Quillback

Keep the reports coming, it is cool to see you catching crappie. One of these days you may see me out there, if I can ever put down the bass stuff. I'd probably be doing some cast and retrieve stuff with small swimmers or jigs, I am not set up to do the spider rigging (I assume that's what you are doing).

You got it.

I think I saw you when I put in. That's a great day, looks like the wind is going to blow for a while otherwise I would be out there.

Congrats on your retirement!

Will do, if I can remember next time I have it out.

I do, even came with a free ruler.

Yes, glad to hear she is doing well, be sure and tell her we are all pulling for her!

Today was the first day in a while where I could launch early in the morning and have reasonable temperatures to fish in. A little breezy. but not too bad. Fishing was a bit better than the last time out, I caught 11 total, spots and largemouth, 5 keeper sized. One of the keepers was one of those big headed, skinny body largemouth, but the rest were nice healthy fish. Ned rig fish, except for three on a jerk bait. Caught a few fish shallow today on windy banks, they were in 5 FOW or so. The rest were out in the 20 FOW range. Saw some top water activity again today off one rocky point, that's where I caught my jerk bait fish, throwing at those bass chasing shad on top. Seems weird to see them chasing shad on top when the water temp is 42, but there they were. I left at 2 PM, wind got pretty crazy at about 1 PM, a warm wind, but it was blowing. This post has been promoted to an article

I second the BH on this, hope you get to tangle with one of those monster triploid browns and looking forward to hearing how you do.

Griz makes the best cupcakes I have ever had in my life.

4:30 PM today on the Sportsmen channel, Taneycomo trout fishing.

Got a nice coating of ice here too, couldn't walk on the driveway this morning when I took my dog out.

Pretty neat, nice to have a wild trout stream in the neighborhood.

Yeah I had Defoe also, my last hope. Now I got nothing for today. Thanks for posting the scoring system, always was a mystery to me.

No problem, we'll give him an exclusion.

Well I guess we could have an exclusion for youngsters, I am assuming you don't want to create a user name for him.

Excellent again!

Excellent!

I did not see any on Table Rock yesterday, but you are right, it is that time of year for them.

Delayed start to the day as I waited for it to warm up. Got to the lake and it was dead calm, that lasted about an hour and then the whitecaps came out. I don't mind fishing in the wind when the fish are active, but it makes things tough when you're fishing a Ned 20 feet deep for lethargic fish. I caught 3 bass the first 15 minutes of fishing off a rocky point. One was an 18" largemouth that was skinnier than heck, probably weighed about 2.5 lbs. Then I spent another 4 hours to scratch out two more bass, and then on one of the last spots I fished I caught 2 on back to back casts. Ended up with 8 bass, two of them were fat spots that were in the 15-16" range and I am sure either one of them outweighed that 18" largemouth. All fish came on the Ned, mostly in the 10-20 FOW range. One exception was one of the keeper spots, I saw a fish swirl on top, threw that Ned on the swirl, it was in the water about 2 seconds and that spot nailed it. Not something you see to often when the water temp is 42. Tried a float-n-fly for about 15 minutes, no bites on it. Water temps were 42-43, and there were quite a few boats out there today. View full article

Sheesh, one day and I am already browsing Tackle Warehouse to see what lure I need to buy to send someone.

Wishing you and your family the best, and you have my sincere condolences.

Cool, hope you can make it!