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Quote from Classic winner Hank Cherry - Now, I think there is a bit of sponsor driven salesmanship going on here, but it does sound realistic. “Thanks to the Garmin ECHOMAP Ultras with the Panoptix up front, I could see really good mapping so it was easy to see the indentions and the out spots on the causeway. With LiveScope, I could actually follow the herds of gizzard shad and I could tell when I would see a fish if it was going to bite or not,” said Cherry. “There were several key fish that I caught that I saw coming to get the bait because it’s happening right there in live action. If you do not have Garmin LiveScope, you are definitely missing out. It was a huge part of my championship run.”

I imagine the electronics makers would fight hard against some kind of ban on Panoptics type finders in the tourneys, especially in the big ones. Interesting read from Blaukat on this subject: https://www.bassmaster.com/randy-blaukat/lets-not-lose-mystery

Yeah gone at the local Walmart here too. Same with hand sanitizer to include any liquid hand soap. Hardly any canned tuna left either.

Curious about the Livescope view. Is that a dock cable, that fuzzy diagonal line? Are those blob like things above the cable in the upper left crappie?

82 today, be lucky to see 52 air temp Saturday.

SEC just cancelled the rest of the hoops tourney. Just got an email from BPS announcing the annual Classic sale. I'm wondering if that will still go on.

Makes me wonder when things will reopen. This virus will be around for a while. I don't know that the authorities making these shutdown decisions know the answer as to what conditions mark a return to normal.

Fished Tuesday and Wednesday this week. Tuesday fished the upper White on areas on both sides of the 86 bridge in Tom from Eagle Rock's boat. It was tough fishing. Early we caught a couple of keepers throwing jerkbaits on points, Tom caught a 3.5 smallie on a JB that would be the biggest fish we boated. I caught a spot that I didn't weigh, but I bet it was 2.5lbs. But that was it for our JB fish. I fished the Ned quite a bit, caught one keeper smallie and a few short fish. Fished a lot of good looking locations that should've been holding fish, but there just don't seem to be many of them around in that area. Tom got a couple of nice keeper largemouth on a crank on one short stretch of bank. I think we finished up with 16 bass, 5 being keepers. Wednesday I went solo and fished between point 23 and 25. The bite was a little better on the Ned, first fish I caught was a 3 3/4 lb. smallie and that was the big fish for the day for me. Caught 20 total, 5 being keepers. The Ned fish were fairly deep when I started which was late morning as I waited for the storms to clear out before I left the house. Later in the afternoon there was a rush to the bank of smaller fish and I caught some of those dudes in 5 -10 FOW. Not much in the way of shad activity going on in that area. No gulls, no loons. Surface temp was 52 in the main channel in the afternoon, someone told me they saw 54 back in a cove in shallow. First one Wednesday: Last fish of the day - chartreuse head strikes again! And a really fat spot:

Yep, good for him. I always thought, when looking at state records, that there are certainly some that could be broken if a person sets their mind to it.

It is going to be weird watching the NCAA's playing in empty stadiums. Maybe they'll do canned crowd noise, kind of like a laugh track on a TV comedy show. Masters is not that far away, wonder if they'll ban fans from that too.

Congrats to the wife, nice fish!

That's interesting, eventually someone will break it on social media who this guy is.

Glad to see you can make it. I can't think of anything off the top of my head we need, RPS may think of something. Any snack stuff that anyone brings usually will get eaten, and if you have leftovers you can take them home.

According to Basstrak, Cherry now has an 8 lb. lead. It will be tough for anyone to catch him, it could happen, but someone will have to get a few really big fish.

Looks like they are running water, my guess is they are going to try and take it down to 1120.

Looks like the numbers have stabilized in China.

Haven't watched any live coverage, didn't have any time, but might catch some today. Cobb killed me finishing 50th, I really expected him to do well. I do have 3 guys fishing today, but only one, Lester, has a shot at winning.

You can start wherever.

Well thanks for the report, it sure is fun to catch them on the SB, too bad those suckers wouldn't still bite it on tourney day! I remember several years ago there was an FLW tourney on Beaver and Jimmy Houston was in contention the first two days catching them on a spinner bait, 3rd day it slowed down for him, but he still made the cut, and then on day 4 that bite went away on him too.

HA!, He'll never fess up to the hot color. And if he does mention one, it's probably a decoy. 😀

Better than we did, myself and Tom from Eagle Rock launched at dawn and got off the water about the time you started. We found a few bites early on the Ned rig, and it was one of those mornings where we could get a lot of bites but had trouble hooking them. I think we ended up with 16 between the 2 of us and 3 of those were keepers, probably missed 20 bites at least. The ones we caught were in 15-40 FOW, we didn't try back in any of the coves. When that wind started up we fished it for a bit and said the heck with it.

I haven't been fishing Beaver lately, 2 years ago the smallmouth fishing was really good down by the dam. Thought I was on to something, but haven't been able to get them like I did then, so I just have been going over to Table Rock or fishing the Bella Vista lakes. I do like to fish Beaver when the stripers are hitting top waters which usually starts in May. I do plan to get out on Indian creek sometime in the near future, I'll give a report, good or bad.

Thanks for the write up Bill - I feel like I was out on the lake with you watching you set it up and fish it!

I lived in Weymouth MA, while working and going to school. Had a pretty busy life at the time, but when I had time I would go down to the Cape and fish Mashpee-Wakeby. In the summer I would fish a black Jitterbug at night, wet wading, and had some nights where I just killed the smallies. That was fun. I believe the pressure has increased since then, but I'm sure it is still pretty good fishing.