Quillback

Saw these on the BPS web site. Put a sinker on it and you have a sliding Jika rig. http://www.basspro.com/Team-Catfish-Sinker-Slides/product/1208170217/#

My grandparents on my mother's side were from Kennett MO, not far from Paragould. Church twice on Sundays and on Wednesday night. No alcohol, cussin' or card playing. My granddad fished occasionally with a black man, he referred to him as "Nxxxx Joe". Attitudes were sure different back in those days. But at least in that regard, we've changed for the better. BTW, Kennett is Cheryl Crowe's hometown.

Those are some quality bass, congrats!

How big was Doc's PB? Were you guys fishing after dark? Sorry to hear the big 'eyes got away, did you get them close enough to see them?

Deen had a new cookbook coming out, one with healthier recipes. Supposed to be published this fall, it is the #1 seller on Amazon (pre-order). Well the publisher, Ballantine Books, has announced they will not publish the book. Ballantine Books is now on my jackass list. Now we've reached a point where, figuratively speaking, we're burning books?

Saw this on TW, nice little video on fishing a deep crank. http://www.tacklewarehouse.com/vlogpage.html?ccode=VLOG242

Based on the results so far, I'm expecting good fishing next week.

Right on!

Nice bunch of 'eyes!

What do you guys think, first part of next week, high temps predicted to be in the 70's. I'm hoping this improves the bass fishing, but then again I'm concerned the change may shut them down for a few days.

Good on you Josh. Hope this guy finds out and gets his stuff back.

Don't think I've ever seen a draft where there was so little promise seen in the players by the pundits. I don't know if it's because the pundits are overly critical or if the players drafted are really that mediocre at best.

Yeah with this summer heat the play toys are out earlier in the morning now. Yesterday by 9 AM the wake fest was going full tilt.

Yes it does make sense to me to have the players discuss things. I think one big mistake made in this whole process was to draw a map showing boundaries. People within those boundaries see a potential for government interference or regulation. Would have been much better IMO to have left the boundary map out of this.

Not a drop here either. Freakin weather dude was saying last night we could get an inch or more. Sheesh..

Yeah I do too, if not, I'll be dragging the hose over to the garden tomorrow AM.

But do we see any issues like that on the White river system? I guess they could pop up, but I'm not a fan of creating bureaucracy just in case it's needed for something that doesn't exist. If we've got a problem, fine, get some folks together and work on it. And I'd say it's more likely to have lawsuits when you have an additional layer of "sponsors" in the middle. More people to deal with, more signoffs needed - this is the perfect environment for litigation.

Note to self: When visiting China, do not order pork items from the menu.

Weather guesser is saying we're going to get some rain tonight. I hope he is right, we could use some.

Lots of bank space at Big M or Viney COE parks. But I have no idea how the cat fishing would be at either place, but if I was going to do it, I'd set up at the point off Viney, nice shallow point with deep water on both sides, seems it would be a logical place for a cat to roam at night. But if Jason's suggestions are closer, I'd go with what he says.

Thanks for that info Jason. Do you think the Jika may be less snaggy than the t-rig?

Well if they've got a committee of 26 sponsors, with that many folks in a committee, I doubt they'll ever find agreement on anything that will do any harm. I'm not necessarily opposed to the whole thing, but if it's a committee that's being created to do nothing, what the heck is the purpose? Do we really need another layer of oversight?

Just harvested a cucumber. My first piece of produce from this years garden.

Glad to see Jesse realized the world wasn't going to end. This whole thing was way, way overblown.

Launched at 0430, but the pre-dawn launch did not payoff like I hoped, only boated one 12" bass. Once it started getting light, motored over to my favorite point and caught a 1/2 dozen or so early on the c-rigged Ol Monster, then a couple on the Drop shot, and managed a few top water fish here and there. Decided I was going to do some t-rigging of the Ol' Monster after reading Josh Holts reports of his success with that set up. I did OK on a couple of bluff ends and points fishing it 10-20 feet deep. Ended up with around 20 bass, biggest was 2.5 lbs. It got hot fast, I was on the trailer at 1130 and it was 93 degrees. Water temp was 86 when I left. Caught this mean mouth on the Ol Monster, he thumped it and pulled hard. Thought I had a pretty good one at first, these meanies can pull!