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What would Dave do? I have heard that steelhead and coho will eat a pink worm, never tried it myself.

Ought to be good for salmon too.

Wow!

I think you're bringing it back on topic. Yeah that stuff can linger on your skin, clothes, boat, life jacket, you name it.

I really hope it wasn't that Matchlite charcoal. Then there's the other extreme, my neighbor hosted a neighborhood cookout a few years ago, for some reason he decided to use gasoline as a fire starter. He lost some hair.

For some reason drum like living in Oklahoma, cross the state line, start fishing, and you'll probably catch some drum.

I have seen this boat, as Randy says it is very roomy and in great shape.

Wow, that is some good crappie fishing - I'll be very interested to hear how you do on both the crappie and the bass. I need to get over to Grand and do some fishing.

Never have caught one in TR myself.

My buddy Jeb used to use scent all the time when we fished together and we never noticed any difference in catch rates between scent and no scent - I never used any. But it did lead to him catching catfish! I should have tried some the other day when the bass would tap the wobble head, but drop it. Would've made for a good test, but they did start biting it better later, had I put some scent on I would have said it was the scent that got them to bite better. But then again, I was using a Strike King Structure Bug which has built in coffee scent. This kind of stuff is what makes bass fishing so much fun, trying to figure out what they want. I have some Smelly Jelly Craw scent - it really has a strong smell, I'm going to start putting some on the plastics and see if it makes a difference. I tell you though, I have never smelled a crawfish that smells as nasty as that Jelly, as a matter of fact, I really don't detect much if any odor on a craw at all. Of course you don't want to put your nose on one and risk getting pinched.

That is a huge one.

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Send Champ188 a PM, (if he doesn't see this) there is a place in Grove that he and the Mrs. like. I can't think of the name.

Pulled this from the AGFC weekly newsletter. HOT SPRINGS – Biologists at the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission’s Andrew Hulsey Fish Hatchery in Hot Springs hatched more than half a million walleye for area lakes last week. Even more are in the nursery pond on the west end of Lake Ouachita, thanks to the AGFC’s annual walleye spawning project. Each year, walleye swim as far upstream as possible to lay and fertilize their eggs. Unlike bass and other sunfish, walleye do not build and defend nests or fan the silt away from their eggs. Instead, they let free-flowing water keep them clean and out of the silt. Water levels, current and the timing of spring rains play a huge role in the success and failure of each year’s spawn. A small percentage of eggs hatch during the best conditions. Hatcheries can increase that hatch rate and the survival of fry by collecting eggs and artificially spawning them in a controlled environment. “At best, we can hatch as many as 60 percent of the eggs we collect,” said Dennis Fendley, hatchery biologist at Hulsey Hatchery. “When fry are ready to hatch, we move them to tanks, then to ponds on the hatchery or designated nursery ponds.” The fish stay in the ponds and grow until they reach the target size for stocking. “We see some loss in numbers as the fish age, but the larger the fish stocked, the better their chance of survival,” said Fendley. “This year we’ll stock the fingerlings in lakes Catherine, DeGray, Greeson, Hamilton, Ouachita and in the Ouachita River.” This year’s collection effort managed right at 2.9 million eggs. The percentage of eggs hatched, however, was a bit lower than usual. “We collected below Carpenter Dam and Blakely Dam,” Fendley said. “Entergy and the Corps of Engineers worked with us to give a little time to collect between flood conditions this year, but the warm weather did impact our hatch rate.” Fendley said this year’s spawn seemed to be a bit earlier than previous years, and the best-producing female and male fish likely had spawned before the hatchery crews could collect them. Walleye in north Arkansas lakes also received a boost from AGFC efforts. The C.B “Charlie” Craig State Hatchery in Centerton also gathered spawning walleye the last few weeks to collect more than 1.4 million walleye fry. Once the walleye have grown large enough to stock, the hatchery will bring them to Bull Shoals, Beaver and Table Rock lakes. A nursery pond on Norfork Lake also has received 386,000 walleye fry to grow out before being released. Joe Adams, hatchery manager at the AGFC’s Centerton facility, said collecting female walleye that were ready to spawn took a bit longer than normal in his area as well. “We were mostly collecting smaller females that were ready to spawn,” Adams said. “A lot of the larger females we saw were still not ready. It could have been due to the up and down temperatures or the rain events we’ve had, but we didn’t see a big spawning run at the usual time we collect the eggs.”

Thanks for a great report! Ned rides again..

Nebraska's downfall started when they began converting corn to ethanol instead of feeding it to farm boys to turn them into "Big Uglies". Never been much of a Husker watcher, but back in their days of domination, they always seemed to have a powerful O-line. Another reason to hate ethanol.

That's been my experience, probably average at least 5 non-keepers for every keeper. But, I'm not fishing for 5 big bites.

Did not hear a singe gobble.

Never heard of it - but I like the name.

We threw one for a bit, no fish. Did not really commit to it, probably should have.

Sounds like a great time, Ab, and that is what it is all about. I'm with you on enough wind already, been blowing since last week. It blew again today, but not as bad.

Yep, caught one really nice one, it's so hard for me to put down the bass stuff, but the gills are biting now.

I never have caught a bass over about 15" in that lake. Nice lake to fish, just not many big fish. They stocked some redears in there a few years ago, they ought to be decent sized by now.

30 lb. flattie - fish fry time!

Muddy Water and I hit it again this morning, fishing was a bit slower than last Friday. We caught about 25 black bass, only 3 of them being keepers, the 3 keepers were all 2.5 lb. LM's. Non-keepers were a mix of spots, smallies and a couple of means. Got most of our fish on the Ned, a couple on the wobble head and drop shot. Just could not find them in a bunch, kind of a one here and there day. Most fish were a bit deep, 10 FOW or so. Mainly inside coves with a few main lake fish. Caught several nice bluegill on the Ned. I'm going to break out the red worms one of these days. Water temp - 53-55, dingy green.