Quillback

That is an awesome mount, heck of a fish too, 35 lbs. is nothing to sneeze at.

Excellent! I have some time off this week myself, so I might have to break out the jigs.

I was out yesterday, fished the Piney creek area, a little bit in War Eagle, caught some black bass - nothing real big - and a few nice whites on the Bass Pro version of a Rattle Trap. Best fishing seems to be in the back of coves where the shad are concentrated. Talked to another guy at the Hickory creek ramp and he said he had done well on bass shallow - didn't get any more detail than that, but the fish are biting and you picked a good 4 days to fish.

How does that old song go.. "Puhlease release me, let me go."

That's quite a few blue cats for Beaver lake, I like it.

My granddad used to live in Kennett, back in the 60's he used to fish Reelfoot quite a bit, there's was always lots of crappie, but they were small on average. I hear nowadays it's still pretty good and the crappie are a little bigger on average. My uncle lives in Memphis and still fished it every once and a while and he says it's still good for crappie and bream. Anyway, if you go it will be interesting to hear how you do.

I bet those poachers know it is the deer opener and the Wildlife LE are going to be concentrating on deer hunters.

Cool, thanks for sharing!

I'm a little surprised at the dates this is being held on TR, March 4-6, seems like there's a good possibility it will be a mite chilly out there. It will be interesting to see what the winning strategy will be.

Can they spawn or are they sterile? If they can reproduce it could create a problem, they might take over our cold water fisheries. Imagine the consequences, guides will be out of business because their clients will say, "Who needs a guide, I can see the darn things swimming around the river." Lodges and docks will fold as no one will fish for these mutants as they are so easy to catch that they won't provide enough of a challenge to veteran fishermen. This could be a bad situation, I suggest that anytime anyone catches one of these yellow trout, that you reserve a place for it in your frying pan.

Thanks for the info, you might see my boat up there this Saturday, if the weather is half decent.

November 16, 9 PM PT, the Nat GEO channel is showing "Expedition Great White" as part of Expedition week. They are going to fish for Great Whites off Baja using rod and reel, 5000 lb test braided, circle hooks the size of boat anchors, the goal is to CNR them, take blood samples, tag them for research. I think this will be worth watching.

Here and there..

I went out Saturday morning, water was still pretty stained, kind of a coffee with cream color. Started off fishing a lipless crankbait, after about 10 minutes hooked a nice 4-5 lb black bass that jumped and tossed the lure. After that I fished probably another 4 hours and did not get another bite. Tried to find some white bass, but I could not find them either. I finally put down the rodes and got the shad net out (there's shad all over that lake), netted myself about 50 shad, put them on ice, and went home. Returned on Sunday AM, catfish gear and shad in the cooler, went over to my favorite catfish spot and drifted shad, ended up catching 4 blues, 2-3 lb'ers about 40 feet down. Not a lot of bites, but when they hit it they really slammed it. Nice thing about this time of year, not nearly as many boats out there. Water also cleared considerably from Saturday, I think give it a couple more days and it will be looking good.

Thanks guys, it saves me from making a wasted trip down that way. I might have to swing over to Grand Lake this weekend.

Also, anybody been up the river arms?

Anybody been down around Hickory creek? Monte Ne area? Just curious what the visibility is water wise.

Nice one! Nice to have that glassy water on a winter day also.

Just curious what the water looks like, is it still really muddy, or is it fishable?

It's hard to get a perspective on size from the video, but it looks like a noce fish. Just curious, I never fish Taney, is that spot where the video is shot off limits to fishing?

Trolling that is, no tolling.

You guys are giving me ideas, with the cold weather forecast for this weekend it might be time to take the boat down to Houseman and do some tolling for trout.

Here ya go - Redneck snowblower

I have been out of town this week, but was looking at the lake gauge and it looks like it has gone up a foot in the last 24 hours. Must have been a real gully washer back there. I wonder if this will make the fishing better or worse this weekend?

Funny you mention the Frogg Toggs, I had a brand new pair, put them on one rainy day, after a couple of hours wearing them, I look down and see the inseam is split open from crotch to knee on one leg, I wasn't doing anything strenuous besides the usual fishing stuff - no more of that lousy rain gear for me, cheap Walmart stuff works just as good. As far as Stradics, I own one, works fine except for a slight grinding noise caused by the spool rotating, hopefully this does not mean there's an eminent failure brewing, probably when I have that once in a lifetime 12 lb bass on, I can see it now, GRRRNNNCH (sound of reel freezing up) SPROINGGG (parts fly off) SNNAAAPPPP (Line breaks) - 12 lb bass swims away. I also have a couple of Johnny Morris's finest, good reels so far and I do belive they are on sale. Outdoor Life, or one of those mags, recomended them as good value for the money.