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They stunk last night, but sometimes teams need to get a bad game out of their system. Good news is they got a split on the road, and now they come home for three.

Launched a little later today, did not start fishing until 1100. Started off working spinner bait and square bill on a few windy banks, fish weren't liking that stuff, had one hookup and that was it. Motored over to one of my drop shot spots, graphed around for a bit and finally came over a school of fish in 30 FOW, caught 15 on the DS worm, no bigguns, typical 12-14 inch spots. Funny thing about these fish was I didn't see any bait around them. The fish then just disappeared and that was that for that spot. Tried a couple of my other DS spots and only found one other fish. To finish up the day I started working timber in shallow main lake pockets with a paddletail swimmer, found some fish, not a lot but caught 3 LM's, one keeper. I think if I had spent the day working that pattern I could have put a few LM's in the boat. Lots of minnows in those pockets, and in a couple of them I spooked out some schools of what looked like 6" gizzard shad. Water temp was 67-69.

Sorry to hear it's been slow, I might give them a shot tomorrow, but seems like it's been tough the last week from the reports I've seen. I keep thinking they'll turn on any day now.

Wow, what a comeback! Down 6 -0 and with the way Gonzalez was pitching I thought the Cards were done. But they hung in there and kept chipping away, great game and I'm looking forward to seeing them sending the S.F. Midgets packing!

Sounds like a drum.

Raining like a son of a gun here in Bella Vista, hard rain for the last half hour, I think this will get the creeks flowing and maybe get the bass biting. If it clears up, I might go over to Windsor this afternoon.

Well Donna, I hope you and Champ get it figured out by tourney time. I'm thinkig if you folks get a limit of those 2.5-3 lb. fish you have a chance at winning.

Yep you did predict this, I haven't fished TR in the fall so I've got to feel my way around, it was so easy this summer and it's, as you say, brutal now. I had to work hard for the fish I got, threw that SB for about 5 hours, it is tough on my old shoulder, I'd rather drag plastics and jigs..

Thought it would be a good morning for the topwater, tossed it around first thing in the morning, but no takers, not even one bite, never saw much in the way of topwater activity all day either, which has me scratching my head as I thought a cloudy day like today would be good for the TW. Best bite was working breezy chunk rock banks with the spinner bait, nothing sizable however, 10 bass, biggest 2 lbs., a mix of spots, LM and a couple of SM. Caught one spot on the Drop shot, my usual drop shot spots just weren't holding any fish. Got another spot and a short walleye on the FB jig, threw a crank for a bit and got nothing on it. Water temp was 67.

It's a bit out of your price range, but I like my Dobyns Champion 704 CB, does a real nice job of walking a Gunfish and it's versatile, you can use it for cranks (not deep divers) and spinnerbaits also.

Obamacare has not yet gone into effect, give it until 2015 then look at your bills. Latest fuel increase have more to do with refinery outages and lack of pipeline capacity, oil is down to around $90/barrel.

Al, you're so gloomy... But I share your fears, I think this nation is on a long downwards slide, I used to be an optimist, but no more. I always harp on this, but we've got a debt time bomb ticking away, and the last few days the pols have been arguing whether or not we should fund Big Bird. And should this latest anemic recovery falter, there's nothing the government can do (because it doesn't have any money) to "stimulate" another recovery. Social Security is now seriously underfunded as the SS payroll tax has been cut by 50% and there's no talk from either pol about how we're going to save SS. Healthcare costs are still going up (Obamacare does nothing to reduce costs), median income is going down, fuel costs remain high, the list goes on..

Thanks for the report, good to hear the TW bite is going. Good luck in the derby!

Thanks for the update, sorry to hear the fishing stunk. At 3 PM yesterday it was 43 degrees here with sleet bouncing off the roof, what a change, it was 84 Thursday.

Haven't been up the Kings, but did fish where it meets the White. There were shad and spotted bass along the edges of the flats and points at the mouth last Thursday. My guess is there might be some wallies around there too as long as the shad stay in the area.

Healthy looking cat, thanks for the report!

Here's an Aaron Marten video on basic DS setup. I use a Palomar rather than the double-uni that he uses, but I'm used to tying Palomar knots. There is a bazillion videos on the DS out there, use Google and type in "Drop Shot video". http://www.advancedangler.com/featurearticle.asp?Selectvalue=Aaron%20Martens%20Setting%20Up%20the%20Dropshot Read some of Bill Babler's reports on this forum as to the type of lake structure is the best for the DS on Table Rock. Zoom finesse worms and Yamamto 4" cut tails have been working for me lately.

Yeah the Braves blew it with fielding errors, that infield fly ruling was very questionable, but the errors is what did them in. Home plate ump was really arbitrary on low pitches in the strike zone, some were strikes, some were balls - very inconsistent on the calls, that got the fans upset, then the infield fly ruiling set the fans off. I hope that from now on we get good and consistent umpiring, hate to see games screwed up by bad calls.

Thanks for the invite Bill, I've got mom-to-the-airport duties Saturday, but next year is a possibility. Good luck to all the participants and I hope there's some good bags caught.

Doesn't seem to be a strong favorite in the NL, if the Cards don't get bit by this one game play-in deal they stand a chance.

I can believe it BW, that lake kicks out some good bass.

It would be great if someone could post the results or at least the winning bag weight. Be interesting to see what it is.

That is one nice smallie, congrats!

You're not kidding on the taking a number thing, I was a few hundered yards away from point 22, there was a boat on that point when I got there, and when they left another boat pulled in, and so it went, probably saw 5 different boats fish that point in the 3 hours I was fishing the DS on the rolloff,

I guess I was lucky today, I started off working trees and coves for LM's did not do well doing that, caught one LM on a paddletail swimmer and that was it for that stuff. Went to the drop shot and ended up catching around 30, mostly spots, it was a mid morning bite, and I must have been in your area Duck as most of my fish came off the drop off (25-35 FOW) on the flats south of Lost Hill island at the mouth of the Kings. No bigguns but quite a few in the 13-15" range, mostly spots. Not derby winners but fun on spinning tackle. I only picked up a handful at my other drop shot places so just got lucky and was in the right spot at the right time. Seemed to be a lot of boats out there today, mostly bassers.