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Well shoot, he's 16 lbs. back going into the last day. Probably not going to win, but he does have a shot at 2nd.

The cover is all under water I don't know if you know this, but the MDC website has a map showing "fish attractors" as they call them. Quite a few of them in the White river channel. A guy could stay busy all day just fishing those brush piles. Here's the link: http://mdc.mo.gov/fishing/places-fish/fish-attractors-map

86 bridge, gateway to the lower lake. Taken from the dock. Sandbar, top center of picture, in front of moving boat. If the water comes up a foot by next week, the bar will be barely submerged. Stay in the channel. There is a marker buoy to channel side of the bar.

No, did not bring the rods. Only one rig in the lot and only saw 2 boats. Kind of surprised, I expected a lot of people to be out today.

Overflow parking area, there's only about 12 spots at the ramp. Plenty of parking here, it's about 100 yards away from the ramp. Park vertically on either side like my truck is parked. Road to ramp from overflow parking. Do not take the little road that branches off to the left, it leads to a dead end at a camping spot. Ramp with dock Parking at ramp. Exit road is at the back of the lot, it loops around to the right and goes back over to the overflow lot. Looking up the lake towards Holiday island from the dock.

You've got the Lost Bridge ramps practically in your back yard. Indian creek arm can provide some pretty good fishing at times. Which reminds me, I need to get over there.

Good deal Jim - Glad to see dblades is joining the crew. I have kept the roster updated on page one of this thread, as we've had some folks cancel, but others have joined.

Thanks Ness, I've read some Mafia stuff myself and also quite a bit about the depression era gangsters. 'Public Enemies' by Bryan Burrough is a good book about the Depression era crime wave and the birth of the FBI. The investigation into the "Kansas City massacre" where 4 police officers who were escorting gangster Frank Nash were gunned down outside the KC railway station is part of the book. Dillenger, Bonnie and Clyde, Pretty Boy Floyd, Baby Face Nelson - covers them all. And of course the FBI's involvement in all this. Hot Springs AR gets mentioned quite a bit, the place was a gangster vacation spot back then.

Good pics Phil - what camera are you using? Curious as to the resolution also as shown on the forum, are they 500 X 328?

Based on my luck up that bleeping stretch of water, I believe it.

They are showing pre-season games on the MLB channel.

Should make for some great Cards vs Cubs games. All the prognosticators are touting the Nationals in the NL this year.

Tons of cover, lots of trees, rocky points with trees, brush piles, bluff banks, chunk rock banks, bluff ends and gravel points.

Don't worry about it - if you want to post a report, go ahead. I would not give out exact locations if you get into some fish, but it's certainly no secret that there are walleye in the upper White river. I only incidentally catch them while bass fishing, so I can't give you any advice, but one thing to keep in mind is that the AGFC always does their walleye brood stock netting on the upper Kings around March 15.

Big sacks of fish.

Yes that is a good point. On the last Google image above, right across the channel from Chain-o-lakes, you can see a sort of brown looking spot. That is a sand bar/island. It's low lying, has a warning buoy on top, but make sure you stay to the left of it. There is water between it and the east bank, but do not go between it and the east bank, stay to the left in the channel. Many of the coves in this area are full of trees, and some of them have trees right at the cove mouth. Some of the tree tops are barely submerged and hard to see until you are on top of them. Use caution if you go back in the coves to fish.

Go Red Sox! Watch out for the Cubs this year.

105 lbs. according to the paper.

Son!

Excellent, go Stacey!

Story from the AGFC website: COTTER – Arkansas’s trout tailwaters are famous for incredible scenery, fast action and some of the biggest brown trout in the world – just ask Kansas angler Calvin Johnston. Johnston, a resident of Olathe, Kansas, was enjoying his first trout-fishing trip to The Natural State Friday, February 27, when he hooked into a fish that will have people up and down the White River talking for years. “I’m a bass angler,” Johnston said. “But we have a few ponds in Kansas that are stocked with some small rainbow trout. I’ve gone to one of them a couple of times and maybe caught five or six rainbows, but this was my first real trout fishing trip and my first brown trout ever.” Johnston grew up in Little Rock and graduated J.A. Fair High School before moving to Kansas. He says his brother and brother’s friends from the Bryant Police Department always go to Rainbow Drive Resort on the White River for a trout trip during this time of year. This year he decided to join them to see what the trout fishing was like. “I used the same rod and setup that I use to drop-shot fish for bass,” Johnston said. “A medium-light six-foot, nine-inch spinning rod with 15-pound-test braid tied to a 10-pound-test fluorocarbon leader.” When the group arrived, the current was flowing too heavily to wade more than a few feet from shore, and the cold weather had most of the party taking a break to warm up Friday afternoon. “It was getting to be sundown, and I know that’s always a great time to fish for bass,” Johnston said. “So I headed down to the bank to cast a little. I didn’t even have any waders or a net and just cast from the bank. That’s when she hit.” Johnston says nearly all the line peeled off the reel on the fish’s first run. “I’ve never fought a fish like that before,” Johnston said. “She was running around rocks and grass and there were several times I thought I’d lose her. It felt like I fought this fish for 20 minutes.” Without a net to land the fish or even waders to go in after it, Johnston was stuck. “I started to yell for anyone to help,” he said. “One man finally asked what was going on. When he saw the fish roll at the surface, he ran to get a net. He said he’s been fishing there since he was seven years old and had never seen a fish like that in his life.” After a few tries, the pair finally managed to get the trout’s head in the net and pull her to shore. “Everyone started to come out of their cabins to see the fish,” Johnston said. “One man brought out a handheld Rapala scale, and the fish measured 40 pounds on it. That’s when I knew I needed to call the Game and Fish and get this thing weighed officially.” AGFC Trout Management Program Coordinator Christy Graham and District Fisheries Biologist Jeremy Risley met Johnston to weigh the fish on certified scales at the Mountain Home Field Office. “It’s official weight and length was 38 lbs, 7 oz., and it was 36.6 inches long,” Graham said. “I’ve looked into former records for brown trout in Arkansas, and can only find official records of two brown trout being larger –Rip Collins’ former world-record from the Little Red River that weighed 40 lbs. 4 oz. and the previous world-record fish from the Norfork Tailwater that weighed 38 lbs. 9 oz. “This is the biggest brown ever recorded for the White River,” Graham said. “We are extremely pleased by Mr. Johnston’s catch. The White and North Fork Rivers have always been known as world-class trout fisheries and this is just further evidence that anglers still have the opportunity to catch trophy fish.”

Just a reminder, it is a No A-rig tournament.

Jim and all - Bill Babler and Phil are bringing enough food and paper plates etc, for everyone (Thanks Bill & Phil). rps is bringing some wings. That being said, if you want to bring some food, it will be welcome. You may want to bring your own drinks, there will be some available, I'm going to throw a case of water in the truck, but you may want to bring your own. Bring your digital cameras if you want, take some pictures out on the water and post them on the board. If you're unsure how to post them, you can send them to me and I can put them up.

No problem, suggestions are welcome.