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I have a couple of pounds of striper chunks I will bring.

I don't like the freezing rain part.

This sign, at the entrance to the launch, cracks me up. The spotted bass bite on the Ned rig was decent, I caught 15 on it, only one largemouth and one very sickly looking smallmouth came on the Ned. Still finding them on steep banks out in 10-25 FOW. I caught another couple of spots on a Nutech spoon, casting it out in the deep water and letting it drop, then working it back, giving it a twitch or two as it dropped. Never saw a whole lot of fish on the graph deep, but did see a few. I think the word on Bo's deep water success is getting out, saw several boats out graphing the depths. WT 51-52. This post has been promoted to an article

I don't get reception there. I know some of the guys connect somehow, one of them who will be there Thursday night can volunteer to text Mreed. OK, we need a volunteer!

Sounds good to me!

The doors should be unlocked, might not be anyone awake if you get in late, I guess you'll just have to look around for a place to sleep. We have the River Lodge and Cedar Gables, should be trucks/boats parked in front of both places.

A note to you guys that are bringing stuff that needs to be refrigerated - bring it in a cooler if you can and it can be kept outside in the cooler (on ice) until needed. Refrigerator was packed last year and we ran out of room in the fridge.

And Toledo Bend is a big lake. I have never fished Lake Fork but I hear it is crazy at times. 2 hours outside of Dallas so it is understandable.

Should be plenty of seats, we can match people to seats Thursday night, and do it again Friday, and Saturday nights.

I can tell you Grand sees equal if not more pressure. Beaver gets quite a bit of pressure but I would call it mostly local pressure except for people traveling in to fish stripers. Funny thing for me personally is that though I have caught far fewer bass on Beaver than I have on Table Rock, I have caught more big bass > 5 lbs. on Beaver, but overall TR fished better than Beaver for black bass for me for numbers, though Beaver has been fishing well the last couple of years. Swepco, which is a warm water power plant lake, gets hammered during the winter, I won't go near that place on a winter weekend day. But it fishes well, has good average size bass. It is a fertile lake and has Florida strain LM's.

I'll check the coffee section at Walmart for it.

There are coffee makes in the lodges. Might want to bring filters and coffee just in case. I'll be bringing some myself because I MUST have coffee in the AM as soon as I wake up. I know Rick is bringing some coffee makings, but I get up early and I MUST have coffee.

So when you batter and fry sculpin fillets and oyster mushrooms together is it possible (after they are cooked) to visually tell one apart from the other? Just wondering in case anyone has allergic reactions to eating sculpin - would not want anyone with that condition to accidently eat a sculpin fillet when they thought they were getting a mushroom.

I believe we have 16 people staying at the lodges and maybe 4 or so that will be with us but staying at home or somewhere else, so I am estimating 20 total.

Well I hope your daughter pulled that poor little feller out of the bigger fishes mouth and let him swim away. 🙂 Just look at the pitiful expression on that little guys face!

I think we have the main courses covered, Thursday chili, Friday fish fry and Saturday whatever Kody decides to cook. Maybe a side dish of some kind, or an appetizer or two. Might not hurt to bring some breakfast snacks like doughnuts or pastries, usually someone cooks something for breakfast, but some of the guys get out early and might want something quick before heading out.

Certainly seeing a lot more pressure on the upper end also.

Nice crappie! That's some really good crappie fishing, congrats!

Stocking records from their website. Do a search on "Kansas walleye stocking" there's several articles on it. https://ksoutdoors.com/Fishing/Fish-Stocking-Records/Walleye

My uncle has a jon boat that he fishes out of when he fishes the White. I've fished out of it a couple of times and it's been fine on the river. I believe it is a 16' boat.

Saw a guy catch a 13 lb. striper on an A-rig a week ago. There were stripers south of the dam from Honey creek to Starkey Hollow a week ago, of course they are always moving, but it's a good place to start looking for them. Look for terns flying and diving and usually you'll see other boats around the fish too. If the wind is not blowing you might be able to spot them feeding on top. Be prepared to move around a lot, until you get on fish. Black bass fishing has been tough for me in the dam area, the few I have caught have been on the Ned rig around clumps of cedars.

All 3 choices sound good to me. I'd say go with whatever one works best for you as far as being the easiest to make.

I think about that myself, only thing I can think of is genetics. We have those long, muscular smallmouth compared to those fat football smallmouth they have up north where 5-6 lb. fish are more common than down here. You'd think we'd have longer growing season than those northern lakes that get ice bound every year for months, so you'd think our fish should get bigger, but they don't. Or maybe there' more groceries in the northern lakes, and those groceries are easier for the fish to catch. so they eat more. Wish 6 lbers were more common here, but I get a kick out of catching the ones we have.

Uh-oh, we may have another convert to Ned fishing. 🙂 Good to see you got some "shallow", shallow in Table Rock terms that is.