Quillback

Well I am a Pats fan, so a big neener to you JF! Pats have some issues, Josh Gordon gone, Gronk appears to be a shadow of his old self, Brady is showing some age, defence is average at best. Wouldn't surprise me to see the Chargers beat them.

Well you know how it goes, accountability happens after the accidents. As in lawsuits.

Landbigfish.com has some, I think. Reason I say that is they have a Rapala Scatter Rap Crank 07 that is 2.75", weighs 9/16 oz, and they have a Scatter Rap Crank Deep that is 2" and weighs in at 5/16 oz. Which one do you use?

I would go for electric only, that lake will be just big enough that it will attract gas motor/fiberglass tournaments. I'm a glass owing, gas powered boat owner myself and I don't hate tourneys, but it would be nice to have some lakes around that don't get hammered by tourneys every Saturday. It's probably not part of their agenda, but if they planned from the get go to create fish habitat before flooding the lake it could be a dynamite fishing lake.

Never have thrown the deep Scatter Rap, how deep will it go?

Fishing is certainly not on my radar today. Just walked the dog, that's enough of experiencing the great outdoors for me today. I'll be watching football today too.

New RC, I guess you could call this the finesse version. Weighs 5/16 oz, 2" long. https://www.tacklewarehouse.com/Spro_Mike_McClelland_Rk_Crawler_50_Crankbait/descpage-SPRK50.html

Just a cold and miserable rain right now. A few years ago we had the snowstorm followed by a long cold spell and the roads here in this part of the state were icy for about a week. People were taking pictures of where highways crossed the state line, icy on the AR side, bare and dry on the MO side. Was all over the news, AR Dept. of Transportation was a laughing stock. So the Dept. went out and bought some more trucks, stockpiled sand and salt and even purchased beet juice which supposedly acts a pre-treatment de-icer. Haven't had a significant snow storm since then..

My guess would be changing models. Nothing on the site indicates why they are selling them.

Patriarch XT $99 and the Patriarch $79. Regularly $249 and $199 respectively. Never have used either so I don't know how they fish, but online reviews are good. Pfluegerfishing.com

Back at ya!

No walleye there.

Went out a little later today, it being a cold morning, I think I started about 0930 and fished until 3:30. Fishing was a little better today than last time out. Found some spotted bass on a bluff wall that were hanging around shad. Not a lot of them, but picked up a few dragging the ned rig off the bluff, and picked up a few down 40-45 feet fishing a 3/16 oz white Zig Jig vertically. Bounced around to a couple of points and chunk rock banks and picked up a fish here and there on the ned, usually they were in 10-20 FOW. Ended up with a dozen, all spots except for one meanmouth. WT 45-46.

Even in camo, I ain't buying them.

Saw only 3 other boats in the Big M area - must be a rumor out there that the dam bite is better.

Can you get Crocs in camo? Soft Science has camo - it is so chic here in Arkansas to wear camo shoes.

Go away.

Thought I'd wait just a bit longer on the food thread as we have a few still sitting on the fence as to whether they are going or not.

Happy Birthday!

I am wondering how the Z-Man TubeZ will work on that 1/8 oz crappie head, hopefully I will get a chance to try it out soon.

The lakes biologist here in Bella Vista insists that you can't hurt the bass populations in the community lakes by keeping the ones under 12". Every once in a blue moon I'll keep some and as you guys have noted they are excellent eating. Same thing on Beaver with the spotted bass, the bios want you to keep them, and they are tasty too. I just don't eat that much fish, it's good about once every two months or so for me.

Not a whole lot going on, I had exactly 2 bites, one was a keeper sized LM, and the other was a 14" spot. That's in about 5 hours of fishing. LM came on a Z-Man craw and the spot on a Ned rig. Wind was hooting which made the finesse fishing challenging. Threw some cranks for a while, but no luck on them. Water color looks good, nice green stain. WT 46. Did not see a single fishing boat today. Don't know if I have ever fished a day on the Rock and not seen at least a boat or two. That tells me that it is tough on this end of the lake. I might have to buy some of those ice jigs. Or wait for spring.

Sorry to hear that, but hope you have a good time at Monster Jam!

Man is it a bad show.

That's a beautiful fish!