porter57

i talked to a gentleman who owns a home above the cabins i stayed at on my recent visit and he told me they plan to raise the powerpool level by 5 feet in the next year or so. has anyone else heard this?

terry, its kind of a missouri thing. all the church fish frys used to serve em. now i think they use whiting. at least thats the way it is and was in st louis.

what amazes me is how this feller manged to live long enough to get that big. ive only had one encounter with a rattlesnake,and im afraid i have to say,we killed it out of fear.was about three feet long,nowhere this big!

actually,they were down about 12 foot in 18 foot of water,near but not in sunken cedars.

these were caught last week

MrDucky,never done much online gaming ,a little dirt track racing perhaps and pogo once in a while but really ,not much. dont like the sound of fluctuating water levels. too much flotsam when on the rise and we know what dropping the lake does to fishing. oh well, im scheduled and cant change it. just gonna have to make the best of it. thanks for your reply.

got a trip scheduled to bull shoals in about a week and a half. will be fishing basically from k dock to the arkansas line does anyony have any info as to conditions and the status of crappie in that area? from what i can glean from the sparse postings, they seem to be post spawn and huddled in the trees. i hope thats true! regardless im gonna make the trip,just hoping i dont have to resort to spending my dats in the frosty mug,unless ive caught so many fish i cant stand to be on the water any more. hoping to have a good time there hope all you folks do too!

am i wrong?, i thought trout werent natural to the area in the first place. frankly,the whole white river system has been manipulated by man for a long time. cany expect all trout to survive given the many possible conditions. and to expect bull shoals to dump water for these trouts welfare at the expense of thier own fisherie seem kinda like putting the cart before the horse. bull shoals lake is treated like the ugly stepsister of the whole chain.when table rock is low ,they dont flow. tanecomo is just a catch basin for table rock,they run when they have to. seems to me bull shoals would do much better if they held some more water in the spring thru june or so. unfortunately,those down stream would suffer from low flows and higher water temps. man has built this beast and man must find a way to solve its problems. and im afraid its gonna have to be at the exspense of the trout. just my opinion,you dont have to agree.

bummer for me hillbilly. im gonna be there in 2 weeks and i hit that stretch a lot. hope its not over when i get there. sounds like they are post spawn. and leaving sooner is out of the question, boss has already said no to new time off requests till the 10th

where is cassville? and will they fill 55 gallon drums? might be worth a trip for those prices. but i dont think the locals will let me store it here.

it does tear me up to see folks killing a lot of bass. first of all,i dont think they are all that tasty. i fish for them for the fun of it. when i want a batch off fillets,i stick to crappie. and i guess when it come to them,im a bit of a meat hog. but when i bass fish ,its ussually catch and release only.

i used to and still do occasionally do that very thing in yocum. it can be very effective right after the spawn.

well, i dont own a tracker ,but i do own one of those cheap package boats, a sea nymph(no longer made, i think) its served me well for the 20 years ive owned it. i try not to be discourteous when on the water but one thing has me wondering. ive always found that id rather if someone was running down the lake, it produced less wake if they kept em up on plane and just ran on by. of course,i mean with a wide berth of where im fishing. when folks slow down to pass and plow through,it seems to me like they leave a bigger wake than if they had just kept her up and ran on by. maybe its just me. there is no excuse for cutting in when someone is fishing a line. at best,its acceptable to figure out what they are doing and then cut in behind thier line at an acceptable distance(perhaps 100 yards or so)but even then i feel you are horning in on them. there are occasions when multiple boats may set up in an area and drift but i still think you need to keep an acceptable distance. i myself ,when i pull into a spot i know and find someone there,tend to just go to the next spot on my checklist. dont mind a little interaction on the lake, but sometimes its too much. i havent fished tr,but i have been hitting bs for 25 years or so. the fishing has been up and down over the years and right now, it seems a little down. but they have gone years without high water held through the spring months so that could have a lot to do with it. i tend to fish from k dock down to the arkansas line. never had much reason to go into arkansas with that area to fish. dont really see too many boats on that stretch so maybe i dont see as many buttheads as you guys do. i have towed disabled boats back to thier docks and welcome boaters caught out in a sudden squall to the dock i was staying at.(that might not have been such a great idea,now that i think about it) i just think folks need to be a bit more corteous of the others around them. i hope i never get so disgusted that i give up my boat. i used to wade fish the trout streams and smallmouth rivers but i dont think i could hold up to that nowadays.

just to lighten it up a little,heres what one no trespassing sign said on coffen lake in illinois. NO TRESPASSING!!! VIOLATORS WILL BE OPPOSSUMSCREWED! im not kidding!

see , what most folks dont realize is when you connect your camera to a pc, windows recognizes it as a new drive! you really dont need to use some fancy program to download your pics. might not be recognizable if you take them in RAW though. not real sure about that. but JPEGs, yup. and then if you wish,you can import them into post processing programs. .

