Quillback

I've tried a lot of Elaztech stuff and I can't find anything that consistently beats the cut Zinker. Salt content is important to me also, give me a salty Zinker that I can turn into a piece of foam and I am happy.

Nice, man I love eating crabs.

Never ate one. May have to try one sometime. I'm thinking the poor man's lobster deal, especially if they have a chewy texture.

That's interesting - I wonder what they'll do about all the seasonal workers that come up there to process salmon in the summer? Workers come from all over and work in places that are a lot like meat processing facilities. I don't see how you can quarantine people coming in to fish, but not quarantine people coming in to work. If anything, it should be the other way around.

Some little brussels sprouts are starting to emerge on the plants, broccoli still chugging along. This lousy weather has been good for those plants.

I believe I remember that was mainly the point, that being around animals did the trick, it wasn't about rolling around in the dirt or drinking bad water.

Same here, plus the early ones are the best, later on the plants get wilt, horn worms show up, tomatoes start cracking, it's all bad after about the end of July.

I'm all righty with reels, I don't even think about it. I could use a lefty bait caster, but I would have to use them all the time, I could not have a couple of lefties on the deck and a couple of righties.

There was a study done in Europe somewhere (I saw it on PBS so it has to be true!), that farm kids had better immune systems and were less likely to develop allergies than city kids living in 'clean' conditions. I believe that to be true myself. However I will do what I can to try and not get Covid. Not that I am fretting about it, but don't want to catch it to see how well my immune system reacts.

Sights like that would keep me away too, used to fish the lower Columbia for sturgeon, but never saw any jumping trees. Columbia seems kind of tame compared to what you guys have seen on the MO.

By myself, I'd probably ,launch at Hickory creek on that end of the lake. Bob Kidd is definitely worth fishing, been a few years since I've fished it, but it holds a decent number of bass and supposedly has a good population of redear. I have never fished lake Elmdale, (somewhere west of Fayetteville) but remember seeing something from AGFC where they said there are TOO MANY BASS in that lake, and they were recommending people keep them. I'm pretty sure there is an AGFC launch there with courtesy dock. I always recommend a recon mission to check things out before towing the boat in. Might want to look into getting an Oklahoma license, Tenkiller and Hudson aren't too terribly far from Fayetteville. There's also Lake Fort Smith, very scenic lake, has a reputation for being tough to fish, but so does Beaver.

Welcome, I live in Bella Vista myself and coincidentally just happened to fish Windsor this morning. Bass are biting as you know. I'll keep an eye out for you, and I'm in a silver/black 19 foot Phoenix. I don't tourney fish but there's a couple of bass clubs that fish the BV lakes and have tourneys - maybe you know all about them, but if not I have some contact info.

Teachers can make or break a course. Good ones that can communicate and have a passion for what they are doing can make a course interesting and fun.

Yes, I am hoping this is the end of 50 degree 'highs' for a few months. This time of year a guy should be able to step out onto his boat wearing nothing but flip-flops and a Speedo and be comfortable all day.

Probably a good time to lock in on propane, assuming the price had dropped like gas has.

Great advice Mr. Babler. Fishing with my buddy Ken last week and he was telling me about a couple of big fish his wife hooked on a Keitech off a gravel point on Beaver. She was doing just what you said above, letting it fall to bottom and dragging it slooowwwwlly along. Said she lost a really big bass at the boat and a really nice walleye, mostly due to the fact that she has little fishing experience and tried to lift them straight out of the water.

No it's not a hair style. Didn't know these existed, but I'm sure John has it on his target list. 😄 @Johnsfolly Samuel Yarberry, of Bryant, was bowfishing on Morgan Point Bendaway Lake near Pendleton, Arkansas (Desha County) on March 27th when he shot a state record Striped Mullet. The fish weighed 5 lbs., 6 oz. Striped Mullet are not a common species in Arkansas. Striped Mullet require saltwater to reproduce; however, both adults and juveniles can migrate and survive freshwater. Mr. Yarberry's record Striped Mullet that was shot in Morgan Point Bendaway Lake (an Arkansas River oxbow) likely migrated from the Gulf of Mexico through the Mississippi and Arkansas River systems. To find out current state fish records, visit the State Fishing Records page.

