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Watson hung in there and won it. Wheeler had another big day, he won each of the the last 2 days, but a bad first day kept him from winning. But $17 K is not a bad consolation prize. Here's a link to the payouts. http://www.bassmaster.com/tournaments/2015-bass-pro-shops-central-open-3/results/1

Give the COE office a call. Phone: (501) 340-1950

Back seated in my buddy Jeb's boat today. We caught 20-25, but mostly small 10-14 inch spots. One smallie that was around 16" was the big fish. Drop shot, jig, spook type lures, and swim jig all worked.

They'll probably show the payouts with the final results on Bassmaster.com. Jacob Wheeler moved up a bunch, that young man can fish a frog and other top water with the best of them.

Well it is October 1 and it's time to start thinking about this. Looks as if everyone is happy with staying at Riley's, and it seems the weekend after Thanksgiving weekend is the one that seems to work best for all concerned. That would be the weekend of December 5 this year. So who is in?

Nice, very nice!

Haven't tried one - nice thing about Bandits is they are one of the less expensive cranks, so if you buy one and it doesn't work, it won't put you in the poor farm.

Sent him a email last night, but haven't heard back from him. He gets really busy during football season (coaching). Probably would be best for him to handle these requests for contact info, I'm sure he'll reply back, may take a while for him to get to it.

Sent you a PM.

I did not know this, but it looks as if we have fresh water jellyfish in many of the lakes in this region. They are an invasive (from China), but fortunately appear to be harmless. USGS map shows them being in Beaver, Taney, and Bull Shoals, you'd think in that case they would also be in Table Rock. http://www.bellavistapoa.com/newsmanager/templates/template.asp?articleid=5290&zoneid=7

Thanks for the report, I was wondering how the Kings was fishing.

Good stuff, can't beat the weather this time of year.

Not quite as red here either, but I only looked at it for about 2 minutes.

One of the community lakes here gets stocked with rainbows in the winter. It's small, about 70 surface acres, but deep, 70 feet near the dam. 2 years ago, a local teenager caught a 12 lb. bass out of that lake. Biggest bass I've heard of that came out of these lakes. No doubt the trout diet helped it reach that weight.

I think survival depends on water conditions to some degree. Seems I remember seeing somewhere that some percentage of walleye that are kept are hatchery origin, 40-60% maybe. If one of the AGFC bios see this they probably have a number.

Saw this on the AGFC hatchery newsletter. 5/21 - 53,203 5/22 - 48,542 6/4 - 17,190 1.5" fingerling walleye.

Saw this on the AGFC hatchery newsletter. On May 22 -40,092 stocked May 27- 21,105. They were all 1.5" fingerlings.

That is one big fish.

I think there are a few keepers in the mix, but they are way outnumbered by the shorts. Might be worth a shot to swim a big swim bait underneath them.

Fished Big M area today, fishing was good for the short fish. There are big schools of predominately 10-14 inch black bass in the Upper White river channel. I found schools in 3 areas that probably numbered in the hundreds as far as how many bass are in each school. Fish chasing shad on top and fish underneath the boat visible on the fish finder. In as shallow as 10 feet and out in the channel over deep water. Just bunches of bass chasing shad. I did get a 3 lb. fish on a Yellow Magic Havana out of one of the schools, but that was the only top water keeper I caught, but caught bunches of 10-14 inch fish. Caught another 3 -3.5 lb. fish on a swing jig with a black/blue Megabug first thing in the AM dragging bottom, and had another 2 lb. LM on a jig. That was it for keepers. Top water works well, talked to a fellow that was getting them on spoons, and I bet a drop shot would catch fish. Dragging a jig on the bottom underneath them was also getting some bites. Water temps 77-79.

I was out there today, probably saw you but didn't know who it was. Did you get out early for the top water action?

OK, I may take up on that offer, just need to get out and fish them and weed out the bad ones.

Started a little fire in my back yard, threw some Redfins in it that I could not get to run straight. Is that what you mean by burning baits?

That didn't come out right, I meant to say that the bait (shad) that the bass were feeding on were small. 1/2 inch sized, so the bait was small, attracting small bass. But the Plopper I was using is the 3.5" size. To have fun with those schoolers a person could throw a Tiny Topedo on light spinning gear.

I go to my profile, click on the drop down menu, then select "My attachments". My attachments come up in a list and there are 300+ of them, all images. I click on the title of an attachment, get a window showing the image, select File-delete, but they don't delete - it just hangs and says "loading". I would really like to delete the images.