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Fun game last night, a Brouhaha broke out, highlighted by 'Kung-Fu' Cueto kicking at any Cards within reach, I hope the guy gets a massive fine and a long suspension. Reds looked like they could not deal with the pressure of a big game.

You've probably heard about the flight attendant who got in a confrontation with a passenger, then bolted by deploying the escape chute. As a frequent flyer I can't tell you the number of times I've heard the pilots and flight attendants announce over the intercom that the flight attendants primary mission is the safety and comfort of the passengers. This paticular flight attendant left his post, so to speak, leaving his passengers and other flight attendants to deal with this irate passenger. I don't see anything heroic about it at all. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/38655148#38655148

Wow! Very nice! Good on you for releasing it.

Tequila!

Just curious if anyone is getting out during daylight hours and if so, are you having any luck? Haven't been to Beaver myself in a month at least, thinking about going, but would like to hear if anyone is doing anything with the black bass.

Sorry to see the reports end, I keep saying I will make it up there to fish, just haven't done it yet. Seems like school is starting early this year, I'm surprised they don't wait until after Labor Day.

I was out before daylight last week a couple of mornings, had the backlight turned on on the depthfinder, which attracted bugs, which brought in a few bats, which were sometimes flying into my line, and it does feel like a bite, but I could see the bats so I knew what it was. Had one fly into the garage one morning as I was hooking up the boat, had to chase it out with a broom.

Gotta like those blue/black jigs, had good luck on them this year myself. Heckuva bass, and a gnarly looking turtle. Ozark you're probably the only person I've heard of that jug fishes and lets the cats go. Nothing wrong with that, but not something I've seen people do, usually it's the frying pan for those jug fish!

Pee Wee at Sturgis? Doesn't seem right, but yet he seems do be doing well there. Next stop Branson? http://tv.msn.com/tv/article.aspx?news=535004&GT1=28103

Nice fish! What did you get it on?

Meeting is in Rogers at the Beaver Lake Aviation bldg. on HWY 62 in Rogers. The paper does not state when it starts, but in the past I believe it is at 7 PM. August 10.

Very nice! Congrats!

Thanks for the info BW, I plan on chasing the cats once the weather gets a little more reasonable, I like September and October on Grand for blues. I use fresh shad myself, but I slow troll them on the bottom on the flats. Pretty neat catching one on a surface lure, can't say I've ever done that!

Looks like they are 89.99 in the Bargain Cave. Tackle Warehouse also has them on sale for a little less. (free shipping at TW on orders over $50). Don't have one myself, but you can get some opinions if you do a search on e21 Carrot Stix. They must be coming out with a new model as these rods are on sale at quite a few places.

Yep I think that next year all those pesky 16-17 inch eyes are going to be keepers. A nice bonus fish when you're out bass fishing, something you can take home for the frying pan.

Correction, 3/4 oz jig not 7/8.

I have not done any night fishing in a while, I used to fish nights when I lived on the east coast, used to fish black jitterbugs and had some pretty good nights with them. Well I launched at 0330 this morning on one of the local lakes, started out c-rigging a black Zoom Ol' Monster, fished it for forty five minutes with out a bite, so I switched to a 7/8 Black/Blue Jewell football jig and that was the ticket. Caught this guy, about 21 inches, according to the online weight/girth calculator is 4.5-5 lbs. Lost another one at the boat which looked to be a little bigger, and caught this 2.5 lb fish and and another one about a pound. Had about an hour of good action, then it started getting light and they shut down, fished for another hour without a bite. I think I'll try and get out a little earlier tomorrow. Sleep is over rated right? The best part of all this is when you're crawling that jig along the bottom, can't see a thing, it's all feel, and the you feel that THUMP-THUMP, man you can't beat that.

Yeah it's a haul, about 70 miles from the house. So, based on your past experience, any recommendations for what to use in the fall?

Wave one of those metal detecting wands over the fish that the airport security screeners use. Fast and easy.

The Outdoor section in today's Benton County Record has a short piece about a 25 lb Brown the AGFC survey folks shocked up the night of July 19. They've shocked it up several times before in past years they think, as they always find it in the same area. Not much else to the story besides that.

Yep, I'll be back, but I'll probably start fishing for catfish and whites on Grand until we get into some cool fall weather. It would be good to get some reports here on bass at Grand, but I guess we'll have to make our own.

Those are some big fish!

Made the treck over to Grand, should have stayed home. I caught 2 bass total, 1 and 2 pounds. One on a jig near a dock and one on a c-rigged Zoom Ol Monster. forecast was for a cloudy day, but it was sunny, hot and humid. I knew the black bass would be tough, but the whites were also absent. I overheard a guide talking to another boat and the guide wasn't able to find the whites either, but they had been killing them prior to yesterday.

Here in Bella Vista, the POA started stocking trout in Lake Brittany 3 winters ago, all rainbows, 5,000 annually, 1,000 per month for 5 months starting in November, initially it was thought it would be a winter only fishery with the surviving trout expected to die off in the summer. Brittany is a small lake, 100 acres maybe, but near the dam it get's about 60 feet deep. The first two summers, ,the trout did survive until the next year, but our last 2 summers have been relativeliy mild. A couple of days ago I was fishing Brittany for bass and noticed a trout struggling on top and after a few minutes it turned belly up, so I went over a netted it, a nice 14 " fish. About an hour later I saw another one do the same thing. I took a couple of pictures and emailed our lakes biologist, he was disappointed to hear this, but there's not much to be done about it. It is cool enough below the thermocline for trout, but just not enough oxygen. It could be that the fish that died had wandered out of the cool zone and could not get back to it before croaking, but with the forecast for the hot weather to continue the future looks grim for these trout. Which is a shame as the ones that made it through the summer were nice colorful fish that could reach the 16-18 inch range.

Thinking of Neil, I remembered one of my old favorite albums, whoops, CD's. Zuma, actually it's Neil Young and Crazy Horse. "Cortez the killer" is a great song on that CD. Some may not agree with the message in the lyrics, but it's still a good one.