Quillback

LOL, yeah when they break out the saws and hammers you know you are in trouble.

New without box. At that price, it's a good deal. Pflueger President 25 Spinning Reel New Without Box (landbigfish.com)

Congrats, some great fish!

You have my sympathy. I have had my share of work, something like 4 crowns and an implant. Worst dental experience of my life was I had an adult tooth that never dropped into place, it was stuck up in my jawbone. It was starting to abcess and had to go. Only way to get it out was to hack their way through gum and chisel out the bone. I kid you not, they actually had a little hammer and chisel they used at one point. I was in the chair for a couple of hours. I was heavily novacained up of course, but it was not a pleasant experience.

I see the tooth people a couple of times a year myself. Being tough is sitting in that chair when they're poking around and cleaning with that doggone ultrasound thing. My male ancestors for the most part didn't spend a lot of time on their teeth and ended up with dentures. Dentures are not a route I want to go.

Welcome - I fish Beaver quite a bit, mainly on the dam end with occasional trips to the Prairie Creek area. Smallmouth fishing on the lower end is pretty good, especially when the water is cold. Walleye have been a little off for me this year, I usuallt catch them while smallie fishing, but it just isn't happening this year. Beaver has some quality fishing, it is tough at times for sure, but it can also reward folks with some quality fishing. Good luck, and lets us know how you do!

Yeah you get to pay for it whether you use it or not. You can feel perfectly fine and have issues such as high blood pressure, high blood sugar, cancer blooming in your bowels, etc. You can also check some vitals yourself such as blood pressure. I get checked once a year, things so far test out well. Once I know that I'm out the door worry free. I paid for it and I'm going to use it.

I lost a spinning set up in Grand lake once. Dropped it about 12 FOW. I marked the spot where I dropped it and spent about an hour and a half bouncing bottom with a spoon before I finally snagged it and got it in the boat. I put Cush-it rod floats on any rods I have that are worth saving. They're kind of bulky and a lot of folks do not like them, but they have saved me 2 set ups so far.

We've got a mobile mechanic here in Bella Vista. He's got as much work as he wants. All I ask is for competency, honesty and someone that stands behind their work. Being on time and communicating if you're going to be late is also appreciated. Reputation is spread by word of mouth you want a good rep. I fish with and talk to quite a few fishermen and we're always talking about repairs/maintenance and who did it and did they do good. Once you've established a good reputation, you can get more than $70/hour. Where are you located?

The Great White didn't fight that hard, just kind of slowly swam around. It's basically a lot of weight you gotta move. It was pretty docile when they beached it, didn't move while they got the hook out and it let them turn it around so it could head out to sea.

Allright, we didn't want to lose you over an O.

Shoot Bill, I don't mind reading deepwater reports and I'm sure lots of folks on here do also. I also know several people that enjoy your reports that never post on here, don't let a relatively few people influence you as far as posting, the number of folks that appreciate your reports far outnumber those that don't.

This weeks edition of Let's Fish TV features shark fishing off the beach at Gulf Shores. They use huge baits as in a tuna head or whole bluefish. Of course, there's no way you can cast a bait that big and heavy, so the guide takes a kayak out and drops the bait off. Then you wait. That episode they only caught one relatively small blacktip, 4 feet long or so, but they showed some footage of a Great White they caught that looked to be 10 feet long and massive girth. They also had a drone overhead filming the beast when it was hooked. Eventually they beached it, unhooked it, turned it around and released it. It was pretty neat, there is, however, a lot of annoying Gulf Shores promotional stuff that you can fast forward through. The video will be available on their website next week. Andrew Upshaw (letsfishtv.com)

The catching the same fish brought this to my mind. Talking to a buddy yesterday, he was out on TR fishing deep water, threw a jig out, set the rod down to cast at a top water blow up, and sees the rod with the jig he'd thrown out shoot off like an arrow into the lake. It sank before he could get to it. He told me where it is, but it is in 50 feet of water. Might be there for a long time.

I can't recall catching one that broke me off, but I sure have caught some with other peoples broken off stuff.

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Yikes, man I would not pay $12K to see that. Ol' Mick still gets around pretty well for an 80 yo.

I was talking to my old hunting and fishing buddy that lives in central Washington. He says the wind has blown there all year so far, and all that wind blows into SD.

That's crazy. Does Mick even sing at these deals or is it all lip-synch?

Catch a 100 bass AND get a check for $100. Can't beat that!

Very cool looking tiger trout.

Fished with Dutch today, we launched at 0530 and got off the water around 1100. We had to work for our fish, they have certainly become more scarce now than they were a month ago. We caught 15 smallmouth between the two of us. Best baits were c-rigged Zoom UV Speed Craws and jigs, fish were a little deeper, anywhere from 5 to 20 FOW. Couple early on top. Saw very little striper top water activity. Cicadas look to be done, pretty quiet day except for people noise. Very nice morning, 58 degrees out to start, 76 when we left. WT 78

It's funny how we could only find them in one place, and at that place they bit pretty well. I'm blaming it on the blue skies with little to no wind. Thanks for the trip Dayne!

My grandfather on my mother's side was in a tracked artillery unit in France and Germany in WWII. He died when I was 12 and one of my life's big regrets is not being able to talk to him and my other relatives that were in WWII as an adult. Anyway, my mom tells me that when grandads unit rolled into Germany they came across a concentration camp, said they could smell it for miles before they got there. The people in the camp were walking skeletons and they couldn't give the any food as they medical folks warned them that they could kill them by giving them too much food. The guys in his unit were not too sympathetic to any Germans after seeing that concentration camp. Papa and his buddies looted a castle while they were in Germany, he had a duffle bag of antique silverware, when it was time to come back to the States they were told if they were caught with any looted stuff they'd be in big trouble, so he left it all there. Says they did not search any of his stuff when they got on the boat, he could've gotten away with it. 😀 I did have a pair of German binoculars he brought back. I'm getting old so I passed them down to one of my younger cousins. Speaking of souvenir's, my Washington state bird hunting buddy had a luger that his father in law gave him. The FIL was in WWII and somehow obtained the pistol. I don't know the story behind it. The magazine had a couple of original bullets in it. They were green with age. Had a great uncle that flew a P-51, two other great uncles that were in the infantry in Europe. One of them was taken prisoner in the Battle of the Bulge, the Germans beat him up pretty badly, and to top it off he got frost bite. He got what today we'd call PTSD and was never right when he came back. Had a distant relative that was a Union soldier and was captured in Tennessee. He was sent to Andersonville, a notoriously bad POW camp. The story goes that while there he got sick and looked to be dead so they threw him on the death cart to haul him off for burial - but someone saw him wiggle a toe, they took him off the cart and he regained his health and survived the war. That's the story, who knows how accurate. War is miserable, I'm fortunate that no wars occurred when I was in the Army.

Sorry to hear of that Les - Anyone named Lefty has to be a good guy.