Not to mention they'll stick you and they'll bounce around in the boat waving those treble hooks. When they are on top, I 'll catch a few as it is fun, but after about 6 of them I'm ready to go back to trying to catch black bass.

I can eat them, but not my favorite. Great fish to catch on top, explosive strikes, hard fights.

A bishop advertises a job to ring the bell in his tower. The only job applicant is a hunchback with no arms. Bishop: "How can you do the job? You can't pull the rope!" Hunchback: "I have a plan - but we have to go to the top of the tower, where the bell is." .. So they climb all those stairs to the top of the tower. Bishop: "Ok, show me your plan." The hunchback runs and jumps at the bell, striking it with his head. Sure enough, he rings the bell. The bishop asks him, "How did you learn to ring the bell like this?" The hunchback replies, "Actually, I first learned on the guitar," and walks over to a guitar on the wall and starts banging his head on it, and Lo! Beautiful music comes out. So despite his misgivings, the bishop hired the hunchback to ring the bell. Every day the hunchback comes in and rings the bell. One day, the hunchback decides to try to ring the bell louder. He goes to the farthest corner of the tower, and runs as fast as he can toward the bell. When he jumps up and hits it with his head, the bell rings clear and loud. Unfortunately, the hunchback hit the bell so hard he's a little groggy. He staggers around a bit, and falls out a window to the street below. A crowd gathers around the hunchback's mangled body lying in the street; the bishop goes out to investigate the commotion. The policeman arrives and again asks: "Who is this guy?" The bishop replies: "I don't know his name, but his face rings a bell." The policeman then asks if the bishop can tell him anything about the hunchback. The bishop replies, "Not much, but he could play a guitar just like a ringing a bell." The next day, a man (who has arms) arrives, claiming to be the hunchbacks brother. "Hi, I've come to take over my brother's job." The bishop offers his condolences for the loss of his brother, and then escorts him to the tower. "Your brother used to ring the bell with his face," said the Bishop. "Will you do that, too, or will you use your arms?" The hunchback's brother replies "If my brother can ring it with his face, so can I!" So saying, he runs full bore at the bell, glances off it with his face, falls out the window and to his death in the street below. The bishop rushes down to see what he can do for the poor man. A crowd gathers. A policeman arrives and asks the bishop "Do you know who this man is?" The bishop replies, "No, but he's a dead ringer for his brother."

Well if this is going to turn into a bad jokes thread, I have a contribution. A man with a harelip walks into a bar. The bar tender has a wooden eye. Man walks up to the bar, bar tender asks him if he'd like a drink. The man says: "Would I, would I!" Bartender says: "Harelip, harelip!"

Well a person has to want to learn. You could drift through college back in my day too, lots of easy course schedules to take. I remember taking electives like 'Art History' and the 'History of Boston'. They were interesting courses, but piece of cake compared to Calculus or Physics. And in the end I never used any of that math or physics in my job in the telecom world, but that degree helped me get into a good career.

They sell rolls of nylon netting at Lowes, kind of a monofilament type stuff. I wrap it (loosely) around the tomato cages. It works fine for deterring critters like squirrels and deer.

Had a wood stove when I lived in Washington state, had gas heat so the wood stove was a supplement to the gas. I'd probably burn anywhere from 2-4 cords every year. Did that for close to 20 years. Cut, split, hauled, and stacked it all myself. I liked it, great exercise and love hearing that wood pop in the stove. I could just about blow myself out of my little house it would get so hot. I burned fir, hemlock, western cedar, and alder, not much hardwood out there. Nice thing about fir and hemlock is that it is very straight grained and splits pretty easily, didn't need a log splitter or a maul, split it all with an axe. Alder and western cedar when aged is almost as light as balsa, burns hot and fast, works real well for a fire starter. But I don't have a wood stove now, have one of those gas fireplaces. I am happy with that now.

No fishing for me today either, thought about hitting one of the local BV lakes, but it's May 10th and in the upper 40's with some precip. The heck with that!