Quillback

Dadgum it! I was planning on heading over there today to see if they had any..

I think we need a couple of tables, I believe m&m is bringing one, but we probably need at least one more.

Excellent, glad to see you are coming!

I've always been a fan of "Dirt", but this winter the smallies on Beaver wanted PB&J. I had a bag of PB&J that had a really bright purple for the J part. I wasn't that sort of dark J you usually see on PB&J Zinkerz. Smallies really liked that bright purple, unfortunately those Zinkerz are long gone and I haven't been able to find another bag like it.

Yeah, we need a link, what was he doing? Singing and dancing?

Well I don't want to embrace any log jams. But, nice to get some color in the lake, I am hoping for a happy medium.

Looks like it has come up a foot and still rising.

Flag flying over the fort means the fort had not been surrendered. Made a lot of sense at the time.

Those are some healthy walters!

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Now I see an add for a Pflueger reel at BPS - that makes more sense. I tell you one thing, I sure am not going to do a search on cookie cutters.

DR. told me that I should never run again unless my life depends on it. I did a little searching a while back on NY steelhead fishing, so I guess there could be some kind of loose connection to NY there.

For some reason I am getting an advertisement for a 200 mile run (multiday) in the Adirondacks this fall.

We need some for sure, just hope we don't have widespread flooding. Just got back from walking the dog, warm and windy with lightning to the north.

That was my plan all along.

Be happy to fish with you someday if you'd like to check it out.

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