Quillback

The 10th is out for me, I have knee surgery scheduled for the 7th. But, I don't want to hold you guys back if you want to do the 10th. After the holidays might be a good idea also, but it is up to you folks.

I was thinking about starting a thread on this the first week of October, but what the heck, I guess we can start now. It's only a couple of months away. The weekend of 12/3 is the first weekend after Thanksgiving and that seems to work best for everyone's schedule, or we can do the following weekend. Depends when Got Muddy has his mandatory must attend Christmas party, maybe someone that has his contact info can get hold of him and see when that is.

Sorry to hear that. Seems like there is always some bug or virus or something else that messes with any kind of domesticated plant or animal that a person raises around here. Never ending battle.

You need to add a First Aid Kit to your list of gear. Glad to see ya'll go into them, it gives me hope that I too can catch a bass in the near future.

I don't want to watch mismatched teams play at all. I really wish NCAA football would change the rules so that FBS teams play against only other FBS teams. To call this "competition" is ridiculous.

A couple of 3 lbers, not bad at all.

I see Mount Whitney in the background, so sure enough you were on Beaver. Kudos to AGFC for stocking those fish!

If I ever start fishing docks for crappie again, I'll definitely take up the "dock shooting" technique. You can shoot a jig back in those stalls and in spaces between floats pretty well once you get the technique down. Takes some practice for sure, and it is something I would practice in the yard before hitting the lake. Has to be a bunch of videos out there on it.

Yes it is good to see this shot of cold weather we are supposed to get. Looks like they are backing off on the amount of rain we might get, but ,maybe they will be wrong. I hope you are right and it gets the top water and jig bite going. Last time I was out, water was flat calm and it was sunny. There were bass out in the main channel chasing shad, but the bass were not schooled up and were moving around. Could hardly buy a bite working cover with a jig. The main channel fish would bite, but it is hard to stay on them. The shad are everywhere. This is what I am seeing on the upper White, maybe things are different in the lower lake or the other river arms.

Good deal, you'll enjoy your trip with Champ.

Good to hear you're on the mend!

Welcome back!

I have heard of long-arming, but I would call that short-legging.

Very nice, I am jealous!

About a month to 6 weeks ago I ran across some big 16-18" whites near point 23 on the White. They were in 50 FOW in front of the docks that are across the lake and down lake a bit from point 23. There are 3 docks there that hang out over deep water, you can't miss them. Dunno if the whites are still there now.

I am going to start doing that this fall, only have some cranking stuff in the boat and force myself to fish cranks.

Launched at 0645 and fished until noon. Fishing seems to be picking up a little, I caught about 20 with 4 keepers. My biggest fish was 2.5 lbs. and it was the first of the day, caught it on a buzz bait. That was also my last one on the buzzer. The rest of my fish came on finesse jigs, FB jigs, and the drop shot. I caught several smallies up shallow on gravel on jigs, and one keeper sized LM on a jig shallow. The others were deeper in the 20-30 foot range off gravel points. Hooked a nice spot off a dock corner over 50 FOW on the drop shot. I tell you he was every bit of 3 lbs. He jumped and tossed the hook. Had a couple of flukey catches today. Hung a jig on a rock, it was in there solid, could not shake it out so started moving the boat towards it to get on the other side, got right above where it was snagged, reeled in the slack, lifted it up and a fish was on it, turned out to be a 14" spot. Was fishing another spot, dragging a jig, heard a fish chasing some shad behind the boat, set the jig rod down with the jig about halfway to the boat so that I could toss a top water at the shad buster (shad buster did not bite). Anyway reeled in my top water, picked up my iig rod, and something started tugging back. Turned out to be a 14" smallie. I wonder if anyone has been swimming a jig lately? Got a few bites today when I was retrieving the jig, next time out I might do a little swim jigging. Water temp was 80.

He's got a good milk run.

That's a nice wally.

Nope, used to in the past when I fished salt water.

Sounds like a great day!

Son! Nothing like a big ol' bass on a top water.

I never used a seat until my knee went south, now I spend about 50% of my time sitting, but I would rather stand.

I see. With my Phoenix, you can't get the pedestal seats out once they are in. I have to get on all fours, push my back up on the seat and put pressure on it, while at the same time wiggling the pedestal and trying to push in that small, hard to push in tab. After doing it a dozen times I have gotten the process down, but the first few time it was a battle. I'm thinking whoever lost that seat probably was done for the day, didn't notice it fall out as they headed back to the ramp, loaded the boat, drove home, put it in the garage and all without noticing the seat was gone.

What I would like to know is how did it get blown out without the owner noticing?