Quillback

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!

No A-rigs.

Yeah, keep posting the fish pics, I'll do my part also. I enjoy seeing other people catching fish, and I enjoy hearing the stories. If the other guy is catching more and bigger fish than I am, it gives me something to shoot for.

I agree, nice meanmouth, oops, hybrid.

I have used the KVD stuff and as someone mentioned above, it seems to last for about 10 casts.

I did a little poking around on the web, looks like they are going to stock rainbows again in the lower lagoon. They made some modifications that will prevent rainbows escaping into the river. There does appear to be something of a steelhead run on the river (Santa Clara) and much effort to restore the run. I hope they are able to do so.

I believe it is Castaic where they stopped stocking trout, that's the lake that produced some huge bass. Something to do with rainbow trout escaping the lake and the danger that those escapees could somehow spawn with native steelhead below the dam, except that there haven't been any steelhead seen there in years. I read somewhere that they are considering triploids as they can't spawn.

Liverwurst out of the round sausage like packaging, sliced thick, on white bread with mayo - good stuff!

I like this video, photography is really well done. C'mon weather, warm up, I am ready to go fishing!

I know someone's brother that caught a 9.5 on a trotline a couple of years ago. It was released alive.

I have a new fishing buddy, Mike, that lives here in BV. He haunts HLS, I just call him to get what I need, he's already there. Perfect way to get stuff before you get there to clean them out.

I hear you on that, but I just don't see BPS letting them be Cabelas like Cabelas used to be. I would also like to see Cabelas remain Cabelas, and not some kind of hybrid where you don't know what they'll be doing long term as far as products. I don't think that is going to happen. That's why I'd like to see them just go full BPS and end the speculation.

I love Spam - think slices right out of the can, mustard and white bread. I realize it ain't a health food, so I don't do it very often.

I would be OK with them redoing the Cabelas in Rogers to make it BPS. Get 'er done and quit messing around.

Did they have an Ozark stream exhibit? Be neat to see one with the smaller fish in it, sculpins, darters, etc.,

Go get him guys, we need our Babler reports!

ALX rods is having a pick the winner contest, win a jerk bait rod. https://www.alxrods.com/pick-winner-contest/

Bringing food and other stuff is voluntary. Rps - Horseradish cole slaw M&M, Patlock - Plates/utensils/napkins/bowls Crazy4fishin - Dogs/brats/burgers Quillback - grill, charcoal, cups, Cheesemaster - Chips, Doritos Sharkbait -- lettuce, tomatoes, onions Dblades - Buns Lake Lover - Drinks Kbillb - Cuke salad Phil - Plaque, scales, food Muddy Water - Chili/dogs

Here's what I have, you can reply on this thread if you're coming and I don't have you on the list. Getting an approximation so those who are bringing food know how many will be here. Lake Lover Fowlthing and Dfowlthing11 Cheesemaster Dblades Daryk Campbell SR Olbasser Rps M&M - Patlock Phil Lilley and Bill Babler Crazy4fishin Royal Blue (Game time decision) Sharkbait - Jim McManus Dwiebenga Smithville Steve and buddy Kbillb and son Kdc (if work allows) Champ and Donna Bushbeater Brotherdill CarlW (defending champion) Ken Drish Mrsmallfish and son-in-law

Well I just removed and replaced about half my lineup.

Well I was hoping for some good fishing today, but it was not to be. Took my buddy Mike over with me, we launched at Eagle Rock and worked our way downstream, mainly fishing points and steep banks, usually throwing the Ned with a little jerk bait tossing mixed in. We finished with a grand total of 4 bass, 2 of them were fat keeper spots. Deep fish, around 20 feet down. Wind really started howling later in the morning which did not help. Saw some diving birds, they probably caught more than we did. Wt 42-44

Cool. glad to see it working, neat older reels. I think they made those late 80's early 90's.