Seth

Went out this evening and saw threedoes and two fawns. No bucks ever showed up to bother the does though. I didn’t feel like messing with cleaning a deer so i let them all walk.

Good luck! Don't forget the orange since it's also youth rifle season this weekend. The bucks are starting to look for love!

It should be a pretty easy hunt for the lucky few who draw that first tag. Those elk act tamer than some of the cattle I've been around.

The elk are a bit of a nuisance down there when you are trying to deer hunt. They have messed up several hunts for us by showing up at the worst times when deer were heading our way and spooking them off. It's about time it actually HELPED for once. Deer act very similar around cattle here around home too. They aren't afraid of them, but they don't like up close and personal with them either.

Me, dad and four others were drawn for the Peck Ranch managed archery hunt again this year. Overall, the hunting was slow, but I did finally harvest a doe Sunday evening. Just in case you aren't familiar with Peck Ranch, this is where MDC reintroduced elk several years ago. I've seen plenty of them over the years while putting in for the managed hunts down there, but this is the first time I actually saw a couple big bulls. I had two feeding in front of me along with another bugling down in the timber just before I shot the doe. Some elk actually spooked her right to me.

I will start hunting this weekend and hit it gard tihrough rifle season. Our managed bow hunt at Peck Ranch is this weekend and I have high hopes of success with the forecast they are calling for. We haven’t had anything worth getting excited for on the cams yet. That shoukd start changing any time now though.

I just dropped my lure off for its destination today during lunch. It should arrive on Friday. Sorry for being a slacker.

He has it all on film and is making a video to document his Big Bass Bash weekend. We'll be able to see how he caught it. Apparently he had another one hooked that was even bigger than his winning fish, but it got off. I'm curious to see if he was just swimming those swimbaits along docks or fishing open water.

I'm hoping he got that fish on video and will be making a video of his LoZ BBB trip. I'd love to see if he caught that fish swimming that big swimbait along a dock or in open water.

@JestersHK sounds like you have about the same luck as me when it comes to catching those browns. My scent must repel them or something.

Top four fish awards start around the 45 minute mark.

**duplicate**

All four big money fish were weighed at Alhonna. I think two were caught up the Gravois somewhere, one around Shawnee Bend and the winner didn't even really know the lake and said just around the bend from the weigh in site (Alhonna).

Good job! I fished the Niangua arm during the bash and couldn't even hardly catch a fish this weekend. Best I caught was a 3.15 kentucky on a 130 plopper just inside a main lake point. I'm more familiar with the Gravois arm, but that area is just way to rough for an aluminum jet rig during the Bash. It liked to of killed me running from the Gravois to Alhonna to weigh a fish last year. That is the only time I've truly been scared to be in a boat.

I saw that name yesterday and thought it sounded familiar. As soon as I realized who it was, I figured that his fish was caught on a giant swim bait and it was. Could you imagine throwing a 6oz bait all weekend?! That would wear a guy out!

So was anybody else as lost fishing this weekend as I was? Holy cow did I suck it up! I caught a 3.15 kentucky on a whopper plopper about 20 minutes in on Saturday and thought it was going to be a decent day. I broke off one good later in the day and that was it! Sunday I caught a few small keepers and a couple shorts and then called it quits when the heavy rain set in during the early afternoon. The guys in our group that did best fished brush piles. The big one I broke off came off a random brush pile I came across on the graph while fishing around a dock. I guess I need to suck it up and go mark a bunch of brush piles for in the future since it seems like it's more of a summer Big Bass Bash than a fall version anymore with our weather patterns.

I wouldn't mind eating a mess of those!

Good luck! I am done getting beat to death in that area during the Bash. Last year there were monster cruisers everywhere and I was truly scared trying to get from the Gravois to Alhonna to weigh in a fish. I'll be hanging out somewhere on the Nianguas.

I had planned on staying there even before I knew you guys were also going to be there. I didn't want to say anything though to keep all the TackleHD groupies from bothering you. It's going to be a fun weekend!

Who else is joining the fray and fishing the madness? A group of buddies and I have a condo at Red Oak so it should be a good time regardless of how the fishing goes.

It's always a good time down there. I'm glad I at least caught a brown this trip (two to be exact, but both were tiny). I need to save my big brown mojo for the winter tournaments anyways.

Friday 9-28 Dad, his buddy, my brother and I fished from Fall Creek down to just above Lilley's Friday evening and boated quite a few fish. Dad and his buddy used rainbow and yellow powerbait on bottom and my brother and I threw jigs and the pink power worm. Everything worked as long as you were in the middle of the river. I can usually pull fish off of the shallow flats near the bank, but it was dead. Started throwing out towards the middle and it was game on. My brother threw an orange head sculpin/peach jig and I threw a green head sculpin/ginger and both worked well. I've already posted it in a separate thread, but I was lucky enough to hook a 19.75" rainbow that weighed right at 3# off the shallow gravel just below Short Creek on the 1/16oz sculpin/ginger jig. We kept four limits of decent sized fish, but we had to really work to get the nicer fish. There are a lot of little runts between Fall and Short Creek. Most of the better fish that we kept came down closer to Lilleys. The big one was released alive and well for the next angler to enjoy. Saturday 9-30 My brother and I got up early and ventured up to the Narrows about an hour before daylight to throw some Duane Doty jerkbaits. We never had any action until the sun started to come up and then we started to pick up a few. I focused on throwing to the bluff bank and my brother was fishing out in the middle and he was doing much better than me on rainbows. Nothing big, just stockers up to 14". We each managed one little brown around 12". It was pretty well like that all the way up to Lookout. Every once in a while I would pick up a jig and make a few casts and catch some rainbows, but then would go back to the jerkbait in hopes of enticing a big brown, but it never happened. They were being stingy. The number of fish rising up by Lookout that morning was incredible. Even more incredible was the fact that I couldn't hardly get them to bite! I did manage to catch a few on an orange head/olive micro jig. The bite by Lookout was better throwing towards the bluff bank and keeping the jig down deep near the bottom instead of up high. Once you got down away from Lookout, it was the complete opposite. We went back out that evening around 6:00 and fished till dark just above Lilleys. The fishing wasn't as good as the day before, but we still caught probably 25 fish between the four of us. Mom and dad fished powerbait and night crawlers in the back of the boat out deeper and my brother and I threw jigs and the pink worm towards the shallow flat on the same side as Lilley's dock. Unlike the evening before, the flat seemed to bet the better producer instead of the deeper water toward the middle. There were a lot of small fish up on the shallower flat too though and we had to weed through quite a few of them. We ended up keeping 12 more trout with all but a couple being in that 13-15" range before we ran out of light.

Not much going on for us this morning on the jerkbaits. We fished from 6-11am and caught two browns around 12” and several rainbows up to 15”. If I don’t get back out this evening, I will try again in the morning and see if I can dredge up a good brown.

Just on browns. I’ve caught several rainbows over that mark.

I’m up and drinking coffee now and fixing to start making the trek to the Narrows in the dark here in a bit.