should be as simple as connecting the cable from the camera to the computer with the camera off. turn the camera on and windows should detect it. open in windows explorer and find highlight all the pics. drag em over to whatever folder you chose to put em in. find the icon on your toolbar. chose stop when you find your camera. turn it off and disconnect it.

to tell ya the truth,ive kinda found ebays offerings to be overpriced versus searching online. course i never know what things actually sold for,just what they are asking. yea they sure dont like us drunks on the rivers anymore. cant we all get along?

im kinda flip flopped on this issue. ive enjoyed both peaceful fishing and wild partying on the rivers. kinda think there are some civil liberties issues involved. perhaps more regulation of the number of canoes rented would help this situation. its just like on the lakes,we fishermen have no right to deny skiers thier pleasure and we are both seeking the same type of water. if people would be a little more respecting of thier fellow users this might not be the problem that it has become.

i bought a k100d recently and am very pleased with it. of course,already having several lenses had a lot to do with my decision. another factor was cost. the k100d is quite a bit cheaper and there is a rebate program going on. i think you can still buy it for $549 with a 18-55 lense from buydig.com. real nice to be able to use aa batteries but alkalines are nothing more than an emergency stopgap. they wont last very long under normal use. im using nimh rechargables with good success. you can get a charger with both 110 and car cords for around $30to $40. pretty solid camera but not dustproof or water resistant. for about double the money ,you can get the k10 which is.

i have a pentax k100d and i like it a lot. when i only had a film camera,i tended to shoot a lot and then never get the pics developed. now i can experiment and see the results almost instantly. one drawback to this model though is the small buffer,which results in a slower continous shooting mode. i understand this isnt as much of a problem with other brands and even the k10 pentax. but at half the price,i was ready to buy. i bought this camera at buydig.com for $552 with an 18-55 lense as a kit. got a $100 rebate check and deposited it in the bank. just recently purchased a 75-300 tamron lense and was outside shooting the moon last night. im liking it even more. trouble is,my tripod doesnt seem to be up to snuff. looks like another exspense is on the way.

dont know why anyone would jump all over someone for keeping LEGAL fish. its one of the prime reasons i go fishing. to harvest a tasty meal of natural food. one of our highlights of the year is a big fish fry that everyone is invited to after a major trip in our group. much better than any store bought fish. i understand the need to return prime breeding stock and actually, the smaller legal fish taste better to me anyway. oh and bill, i keep much more than that,all legal ,but definately more than that. not a trout fan,and never could fish walleye consitently ,but limits of crappie,OH YEA! dont keep the bass though,dont really care for em in the pan,i fish for em,but usually release em immediatly.havent specifically fished for bluegill in years,but we used to keep a mess of em from duck creek. catfish usually get kept. false spawning runs of any species of fish are nothing new,been happening ever since there were dams.

actually,id like table rock to get so high that they would have to dump water into bull shoals. i like that lake real high and stable in the spring. some of my best trips have been when the lake was 20 feet high and clear!!! i hate it when they draw it down during spawn. yes i know it has to go thru tanycomo

just got home from the lake spent a cold windy week with very little luck we were chasing crappie and picked a few up from standing timber but it was very slow. cold fronts and wind pretty much limited our efforts. gonna have a couple warm days between now and monday so things may pick up a bit. water temp is dropping and iis now around 60. caught a couple whites trolling crankbaitsout in front of coves,but all and all, fish are suspended on main river channel and very tight lipped.

kinda lookin for input. after 18 years ,i finally burned up a wheel bearing on my boat trailer and had to replace it on the road. couldnt find anything at oriellys and wound up going to bass pro. the only one they had that fit has an arrangement to use 90 wieght gear oil rather than grease. kinda keeping an oil bath there rather than pushing grease in thru bearing buddys. seems like a better deal than bearing buddys as if you follow directions,the rear bearing is always lubricated,unlike with bearing buddys where your never sure if the grease is getting back there. does anyone have any experience with these? i dont travel a lot with my rig and im wondering if i should go ahead and outfit the other axle with this same type hub. another thing that caught my attention is the fact that there are two different spindle sizes on trailers...1" and 1 1\16". seems kinda dumb to me. a 1\16 of an inch difference? how can that be much better one way or the other.

yup thats the one, heading down that way in a couple weeks. im thinking the third week in october. ill be scanning this site and sure would like to hear what is going on. we mainly fish crappie between bee creek and a mile south of k dock. ive got quite a few spots lined up between those places and im sure i dont know every thing,we have always had good luck when we were there at the right time(although i did go SIX whole days without a bite on anything a few years back. last day i caught the biggest crappie of my life.) i really love that lake and someday i hope to retire there .trouble is , by then it will probably be as popular as lake of the ozarks. its really nice to have paved roads all the way to the lake but it also makes it easier for folks to get there. bull shoals was and in some ways still is one of the most clean and pristine lakes i have ever fished.