also getting to be that time of year that you want to get to Indian right before light to get parking in the lot, at least on a Saturday. There are some places you can park in the grass too.

I tried it once and did not think it was good, but maybe it was not made correctly.

Thanks for the update Mark. I might go over to Indian later this week once the wind machine gets turned down.

Just wait until school gets out.

I need a 3 stall garage. The ideal one would be to have one that has a door on both ends of one of the stalls where you could drive your truck/boat trailer in the back and leave it parked in there hooked up and ready to go. Of course you need a really long stall to do that and room to circle around to the back of the garage, but sure would be a nice thing to have.

Minor flooding going on down river, don't see how they are going to be able to release significant water from Bull until the lower river goes down. IMPACTS...At 26.0 feet, Many thousands of acres of cropland are inundated. Water is near State Highway 14. Many private levees are overtopped allowing the river to flood cropland. Water in portions of Jacksonport State Park that are on river side of levee. * ADDITIONAL DETAILS... - At 8:00 PM CDT Sunday the stage was 26.6 feet. - Forecast...The river is cresting and will fall below flood stage before dawn on Monday, May 9. It will continue falling to around 15.4 feet by Wednesday, May 18.

I bet you'll get a lot of fish.

If that spinner bait over the bushes starts happening, that is a fun way to catch them. Top water bite ought to get going soon too.

Curious as to the water clarity myself. Has to be a lot of debris floating around too.

They haven't posted the full results, but from the live page, the boater winner had 16-6 and the backseat winner had 12-14.

Lots of water for sure. BTW, the link to the Bull Shoal graph in the Lower Bull Shoals forum is broke - showing data for a week in September. Maybe it needs to be refreshed?

A Tennessee State trooper pulled over a pickup on I-65. The trooper asked, "Got any ID?"The driver replied, "Bout whut?"

Don't get me started.

A Florida senior citizen drove his brand new Corvette convertible out of the dealership. Taking off down the road, he pushed it to 80 mph, enjoying the wind blowing through what little hair he had left. 'Amazing,' he thought as he flew down I-95, pushing the pedal even more.Looking in his rear view mirror, he saw a Florida State Trooper, blue lights flashing and siren blaring. He floored it to 100 mph, then 110, then 120. Suddenly he thought, 'What am I doing? I'm too old for this!' and pulled over to await the trooper's arrival. Pulling in behind him, the trooper got out of his vehicle and walked up to the Corvette. He looked at his watch, then said, "Sir, my shift ends in 30 minutes. Today is Friday. If you can give me a new reason for speeding, a reason I've never heard before– I'll let you go.." The old gentleman paused then said, "Three years ago, my wife ran off with a Florida State Trooper. I thought you were bringing her back." "Have a good day, Sir," replied the trooper.

926. They are easing up a bit on the Beaver release, down to 30K CFS. Beaver is now below 1130 (top of flood pool).

Would be quite the battle I am sure.

Yesterday there were a couple of schools of grassies moving around in the outlet of Windsor lake here in Bella Vista. Watched them for a bit, they'd line up in a column about 3 fish wide with a couple of dozen in the school. Biggest ones were in front, little guys bringing up the rear, it's like they ranked themselves by size. I was tossing a crankbait around from the bank and I was very tempted to snag one.

Hard to know, would be nice if they would update their website or FB page with that kind of info. James and Kings look to be coming down, but still 40K CFS coming over Beaver. With 20K CFS going out, there is still a net gain in water.

Some light rain here this morning, time for this stuff to get out of here! Extended forecast looks pretty good. Supposed to be a BFL tomorrow, over 200 boats - looks like it is still on.

Wiggens was a bit of a surprise. Looked to be a tough day.

Welcome, I have fished around Pt. 26 quite a bit.

looks like they are starting to dump some water out of TR now, letting out 20K CFS. On the flip side, James is up to 30K CFS and still rising.

Corps has opened the flood gates on Beaver further so that now there are 43,000 CFS coming through. Kings is at 20,000 CFS and still rising. James is at 12,000 CFS and rising. Looks to be around 14,500 CFS leaving the lake, so there's a lot of water coming in.

Time for the night crawler on flooded lawn bite and the Redfin over the flooded Corps concrete picnic table bite.

Hang in there, they'll get you fixed up.