Quillback

I don't follow it like I used to, but the coastal rivers always held a good run of late winter/early spring wild fish. Numbers have been dwindling for years despite closures and literally billions of dollars poured into restoration efforts in the northwest for salmon and steelhead. Sad to see, but I don't think they'll ever come back in significant numbers.

Same reason there is a Starbucks on every corner in Seattle. From a latitude perspective it is pretty far north, makes for some short days in the winter. I liked it, could be out on the river for winter steelhead at 0730 for first light.

Nice one!

Big halibut are another one, it's like lifting a horizontal piece of 3/4" plywood off the bottom, then you make some progress and the plywood swims back to the bottom. In 300 FOW.

That's some great fishing!

If you want to have just about a guarantee on an 8 foot sturgeon or bigger, sign up for one of those Hell's Canyon guided trips. They catch the same fish over and over, they even have them named. They aren't very bright. Had to laugh at Rick's post, knew some guys that went on one of those giant sturgeon trips, they caught one, the first guy that hooked it got so tired of fighting it he had to hand the rod off to one of his buddies.

Fished with a buddy of mine that I haven't fished with for a while, it was fun to catch up on life while fishing. Got to the ramp a bit before 7 and it was still dark, we took our time getting in the water, buzzed over to a gravel point and worked a jerk bait. I had the right one, caught 4 smallies on 4 casts. No big ones, but a couple were over the 15" mark. I was hoping there might be a walleye there, but none there or anywhere else that we could catch. We worked the trees back in Indian creek for a bass here and there, then came back out and went into one of the coves in the main basin. Pulled up on one bank and we could see dark shadows in the water which were some shad schools that were up close to the bank. We caught several bass around them on Ned rigs, couple of them were decent 2.5 lb. largemouth. You would think those fish would've eaten a small swim bait or a jerk bait, but they only wanted that Ned. We left about 1:30 with a couple dozen bass caught, maybe a half dozen were keepers. WT 47-49.

Well I held my nose and watched it. Charlie's side kick (can't remember his name) hasn't been on this year and appears to have been replaced by Charlie's son. Hasn't made it any better. I don't know how that show keeps going on. They did catch fish, they had a couple of young guns as guests that were glued to the FFS screen, throwing Damiki rigs or something like that.

That is a nice spot!

I remember seeing in the paper when the Arkansas record was caught out of Beaver maybe 10 years ago or so. It was over 100, guy caught it fishing for something else, one of those accidental snagging deals.

That's a studly trout that got off, would've liked to see you get it.

What's up with the hatchet looking thing in the lower right corner? Hopefully they did not remove it from someone's forehead.

Since we had a topic on this, skimming through the guide I see that Fishing U. is doing a show on O.H. 1130 AM on the Outdoor channel tomorrow and probably a few more times during the week. I can hardly stand watching Fishing U. but will try and suffer through this one mainly to see the lake and how it fishes.

That is pretty good. I have fished Sardis a couple of times but never Grenada. It is amazing how many crappie those lakes kick out considering how hard they get fished.

My house is built on a slope with a fairly open crawl pace underneath, back end is high enough to stand up in and it is a good place to store stuff. Termite inspector was in there last fall, he said there are a lot of "cave spiders" in there. I would've preferred he just kept that to himself as I never see them and was better off not knowing.

I hate it when you guys talk up a lure. Never have fished a hula grub, now I have some on order...

That dramatic weather moves from west to east. It has been crazy around here.

Sorry to hear that Randy.

I can only judge a fish in a photo if they have been long-armed, 😄 but I'll go 6 lbs.

Heck they don't start until Sunday. For some reason I thought it was today. Oh well, I have some tackle to organize.

Welcome buddy, good to see a young fisherman on here. Keep us updated on your fishing endeavors, and best of luck to you!

Couple of inches here, but not sticking to the roads, however lows in the teens tonight so might be some ice issues tomorrow AM on the roads. Supposed to hit 60 Sunday, so hopefully by Monday this snow will be a bad memory.

Little Sugar creek has quite a bit of access around the park at lake Bella Vista (Lake BV is drained BTW). There is a walking tail that you can use to access quite a bit of the creek. The bass run a little small, but still fun on light tackle. White river above Beaver has some bank fishing, I never have done it, but when the white bass, stripes, and walleye are running you can get into some fish, but don't expect solitude. Beaver lake around the Indian creek and Dam Site COE parks has bank to fish, I do that every once in a while and I can usually wrangle up a smallmouth or two, last year saw a guy catch a 15 lb. striper off the bank by the dam.

That Share Lunker program is a double edged sword.

I was searching to see if I could find something on the Mountain Home hospital ER where they have a display (so I am told) of lures they have removed from fishermen over the years, could not find anything, but found this story of a NY hospital that does have one. Painfully hooked: Adirondack hospital fishing lure display is no joke - newyorkupstate.com