Quillback

Might as well stock some gobies in Bull, then you'll have a Lake Erie south. Zebra mussels, walleye, yellow perch, smallmouth - just need some gobies. Yellow perch are tasty, I'll take them over walleye.

Ouch! Your better half has my sympathy.

It can certainly be tough. My advice when you're off on the ends of those long points over deeper water, if you're not seeing fish on your electronics you need to move.

Several of the guys on my roster this tourney are guys I have picked on many of the tourneys this year and they finally came through - well for one day at least.

Didn't get that much in Bella Vista, maybe 1/4" or so.

I'm living in NWA myself, and don't know of any places to get on besides public stuff. I would like to hunt them, but not in a crazy crowded situation. I'd pay $20 to hunt them. but that's about as far as I'd go. They just added about a 1,000 acres to the Frog Bayou WMA which is on the Arkansas river east a bit from Fort Smith. A lot of that land is old ag land so it is possible that the doves might utilize it. Hard to know without making a scouting trip.

Do you think that they moved from where you got them before, or were you seeing them but they weren't biting? Just curious, I know the last couple of times I was out the fish seemed to be moving around a lot which makes it tough to stay on them.

Well until you get something like Asian carp on the loose. To me it's just not worth rolling the dice and introducing another carp species.

Must be something to the name Ozark, if you're going to film it on Altoona or Lanier, why not call it Altoona (or Lanier)?

Yeah, I'd be a little concerned about introducing yet anther carp type fish. Not only flooding, but bucket biologists might decide they want to put these fish in other waters. But maybe there is more to this story.

SIO3, for that comment I gave you the "Sad" reaction. LOL.

I just gave you a reaction with a happy face.

Well day 1 cancelled according to Bassmaster website. Bad weather.

I have been picking up a few fish using a Trick Worm on a Charlie Brewer 1/8 oz Spider head. You can Texas rig the worm on the Spider head, and it's relatively snag less. Less snaggy than a conventional Texas rig, kind of like Dave's Ned heads, they will snag up every once in a while, but it's not that bad. And if you lose one, you aren't out much dough. Only draw back is it's a slow drop with that 1/8 oz head.

Minor thing, but when you "Like" a post it shows that you "Reacted" to it, not that you "liked" it. Looks like you can choose from 4 emojis to add to your "React". None of those is a "like". I liked the old "Like" feature.

One of those days where I couldn't really nail anything down, fished different kinds of structure using several techniques and baits. Caught one here and there and ended up with a dozen bass, biggest went about 2.5 lbs. The rest were 12-14" spots and LM's. Got the most on a Trick Worm fished on a Spider head. Got a couple of a c-rig, a couple early on a wobblehead with a Megabug, and one or two drop shot fish. A couple of brush piles that were in the 10-20 foot range held a few, a few out on gravel, and the early fish were back in a main lake pocket. There was some scattered TW activity, I was able to throw a Nutech Zinc spoon a few times on TW fish, had a couple of bites, got one about halfway to the boat that jumped a good three feet out of the water and tossed the spoon. I could be wrong, but I am thinking we may see some main channel, summer early morning, TW activity soon, I think they are just getting started. Lots of shad out in the channel for them to eat. Surface temp as close to 90 as it can get, I saw it hit 89.9 at one point. When I got to the ramp there was a husband/wife team (assuming they are married) launching. Husband in the boat, wife backing the trailer in. Husband yelling instructions: BACK! BACK! TURN! TURN! NO, TURN THE OTHER WAY! I SAID THE OTHER WAY! PULL UP! PULL UP! OK, NOW BACK! BACK! They got it done, you have to learn sometime right? View full article

We all accidentally kill fish whether tourney fishing or pleasure fishing. the point is, we need to take care of the fish best we can and if there are dead fish floating around the ramp then someone didn't do a good job. Could of been a tourney fisherman, could've been a fun fisher that brought them in for a glory shot. We're all in this together chasing green and brown fish, and we should do our best to take care of fish so we can all catch them again.

I have to admit I would not have taken them home if I was in Moguy's shoes. Large bass are nasty in my opinion as table fare, especially if they have been belly up in near 90 degree water for a while. But, the guy who caught them should have taken them home, or at least disposed of them somewhere away from the ramp, I hate it when you get to a ramp and there's a bunch of dead, stinky fish smelling up the place.

Just a note, BVPD does not enforce the POA rules.

There's a hermit that lives on top of Shell Knob (I think he's a retired fishing guide that spent too much time in the sun). Anyway, you hike up to the top of Shell Knob and pay him a dollar and he will dispense fishing wisdom. He chooses the topic for his wise remarks so you never know what you'll get, but what the heck, it's only a buck. Here's what he told me last time I was up there: "He who uses Spider Wire will have spider web in reel." "He who uses Vanish will see lures vanish into woods."

Thanks for the report, I agree, the dog days are here. I'm ready for fall.

There's a cricket In my garage - noisy little sucker.

None of us gets outdoors enough either, so we spend our time hijacking threads. How about those Royals, sweeping the Chisox this weekend!

Good to hear you got into some. Shame about the dead bass, probably rode around in a livewell too long in this hot weather.