Quillback

Overheard an old codger saying, "When I was a kid, Mom would send me to the store with a dollar and I'd come home with a bag of potatoes, two loaves of bread, three bottles of milk, a chunk of cheese, some tea, six eggs and two chocolate bars. Can't do that now. Too many darn security cameras!

Made the trip over to Grand yesterday for the first time this year. Fishing was slow for me, caught 1/2 dozen bass, all on t-rigged creature baits. Didn't do any good on spinner baits, cranks and worms, creature bait was the only thing I could get bit on. Shad are in the coves, but most of my bass came on main lake banks, with two coming about halfway back in coves. Weather sure was nice!

Wow, those BFL results are eye opening. Tough fishing for sure.

Yeah, but is there any bass fishing in India?

They played well the first half, that pic six hurt, but then they collapsed in the 3rd quarter. I have to wonder if starting off the year by playing 3 cupcakes before going on the road to play a top SEC team is a bad idea. I think they should play at least one quality team before starting the SEC schedule. They just did not look ready to play Alabama, I think they have the talent to do better than they did.

Did you get the tournament name? Just curious, me and jeb went out last week and we saw a couple of wrapped boats in the Hickory creek parking lot, we were wondering if they were practicing for a tourney this weekend and what tourney it was.

2 weeks in a row they have stunk. Charles got carted off, doesn't look good for him. That leaves McCluster and Jones to run the ball, Jones is looking old and McCluster ain't big enough. No running game, lousy QB, only one good reciever (Bowe), and a questionable head coach. I think they should just forfeit the rest of the season, spare us the misery of watching any more of their games, and be first in line to get Luck.

Glad to hear you got some, I saw lots of shad in Windsor last week. Done OK fishing worms c-rigged around brush piles, no big fish however for me.

FWIW, latest report from ADFG: (479-366-8664) said the cold weather really put Beaver Lake stripers on the prowl! The striper fishing has been good with numbers of fish taken on live shad fished on lightly weighted balloon lines trolled 50-100 feet behind the boat and on Rapalas set 10 to 20 feet deep on downriggers. There has also been some good topwater action on big stripers this week. The stripers are active most of the day with peaks around sunrise, sunset and during generation. White bass also are beginning to school on the surface. The whites, stripers and hybrids may be mixed together at some places, so be sure to identify the fish you keep. There is a three-fish limit on stripers/hybrids and a 20-inch minimum length on stripers. Be sure to check out Point 1, Indian Creek, Lost Bridge North and Point 3, as stripers have been in these areas. The fishing is excellent at Lost Bridge South in front of Starky (try the island at Starky and the humps from the island to Lost Bridge South Park). At Rocky Branch, some stripers have been taken at Point 6 and the small island in front of the water intake. White bass and walleye have been caught near the road bed that extends to the island and in the marina and Larue Cove. Walleye activity is picking up at Horseshoe Bend and Monte-Ne around the island flats. White bass, hybrids and small stripers are surfacing in these areas. Most walleye are about 8-15 feet deep off points and flats around the islands at Rocky Branch, Prairie Creek and at points 6, 5, 3, and 1. Flat line troll with Hot ’N’ Tot’s, Rapala Tail Dancers, Shad Raps, Reef Runners or Ripstiks in natural blue or black back combos or chartreuse/orange and clown colors. Jigging spoons around brush and rock piles are also producing.

A couple of weeks ago I was out black bass fishing with Jeb and we saw a guide boat catch a couple in the channel that is between the Indian Creek boat launch and the point of land to the east, they were using shad below balloons. Last fall the guides were working the mouth of Honey Creek cove (south of Rolloff bluff), I'd give that a shot if I was a striper fisher, I'd also bring some binocs and try and spot the guide boats and head in their direction. It might be worth it to go on a Saturday morning when the guide boats are out in force and see where they are fishing.

That's one heck of a Rock Bass. Congrats!

It was ugly, offence, defence, special teams, and coaching, it was all bad. It can't get any worse, can it?

I can see a future with 4 16-team megaconferences, sets up nicely for a national championship game. 4 conference winners go into an end of year playoff to decide the national champ. The 4 conferences would be divided into 8 team divisions, so you'd have a conference championship game with winners going into the national title playoff. It would be an awesome system. If you're not one of the 64, you can play in meaningless bowl games such as the Music City Bowl, to name one.

I see the Chiefs scoring more than 17 - Jamaal Charles is going to run wild, 200 yds rushing and 3 TD's. Disclaimer: I have Charles on my fantasy team

Do a search on "Phoenix". You'll find a thread on the Table Rock forum where Bill Babler lists all the contact info for a Phoenix dealer.

The logistics aren't that bad, there are relatively few streams infected with didymo. None in MO that I can find. Probably the highest risk of didymo being introduced to a MO stream would be from a fisherman coming from one of the infected areas in Arkansas to fish in MO. Only catch is that the MDC can't set regulations for AR.

Seems it would make more sense to ban felt waders in the waters that have didymo.

Yeah good question, wonder where they do the weigh-in?

Cool, always interesting to see what techniques these guys use on a local lake.

They did 2 stockings, one with approx. 40 K and another around 6 K. To Jeremy's point, maybe it was 2 different locations, White and Kings rivers.

Arkansas has stocked approximately 50,000 2 inch Walleye fingerlings into Table Rock this May. I assume they went into the White River arm, but the report does not specify where they were stocked. http://www.agfc.com/resources/Publications/Craig.pdf

Arkansas has stocked approximately 50,000 2 inch Walleye fingerlings into Table Rock this May. I assume they went into the White River arm, but the report does not specify where they were stocked. http://www.agfc.com/resources/Publications/Craig.pdf

Went fishing early this morning at Lake Windsor, one of the community lakes here in Bella Vista. Caught a couple of bass as the sky was getting light to the east. Cast my t-rig up on towards the bank and snagged some mono, pulled the mono off my rig and started handlining it in (I always will bring in line that I snag and dispose of it in the trash), as I pulled the line in I felt some resistance, at first I thought it was a limb, but it started swimming around, got it near the boat and a big ol bass jumped out of the water. Had to play the fish on the handline for a few minutes, but finally got her lipped and brought her into the boat. 22" fish, probably 5-6 lbs. Had a Zoom trick worm with a shakey head stuck in her jaw, with probably about 50 yards of that blue stren line attached. Must have darn near spooled the person who broke her off. Got the hook out and let her go. Not the greatest pic, but it was just getting light. Fish had a funny looking bump behind the gills, if I catch her again I'll recognize her. Hopefully I'll see her in the spring when she's another inch longer and full of eggs.

Yep come on cool weather! I love that winter jerkbait bite. Winter spoon bite can be good too. Swepco gets good in November. Beaver topwater in October, Grand lake in October/November. Come on first frost!

There has to be someone good at fiberglass repair around here.