Quillback

Nice 'eyes!

Me and Mixer must have been typing at the same time, lol, but it appears great minds think alike

looking at the forecast, it looks to be in the 50's Wed - Friday and warming into the 60's over the weekend. Very fishable in my opinion. I'm not predicting hot fishing, but you've got a shot at some large bass this time year. I'd bring the boat and do some fishing, sounds like you can fish multiple days which is a help this time of year as it may take some fishing to find them, but it's been my experience the last few weeks that once you find them, there will be multiple fish in the area. I'd also bring some tubes and grubs.

Dang, the Rock is really kicking out some big fish this year.

No it's a largemouth.

Based on the names, the perps look to be Russians. In the Pacific Northwest there were some Russians busted for snagging sturgeon and harvesting the roe. Of course, not all Russians living here are poachers, it's only a few of them. But that being said, Russian poachers in the Pac NW were blatant about their poaching and didn't seem to care about the consequences of being busted. If these guys get only a slap on the wrist, theyll be back at it as soon as they can.

What I'm wondering is how many years they've been doing this? I'm guessing these guys have been keeping everything they've caught since day 1.

Yeah I was listening to ESPN radio yesterday and they were picking LaSalle to win based on the fact that the A-10 was winning every game thus far. Looks like they called it right. I also agree on that SLU vs Oregon game, should be a good one!

Yep Soda, welcome! I agree with Champ and Wormman, if you're coming down here on vacation, you could not do worse than to go with Bill Balber and find out what they're biting on.

Well guys I have to brag, Got this fat gal today over here at Lake Windsor in Bella Vista, just under 7 lbs. I bet she weighs 4 after she spawns. On a custom painted Norman Flake Megabass. Caught another one at 4.25, was trying to lip one that was around 5 that got off, and had another one that looked to be 5 or 6 get off about 10 feet from the boat. Had another half dozen or so chunky fish in the 2 lb. range. Right place at the right time, they were chasing shad and being stupid. I like stupid bass

I'd also try a weightless, wacky rigged Senko type bait.

How about that Southern/Gonzaga game? I have to wonder if Gonzaga is worthy of that #1 seed.

Kudos to Cliff Pace, I'm beginning to like the guy. I hope he does well.

Wow, that is a nice looking custom job on that Wart.

If I'm reading that right a child age15 and under can get a lifetime license for $275.00? Not a bad deal if you've got a kid that looks to be a dedicated fishermen for the rest of his/her life.

Thanks for the report, I've been thinking about going over there, but I hear they have shut the plant down for maintenance so they aren't running any water. I think that's the reason you saw those cold (for Swepco) water temps, I believe that it makes fishing a lot tougher on that lake when they shut the plant down.

Ya'll are welcome, I have fun doing some fishing and taking some pics, might as well share them.

Nope, no accidents here, Ike wasn't in an accident either, he was driving too fast to react in a safe manner to a hazard. He's lucky he and the poor guy that was stuck in the boat with him walked away from it.

With the nasty weather forecast for later this week, I thought I'd better get out there while I had a chance. Fishing was OK, caught a dozen bass, mostly LM's and I think I remember maybe 3 spots. Got them all dragging a tube on rocky flats, or in small rocky pockets. Caught one bass that had this craw in his mouth, picture is a bit blurry, but you crawologists can get a sense of the color, green, with black borders on the shell and some orange on the ends of the legs. He was about 2.5" long. Here's a pic of a pocket that I caught 5 bass out of, boat was sitting in 10 FOW and the area where the bass were, in the back of the pocket, but not all the way back, was about 4-5 feet deep and rocky. No standing timber in the water at all. Big bass of the day, 3.5 lbs. I did not throw the A-rig, I just don't like to fish it, I have no problem with other people fishing it, but it's just not something I enjoy doing.

Looks like a few teams did very well, and the rest were just kind of average. I have to wonder if the bass on that lake are getting tournament fatigue, seems there's been a lot of tourney activity on that lake the last few weeks, but maybe it's what you see every year on that lake, I started paying attention this year to the tourney's on Grand, but it seems every weekend for the past month there's tourneys with hundreds of boats.

Must have been a tough place to fish, winner had 49 lbs., heck Beaver fishes better than that. Ike finished 83rd, should've stayed on the bank.

Awesome fish, congrats!

I fished around Big M a couple of days last week and did not see any whites, if you're after whites I'd go somewhere else, where exactly I could not tell you, might be some up around Holiday Island.

Come May or June there's a real good early morning topwater bite on and around the point by the Viney creek COE launch and park on the White river arm of Table Rock. I don't know if that's within driving range of where you are, but it would be an excellent spot to fish from a canoe, or you could wade fish there also. You can launch your canoe and be right into the fish. It's mostly Spots with an occasional smallie or LM. Once the early topwater bite stops you can pick them up dragging a 3/8 oz football jig in green pumpkin with any trailer (I like Zoom Creepy Crawlers in GP, cheap but effective), across the point. Only drawback is that if you go on a Saturday morning you will have company. If you want a little space for yourself, there's another launch about 3/4 mile north of Viney, I don't know what it's called, but I believe you can find it on GPS. You can launch a canoe there, paddle about 200 yards north, and you'll be on a point with ajacent flats that holds fish May through July, same deal, early topwater then drag jigs, again mostly spots with a SM or LM every once in a while.

Ok, well hopefully you'll be able to make it, let me know if you decide to go and I'll bring some stuff. I think I recall Bill Babler saying he was bringing his boat and tackle with him, not that I want to make promises for him, but if you're going you could shoot him a PM and see if he's bringing some BC's.