Quillback

That's pretty neat, it will be interesting to see how the tiger trout thing works out. Seems that I heard that they are aggressive eaters which could lead to fast growth, but have the downside of getting caught frequently and ending up in a frying pan.

Couple of days ago a buddy of mine was putting his boat on the trailer at a neighborhood ramp, around the corner comes a wake boat, 20 feet away or something like that, buddy didn't have time to do anything before the waves washed over the back and into the cockpit. And in oblivious bliss the boaters just kept on going down the bank.

https://kfor.com/news/local/151-9-pound-world-record-paddle-fish-caught-in-oklahoma/

In 89 or 88, I was in San Jose CA for work, one of the guys that was local invited us over to watch a Tyson fight on PPV. We all chipped in $5 or something like that to pay for the PPV, something like 20 people at the house for the fight. Watched the preliminary fights, finally Tyson steps into the ring and it was one of those fights were Tyson put the guy down in the first round.

I wonder what he was throwing? I don't think I have ever seen him with a drop shot or any spinning stuff.

Saw a preview of some Tyson vs Sharks show that is supposed to air on NGC this week for shark week. Dude was still in good shape for sure. He can be funny too, such a 180 from where he was back when he was king of the ring.

Throw enough mud at the wall and something will stick.

Buddy of mine got cited by the PD for violating the no-wake rule in the Prairie Creek area on Beaver. I believe it was the Benton County PD. They have a 'navy' couple of jet-skis and a couple of other boats. He took it to court as the Arkansas law on no-wake has nothing to do with wakes, it is speed must below 5 MPH in a no wake zone. My buddy beat it as the cop didn't show in court and the ticket made no mention of speed. The judge himself admitted that he did not know about the no-wake law being 5 MPH.

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Yes it was a decent one. Had one on yesterday that jumped halfway back to the boat that I think was a better one than that one.

They are going to have live coverage of all 4 days on ESPN2. Starting at 0730 CT Thursday. I like it because I can DVR it, as opposed to watching the live web coverage.

Be happy to take you out chasing them anytime. I never have fished for them this time of year so I don't know if this is just a fluke to get on them now, or a seasonal pattern. Usually once the top water bite slows down around early June, I'm done with them until it cools down in the fall.

I can't say for sure, but maybe 10 feet down? Had a lot of line out, 100 feet or so, 1/4 oz head, GPS said I was trolling about 1.5 MPH, but I think I was moving a little faster than that. 15 lb. braid and an 8 lb. leader.

Returned to Indian this morning, the fish were not as active as far as chasing shad, didn't have much to cast at so I started dragging the keitech around using the trolling motor, caught 4 stripers trolling, biggest was around 5 lbs, the other three were in the 2-4 lb. range. Same guide that was in the area yesterday was close by again today, saw them boat a couple dragging bait.

That's definitely a whole lotta striper!

Got there at first light again today, as I was walking down to the boat, saw a striper about a long cast away from the dock, knock a few shad in the air. Would've dropped the TM and made a few casts but there was a guide boat maybe 50 yards away from it when it came up and they were on it. Motored about a 1/4 mile away and started fishing. Stripers and black bass would come up on top chasing shad, no schooling action and pretty scattered but it lets you know they are in the area, along with some shad. Spend the morning throwing a 3.3 Keitech on a 1/4 oz head. If I had one come on top I'd cast at it, otherwise I would fan cast around the boat, moving a little every once in a while on the TM. I caught 3 stripers and a couple of smallmouth. Saw the guide boat one (they were pulling bait) and lose another. 2 of my stripers were in the 3-4 lb. range, however the last one I caught went a little over 10 lbs. I fished a gravel point and decided to move over to the other point across the cove. Rather than fire up the big motor, I ran on the TM and slowly trolled the Keitech. Had a little bump, didn't think much of it, moved about 20 feet and that striper hit that thing and just about pulled the rod out of my hands. So the boat was going forward, the striper going the other way, drag was just singing and before I could get turned around, my 50 yards of braid and leader where gone and I was into the backing. Made me a little nervous as I don't spend much time testing the backing to leader knot as this setup I primarily use for black bass and no bass is going to pull 50 yards of braid on me. Well I was able to catch up to the fish and get back some braid on the spool. Just as I did that fish got hung on something, don't know what it was but it felt like a piece of line, had some give to it, well all of a sudden I felt a little thunk, the line went weightless just like it does when you break off, so feeling somewhat dejected I started reeling in my line, the slack came out and the fish as still on. at this point the fish was done, came to the boat, laid on it's side, and I slid it into my somewhat inadequate net for a fish this size. I did keep this one as I doubt it would've survived. This guy was on the water before me: So top picture is one that's 10 lbs.. Next pic is one of the 3-3.5 lb. fish I caught, but they both look the same - bad camera work. And my best smallmouth:

Yeah I can't justify having one unless I found one at a garage sale for $20.

OK guys that judges have made a unanimous decision, Aarchdale takes the plaque with his 19+" bass! Congrats! I will notify Phil that you have won, you will need to PM him with your address so he can send you the plaque.

There's a cove not far from point 23 that was really good this spring for swimming a Keitech. However, someone on a dock had a local radio station playing and it was LOUD. Had a buddy that was in there one day and talked to the guy that was in charge of the radio and he said it was to keep the otters away. I know of two other docks near Big M that have radios playing 24/7. Hard to find a quiet lake around here.

I took a gander at it through the binos yesterday AM before it got light. It is in the NE in the AM. This is one of those times I wish I had a telescope.