Quillback

Sorry to hear that. I always thought of him as a guides', guide. The guides had a lot of respect for his fishing skills.

I want to try that etoufee.

BTW, no one is required to bring something.

Dunno if you have read this, but wing dykes are mentioned as good habitat for sauger. Seasonal Habitat Use, Movement, and Exploitation of Sauger in the Arkansas River

I'll be interested to hear what species that mystery fish is.

End of the year, might have had a goal that he needed to meet.

That is a good day. Quite a few boats running around on this end of the lake too. Not as many as we see up there, but fairly busy. Nice day to be fishing for December.

I started a lunch thread over on the Upper Taney forum.

Phil has a pavillion where we can meet and cook assuming tolerable weather. I'll bring a charcoal grill, charcoal, lighter fluid, burgers and buns. I can bring foil, lemon slices, butter, and onion slices for cooking trout on the grill if one of you who is fishing wants to keep some 12" rainbows to supply for the cookout.

I can bring a small charcoal grill, cooks about 5 burgers at a time. And I will bring charcoal and lighter fluid, burgers, and buns. Something to consider, is that you guys that are fishing could keep and clean some 12" rainbows. We can stuff them with lemon slices, onion, and butter, wrap them in foil and grill them. They taste pretty good when cooked that way. I'm assuming this will be lunch on Saturday when we get together for this. Phil has an outdoor pavillion. I am not going to commit for sure until about a week out when the weather forecast for that weekend will come into view. We should do a separate lunch food thread in the Taney section.

Congrats on getting back out there!

The spotted bass were biting the Ned rig today. It was like a spring bite. Fish were near the banks, steep banks with chunky rock and trees were best, they were in the 10-20 foot zone. There were some around brush piles too. I caught 28 bass, 5 were keepers. Biggest was a 16.5" smallmouth. Lots of 13-14 inch spots. Caught a keeper walleye and an 11" crappie that had the misfortune to be the next fish caught after the walleye, and with the walleye in the well, might as well throw the crappie in there. WT 50-51

Just trying to give you some ideas..

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I would take frog legs over rat legs.

Hmmm, monkey meat or rat meat - tough choice. 😀

My spots have not been very good lately. 🥶

Toby, you and your dock fishing buds need to haul those bass out from under those docks and transport them to designated release sites. I'll send you the coordinates of those sites.

Have to admit to not fishing docks much lately. I know a TR regular that scans under docks with FFS and he says they are under them, but so far back you can't get to them unless you get out and walk the dock or are really good at getting something in there between a boat and the walkway.

A good book that has rat eating as a theme is King Rat. It's about a British WWII POW camp in Asia, where an enterprising American sets up a rat farm and sells rat meat to the Brits. Of course he doesn't tell them it's rat.

I like the look of those jigs, they might just work for lake smallmouth.

I started it? I'm innocent I tells ya!

Way to go guys!

Put in about 10 AM, cold morning with freezing fog and I decided to wait until it got reasonable out there. Couple of guys came into the dock right before I launched, very courteous and asked if they could pull out before I backed in and I said that was fine by me. They were fast, so it was a good deal as if I had backed in I would've held them up on that one lane ramp. Tied up to the dock, got out on the dock looked in the water on the other side and saw a couple of nice largemouth swim away. Parked the truck, got the Ned rig out and threw off the dock, caught a couple of smallies, and each time I brought one in, they had 3 or 4 of their buddies following. I thought this was going to be one heck of a day! Well it wasn't, fished the next 3 hours and had one bite. Finally found a few in the back of a windblown pocket that like a jig. Fished another hour with zip and came back to the dock. Fished around the dock, nothing, so backed the truck in to go home. Decided to throw one more cast off the dock, and caught another smallie. So ended up with 6 smalls with 3 of them being over the 15" mark. Really nice afternoon for mid-December. WT 52. Couple of dock fish.

HA, ask a squirrel.