Quillback

Anyone try the new "Madflash" Wiggle Warts? Also curious as to how cold of water you guys keep fishing them in? I always thought of WW's as losing their effectiveness once the water temp drops below 50 - but I could be wrong!

Yep I agree, I like to visit BPS a few times a year myself. Love that Spring Fishing Classic, you're likely to see my digging through the Wiggle Wart sales bins looking for Phantom Green.

The Rock was mean to me today, the steep bank tube bite went away, I did not get a bite on a tube today. Same thing for the blade, Wiggle Wart, and jig. I did get a tug on a jerkbait. The whacky rig Senko saved me from a skunk, managed to boat 7 bass on it, all decent fish, including a 3 lb. LM and a 17" smallie.

Speaking for myself, I like Tackle Warehouse...

Nice boat Champ, congrats!

BTW, if you do see any flying pigs, it's legal to shoot them.

I picked up a set of BPS Redhead XPS midweight 2.0 thermals this year, been pretty happy with them so far, works well as a base layer when the temps are around the freezing level. I'll probably pick up a set of the heavier 3.0 if we start having a cold winter. One of the pluses of the BPS line is that they carry (and have in stock) the big size that I need - 2XXL long.

I haven't thrown them on TR yet, but 2 winters ago they were working well on Beaver. Last winter they didn't work at all, but I think that's due to not having a shad die-off last year because of the mild temps. If we get a cold winter and get a shad kill, I'll be throwing them.

Fished with Jeb today, we roamed from Big M up to the mouth of the Kings and went up the Kings a mile or two. Mainly we were looking for steep chunk rock banks, when we found one that looked like it had possiblities we'd stop and fish it. Had a good quantity day, not much quality, caught 30 bass, mainly 12-14" spots. Biggest fish was 2 lbs. and we may have had 4 or 5 that might have made it to the 15" mark, but not by much. Green Pumpkin tube accounted for 20 or so, the rest came on Senkos and jigs. Not much wind, but threw a blade around a couple of places where there was a breeze, but no takers on the blade. Nice day to be out, saw several eagles, not much boat traffic.

I don't think I spelled his name correctly Seems his MO in Badgerland was to run the ball behind monster linemen. Don't know much else about him. If there's any Badger followers on here maybe you can add your opinion. My snap judgement is that he's a good hire, but not a great hire. I hope he proves me wrong.

Well good luck, let us know how you do, not that I expect any secret info, just want to know if you get any. BTW they stocked Saugeye in Avalon a couple of years ago, the lakes Bio netted one at 17" this fall.

Well Trophy I'm hoping you do well so you can tell me how to catch crappie in Beaver. Have you thought about coming over here to Bella Vista and trying Avalon? 2 years ago they stocked several thousand 5" crappie in Avalon, don't know how many survived, but it's worth a shot. There's brush piles all over that lake. I caught a 17" crappie in Avalon this spring on a jerkbait while bass fishing. Released it, maybe it's still in there.

Yeah if I was appointed dictator of NCAA football, I'd organize the major schools into 8 or 6 (or whatever number) of 16 team, 8 teams per dvision, regional superconferences. Each superconference would have a championship game between the division winners, and the champions would go into a playoff system that would ultimately decide the NCAA champ.

Well I must admit I get most of my info from Jeb, my best days on Beaver have been out of the back of his boat. Sholder, if you want to give one of the Bella Vista lakes a shot one of these weekends, I'll shoot you a PM when it looks like the fish are cooperating. Fished Saturday on Lake Windsor and all we had for our efforts was 3 dinks, but maybe this cold front will get them into a winter pattern.

I'm looking forward to the Arkansas State vs Kent State game. Also the WA vs Boise State game (due to my Northwest roots, it's a heckuva matchup for that part of the country). And the K State vs Oregon game should be entertaining. I do hope ND can pull off the upset, or at least keep the score close.

It's only real if it's verified by the MDC.

A true innovator would stuff the inside of a tube with Frito bean dip, before coating the outside with Frito crumbs.

I was fishing Table Rock last Thursday with my buddy Jeb. I was up fron throwing a tube, he was in back throwing a jig, I caught 12 on the tube, he got around 10 on the jig. I wasn't dragging the tube, I was hopping it down steep chunk rock and bluff banks. I like a tube sometimes because I like to t-rig it with a light weight and get the slow death spiral effect a tube gives you on the fall, a different presentation than you get with a jig. Fish around here see a lot of jigs, not as many tubes.

Yep, thanks a bunch Bill for posting that info.

Here's a link to the Bass Boats Central Board, lots of used (and new) boats in the for sale section. http://www.bbcboards.net/ I picked up a Phoenix 619 this spring, been a great boat so far, a few minor teething issues, but nothing major. I plan on having this boat for a long time.

Watched the 2nd half of the SEC championship game last night, good game, I was pulling for GA, they had a chance, but with 15 seconds to go and the ball on the AL 15, they threw a pass to a well covered receiver on the 5 yd line who was tackled immediately and time expired. Why they didn't line up and spike the ball is beyond me, they might have had 2 shots at the end zone had they done that. Don't know what the coaching staff was thinking. Now we have ND vs The Tide. Tide has looked vulnerable against LSU and now GA and lost to A&M, maybe ND has a chance?

Yeah Les Miles getting an offer from U of A for $27 million for 5 years was a little over the top. The bidding war for coaches at the top schools is getting out of hand. Yesterday's paper was going on about possible candidates for the UA coaching job, Gus Malzahn's name is being mentioned. The reason I being that up is they had a little of Malzahn's salary history, as the Offence Coordinator at Auburn (I think it was AUburn), he was getting $1.1 million/year. For crying out loud, now coordinators are getting over a $million per year!!??

The Ethanol Mandate requires refineries to add a number of gallons of ethanol to gasoline, according to the article in the link, 13 billions of ethanol last year. So, as I unserstand it, if the refineries use the mandated amount during the year, they are free to produce non-ethanol blends, in other words it's not illegal to produce non-ethanol gasoline as long as they use the mandated amount to make ethanol blends. What I found interesting, in my trip to South Dakota this year, is that every gas station I visited in SD sold 87 octane non-ethanol gas and 89 octane with 10% ethanol. So here you have a state that lobbies hard to keep the ethanol mandate (to benefit local farmers in SD), but yet sells non-ethanol gas at every pump in the state. That just ain't right.. http://blog.heritage.org/2012/11/19/congress-should-permanently-waive-the-ethanol-mandate/

Launched at 0630 with my buddy Jeb in the boat. We groped our way through the cold fog to a nearby steep chunk rock bank that held fish a couple of weeks ago and found they were still there. They were biting real well at first light and continued up until about 0900 and then it started to get tough. No wind early and cold - 27 degrees, water temp was 54-55. We ended up with 23 bass, 12 for Jeb and 11 for me, I stuck with a T-rigged tube most of the day and Jeb threw a jig, numbers on both techniques were pretty equal. We did notice that most of the fish were off the bank a bit, in the deeper water off the steep banks. I caught my personal best spot today, 3.5 lbs. Jeb got a 3 lb. spot also. Weighed on a Boga grip. We were on the trailer at 1230, looked like the wind was starting to pick up, maybe there was a good blade bite this afternoon.

Daiichi Death Traps #6, they are scary sharp.