Quillback

I like Andy's idea of a 3 fish limit ands weigh in, it would be an individual limit, not a boat limit and we could also do big fish. We'll have to get someone to volunteer to be the weighmaster and keep track of the weights. I think we should hold the weigh-in and get together at Aunts Creek, the campground will be closed and I am told it is a good ramp to launch from should anyone choose to launch from there. I've never been there so I'm assuming it will work out for us.

Man I'd be happy to fish with you, but if this is mid-lake then I have to bring my dog, he's not a good boat dog so I won't be bringing my boat.

Here's my thoughts about a tournament: We could do a launch anywhere, meet at a Corps park for a weigh-in and some social time with food, most likely burgers and dogs. Tourney entry fee $20 per person (youngsters under 15 can fish for free), fees to be donated to charity - my suggestion would be Christian Action Ministries - CAM is a charity that feeds the needy in the local community and if Phil is able to make it, we can hand him the envelope with the money, makes things easy. The money would be donated under Bo's name. However if Bo had a favorite charity that we could make the donation to, that would be fine. I would suggest we have the post tourney get together at a mid-lake location. After doing a little research, I see that Aunts Creek has a pavilion, and the campground closes on Sept. 15. (more about the date in a bit). Campbell Point also has a pavilion but campground does not close until Oct. 31. I don't know much about the mid lake to lower end parks so if someone has a better suggestion for location that would be great. Dates - I would think we would want to wait until the weather has cooled down for a lot of reasons - less rec traffic, better on the fish that are in the live well, more comfortable fishing. So, I'd propose Saturday Oct. 16 or Saturday Oct. 23. Don't want to push the date into November because then it will interfere with the folks that deer hunt. Participating in the tourney is not mandatory, if you want to show up just for the dogs and burgers get together that is fine also. You can also fish for anything you want too, you don't have to participate in the bass tourney. Bass tourney would be one bass format, biggest black bass wins the plaque. Open to any suggestions, just wanted to put something on the wall to get the ball rolling.

I used to fish the drop shot quite a bit, but not so much lately. My 2 cents on the time of day thing is that early in the morning I tend to fish other stuff like top water, jigs, etc. then once that stuff slows down I may start to look around for drop shot fish. But even if I find some, I agree with you that it does slow down, especially in the summer as the day goes on. Doesn't help that the pleasure boats get fired up later in the morning too and that will run me off.

Beaver has been decent for walleye, just checked my notes, I made 5 trips to the Indian Creek area between May 1 and June 15. Caught 5 keeper sized walleye, had 2 days where I caught 2, and one day with one. This was incidental to smallmouth fishing, I was throwing Keitechs which seem to be a good walleye bait, and it will pick up those perky smallmouth.

Have not seen many road kill dillos around here this year.

Good eats there. You'd think there could be some really big walleye living in Taney chowing down on stocker rainbows.

Flatheads love them.

Supposedly this was outside of a BK in the Seattle area.

OK Marty, here ya go, aerial trout stocking in Utah. I bet these lakes are worth fishing.

I would never have thought anyone could get one of those silversides on a hook and line. One of the smaller lakes here in Bella Vista has a pretty solid population of them, the bass will feed on them over open water but it is hard to get those bass interested in anything when the are targeting those silversides. Streamer would be a good thing I bet.

Sorry to hear of Bo's passing. I'll always remember him as someone who was an innovator and creator of unique lures for bass fishing. When you look at one of Bo's lures you are looking at something special and unique. I went fishing on Table Rock this morning, made it a point to fish a NuTech jig. Caught several.

Will do, keeping him in my thoughts.

I was blocked from reading the entire article, but it looked to be promoting market hunting for deer. That's going to be a hard sell.

Man I flubbed this one. That darned Zaldain, if I pick him, he stinks, when I don't, as in this tourney on Champlain, he does great.

Lilley's Landing is on Taneycomo which is primarily a cold water trout fishery. Taneycomo is a great place to trout fish and the fishing has been good this year with some quality fish being caught. There are warm water species in Taney including crappie, but I don't know that it supports a lot of fish. You can rent a boat at Lilley's and they are very helpful as far as pointing you in the right direction. If I was in the Branson area to fish for panfish, I would go after bluegill in Table Rock, drop shot with a crawler chunk or crickets, the big gills are probably going to be deep, 20-30 feet and schooled up, finding them is the challenge, but once found you can catch some good eating sized fish. I don't know of anywhere that rents boats, so you'll need to do some research there and you're going to want a boat. There's bank access on Table Rock, primarily on the Corps parks, if you're banking it, you'll have to work for some fish, but you can at least get out and do some fishing.

Went to a Kansas concert when I was in Germany. 2nd row right in front of the stage. Their music sounded exactly like their studio recordings, because that was what was playing over the sound system. Towards the end they actually stopped their fake playing for a bit and stood there while the music played on. Since then I have not liked their music, bunch of fakers!

Blast from the past - Hai Karate commercial.

Cuda makes a pair of what they call "braid shears", basically modified scissors for about $7. Good, inexpensive stuff. I have two pair for over a year now and they are still cutting braid. Tried the Rapala braid scissors, they are cheap, but after a month or two of use would not cut braid.

No experience, but that is a neat canoe, good luck!

Where did you get that calcium nitrate? Your garden looks great BTW!

Safeway grocery stores in the Seattle area had prepared Chinese food in the deli area. Believe it or not, they had the best General Tso's chicken I have ever had. Little Chinese take out joint down the road from me has decent General's Chicken, but still have yet to find an equal to Safeway. Next time I am up in Springfield I'll have to try Ichiban.

I put on mono backing then maybe 100 yards of braid. Main reason I do that is the braid I use is a lot more expensive than cheap mono. Braid, especially light braid less than 15 lb. test or so is also very thin diameter, so if you fill a spool with braid it can take a lot of it. With all that said, I don't know what Spider Wire costs.

That is pretty neat, good to see people catching them! So Bill, what do you think is the reason the fish are getting bigger on average? Is it more water being released with TR being so high the last few years?

Yes sir, and I agree, very tasty. Prolific too.