Quillback

Yes, please let us know color, model and brand of whatever jerk baits work for you tomorrow. Too much of a pain to figure that stuff out, not to mention the wasted fishing time fishing a lousy color. It would be awesome if you could just text me photos to my mobile, that way I can see what is working without having to leave my recliner.

Yep, go Mizzou! SEC is getting humbled a bit in the bowls. LSU and Ole Miss both losing.

My 2 cents on the subject of crappie in Table Rock- I think it's also due in part to lake characteristics. I have gone fishing with my uncle on Sardis lake in Mississippi the last few summers, we spend usually will fish a couple of mornings from daylight until noon trolling Bandit 300's. We can usually put 15 -20 keepers a day in the boat, and we're not working too hard at it - just trolling open water in the 25-35 feet deep range. Sardis and the other nearby crappie lakes get pounded by fishermen, especially in the spring. Groups of fishermen come from Chicago, and St Louis to fish that lake in the spring. I forget the exact number, but something like 200,000 crappie a year are kept out of that lake, and it's not nearly as big as Table Rock, I think it's around 7,000 acres. In spite of all the pressure it keeps kicking out crappie. Table Rock just doesn't seem to be a good lake for crappie.

I hear that the pre-Rapala ned rigs work a lot better than the new Storm version. Something to do with old molds and lead balls.

I was thinking that after catching that trout. He wanted it too, he whacked it, dropped it, then came back and got it again. Ham will probably catch a hundred a day on it below Bull.

Cheap shot to start the article talking about social issues in MO and suggesting the money from the MDC budget could be used to fix those issues. Certainly there is waste in the budget and apparently some mis-management also and that should be fixed if possible, but for crying out loud, don't blame social issues on the MDC. I hate that kind of slime ball tactic journalism.

I have hope for next year!

Yes, that's a trout. Chunky 14-15" rainbow I caught in the point 23 area on the Ned rig. Nice looking rainbow, released it back into the lake. Launched at 10 AM, waited until the temp got above freezing, fished until 4 PM. The bass fishing was fair, caught 3 largemouth on a McStick off a windy bank, 2 of them were nice 2 lb. keepers. Caught another 1/2 dozen Spots on the Ned rig. Fishing was a bit slower than a couple of days ago. The weather was a bit breezy, cold, with clear skies, water temp 45-46.

Welcome!

Excellent - thanks for sharing!

Guess that explains the name "Netcraft". Didn't know that.

Maybe next year.

Thanks for the report.

Chiefs pulled it out, but Ravens and Texans both won, so it was to no avail.

I tip my hat to you and Donna for sticking it out in the weather.

It sure won't help. Scary to see such high prices for them, the "legal" fishermen will put pressure on them, then it also makes poaching so lucrative that it's almost a given that you'll have people out there getting all they can. Inevitably this will lead to a population crash. Sometimes species can recover from a crash, sometimes they can't. I wonder if there are genetic differences between eels that return to someplace like a Missouri stream and those that run up a Maine river. Reason I wonder that if there is a crash in the Maine populations, they may not be able to rejuvenate the run by using eels from Missouri fish (as an example). They found this out in the PAC NW with salmon. A Chinook that swims 200 miles upriver to Idaho is genetically different than a Chinook that swims 2 miles up a coastal stream to spawn. If you wipe out the Snake river fish then they can't be replaced with offspring from a coastal stock.

Watched most of the game yesterday. Refs let them play, pretty physical game with 2 tough defenses. Kentucky is looking impressive, can't see anyone in the SEC beating them unless they catch them on a bad day.

If I am reading the prognostications right, the Chiefs must win and hope that both Baltimore and Houston lose. Chances look slim, but let's hope for the best.

Trouble brewing - commercial demand for glass eels has sent prices skyrocketing. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/glass-eel-gold-rush-casts-maine-fishermen-against-scientists/

An incredible fish. When I was a kid living in Massachusetts, one of my buddies grandfather was Portuguese and would fish for eel in the Charles river at night. Pretty much had them all to himself and his buddies. He thought Americans were crazy to ignore such a tasty fish.

Never have fished a Wee Wart, but I have heard people say they work.

Good deal, it's great that your boys can hang in there winter bass fishing. Hopefully we'll get another spring bite this year like last year and you can get them out there when the fishing is easy. Good find on that original Wart in "Brown Craw".

Probably just lots of folks with time on their hands because of the holidays. Heard Swepco was really busy also.

There were a lot of boats on the water Friday in the Kings and White above the Kings. I thought it was due to the relatively warm weather.

1/8oz, and I also use 1/16 - depends on wind/depth which one I will throw.