Dutch

I know that you have lots of brush piles committed to memory but that like everything else, too shall pass. With the gps up front you can mark stuff that you already know and find lots of other stuff to mark. It will really come in handy when you are hunting for those elusive specs. You'll be able to down load all of the mdc stuff that you have helped plant over the years. For my own personal use down imaging is the best thing to come along in quite a while. You can actually see fish and tell which way they are looking.

The look like the same kind of parasites that you see in the fins later in the summer. I have been told that they are transmitted by birds pooping in the water.

They are sometimes called the fish of 10,000 casts. They may be edible but they smell so bad I won't let one in my boat.

Today I was in the powerline cove just a wayse up Sons Creek. In the back of one of the pockets (I think maybe the third one) I saw some weedy groth that was alive and had leaves on it. This is my first time to see anything like this in that lake. It looked like hydrilla to me. Do any of you have any information about this stuff and how it got into the lake?

The surface game is probably going to be the only game in town for whites in June on Stockton. It doesn't have the humps like Truman does. There might be some trolling but I would not hazzard a guess as to what part of the lake might pay off.

If you are looking to get rid of stuff there may be some high school fishing teams in your area that would like your old baits.

If I were going to be fishing from shore this time of year, I'd go to the floating fishing dock at Cedar Ridge.

You can find off colored water in the little sac above Cedar Ridge. I haven't been in the big sac lately. Yesterday water temps were 55° in the am and 60° in the pm.

The MDC has kids fishing days and probably could use your stuff.

Louey Bruton handles Xpress down at Golden MO if you are in this area.

There is always a lot of chatter during March and early April about the spawning migration of white bass. After that one hears about surface action sometimes in the summer. Where do those things go after the spawn?

G3 is in the same family as the Lowe. They are the 3rd generation of boat builders in that family. The only drawback that is see is having to have a Yamaha motor if one would prefer something else. If you want a good ride similar to a glass boat take a ride in an Xpress. It is the only tin boat I have ever driven that lifts like glass and rides smoothly.

I thought that Tiger Muskies were sterile hybrids like the white/striper cross. What would they be doing on a bed?

I hear you. That is a keeper for sure.

Nice article in today's News Leader.

The last time I was down that way Scott I had a big female spray eggs all over the place while I was unhooking her. My guess is most of them are spawning or done but that is just a guess.

I had Tom at Championship Marine work on my boat a while back. They do good work.

Me thinks she is about over.

Try posting this at http://www.bassboatcentral.com/ in the for sale section. Or if you are not a member I can put your info there and maybe you'll get a call. There should be several around with the new touch screens on the market.

I haven't bought any of Mike Siebert's stuff but have swaped him a few hundred heads when he didn't have a football mold and I didn't have the poison tails. He does good work and is a nice guy. I haven't looked at his site lately but I think he maybe making some plastics now as he was wanting to borrow my tube molds a while back and see how he liked them. I used to by my Shak It worms from Joe Seitz in New Jersey but he has quit making stuff for sale. The think people should realize is that small companies are usually one or two people who do quality work and can't compete with stuff made overseas in sweat shops then sold in the big box places but typically make a better produce.

Quessenberry is the hole just above the Beaver Creek launch.

I know some guys who are catching them around Aldrich from the bank.

Thanks Bill. I thought it probably was you guys that I passed near Barker's hole when it was raining. When we left a guy was setting on the ramp with a wheel off his trailer. He said it came off when he was launching the boat. Was he gone when you guys left?

Is Buster running a Nitro now?

That time of year the fishing can be really good or really bad depending on the weather. Current isn't a concern but the wind can be a problem. What part of the lake will you be fishing and what species will you be targeting?