Quillback

I'm fishing a finesse deal, I use a 3/8 oz tungsten worm sinker, floro main line and 8lb. mono for a leader. I haven't been down lake around KC or the dam, but from what I'm reading the water is much clearer than what you see up the White, so I'm speculating that's why the fish are deeper in that area.

Thanks for sharing that. Interesting that most of them headed for the clear water, I always heard if you want to win a tourney on Beaver you need to fish the river arms, but maybe they are chocolate milk with runoff?

It was a dinkfest rodeo out there today. Lost exact count but had around 50 black bass, with maybe 8 of those being keeps. Biggest was 2.5 lbs. Mix of spots and LM's with 2 smallmouth. Most fish came on a c-rigged Zoom Speed craw, t-rigged tube was working well, caught maybe 7 or 8 on the float n fly (a first for me), and got one of my smallmouth Biffle Buggin. Best depths were 5 - 15 feet, rocky structure, nothing steep, sometimes with wood, sometimes not. Visibility is around 8 -10 feet in the upper White in the coves, water temps were 57 -59 degrees. Best bite was early in the afternoon, but it was pretty much an all day bite. Beds are being made, eased into one little pocket and saw 1/2 dozen beds in a 20 yard stretch in about 3 - 5 feet of water, and saw several 12" males hanging around the beds.

I'm not a fan of a team starting off with a cupcake schedule then jumping into the SEC dogfight, Arkansas has been doing that the last couple of years and it seems that this sets you up for failure. I think a team needs to play at least one good opponent so you get a chance to see where the holes are and hopefully make some adjustments if needed, get off to a bad start in the SEC and next thing you know, you're hoping your team can qualify for some bowl in El Paso.

I've been holding off on planting anything so far, looks like yet another chance of frost later this week. Last year I had tomatoes out on March 20th. This year, NOT!

Thanks for the report, it's always interesting to hear what's working.

I don't know the rules on Table Rock, but on Beaver you are prohibited from fishing around the big commercial docks. I believe out to 50 feet from the dock. But you can fish around small, private docks. I've seen several private docks that have "No fishing" signs attached to them, but I've never had someone come out and yell at me for fishing around their dock. Just watch out for armed crazy people protecting their docks, it's not worth getting shot.

Jason Christie hung in there and pulled it off! http://www.flwoutdoors.com/bassfishing/flw/tournament/2013/6945/beaver-lake-professional-results/

I hate ticks...

Reading in the paper that the AGFC bios are collecting big largemouth bass (some from the FLW catches) for brood stock. Their goal is to collect 500 bass and put them in the Beaver lake nursery pond and they anticipate being able to stock 500,000 fingerlings this year into Beaver. This is to offset the anticipated low spawning success due to low water this year.

Yep, I fished the rivers of the Pac NW for years for salmon and steelhead, I've seen several fights on the bank, nothing funnier than watching 2 guys roll around in the mud wrasslin on a cold winter day. Stupid stuff, but entertaining.

Yep I agree, a Mizzou vs Hogs annual football game would be a great thing and create that rivalry atmosphere. Currently the "official" AR rivalry game is with LSU for the boot, but I just don't sense that heated rivalry feeling, especially from LSU. It's just a manufactured rivalry IMO.

New leader, Stacey King still hanging in there. looks to be about 8-9 lbs. back. Steve Meadors of Bella Vista took the co-angler title, congrats Steve! http://www.flwoutdoors.com/bassfishing/flw/tournament/2013/6945/beaver-lake-professional-results/

So I guess by that logic, if it's not headline news it ain't happening.

Some great fish you got there, nice to see those quality spots.

There's plenty of complaining about the big fiber glass noise and wake makers. Once summer rolls around, start a thread about how annoying it is to have a ski boat fly by 50 feet from your boat while you're fishing, you'll get lots of response.

Well Roland fell off the map, only 5 lbs. on day 2. A couple of old-timers made the cut, Stacey King and Jimmy Houston. http://www.flwoutdoors.com/bassfishing/flw/tournament/2013/6945/beaver-lake-professional-results/

Fished out of the back of Jeb's boat today, I always enjoy roaming his back deck. The fishing was outstanding numbers wise, we caught close to 60 black bass, probably about 60% spots, the rest being mostly male LM's with a couple of smallies and meanmouth thrown in. It was one of those quantity, not quality days, biggest bass was maybe 2.5 lbs. and we might have had 10 keepers total. Best baits were t-rigged tubes and c-rigged craws. Rocky flats and secondary points midway back in coves were the places to get them, stay in contact with the bottom and slow drag the plastics and you should catch fish up in the White. Water temps were 52 - 54. Jeb also got a couple of keeper walleye on the craw, and we picked up several nice whites to boot. I'm assuming these are the bigger female whites as they were around 2 lbs. but looks like they've got a ways to go before they get up to the Holiday Island area. Funny how the spots have suddenly become active, wish we could have found some of those nice 3 lb. spots but just couldn't seem to find them, maybe next time..

I've also heard a story from someone who was a back seater with Roland that he was not a pleasant guy, but I've never met Roland so can't say so myself.

Drew Benton in the lead with 18+ lbs. Roland Martin is tied for 9th only 3 lbs. back. It would be neat to see Roland pull it off, I believe he is 72 now, so I would have to think he'd be the oldest to win an FLW if he pulled it off. http://www.flwoutdoors.com/bassfishing/flw/tournament/2013/6945/beaver-lake-professional-results/

Very nice, congrats

Great day! Thanks for the report.

Nice one!

Wow, heck of a deal for some great reels, I've got more than enough reels right now, but it sure is tempting.

Raining hard here in Bella Vista right now, getting some flash BOOM action also, lightning striking, then right away BOOM accompanied with some house rattling. Looks like the heavy rain stretches down south past Fayetteville, so I'm wondering if the creeks and rivers are going to get a little bump and push the lake up a foot or two. Be interesting to see how this effects the FLW boys, cold temps, lake coming up, potential for muddy river arms, I'm real interested to see what these guys use and how well they do. my guess is they'll be throwing the A-rig a lot. That is if the A-rig is still legal on the FLW and I believe it is.