Quillback

Seems to be a winter thing.

Meant to add, I sure would have liked to have seen one of those guys that was on them, drop a Ned down to them as a change-up. I bet they could get a few.

I have been getting 3-4 of my bass every trip lately fishing the 1/8 oz head vertically in 20-30 FOW. If I see a fish on the bottom, I'll jiggle it a bit an inch or two off the bottom, they'll usually bite it. Never have found a school of smallies like some of those guys are on in that tourney.

Watched it, some good stuff. Saw today that the lake Pokemonga (however it is spelled) will be the one that the 8 top AOY guys are going to fish for that bracket tournament in September.

They caught a lot of fish. Some good ones too.

Crappie are not in my skill set.

I don't know anywhere you could get them (temps) online. You could call Hook, Line and Sinker in Rodgers they might know. I'm going to take a guess and say probably 47-50 after today. Looks to be pretty breezy tomorrow, if I were going I would throw cranks like Wiggle Warts, or Rock Crawlers, maybe a spinner bait, maybe a jerk bait. I'd probably try a jig also. If it wasn't so windy, I would probably try a Ned rig, but I don't like fishing that light bait in wind when the water is cold.

Watched some of the live coverage, Fieder might be on to something, looks like he is vertically fishing a Zoom Tiny Fluke on a jig head, but can't tell for sure.

Man, those are some big redears. We've got some here in the Bella Vista lakes, I've seen some that might have gone a pound and a quarter, to a pound and a half, but never anything like those beasts.

Nicely colored too.

I was thinking maybe in the 2.5 - 3 lb. range, but hard to tell sometimes from a pick. A nice spot however.

Nice, did you weight that spot?

I have 2 guys in the top 10, Palaniuk and Hamilton, then the other three are about 50th or worse with Chris lane bringing up the rear with 2 bass for 2.8 or something like that. C'mon Chris, I could fish the Ned all day and get at least 2 keepers...

I usually don't use scent, but some of the soft plastics I use have built in scent. Keitech, Paca Chunks, Strike King with their caffeine scent, Yum baits, and Megastrike. All those baits work, but so do Zoom baits which have a bit of a plastic scent from the material they are made of.

Except for Skylar Hamilton, all my guys are stinking it up right now.

That's weird that BSL doesn't have a bunch of them, has all the ingredients, spots and smallies. I have also caught a few in Beaver.

Give me a holler when you are ready to go. Meanmouth is totally random, you never know when one will show up.

Welcome to the forum! I am no Beaver expert, but if you're after smallies on that lake there tend to be more up by the dam end of the lake. Not that you can't catch them anywhere on that lake, but dam end tends to hold the most.

Yes sir, it is pretty close to normal.

Yeah I think it is a meanmouth, has that olive color to it.

Champ gave you one of his specially doctored up Redfins? He must like you. Every time I have tried to get one from him, he mutters something about "cold dead hands".

With the forecast for temps in the 70's I had to go fishing. Good day for bites, I had one of those days where they were biting the Ned well but I missed more than usual, good bites too, they'd load up, I would set the hook, have them on for anywhere to 1-3 seconds and they'd get off, seems every once in a while there will be a day like that. Probably had a least a dozen pull off, couple of good pullers also. But I did put a dozen in the boat on the Ned in spite of the escapees, 3 were keepers. Still getting them deep for the most part, 20-30 FOW off rocky points, and around deep trees. However one of the best spots was off a transition bank where it went from gravel to about a 50 yard stretch of shelf rock with a good drop off. No trees in that spot, very little cover, no shad, but yet they were there, pulled 5 bass off that spot. The wind picked up in the afternoon, deep Ned fishing became not much fun, so I started throwing the Crawler on windy rocky banks. Picked up 4 bass on the Crawler, some chunky ones, close to being keeper sized, but just short. Water temps ranged from 46-47 in the main channel, to 49 back in a cove. Saw my first turtle of the year out sunning himself. Quite a few boats out there, not surprising given the weather.

Welcome and thanks for the report!

That is one fat striper!

I would have to think a jig would have a good shot.