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I saw that also, but thanks for the warning.

Just saw this in the AGFC Outdoor news, stocked in August, something different that the usual rainbow stocking. White River, Baxter, Izard and Marion Counties, 79,132 fingerling brown trout White River, Baxter County, 8,864 Catchable Cutthroat Trout White River, Baxter, Marion and Izard Counties, 69,206 fingerling cutthroat trout

Could be only for one game, but they still have an outside shot at the division. They could end up in a tie with Detroit, have to play them in a one game tie breaker for the division, and if they lost that game, play a one game playoff against Oakland.

Some Ned fish, I'll be darn. I'll have to break mine out of storage.

I'm happy with "normal".

We've got gizzard shad in some of the lakes here in Bella Vista. The lakes biologist would love to remove them all. They get too big to provide forage for bass, and they are plankton eating machines to the detriment of all other fish species. Young gizzard shad provide excellent forage, but conditions have to be right for them to spawn and that can be problematic in a pond. You can end up in the exact situation you are describing, lots of big shad and few other species. Disclaimer: I'm regurgitating what I've heard from the bio. Threadfin shad are the "good" shad, but subject to winter kill in a small body of water. They also probably won't reproduce in that situation either.

Wow, had to laugh at that. Why did he even care?

I've seen some pictures of smallies being caught out of American lake this summer. Might be good close option if Tapps is in bad shape.

Had Jeb with me today, we fished from the Kings upriver to past owl creek, mainly stopping and fishing bluff banks, chunk rock banks and points. Had to deal once again with flat calm and sunny skies. The bite was a little better than I expected, nothing great, but we put 30 bass into the boat. Biggest was a 17" mean, or smallie, couldn't exactly tell what it was. A couple of LM's but mostly 12-15" spots. A few drop shot fish and a couple on spoons, but most were on FB jigs in some variation of green pumpkin dragged slowly down steep banks. Monarch butterfly migration must be on, saw a few flying across the lake. Lots of motorcycles on the roads. Water temp - 76-77.

Excellent, always good to see some folks out having fun fishing!

Returned to the Big M today. You'd think that on the 2nd day of fishing I would do better having located some fish on day 1. That was not the case. I'm blaming it on the flat water and blue bird skies. Caught 10 bass, mostly 12-13 inch spots, with 2 in the 14-15" range. All on jigs on steep banks. Didn't do much drop shot fishing as the fish just weren't in the spots they were yesterday. Had one biggun that slack lined me and was almost underneath the boat before I could catch up, gave a couple of heavy head shakes and got off. Heckuva nice day, but could have used some wind.

Thanks for the report, and welcome to the forum!

Yep I agree, they have some good stuff. These trailers are pretty durable, I put a Strike King Rage Chunk on a jig today, caught a 12' spot, after releasing the fish, looked at the chunk and both claws were gone. The Missile Baits are good for multiple fish.

It's a 1/2 oz War Eagle FB in color "Pond Scum Perch". Missile Baits Twin Turbo trailer in green pumpkin.

It's a mystery for sure. Smallies seem to prefer deep, clear water as opposed to the stained water in the river arms.

I was throwing into 5 feet and working it back. Most were fairly shallow, had a few in 10-15 FOW.

Hope that there's some clouds and breeze to get that TW bite going. You can probably get some on it early and late.

I call him "Dummy", he has to be stupid to bite my stuff.

I can't find a smallmouth to save my life.

Chisox rolled over today - Bums!

And kudos to Mississippi State, they will be a tough out in the SEC.

Water tempos were 75-77.

One heck of a foggy morning, and cold - truck thermometer said 47. And there I was in my shorts and hoodie, it was a tad cool, but I survived. Because od the fog, I couldn't get where I wanted to go, so did some drop shotting off Viney, caught a few short spots doing that, and finally the fog cleared and I was able to go down lake a ways to where the fish were thick last Friday. Not nearly as many in that spot, caught 7 or eight decent spots on the Drop shot in 15-30 FOW. Might have been a keeper or two in there, I just eyeball them and make an estimate as they are all going back. Very little top water activity so no top water fish for me today. Fished a jig on 45 degree chunk rock banks and bluffs - they've shown up on that stuff, picked up mostly spots doing that and one nice 2.5 lb. LM. Boated a little north of 20 bass today. Drop shot spot that came on the Motor Oil Finesse worm: Jig eating spot off a chunk rock bank: Jig eating LM off the same bank:

Good question. I PM'd him a couple of weeks ago - haven't heard back from him.

Yeah, go Chisox!