Quillback

Wow. didn't know biting gnats were a problem in that part of the world. Never have been bothered by them here or over at Table Rock. There are gnats here, tons of them at times, but they don't bite. P.S. - When you guys come down here to fish, make sure you don't being any of those things with you, don't need yet another invasive species. 😄

Thanks for posting that, those guys always make good videos. I'll check it out once I get some time.

Yeah the bass were definitely swimming with the gar, however I have found that later in the summer and into fall the gar will school up in certain areas and I haven't found bass around them when they do at that time of year. I was at the mouth of the Kings a couple of years ago in the fall, saw top water activity quite a ways away in back of that island near the mouth, I was probably at least 1/2 a mile away and could see the "blow-ups". Hoped it was black bass or maybe a big school of whites. Shot over there and it was nothing but gar and lots of them.

Good luck with the move and best wishes for the future. Look forward to hearing some Skiatook reports. All the water that is now in OK, you may be able to launch your boat at the border and boat all the way to your new location.

HAHA, you know I think if a guy wanted to target them with of those rope yarn lure deals I think you could really whack them right now.

Gar are certainly active now, they're after the shad too. I think I saw more gar on top than bass yesterday. Saw some spoonies jumping too.

It's on the internet - Majorleaguefishing.com.

Seems a strange time to shut it off, maybe it has to do with the flooding in the Arkansas river.

Stuck him right in the very tip of his snout. As far as the perch, I am thinking about bringing some red worms one of these days.

That is something. I would think it has hurt some businesses around the lake too.

I get my 87 ethanol free gas at a place in Garfield AR. Being a suspicious type, I have tested it a couple of times and it has been ethanol free. As long as I can get it, I'll run it in my boat.

Got to the launch at the crack of dawn, couple of other guys came in after me and as I cruised past Emerald Beach, couple of boats were launching there - lots of guys getting out there early. Early is was flat calm, quite a bit of scattered top water activity on shad schools. Seemed to be more shad schools than bass feeding on them and the bass were scattered, some on the bank and some mid channel with some in between those 2 places. I couldn't get much of a top water bite going, got a few, and a few on c-rigged UV Speed Craws. Later in the morning I caught a few on a 3.8 Keitech, a couple came off a dock end that was over 60 FOW and a couple off steep rocky points, never could find any schools of bass for the Keitech, just some scattered fish. Caught a smalls on a crank bait and had a few bites on jigs but never boated any. Wind really got going so I called it a day around 1130. 15 bass total and a few other species. This post has been promoted to an article

It's been a different year this year, thought they were getting going pretty good a couple of weeks ago, but it seems to have fizzled out. Not quite ready to give up on them yet, but it has been discouraging the last couple of times out.

Fished in my buddy Ken's boat today, we launched at Indian at about 0515 looking for striper action. We sure did not find much at all, caught a hybrid that was in the 3-4 lb. range right off the bat and that was the last strike I had. Ken caught a nice spotted bass on a swim bait and I believe that was the only bite he had. We checked a lot of lake from Indian Creek down to point 5 and never saw any top water activity except for a bunch of carp that were in one spot cutting it up. Kind of puzzling, sure looked like a good morning for some top water fish but it did not happen. Surface temp 72.

I don't fish it as much as I used to, but always found it to be effective around docks. In the late summer and fall when top water fish get finnicky it can work for them.

Saw this at Walmart yesterday, thought of a couple of guys on here. @Johnsfolly, @Daryk Campbell Sr

Good point, didn't think of that.

Got to the lake at dawn, looking for top water striper action. Long story short, never really found any. Covered quite a bit of lake looking for them, saw a few coming up by Clifty, stopped and fished there a while, caught one 18" striper and had one that was the size I was looking for, take a whack at my top water when it was about 20 feet away from the boat - I felt him grab the bait and reacted a little too quickly and I think I probably pulled it away from him. That was about it for striper action. Spent a couple of hours fishing around docks for bass with a 3.3 Keitech, caught 5 bass, 2 of them were keeper sized smallmouth. Also caught 4 short walleye, they were all 16-17" fish. Pulled the boat out at 10 AM before the weekend rush got going.

Those do look nice!

Well he can unleash a weather system but hasn't yet gotten the turning off part down yet. So they start over Table Rock and drift all the way out into the Atlantic - passing over St. Louis on the way east.

Adam Sandler should not be allowed to wear any Bruins logo clothing. Has that guy ever been in a good movie?

Just a warning - Ya'll should be nice to Vernon, make him mad and look what happens.

Water has some power. I read somewhere that the Arkansas river has reached record levels as far as water flow.

Dang, sorry to see you go. Hopefully you can get back and see us for the OA One Bass tourney.