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Colors are wild on that fish!

You chose wisely. Yeah who knows, I hope to get out next week.

What a difference between yesterday and today. My buddy Ken from Neosho joined me this morning and it was a bust compared to yesterday. The stripers appeared to have left town. We caught one 18" striper, had a couple of striper sized blowups and besides catching a few black bass that was all. I'm blaming it on the east wind. Lots of boats out there today and no one appeared to be doing well. Might check in on them next week after the weekend.

Back in Indian might not be a bad idea after the rain hits. When we get a good rain here in Bella Vista and the water is coming in high and muddy out of the creeks, there is always a couple of guys fishing for cats at the creek mouths. They usually catch them too.

Flood watch issued: ⛈️☂️ Multiple periods of heavy rainfall will accumulate across portions of eastern Oklahoma and northwest Arkansas Friday through next Monday. Total rainfall accumulations of 4 to 6 inches with isolated amounts of 8 to 10 inches are forecast. Expect both flash flooding and mainstem river flooding to develop with these rainfall amounts. - http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood

Caught 3 stripers on a Surge Shad slowly rolled on top. They were in the area and feeding. Pretty easy to spot them when the water is calm and they are blowing up. Kept them today and they are now filleted and in the fridge/freezer. I think I'll have fish tacos tomorrow. Caught a few smallmouth on jigs before I left about 0830. I'm whipped, time for a nap.

Hey Devan - When I came back to the Indian Creek ramp this morning, I talked to a guy that ran a trotline last night I believe close to the ramp. He said he had caught 9 cats, 2 were flathead. Said it was the first time he'd run a trotline in 35 years. There is lots of shad and stripers right outside the ramp, might be a good place to try your catfishing, my guess is those cats come in at night to feed on the shad. I would not go very deep either, I'd fish in 20 feet or less.

Ugh...

I caught my annual Table Rock trout today. Seems I average about one a year while bass fishing. There is a story to it. I fished for trout and salmon a lot when I lived in the Pacific Northwest. Trolled for them quite a bit in the lakes and in Puget Sound. Very common to troll for those species using what are called flashers or dodgers which are flat pieces of metal, that usually have some sort of bend or curve in them, coming though the water they will wobble and turn side to side. You tied a leader to the flasher or dodger, then on the other end of the leader you can tie something like a spoon or fly. The dodger/flasher imparts a herky-jerky motion to the lure and trout and salmon will hit the lure. The flasher or dodger also sends out a mettalic flash that looks like a fish feeding. It is thought the flasher/dodger attracts fish thinking there's some feeding going on and then they see the lure and bite it. Anyway I mention this because today I was fishing a Carolina rig and I snagged a what looked to be a flattened beer can or soda can on the sliding sinker. I'm bringing it in, the can is sort of wobbling through the water, reflecting the sun, and I get it about 15 feet from the boat and a trout grabs the craw I was using on the C-rig. Nice trout around 15 inches. Can't believe how flukey it was to get a trout in Table Rock with a beer-can flasher. You spend enough time fishing and flukey stuff happens. The bass fishing was a little slow for this time of year. I caught a little over 20, with 2 keepers. I caught some on the edge of the bushes with a 3/8 oz jig. A few on gravel with the c-rigged craw. 10 or so out deep, over 40-50 FOW on a 3.3 Keitech. Did not see much top water activity in spite of shad being up top. Water is brownish with 2 feet or so of viz. WT 71,

Pretty much what we got here, lots of lightning and rain, local news is reporting some twisters south of here and in OK did some damage.

You guys did well, I have not been over there in a while, good to hear they are biting! Thanks for the info on the Eagle Eye.

Tornadoes, large hail, high winds, and if anything is left standing, flooding will wash it away. The forecast for today is pretty grim.

Have not seen one here so far this year. That would be no fun if riding a motorcycle.

Love those colors!

Nice rib diagram on this link. A lot of what seems to be rib bone is cartilage. The pop could have been the sound of cartilage separating from bone. Rib Cartilage Injury - Masnad Health Clinic

Never have busted one. Probably depends on the severity of the break. And do you know that it is a bone fracture? Based on how you injured it, it sounds more like some kind of rib cartilage damage.

Article states he had $20 from the robbery and he left his pistol and hat at the scene. He was found guilty at the inquest, no trial as he was lynched after the inquest.

Royals need another bat in the lineup for sure.

That's pretty neat. I need to go see a Northwest Arkansas Naturals game one of these days. They are the Royals AA team.

There was a double murder in Shell Knob in 1869. The book mentions it but says nothing about the murderer. He was found guilty, and the next day taken out of the jail by the locals and hanged outside the Courthouse in Cassville. Here's a link to the story: Jackson Carney's Murder, Barry Co., MO

Just got my copy of Buried by Table Rock Lake by Tom Koob, a little history from the book: Shell Knob was first established as a homestead in 1835 by Henry and Elizabeth Schell, near the base of Shell Knob Mountain. When a Post Office was established in 1872, the "C" was dropped from the name.

That's some good fishing, congrats!

Launched about 0545 and fished until 1030. Real busy at the launch early, stripers are in the area and folks are showing up to chase them. Had a good early topwater bite, caught some smallmouth and a small striper. Missed a couple of big striper blowups, I forgot to remind myself to not set the hook until you feel them grab it. I pulled it away from a couple of them. Top water bite ended soon, the shad were up early, and the bass were chasing them, but about an hour of daylight put the shad down and away went the top water bite. There was a bright full moon and that may have had something to do with it. Broke out the little jig and picked up some smallmouth here and there until about 9 AM and then they just shut down, Only caught one between 0900 and 1030 and decided it was time to hit the road. WT 68

I miss playing hoops, knee replacement put the kibosh on that. Glad you folks had a good time!