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Quillback and I hit Indian Creek yesterday morning. Took my boat so we could see what was going on down there with my Garmin FFS. I've had the FFS for a 2-3 months, and it has been helpful at times. But yesterday it was one of "playing video games" days. There were lots of active fish throughout the water column, and especially around the submerged trees. Could see them come running towards the lure, multiple fish at a time. Sometimes they'd bite, sometimes the wouldn't. Groups of them would follow the lure from 10' to 40' and back w/o biting. Proving again that finding fish is not the same as catching fish. We found a submerged cedar tree that was loaded with fish, but they would not come away from the tree very far. Caught some nice LM's off it, at least for this time of year. 2+ lbers. Spoons and swimbaits did the best for us. FFS really proved it's worth to me yesterday.

Great day on the lake. I tried spoons on the school of fish we found, but no takers. Really surprised me as they were hitting the swim baits on the fall. But I'm not sure the water is cold enough for a shad kill.

Correct. The new Ram is technically a Series Hybrid. A Prius is an example of a Parallel Hyrbid.

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Thanks Jeff. I pulled down their latest GPS map, but it does not differentiate between old planted structure and the new ones. I guess you just have to go graphing.

I doubt they'll drop it much, given the history of the last few years. I heard that 1/8 of the population of Arkansas gets its drinking water from Beaver, so they tend to like to keep it as full as they safely can heading into the dryer summer season. It's likely to be a very slow return to normal pool, IMO.

Up 6 feet, according to the COE site. Prairie Creek cove is a mess after that storm. Never seen so much debris floating around. Lake level is way up and it's muddy. They had to close Old Prairie Creek road that day. Be some tough fishing right now I'd wager.

Sounds like a great day! I got one on a top water the other day, too. Love it when they start biting on top.

Hitting some weeds? I've never seen weeds in TR or Beaver, but have never fished Bull Shoals. Does it have weed growth?

As far as the eye can see, the cove is frozen. Only ever seen this happen one other time in the 15 years I've been here. Not going to strap on the ice skates or anything, but it surprised me how quickly it happened. Tying on some spoons!

Thanks folks. I'll work these suggestions. I did have one done by HLS a few years ago. It was okay work, but I'm hoping to find better.

Good trip, thanks for dragging me along Jeff. I'm also hoping the cold weather = shad kill. I love the spoon bite time of year!

Thanks, but I'm not going to try and learn rod building on one of my most important rods. With a Daiwa Pixy Type R, 8# Sniper and a 5" weightless senko, this is the rod I catch 80+% of my bass on up in Wisconsin every summer. Want it done right.

I need to have a guide replaced on one of my Dobyn's rods. Dobyns are sending me the guide, so I need to find someone to put it on. I will probably take it to Hook, Line, Sinker in Rogers, but just wondering if there are any other suggestions for good rod repair folks in the Rogers area. Thanks

About time. Beaver is really full right now, and we're coming into a traditionally wet time of the year. They need to add capacity to the lake.