Quillback

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.

Went back again today hoping for another good topwater bite. First thing I ran over to Honey Creek cove where I thought I might see some stripers, didn't see any on top even though there was lots of bait in the cove. Beat the banks in that area with topwaters, did not do well, caught 1/2 dozen total all spots except for one SM and one LM, nothing over 12 inches. Then I went back to one of the coves off Indian Creek that I did well on yesterday, but got zip there. Then headed back into the back end of Indian Creek and caught this nice 17" spot and another that went 14". But still slow, so by then it was 1030 and the sun was overhead and I decided to quit. There are quite a few shad and minnows in the back end of Indian. If I could do it over again, I would have gone to the back end of Indian first thing in the AM.

I haven't been there yet, but I haven't heard any reasons to make the trip, Hook, Line and Sinker is a lot closer. And I usually will buy stuff online. I do hear that Academy has a good selection of athletic shoes, so when it comes time to get a new pair I'll probably make the trip.

Good top water bite this morning in the coves off the main Indian Creek channel, caught close to 20 black bass, maybe 6 largemouth the rest spots except for one smallie. No big ones, biggest LM was 16", the rest were in the 10-14" range. They are on the banks, did not catch any around deep structure. Did catch some in front of docks, but most were on the banks near cover. Had lots of strikes, probably would have caught 40-50 fish this morning if I had hooked every one. The bite slowed down around 11 AM, so get there early. Did not see any striper activity or whites.

I think I get a bass pro catalog about every other week, funny they won't send you any. If you're online shopping, especially for bass stuff, check out tacklewarehouse.com. They don't have any house brand stuff like BP, but they have free shipping on orders over $50 including rods. They also have periodic 15% discount sales. It's hard to beat them when you get free shipping and a discount, no state sales tax either unless you live in CA. And they don't send out catalogs, but you can get email alerts from them when there are sales. My main gripe with BP and Cabelas is they charge you shipping based on the dollar amount of your order and it's expensive. So for example, you could buy a hundred dollars worth of feathers and they charge you $10 for shipping. And if you want a rod they charge extra for that on top of the already expensive shipping charge. Cablelas and BP do carry a lot of stuff that TW does not, such as clothes, hunting stuff etc. TW is good if you're just looking at bass gear.

You lucky dog, $160 is a steal!

I think they are sorta for real, they do have the benefit of playing in a weak division, they certainly have a shot at making the playoffs. SD lost to Seattle yesterday which is as surprising as when they were beat by the Chiefs.

Speaking of Roundup, they are now finding weeds that are Roundup resistant. It could be a huge problem. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/04/business/energy-environment/04weed.html?_r=1

Thanks for the report Bill, good info as always. Same sort of thing is going on at Beaver that you're seeing on TR. Hey, your name is mentioned in In Fisherman magazine in the Adventures section this month. You're a celebrity!

I gotta laugh when they say they don't want to label this fish if it ever shows up in stores for what it is. I'm with you guys on this, there is too much risk involved here. And if this stuff starts appearing at Walmart, then it should be clearly labeled for what it is. On a side note, I lived on the Pacific Northwest for 20 years, there are many Atlantic salmon farming operations going on there, I can remember one mass escape in Puget Sound where 60,000 3-5 lb Atlantics made a breakout (I think they tunneled under the fence). I caught one in the Skykomish river while steelhead fishing and they were caught all over in area rivers and in the Sound. Then they disappeared, there never were any proven reports of Atlantics successfully spawning in the wild from that escape or any escapes in the PNW. Not that it couldn't happen, but it's very unlikely. On an even further side note, I also used to live in New England, used to travel up to the White river in Vermont (It's a beautiful river to fish if you're ever up that way, rainbows and browns and it also has a population of under fished and under appreciated smallies). But there's an Atlantic salmon hatchery on the upper White that has been in existence since 1970, they are trying to reestablish Atlantics in the White and other rivers in New England, I think there best return was a couple of hundered fish and that was 20 years back, Atlantics are a very difficult fish to reestablish even in their (altered) native habitat. Personally I think they should shut down the effort, but it's not a total loss, there has been and are continuing habitat projects and passage work done in the name of Atlantics that have benefited other fish species.