Quillback

Well here are my last beans for the year from my August planting. Supposed to be a hard freeze tonight. Getting tired of the darn things anyway.

Are you asking about the tailwater below Beaver dam? The border permit does not cover the water from the dam to the Houseman access.

Yeah I knew it wasn't you.

I went and looked at the MLF webpage and the jersey he was wearing looks like the one the refs wear.

Dodgers out, many had picked them to win it all. Would love to see TB beat Houston tonight. Could end up with a Cards/Yankees series.

I roll into Big M at about 0645 and there's a truck by the ramp. There's a guy there outside his truck, and he's wearing a jersey, except it looks like one of those MLF referee jerseys- has black and white striped sleeves. Anyway he made a few casts then drove over to the other side of the park and went fishing on the bank over there. Nothing wrong with jerseys or fishing off the bank, but seeing someone in the refs jersey wasn't something I have ever seen except on TV. I got the boat in the water and got out of there pretty fast, didn't want to get a 2 minute penalty. But the fishing was pretty good today - got a lot of bites, had a problem converting those bites into fish in the boat but I bet I had at least 50 bites and out of all those bites I only managed to boat 15 of them. I had a good smallmouth on a Whopper Plopper that threw the Plopper right next to the boat. Had another keeper sized smallie get off a crank, and to add insult to injury, a spot then grabbed the crank and it got off too! Lost another good smallie on a shaky head. Shaky head was the best bait for me today, 6 inch Roboworm on a 1/8 oz head. Got a couple on the plopper, a couple of drop shot fish, and a couple on a crank. Didn't find many drop shot fish today, there were a couple out there, but couldn't find them like last week. Most of my bites were in 5-15 FOW, and the best banks had wind on them. Steep banks and rocky points with wind were good today. Saw a bass boat out there today off the bank on a flat, looked to be drop shot fishing. 5 guys in the boat. I am thinking it could've been a guide with 4 clients. Surface temp 73. Air temp was 41 when I launched!

I used to watch them on Ebay, but lately haven't paid much attention. The original Wiggle Warts will get the most money, Mag Warts don't seem to bring as much. Locally, there is demand for craw colors which I don't see a lot of in your collection. I'd say watch Warts on Ebay in the colors that you have and see what they go for.

Little Sugar creek is out of its banks and is an angry brown in color.

Raining hard right now at my house, very little wind so these clouds don't move much and are dumping water. There was a break in the rain about 9 AM, so I took the dog for a walk - I thought the rain was about over then, but I was wrong. Looks like Beaver is already up about 8 inches.

Ya'll did well. Looks like a log perch, but I am probably wrong. JF would know. @Johnsfolly

Riley's Station rents boats, don't know if they are Shawnees however.

Well it won't be the same without you, so you'll just have to make it.

Sounds good - pulled pork is good for lunch too! I'll get a food thread going as we get closer.

OK, it appears the weekend of Dec. 14 will work for most. Once we get a count, I'll reserve the appropriate accommodations at Rileys. Starting December 12 (Thursday) up to and including Saturday night, December 14. We will take the total cost of the lodging, divide by the number of people staying, and that will be each person's responsibility. Seems like we usually end up around $100-120 each. You can stay all three nights, one night, or two nights but cost will be the same. So reply to this thread if you plan on coming, and if you require lodging. Also if you are bringing a boat and have open seats. If not enough seats, Miles rents boats, $100/day.

I talked to a guy once that did just that, he'd fish off the bank in the early spring during the spawning run and he'd fish at night. He'd fish a live creek chub on the bottom. Said he didn't get many, but he claimed to catch big ones when he got one.

Looking forward to seeing your new boat myself. Didn't know that they have stopped making 2 stroke jets (except the Tohatsu).

Congrats Bassmaster! AOY tourney killed me, picked a couple of guys from Michigan thinking the local guys would do well - NOT!

Well Cody got the ball rolling, the two choices for dates are 12/7 or 12/14. 12/14 looks to be in the lead, so now is your chance to state your preference.

First time out on the Rock since August 6. Launched the boat just as it was getting light and headed down the lake. Spent about the first hour tossing spoons, and top waters at scattered fish chasing shad on top. Could not get a bite. Switched up to jigs and shaky head off a steep bank and still nothing. I was starting to wonder if I was going to get skunked. In desperation, I motored over to a gravel runout where I had caught some last time I was out almost two months ago, threw a c-rigged worm on the point, boat was sitting in 30 FOW, and I noticed some fish showing up on the graph under the boat. I did not have a drop shot setup rigged as I was not planning on fishing the dang thing, but there were the fish and I had not boated one yet. Got set up, dropped it down, and had a spotted bass in about 10 seconds. Spend most of the rest of the morning drop shotting. Caught several off the first spot, then the fish moved out. Bounced around to a few other spots and would pick one up here and there, never was hot fishing, but I would get a bite or two at just about every spot I tried. Didn't see them schooled either except at the first spot I found them. Put a dozen 13-15 inch spots in the boat. There are a lot of shad scattered about and some bass are chasing them out in the channel. I caught my biggest fish, a 2.5 lb. spot on a Whopper Plopper at 9:30 AM out in the channel, a couple of casts later hooked the only smallmouth I saw today on the WP only to see it jump 3 feet out of the water and toss the Plopper. Might have been a 2 lb. fish. They were just too scattered to get a good top water bite going, but maybe the up coming weather change will get them going. A few swimming under the boat.

I'm sure we'll have one, I usually wait until 1st week of October to get things going. I'm thinking more like the weekend of Dec 7. But maybe that is too close to Thanksgiving?

Yeah I would say something MO based.

I'm not a Cards fan, but they are one of the few teams left standing that I can root for, sort of. As for the American League - anybody but the Yankees.

My uncle lives in Collierville TN which is about an hour away from Grenada and I have fished that lake a couple of times with him. We always pull Bandit 300's and always catch fish, and some good ones. It is amazing how those lakes produce crappie. Glad to hear you had a great trip DD. Haven't eaten at any of those places you did, but sure sounds tasty!

Couple of nice eyes!