Wed And Fri.

[taxidermist]

Wed. I was invited to take a couple teachers out on the river. These two guys were like heckle and jeckle. One had borrowed a Supreme with a 2 stroke 20hp jet.

We hit the water at 7:30AM, since they had borrowed this boat and knew nothing about the river. I was their guide so to speak. The motor seemed cold natured, not to odd for the typical 2 stroke Merc. we put in at Wildcat, as the motor warmed we drifted down river with five units running. before we hit the wire the old ferry wire, I put the motor in gear and almost nothing seemed like a fouled plug, so I headed back top the truck. It took almost an hour to go 1/2 mile against the current....

Heckle and Jeckle could not decide what to do, they thought I was just playing it safe. once at the ramp I pulled the cover to fond NGK plugs in the motor and a cracked insulator on t he top plug. H&J thought the day was done, finally after lots of talk the decide i was right run tot he parts store in Flippin and get plugs!!!

Of course the plugs were odd sized 13/16 wrench borrowed and in two minutes the plugs were in and we headed back to the river. The motor ran fine the rest of the day.

We caught a lot of fish the weather was great!!! lots of stocker bows and only one small brown.

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Friday the wife and I fished with our boat. same area Wildcat to the park.

She did her power bait thing and I used my favorite White River wonder lure.

Just across for the end of Bull Shoals State park I caught a foot ball brown female, 16 inches and a 17 inch girth, fat fat awesome fish. we drifted on down to past Newlands and I caught a couple small bows and a brown. We motored back up river repeated the drift, I caught my Brookie 10 inches and fat. We drifted on down. There is a place where some gar are hanging out they have been there all year since the floods, caught some bow there.

We drifted on down and up and across fro Gastons I caught a nice 23 inch Brown male, great fight, as I netted him, my folding net folded, he flopped and the net slipped out of my hand, now I was fighting the fish and the net. Wife managed to get me her net and all was saved. The fish has great color!!

As we neared Whitehole, another nice brown smashed the lure, after a bit of a fight and handling the boat thru the south side shoals of the river, it was in the boat. this fish did not have the vivid orange and yellows, but lots of red spots, big red spots and red striped on the lower tail, 21 inch male.

We drifted on down catching more bows as we were about halfway thru the narrows is when I finished my Grand slam the cutthroat hit and wow did it fight, almost 14 inches long the second largest cut I have caught on the river.

My wife was quick to make the comment, "Wow you got your GRAND SLAM!!" then is when it dawned on me!!!

Yea it was cloudy and colder than Wed. but it had been a great day with lots of cast and lots of cranking to get it. I am not sure that musky are the only fish of a thousand cast!! Brookies on the White maybe too.

[Phil Lilley]

Congrats! Nicely done.

[Greg]

Congratulations. Sounds like a great day. I've only done it (slam) once. It was on the Norfork several years ago. I've always considered mine kind of a weak slam though. The brown that completed my slam was 8 or 9" long and pretty puny looking.

Greg

[Danoinark]

I'm pretty jealous right now Taxi....

Dano

[Ham]

I ALMOST had a slam on the Norfork this fall with my flyrod. I had a BIG Brookie on that came off as I reached out to net it. Great day none the less.

[taxidermist]

Dano want a go fishin? been hard earned!!! The brookie was a total suprise and look full of eggs. The vut was the first one I have caught since last April or May.

[Danoinark]

Taxi

You bet, we'll do just that one of these days....

[cotterboy2007]

Taxi, can you disclose what your wonder lure is, or is it a secret. nice post and congrats.

[shawncat]

Congrat's on the Slam.

[taxidermist]

Rapala Husky Jerk 13, I took the factory rattles out and replaces the bearing and not the serperator, then repainted it like a rainbow. Heck it was almost as big as the brookie and the cutthroat.