Quillback

20 years living in the Pacific Northwest I saw the decline in species such as salmon, steelhead, Dungeness crab, smelt, shrimp and rockfish. Usually regulation changes to sport and commercial harvest occur after the species numbers have been so far knocked down that recovery becomes very difficult. Ironically, shad, which were introduced to the Pacific coast, are doing very well.

That is one heck of a fish!

I would appreciate it if ya'll would shoot some geeese, especially the ones that are hanging around here in NW Arkansas.

Haven't been out myself since September. Did you go, and if so how was the fishing?

Love to see those bass pics, congrats on a good day. The jerkbait bite is beginning it sounds like.

I like fishing jigs myself, I like the Jewell line of jigs, Bass-x and Omega jigs. For swimjigs I like Northstar jigs and Dirty jigs, I noticed that Jewell now has a line of smimjigs with a flatter head that most have, not that I need more jigs, but I may have to pick a few up. For trailers I like Zoom Super chunks and Fat Albert twin tails. Caught some nice bass night fishing with football jigs and Zoom Big Salty Chunk trailers. I like the Netbait Paca chunks also. I haven't tried the Rage Tail Craw yet, but it's on my list, heard lots of good feedback on them. For a swimbait trailer I like the Optimum Diamond shad, they are pricier that most paddletail soft plastics, but they are very durable and have great action.

Wow, those are some HUGE stripers, congrats!

I have used swim jigs myself with a paddletail trailer, I haven't torn them up using one, but I do catch an occaisional fish on them.

Good for you, if I worked there I would definitely take advantage of that discount!

Welcome! Always looking to hear some striper reports.

How do you get that 40% discount?

I use the 2.5 and 3.5.

I use the RC wakebaits on Beaver in the spring, worked well for me, it is compact and heavy so it will cast further than a Redfin, but you can buy three Redfins for the price of one of these RC wakebaits.

Wow, so if I read that article right, they actually have a team of 5 sniffers at NASA. What do these folks do when they're not sniffin? It can't be an 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, job right? I wonder when they're all in a room together sniffin, if it sounds like a bunch of bloodhounds working a trail, kind of a very loud SNIFF, SNIFF, SNORT, SNIFF...

Thanks for the report!

Those fillets look tasty..

They looked ugly yesterday, but, if Dwayne Bowe could have just held onto that pass that banged off his hands when he was in the end zone...

Thanks for the recomendation Ness, could not find it at the local library, but it's on my list.

One other, The journals of Lewis and Clark, edited by Bernard Devoto.

I just reread Into Thin Air by John Krakauer, excellent first person account of climbing Mt. Everest. Blackhawk Down, Mark Bowden. If you're into military history, Fire in the Skyby Eric Bergurud, it's about the air war in the South Pacific in the early years of WWII.

I think what we are seeing is the beginning of a long term trend where companies will gradually pull out of providing health care insurance for employees. They have already, for the most part gotten out of providing pensions, and health care will be next. I know someone that owns a print shop, he's looking at the new health care bill that passes and he sees a choice between providing health care at $500/month per employee, or under the new bill he can drop the coverage and pay $2000/year per employee penalty. Just as most of us our on our own for funding our retirements, we're eventually going to be on our own for providing for our health care.

Seems to be a lot of bait in the lake, the fish ought to be feeding up for the winter. But they never act like I think they should act.

Yeah must have been a slow day, weather was weird, it was 42 here at the house and most of the way to Lost Bridge, but I noticed at Lost Bridge it was 57. Day before it was 42 at the house, but 37 and foggy at Lost Bridge. Seems the fish prefered cold and foggy. I saw in the paper that there is a "Spot only" bass tourney next weekend at Beaver out of Prairie Creek. I hope they post the results somewhere, I would like to see what the biggest spot is they catch. I have never seen one over 2.5 lbs. out of Beaver, but there has to be some 4-5 lb. spots out there.

SB, are you still seeing the whites in the Monte Ne area? I have a hankering for some fried fish.

I'll add this, $263 a month is still a good price, especially if it's a good plan with low deductibles, good medication coverage and free well visits and tests. I have looked as some high deductible plans (Blue Cross, Aetna) and prices are around $250/month, and with low deductible can go over $400, so if you've got good coverage at $263 you're probably better off sticking with it. Also check medication coverage, med prices can be outrageous.