Quillback

I'll be curious to hear what your opinions are on the various blanks as far as which ones fish the best.

NTSB report on the sinking of a DUKW on lake Ouchita in 1999 that killed 11 people. Executive summary places the blame on the canopy preventing people from exiting the boat, lack of reserve buoyancy, and a couple of other contributing causes. https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/MAR0201.pdf

Some reading on the DUKW, if anyone is interested: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DUKW

Very nice!

Wow, that is a whale of a rainbow, congrats to Shirley!

A beauty for sure! I'll take an estimate on length if you don't mind, just curious.

Thanks for the update. I might venture out there Monday myself, supposed to cool down a tad by then (I hope). It's been a few weeks since I have made it over that way. I'll be happy to find a jig bite, I like fishing them.

This is one of those things that when you hear it you say to yourself "How the heck could this have happened?" I was watching the new last evening and the weatherman was talking about that storm as it approached, he said it was racing in at about 55 MPH, and I thought to myself that it sure could be an issue for anyone out on the water. Going to be a tough one for friends and family of the victims.

Yep, they've been stocking them for years as far as I know.

Always been a fan of grey/green for fishing, polarized of course. I wear prescription lens, so unfortunately I can't get by with the cheap ones. Never have had the "purple haze" problem. Was that what Hendrix was singing about? 😁

I have been through that cut many a time. Nice place to have a house! How is the Ned working right now? Haven't thrown it in a while, but might soon. I saw someone on Table Rock was having success on the smallies with it recently, so I might throw it some myself.

Going to be stinking up the entire campground if it doesn't drift away to somewhere else.

Used to live outside of Seattle and fished for steelhead quite a bit. Loved it, and I miss the good old days. Fishery went downhill about the end of the 90's. I live in Bella Vista and am happy with it. A lot depends on what you are looking for in retirement, NW Arkansas area where Bella Vista is located is a busy urban area and it is growing, may not be for you unless that is what you are looking for. As far as Mountain Home area, it is a great place to live for a fisherman. Bull Shoals for lake fishing and outstanding trout fishing in the White river below the dam. If you have any question about Bella Vista, feel free to shoot me a PM.

First time out in a couple of weeks, I was hoping the fish were in the same places they were a couple of weeks ago, but they weren't. Caught a half dozen bass, 5 were brownies, one was a spot. Nothing big, 13-15" fish. C-rigging a UV Speed Craw got them, fish were deep, they came from 20-30 FOW. I launched about 0545 and was off the water by 10 AM. Pleasure boat traffic was picking up, it was hot and no wind, I was ready to go. I saw only two other fishermen all day, pretty good sign that things are tough. Surface temp 85 when I left.

I knew once these things showed up in Table Rock, it was only a matter of time before they made it to Beaver. I didn't want to get too close to it in case it turned on me and charged, but got a shot of one as it was moving from it's roost to the water. I have no idea what they feed on, but it may have something to do with the dead fish in the foreground.

I've got a Perko cutoff switch installed by my batteries. I flip it off when I roll the boat in the garage and hook up the charger, flip it on when I roll out to go fishing.

I have fond memories of this day last December. Next day the cold front moved in that lingered for a couple of weeks and basically deep sixed the top water bite. http://forums.ozarkanglers.com/topic/61506-december-20-indian-creek-arm/

On my infrequent night fishing forays I have discovered that the light from my depth finder attracts bugs, in turn bugs attract bats. Not unusual in that situation to have them bump my line every once in a while. Feels like a bite. I don't like having bats flying around me, so I usually don't run the depth finder. Don't need it anyway when I am night fishing.

Those are some huge sockeye. Lake Washington, which if you don't know, borders Seattle on the west side of the city, would about every 4 years get enough sockeye to have a rod and reel season for them. Just about all of them were in the 3-5 lb. range. Sockeye are the best eating salmon IMO.

I am a retarded hand switcher, but I've done it so many times it is automatic.

I hear you, starting about mid-November until it gets really cold is one of my favorite times to fish.

Cool, glad to see you are getting them.

Ok, thanks. Hard to believe that if they are out on the lakes fishing, that will contribute to the world ending in 20 years. Heck, I believe both Hoffman and Rubin have passed.

What's a "yippie"?

Heard some good things about the museum, so with family in town we decided to take a gamble and drive over and see it. First off, it is free, and there were maybe two other cars in the lot, so no crowds to fight. It had the most amazing collection of indian artifacts I have ever seen anywhere. Arrowheads, spear points, axes, knives, stone tools, pottery and other stuff. Literally thousands of items. Lots and I mean lots of glass items from the late 19th century on. Cut glass out the ying yang. I know a little about collectible glass and the collection they have is amazing. Again, just an unbelievable amount of stuff. They also have some old guns, lots of metal lunchboxes, toys, funky stuff like Elvis and Beatles memorabilia. Some neat fossils too. Worth stopping by if you are ever in the area.