Quillback

The Blue Bandit McRip, here's a pic of a 5.5 I picked up before the big freeze on Blue Bandit.

Gavin - Sent you a PM regarding the McSticks and IMA's.

Minus 10 degrees here in Bella Vista this morning. That will set the record for low cold for this date.

Ype getting pummeled here in Bella Vista, watching the weather last night, they were saying 3-5 inches, lol, more like 13-15!

Good to see the Pack win, as far as the halftime show, I did not watch it, I gave up on Super Bowl haltime shows about 20 years ago.

Depends on what they had to say..

Ironically there was a blurb in today's Benton Co. paper about Beaver levels, the corps spokesman says that any moisture provided by this storm will not have an effect on lake levels because of the need to generate electricity. He did not say anything about minimum flow. I have a heat pump myself and my bills are jumping.

A lot of electricity being used in this cold snap which looks to go through next Thursday.

Brrrr, but I guess the upside is that you have the lake to yourself.

SPOCK: "Captain, this planet appears to be shielded by an impenetrable force field of deniability." KIRK: "Dammit Spock, we must find a way to communicate with those people, use your powers of logic and reason to overcome this obstacle!" SPOCK: "Captain, I am sorry to report that my calculations indicate that this force field in 100% impervious to logic or reason." KIRK: "Sigh, well Spock, I guess we'll have to leave, by the way, did you know Roosevelt was a communist?"

If I had unlimited funds, I'd fly to Florida, stay in a fancy motel, hire a bass guide every day for a week, and come back next Friday when temps (hopefully) have returned to normal around here.

There are some very expensive boats in some of those marinas, hopefully everyone is up to date on their insurance.

Man those are funny! He makes so many that sometimes I think that he stages them, but most of them look too painful to be staged.

Finally ended up with 8 or so inches. Power never went out, could've been worse I guess.

Snow is really coming down now, very windy to boot.

Yep it is now snowing in NW AR.

In NW AR it is sleeting, there was just a little ice this morning, now an inch or two of sleet has fallen. Lots of snow predicted. The forecast calls for -8 tomorrow night. That is ridiculous, I hope they are wrong.

Snakem you deserve the true grit award, holy cow!

Very nice!

Is there a launch in the town of Beaver? The map I have shows one, but I looked around a couple of years ago and did not see it. I know about that ramp on Holiday island but to get there I have to cross that long one lane wooden bridge.

Yes they can return to the sea, these Hells Canyon fish are a long way from the sea and have to get by several dams to get back, so the chances of one returning are very, very slim. Fish from undammed coastal rivers have a much better chance of being return spawners. The fish that is released is a wild spawned fish, they must be released by law, to spawn, you can tell by the intact adipose fin (they zoom in on it). Hatchery fish (adipose fin is clipped) can be kept by sports fishermen and they are also netted by tribal fishermen. F&G biologists encourage anglers to harvest hatchery fish as they don't want them spawning with wild fish and screwing up their genes (it's a complicated issue with many opinions, but basically that's the reason). And as long as the hatcheries receive enough eggs and milt to provide the next generation of hatchery fingerlings, then the excess can be harvested. I'm not 100% sure what Idaho's policy is on hatchery fish that have been spawned out at the hatchery, but in Washington State they are donated to foodbanks or the carcasses are used to suplement river nutrients, they are not released alive back into the river. So, it's perfectly acceptable to keep a hatchery steelhead. Once they've been in the river a while they aren't the best table fare, but are good smoked.

Thanks for the report, as always it contains some good info.

His plan is to amputate the finger with a meat cleaver, yank the hook out of the amputated digit, pack the finger in ice and send the patient to a surgeon to get the finger re-attached.

Anyone notice that they are using #4 shot for their predator "Shoot". You have to be really close to a coyote or bigger predator to get a clean kill with #4. Nothing humane or ethical about what these guys are doing, how many times did they have to shoot the cougar to finally kill it? I'm a hunter myself and I have no problem with people killing predators, but at least try and put them down quickly. I'm sure they are using #4 shot too lessen the chances of shooting someone else in the group, but good grief, if you don't feel a little twinge of conscience when slowly killing an animal, you're a pretty cold blooded son of a gun.

I love it here in Arkansas, but I miss my steelhead fishing. http://www.photoshop.com/users/he11scanyon/albums/0c3c1dc2ebae479a9bda683b9b11cf92/view#f30f3d6e06aa41ebb6dca0917bbcb222