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I threw a black hair jig and eel around one of the lakes here in Bella Vista, did not get a bite. I was a little disappointed, I dragged it through some brush piles and for sure thought I would get a bite. Switched to a suspending jerk bait and picked a couple of fish up. Only fished about three hours, too darn cold and windy.

Seems we are in a dry spell. my guess is it stays low.

The scary thing, the point that Al brings up, is if we reach a tipping point where warming climate becomes irreversible (at least in our lifetimes). But that seems to be how we do things in this country, we wait until it's a crisis, then we scramble like rats to fix it.

Congrats! That is one heckuva bass.

Excellent! Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for posting that article Champ, wow it was 3 years ago, how time flies!

Nah, no need to skip, hopefully you and Champ will win it this year!

Temple Fork Outfitters makes a good rod for $99 at Tacklewarehouse.

Was it last year or 2 years ago that someone weighed in a 10 lb bass? Pretty impressive fish for The Beav.

Bowe has been huge for my fantasy team.

Anybody watch Wild Justice Sunday night on NGC? There were 2 episodes back to back, basically it's a "Cops" type format, camera guy riding along with a game warden. First two shows were with California F&G wardens, riding around at night looking for people shining deer, but it seemed instead of finding game violators the lights in the distance were from Maryjane growers. What surprised me was the wardens would follow up and raid the field themselves with their own tactical teams instead of calling in the regular police. Next episode is Wednesday at 9 PM on NGC.

Yep the Citica, tacklewarehouse has a 20% sale that ends tonite, so you could get it for $99 with free shipping at TW. Or as Eric says, check out Ebay.

Yep the Citica, tacklewarehouse has a 20% sale that ends tonite, so you could get it for $99 with free shipping at TW. Or as Eric says, check out Ebay.

I have a Basspro Extreme 370 that has held up well, I have had it for two years and I fish a lot, it goes in trhe boat everytime I go fishing. So far it is still holding up, no rips or tears or no broken zippers. It holds 4 3700 type utility boxes which doesn't meet your goal of six, but it also has 2 large side pockets and a large front pocket.

I was doing the 3 jerks and a pause routine, short pauses, 2 or 3 seconds. They always hit on the pause, and hit it hard, it wasn't the mid-winter light bite.

Fished it Saturday, it was a little chilly but not too bad, relatively few other fishermen out there, very few pleasure boats and only saw one PWC. If not for the constant background noise created by leafblowers it would have been a peaceful day. Even saw a couple of eagles. Water temp was 52. My go to bait was a Norman Flake McStick, caught one LM on a spiiner bait, but the rest came on the McStick. Backs of coves and secondary points in the coves were where I caught fish, except for catching some whites on main lake points. There are shad EVERYWHERE, I have never seen so many shad. Lots of terns, gulls and cormorants feeding on the shad, and I even saw a couple of eagles. Caught about 15 black bass and 1/2 dozen whites. No big bass, caught a couple of 16" fish, but the rest were in the 12-15" range. Caught ol' Buglemouth below on the McStick, probably went about 8 lbs. thought I had a heck of a bass, major disappoinment when I saw his big rubber lips pop up through the murky water as I brought him to the boat. I would say it's a fluke, except this is the 2nd carp I have caught on a McStick. I can't say that I ripped this one's lip, as it had been ripped before! Good day to be out, best day for bass I have had on Grand.

Picked up this little piggie on a 1/2 oz Bassx brown football jig with a brown super chunk trailer in one of the Bella Vista lakes today. Fishing was slow, got lucky, 22.5 inches, length girth calculator says 6.4, but I am going to be conservative and say 6 lbs. Not the greatest pic, I was holding it at arms length and still could not get all of it in the pic. Nice Black Friday special

bassresource.com is a site you might want to look at.

Picked up a "Best of Bassmaster" book from the library. Articles from the 70,s and early 80's. Lots of changes since then, the first bassmaster tournament guys were bringing in their fish on a stringer (obviously dead). But several articles mention as a winter time go to bait, you could not beat a black hair jig with a black pork rind eel. I decided to pick some up, ordered some hair jigs from Northstarbaits and some eels from Uncle Josh. Had to go to the Uncle Josh website to get them, couldn't find the eels at the online retailers. I'm definitely going to try them this winter. Also when it comes to worms, the purple worm was the go to worm bait then, how many people use purple anymore? I don't have any myself, but seems they should still work.

Yes I hope everybody had a great Thanksgiving! I don't fish TR (one of these days I will) but the info you all provide is good info to put to use on Beaver. So thanks for those reports and please keep them coming! Did anyone fish yesterday? In spite of the cold. sleet, freezing rain, and wind I have to belive there was at least one boat on Table Rock. The weather is great today, I think I'll hook up the boat and try one of the local Bella Vista lakes.

Yeah Tfish, keep the pics and reports coming, I think these forums are a place for people to post reports and pics if they so desire, but maybe you have to win a tournament and have a livewell full of 5 lb bass to be entitled to post a report. I've posted pics of mediocre fish myself, and not ashamed to admit I get a kick out of catching 15 inch bass.

Yeah it is, as they say, a quarterbacks league. If Cassel suddenly transforms himself into the second coming of Peyton Manning, then the Chiefs will be a serious contender. San Diego looked very good last night. Even without Gates. And I believe Vincent Jackson will be back soon.

I have Bowe and Cassel on one of my fantasy teams, had to start Cassel last week because my #1 QB was on a bye. Cassel throws 4 td's and has a monster game! And Bowe had a great game too. Unfortunately the Chiefs lost, but my expectations for them are low. Real low..

Nice one! Work right now is putting the ki-bosh on my fishing, but glad to see folks getting out and catching them.

HLS sells live shad now? I have never seen them there myself, I know they do sell what they call brood minnows which can work. Main problem with shad is keeping them alive, they need circulating water and a round tank. If whatever you are keeping them in has corners they will continually butt their heads into the corner and die fairly quickly.