Smallies Must Be Biting In Northern Ar

[Chief Grey Bear]

You seem to be very defensive of him. Is there some connection with you two?

[LittleRedFisherman]

You seem to be very defensive of him. Is there some connection with you two?

Lol, no connection. Other than I have watched quite a few of his shows. My favorite place In the world is the Hardy, Cherokee Village area, been going there my whole life when I get a chance to get away. Crowbar filmed the majority of his shows in that area, so I was always tuning in to see what he was doing around there next. Guess I'm having a little fun on here since that pic stirred up some conversation, I'm not happy as the rest of ya about keeping those Smallies.

[Mitch f]

We fished the Hardy area not long ago. The South Fork is a big river in that area, a jet boat would work great on that river.

[creekin bassnerd]

I would be interested in a fishing show where the guy went to a different public river or lake every time, and was honest about how easy or difficult the fishing turned out to be. Can you even imagine how cool it would be to have a guy float a different stretch of Ozark stream every week, show the river, the scenery, the fishing, and anything else cool that happened, and if the fishing was tough, well, it would still be almost as interesting as floating it yourself on a slow fishing day.

I've thought about this show idea before and although I too would enjoys watching a show on float fishing ozark streams, I don't want to bring anymore fishing pressure to these streams as there already is. What I mean is any j@ck@$$ with a camera can expose these fragile ecosystems to any amount of people that can and will unknowingly cause major harm to the health of the streams. I'm not saying Im good for the rivers and streams, I know that I am not, none of us are. But I'd rather we just keep our secrets to ourselves and let the rest of the world stay oblivious to our little treasures.

I used to think, and still kind of do, that the ideal fishing show, would be raw footage. No background music, and like Al's saying, honest successes and failure in public waters. Ive never fished a lake like Bill Dance usually does in my whole life, so I don't get a lot o excitement out of watching his show. But I do see some value in diverting the viewers attention to the commercially accepted I gotta have a ranger bass boat and shop at bass pro shops paradigm. Those lake guys keep the pressure off me and I don't hardly bother them either. Someone mentioned lunkerville, thats a cool show. The host is not a good fisherman, and rarely catches the right species if anything while the local guy usually has some success. Its pleasing, gets you out of that cookie cutter fishing show. Im not much of a fly fisher but I think fly fishing tv shows, as long as they stick to the fishing, are very enjoyable to watch.

All that said, I guess stream fishing is officially in season. I had to play leap frog this wknd with some guy and his girl throwin zebco 33s and lookin for supper. I saw him catch an 18" smallie and put it on a big metal stringer. Man my heart sank, he told me he never fished this river before, I wanted to tell him that 18" smallies on this particular stream are hard to come by and he should release it, but I kept my mouth shut because the last thing I need is to offend some redneck in front of his equally intelligent woman. So from that point on, my strategy was to stay in front of him, casting a big loud jerkbait to all the likely spots, with no regard to how loud my paddle sounded when I accidently hit it on the gunwales of my canoe..

[Al Agnew]

Good points, Creekin...if I was doing such a show, I probably wouldn't ever do it on my favorite streams...instead I'd do it on somebody else's favorites and tick them off

[Chief Grey Bear]

Lol, no connection. Other than I have watched quite a few of his shows. My favorite place In the world is the Hardy, Cherokee Village area, been going there my whole life when I get a chance to get away. Crowbar filmed the majority of his shows in that area, so I was always tuning in to see what he was doing around there next. Guess I'm having a little fun on here since that pic stirred up some conversation, I'm not happy as the rest of ya about keeping those Smallies.

Ahh, just asking.

I've thought about this show idea before and although I too would enjoys watching a show on float fishing ozark streams, I don't want to bring anymore fishing pressure to these streams as there already is. What I mean is any j@ck@$$ with a camera can expose these fragile ecosystems to any amount of people that can and will unknowingly cause major harm to the health of the streams. I'm not saying Im good for the rivers and streams, I know that I am not, none of us are. But I'd rather we just keep our secrets to ourselves and let the rest of the world stay oblivious to our little treasures.

All that said, I guess stream fishing is officially in season. I had to play leap frog this wknd with some guy and his girl throwin zebco 33s and lookin for supper. I saw him catch an 18" smallie and put it on a big metal stringer. Man my heart sank, he told me he never fished this river before, I wanted to tell him that 18" smallies on this particular stream are hard to come by and he should release it, but I kept my mouth shut because the last thing I need is to offend some redneck in front of his equally intelligent woman. So from that point on, my strategy was to stay in front of him, casting a big loud jerkbait to all the likely spots, with no regard to how loud my paddle sounded when I accidently hit it on the gunwales of my canoe..

I agree about the pressure.

And man does it hurt to see them strung up. A few years ago I was floating a popular stream and ran up on a couple of ol' boys fishing. He was all to proud to hoist up his stringer with about 4-5 brownies all in the 15-16 inch range. He was bragging on his prowess with live bait and had to give me a complete rundown as I drifted by with my son. He was about 9 at the time and after we got by him, he turned to me and just shook his head. I knew at that point, I had trained him right.

Good points, Creekin...if I was doing such a show, I probably wouldn't ever do it on my favorite streams...instead I'd do it on somebody else's favorites and tick them off

Your trip just got cancelled!

[WakenLake]

The only time i ate a bass I tasted plastic in one of the fillets and I considered even and never did it again lol

[gotmuddy]

We fished the Hardy area not long ago. The South Fork is a big river in that area, a jet boat would work great on that river.

you must have had a bunch of water. I wouldnt run the southfork in a jetboat without lots of water.

[Guest]

My favorite place In the world is the Hardy, Cherokee Village area, been going there my whole life when I get a chance to get away.

Ahh, nothing like Many Islands on a Memorial Day Weekend.

It would even make Kenny Powers cringe a little bit.

I learned to paddle a canoe on the Spring River, kinda miss that place when its not crowded.

Are the Cherokee Village Lakes worth fishing?

[gotmuddy]

Ahh, nothing like Many Islands on a Memorial Day Weekend.

It would even make Kenny Powers cringe a little bit.

I learned to paddle a canoe on the Spring River, kinda miss that place when its not crowded.

Are the Cherokee Village Lakes worth fishing?

I hear they are good, at least the old people talk them up. the best part is the southfork meanders right through cherokee village and hardly anyone knows its the best place around. i intend to keep it that way.