Friday And Saturday

[Bill Babler]

Got out with Beck to do a little mid-day fishing, on friday. Our start time was 11 AM and we fished till about 4 Pm. Water was slicker than a gut, but gosh and golley these fish are wanting to feed.

Did just about a little of everything today from right on the bank to 47 ft. spoon fish, just fish about everywhere.

Ended the 5 hr.mid-dayer with about 1 dozen keepers up the 5.5 lbs. Best deal however is still the jig.

Little report on the Ahoy's Winter series. Don't know the names and particulars, only that it took a ton of fish to win on Saturday.

1st. 23 lbs

2nd. 22 lbs

3rd. 19 lbs

4th. 18 lbs

5th. 17 lbs

Do know the 1st. place team took a huge ride up the White River, about a 90 mile round tripper.

Second place team had a bag full of 4 lb. Brown Bass.

Don't really know what this cold snap will bring, but for now the fishing is just about as good as it can get. Winners bite came on a 5/8 football 15 to 20 ft. on the flats up the White River. Way Up. Water is gin clear up there, and for that matter is is pretty durn clear at Kimberling where we fished. White spoon at 18 ft. is visible.

I didn't fish this weekend, had the lodge to myself as Becky went to visit her folks. And they say guys can't cook and clean.

[Chris Tetrick]

I didn't fish this weekend, had the lodge to myself as Becky went to visit her folks. And they say guys can't cook and clean.

Great! What are we having? I'll call you later to palce my order.

I fished Sat. with my Dad. On the football jig, we had 4 nice keepers in the boat, 1 black, 1 brown, and 2 K.Y.'s that weighed almost 13lbs by 9:00. Batteries went stone cold dead. Beck told me dry cell's give 100% then just go dead suddenly. I believe it. We tried a few docks and crashed my boat in the metal parts, tried going down some windy banks, that was a nightmare. About 1:00 I threw our fish back in Jakes Creek and went home. Fun day with the clouds and wind but my battereis just decided to retire before weigh in.

[skeeterp]

I didn't fish this weekend, had the lodge to myself as Becky went to visit her folks. And they say guys can't cook and clean.

Great! What are we having? I'll call you later to palce my order.

I fished Sat. with my Dad. On the football jig, we had 4 nice keepers in the boat, 1 black, 1 brown, and 2 K.Y.'s that weighed almost 13lbs by 9:00. Batteries went stone cold dead. Beck told me dry cell's give 100% then just go dead suddenly. I believe it. We tried a few docks and crashed my boat in the metal parts, tried going down some windy banks, that was a nightmare. About 1:00 I threw our fish back in Jakes Creek and went home. Fun day with the clouds and wind but my battereis just decided to retire before weigh in.

NitroNick and I fished the winter series Saturday. We came in 3rd place with 19.70 and had BB at 6.57. We were going to run to the Kings and decided not to because of the strong winds, so we stopped in Baxter area. We fished 2 creeks all day. All fish came on the wart. We started with the green wart, only had one keeper. I broke it off, so switched to the brown wart and did much better. Not sure the color really made a difference but it seemed to. We had about 8 keepers total and maybe 15 fish overall. We had battery problems at the last AIA tourney, so we brought 2 extra batteries Saturday, good thing we did, we had to switch them out about 1:00. All of our fish were LM that we weighed. The second place team weighed a nice 5.5lb smallmouth.