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I talked to a buddy today that fished the Big M area - he caught 3 keeper walleye but they were at 60 feet on the bottom (spoons). I'll still keep banging my head against the wall, but looking forward to November when things get cold again.

It was a slow one for myself and Dutch this morning, we caught 15 smallmouth and one largie and were off the water at 1030. None of them made the keeper list. Jigs and a few on a c-rigged craw. I'd say most of our fish were in 10-20 FOW. Talked to a striper fisherman that was docking his boat and he had caught a couple of 24" stripers. WT 85.

That would be a good alternative!

Maybe a blessing in disguise, the fun part of stripers is fighting them, you got it the boat, it got off, you don't have to deal with either trying to revive it, or keeping it and dealing with a lot of striper to eat. 😀

Just chased a couple out of mine this morning. New generation is on the way too, all of a sudden there are fawns everywhere.

Congrats!

Trout in Florida? No way!

Those MS lakes are crappie factories. Never needed FFS when I fished them with my uncle.

Thanks for the report, Dutch and I plan to give it a shot Tuesday. Going to be warm according to the forecast so we may be off the water at 1000 ourselves. Fished Windsor yesterday with a buddy, we caught about 20 bass but they were all small, nothing over 14". Dragging C-rigs with Zoom UV Speed craws.

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Welcome!

There's some good redear in Bob Kidd lake too. Scroll down page in link to see pic of 2 lber. (20+) Facebook

One of local interest - Neosho bass. Also adding Florida and Alabama bass. Updating Angling Records to Advance Sport Fish Conservation: A Case Study of IGFA's Black Bass World Records - Taylor - 2024 - Fisheries - Wiley Online Library

I have always wondered if Swepco might have some big gills. There are some nice redears in that lake for sure. Fellow by the name of John Stein that works for the AGFC is a good contact and might be able to provide some panfish info for this area. I believe I remember reading an article from him about the redears in Swepco. He's always answered my questions that I have sent to him. jonathan.stein@agfc.ar.gov

It does make you wonder when it comes to lures. Buzz-baits with a clacker, jitterbugs, in-line spinners, and whopper-ploppers are a few I can think of. Up early today, going over to one of the local lakes to see if I can get a few on one of my of unrealistic lures.

Don't blame us for Bill. Bill strikes me as someone that does what he says he's going to do, I'm hoping he comes back and if I see him on the lake I'll try and get him to return. Come on back Bill!

We've had people pout up and leave, sometimes in a pretty dramatic manner. But they are still here. You may think you can leave, but you can't.

From AGFC: ROGERS — Beaver Lake in Northwest Arkansas has a strong reputation for clear water and excellent bass, crappie and striper fishing, but a string of state records for paddlefish is beginning to put Beaver on the big fish map in regard to another species. Garfield resident and striped bass angler Mike Schleeper inked his name in the record books Saturday morning with a 127-pound, 6-ounce behemoth, squashing the previous state record of 118 pounds, caught by James Johnson in 2020. Schleeper was trolling brooder minnows around 30 feet deep near Point 6 with his good friend and fishing partner Tom Mayberry when the catch occurred. “I’ve been fishing for stripers up here for about 13 years, and I’ve had the chance to catch some stripers over 30 pounds, but this was different,” Schleeper said. “It didn’t strip line and stop in surges like big stripers do, he just sort of pulled the rod down and kept going. I couldn’t turn him so we had to follow him with the trolling motor for about the first 20 minutes.”

I've always thought about that. And there may be sounds that attract them. A diver buddy of mine will sit on the bottom and clack a couple of rocks together, he says that smallmouth will swim up to see what's going on. Seems like I remember a time when the guides on the Bull tailwater would run their outboards circling a pool, maybe throwing a rock or two into the water and it would get the big browns agitated and then they'd bite. I've always thought we assume that noises that would scare us if we were a fish, will scare the fish, but in my experience they may react differently than we assume.

An FFS using buddy of mine has seen the same thing, fished spooked by the TM.

Cicadas - Pffffhhhtttt, they ain't nothing compared to that. Someone was saying the mayflies were so thick they were cleaning the streets with front end loaders and hauling them away in dump trucks.

Anyone pick Prince? Nomolites is crushing it, I see that he is in 30th place in the whole deal. Hope he gets the big prize!

Somebody posted these images on BBC. Says it was after a night of fishing on Pickwick last week. I have never seen anything like it, anybody else?

I can give my eyewitness testimony that they worked well today.

I sure did go through some jig trailers today. Thanks for the trip Dutch!