Quillback

Yeah just get the renter-guest ID and you can fish the lakes. There haven't been any LMB stockings in years, in spite of the heavy pressure the bass do a good job of reproducing. There have been crappie, catfish and redear stocked from surplus produced by AGFC hatcheries. But if you have a problem with that you should take it up with the AGFC, you'll get nowhere complaining about it in this forum. Trout stocking has been paid for out of POA funds, so has threadfin shad stocked a couple of years ago. I shouldn't waste any more time on this, but the "elites" and "non-natives" that live here are folks who worked hard and long to earn their retirement, teachers, police, firefighters, nurses, doctors, lawyers, farmers, factory workers, military who served their country for 20-30 years and small business owners. I'm sure it's possible to run into a rude Bella Vista retiree, it's happened to me, but I find that if I'm courteous and respectful to folks they'll usually treat me in the same manner. I was always taught to have respect for my elders, but sadly that doesn't seem to be the case anymore.

Funny stuff!

Bassmaster magazine has come out with their 2013 100 best bass lakes. LOZ is ranked 31, Table Rock ranked 39. Is LOZ a better bass lake than TR? If so, I must be pretty darned good. I've never fished LOZ myself, but might be worth a trip someday if it's that good.

Yep, give it about 6 weeks and I'll start complaining about hot weather.

True - But if we excluded all of the above topics, we wouldn't have much left.

Last week I watched "Bass - The movie", part 1, they did feature some guys fly casting for largemouth, which is one thing you never see on the conventional bass fishing shows. It looked like fun, one guy was using a surface frog type fly and fishing it over surface weeds, and another guy was shown fishing a shad pattern. I liked the looks of that shad fly and it got me to thinking that one of these days I might get a fly rod and do some bass fishing with it. I think that, at least in the bass fishing world, fly fishing is not viewed as a technique that will load the boat or win tourneys.

I did see a cruiser, he went up the White, chugging along at about 20 MPH with the bow up in the air about 30 degrees thereby pushing out a maximum wake, then 2 minutes later the wakes crashed into the shore producing rollers that were big enough to surf on, then 10 minutes later the cruiser rolls by doing the same thing but going in the opposite direction. Thankfully they disappeared up lake and I never saw them or any other cruisers for the rest of the day.

Nice one, pound for pound, I don't know many freshwater fish that fight harder than those hybrids.

Rolled into the water around 10 AM and fished until 4:30 PM. Started out with the tube, picked up 4 keeper sized LM on it fairly quickly, then they just seemed to not like it anymore. Switched to c-rigging a craw and started picking up fish here and there, ended up with 20 or so total, mostly LM's, for some reason the spots were slow for me today. Nothing big, biggest about 2 lbs, with around 8 keeps. A lot of bassers out there today, and I mean a lot. A dozen rigs in the Big M lot and there seemed to be a boat on every point. Must be the nice weather today. Sadly, I saw my first water louse, buzzed by me about 50 yards away as I was working a flat. Things will only get worse as the weather warms.

That's pretty darn good for 3 hours on the Beav, thanks for the report!

Thanks guys, hopefully it will stay fishable.

I hope they're a better option than using a finger!

I saw some top water activity on Table Rock yesterday morning before the wind kicked up, they were off the bank out in the middle, I did not go after them - guess I should have tied on a spook.

Is the water in good shape around Horseshoe Bend? Looks good from the picture, but sometimes it's hard to tell.

Nice shots on the structure scan, nice boat also - looks like you're at Lost Bridge North?

There was a debris line just upriver from Big M, but other than that there wasn't much out there as far as big logs or limbs. But a person should definitely exercise caution and keep an eye out.

Wow, the guy is on fire! Came from 11th to take the win with an 18 lb. bag today. http://www.bassmaster.com/tournaments/2013-elite-series-bull-shoals-quest/leaderboard

Congrats, some very nice fish!

Fished the White river this morning, going up river from the Big M marina, the water gets progressively more brown, go down river a couple of miles you start getting into some green water with decent visibility. Caught most of my fish in the green water, but did get a few in the brown water late in the morning and early afternoon. Almost all on a tube, I think I did get one c-rigging a craw. 13 black bass total, 4 of those were smallies. 4 maybe 5 keepers. Water temp was 56 to start and saw 60 in the back of a cove before I left. Saw quite a few beds in the backs of coves when I looked around in the shallows, but only saw a couple of males sitting on beds, most of the beds were empty. Looks like another cold front coming through so it may back them off again, but once it warms up after the front, we should see some spawning fish.

That's a big ol' flathead to hook on a spinnerbait. Thanks for the report.

Here's the link: http://www.flwoutdoors.com/bassfishing/collegefishing/tournament/2013/7119/national-championship-beaver-lake-headline-story/154793/ulm-no-1/#.UXUGk34o6Uk

Scanlon now in the lead, he's shown at the weigh in holding a couple of smallies. Still looks to be wide open, any of the 12 final round qualifiers could win this with a big bag. http://www.bassmaster.com/tournaments/2013-elite-series-bull-shoals-quest/leaderboard

Thanks for the report.

Thanks for the report, buddy of mine was up the White yesterday, they caught around 20 dragging plastics, he said the water up there is brown but you can still catch fish.

That's a Dry Creek tube in "Columbia Craw". Great tubes IMO. That Wart may work, but the fish I caught were mostly deep, 10 - 20 feet.