Quillback

That's one of the glaring problems with college hoops these days, the one and done or two and done mentality of top players. It's so tough to build a team out of players that are going to stay 4 years and be a winning program. The top recruits see college hoops as a stepping stone to the NBA. It would be interesting to follow one of the top recruits through the recruiting process and record the spiels the coaches give them. I'd love to hear Calipari's spiel.

I'm not sure I want to go out and equip myself with all the little rig stuff. I am thinking it may be about time to break out the finesse jig.

Best depth was around 20 feet. I didn't see any shad yesterday either in the water or on the finder. No bird activity either.

I can see if you were in downtown Springfield and whizzing on the sidewalk, that a ticket would be in order, but hard to believe they would write up a couple of guys whizzing in the woods.

Wow, some nice trout!

Man that is a beast of a bow!

Good stuff!

I T-rig also, well Texpose, with the hook point exposed just out of the skin. I believe in that pic, the weight is under the fish. I'm using 3/0 hooks, Mustad Big Mouth tube hooks, with a 3/8 oz weight. The bites, for the most part, are very light and hard to detect. If you miss the bite, they drop it.

Nice one!

I launched out of Big M at 0700 this morning and fished until 1 PM. Did find a bite, I fished a point on a cove mouth that had some deep trees and caught 10 bass off that one point. All but one came on a tube, the exception came on a Megabass 110. Fished a whole lot of other places and only caught 2 more bass, those 2 came from inside a cove off a rocky bank. All the bass were largemouth, no spots or smallies. Nothing big, 13-16" fish. I saw Mr. Babler out there and talked to him for a bit (nice meeting you Bill). He had caught some fish and I believe he said one of them was 6 lbs. Hopefully he'll have time to give us an update. Water temp - 38-40 degrees.

Obviously camera shy.

That do look tasty!

Great eagle pics, always love to see them. I believe those quackers are Buffleheads.

Just got this info in an email from the ODFW - If you're interested you can go to their website and sign up to receive upland bird updates via email. I've been thinking about heading over to western OK one of these years and hunting the WMA's. They're a bit high on the non-res small game license, $155 or so which is one reason why I've never done it. Quail research ongoing as data continues to mount Biologists continue to evaluate northern bobwhite quail on western Oklahoma wildlife management areas. The tools and technology being used by biologists is allowing for up-to-date research and tracking opportunities. Each report from research being conducted on western Oklahoma WMAs adds to a growing database of information that researchers hope will bring about increased insight into the movements and mortality of quail across their home range. According to the January report of the Oklahoma Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, researchers on the Beaver WMA have 56 birds "on the air," or birds that are being tracked via telemetry. Of those birds, 31 are bobwhites and 25 are scaled quail. During late December and early January, 31 losses were recorded. Of those, 11 were due to mammalian predation; nine were unknown; six were due to avian predation; four were due to collar failure; and one bird was harvested. Weather may potentially impact quail at Beaver WMA, since about 12 inches of snow has been on the ground since the end of January. To date, researchers have collected over 100 wings from harvested birds via the wing collection boxes, suggesting that hunter effort and success increased compared to last year. Radio-tracking of birds continues. On Packsaddle WMA, researchers are currently tracking 52 bobwhite quail. During January, 18 radio-collared bobwhites were lost. Of those, eight were attributed to raptor predation; two to mammalian predation; three to unknown predation; three to either unknown predation or collar failure; and two to harvest. Thirty-three wings were collected from harvested bobwhites. Of those, 15 were juvenile males, two were adult males, 14 were juvenile females, and two were adult females. Radio-tracking for the purpose of monitoring bobwhite movement is ongoing. Genetics research continues on Packsaddle WMA Lab analysis of northern bobwhite samples has been completed, and researchers are currently waiting for some scaled quail samples to arrive. They anticipate that the scaled quail primers will be developed within the month and that analysis of those samples will follow. A paper titled "Extra-pair paternity, intra-specific nest parasitism, and brood amalgamation in northern bobwhite" was presented at the Joint Annual Meeting of Oklahoma Chapters of The Wildlife Society and Society for Range Management in January.

I caught 3 bass fishing a tube Sunday. Tough fishing right now. I did talk to a guy that was fishing jigs in deep trees and he claimed he had caught a half dozen or so.

I don't know if it has gone through the verification process, but a tentative WR Redear - 5.8 Lbs, Lake Havasu, Feb 16, 2014.

Shaka, as in BOOM-SHAKA-LAKA?

I've fished with Ham, we had an OA fishing get together in December, I think he put 75 or so in the boat each day in the 2 day trip. If he says he caught 100, he caught 100. I've never fished those Zig Jigs myself until that day, and I caught a little north of 50 trout. (No clicker so it's not an exact count). The other guys that were fishing with us did as well or better. We plan on doing it next year again, you'll have to go with us Joe, we'll show you how it's done.

Excellent! I like to hear reports of fish finally getting on the jerk bait.

Based on that, it appears to me to be a bad idea.

Yeah I think Ollie is right. I think the Discovery channel was up interviewing people a while back, kind of like a casting call. I bet old Crowbar is making some bucks off this show, should it prove to be popular like Duck Dynasty, he'll be a rich man (if he isn't already).

Yeah no way I'd throw an A-rig with BBZ's, unless there's not tree within a 100 yards. Even then you have to front the coin to pick up 5 of those suckers.

The 33% annual mortality was interesting also. 11% due to being harvested. So roughly 22% of the LM's die every year to other causes than harvest. I believe these fish were mostly keeper sized, just doing some rough conversions from metric to inches.

Yep, I'll need to pay more attention to docks. At least when I'm fishing the Kings.

Nope, I was by myself, left about 2:30 so I must have just missed you.