Beaver Lake Live Bait

[Feathers and Fins]

Keep in mind this is for live bait on Beaver Lake other bodies of water may have different laws.

First transporting bait out of Missouri

Live bait taken from public waters of Missouri may not be sold or transported from the state.

http://mdc.mo.gov/fishing/fishing-regulations/live-bait-regulations

Live Bait from Grand Lake Oklahoma

See page 37

http://www.wildlifedepartment.com/laws_regs/fish1415.pdf

Arkansas Game and Fish Bait regulations

Pages 30 and 31

http://www.agfc.com/resources/Guidebookdocs/FishingGuidebook.pdf

If you have questions I will try to answer them tonight I will be at the store 3:30 to close tonight so you can also come by and ill try to answer questions. Or you can always call AGFC if you don't understand the regs above.

[Feathers and Fins]

And remember check here often I am constantly updating it.

[Feathers and Fins]

Ah, if you could see me in cartoon form a lit up light bulb would be over my head.

Ok, not trying to hijack your thread k, but maybe all this will be helping you make decisions?

So, if k were to go fishing tomorrow morning....lol....and he was using live bait, drifting, and using more than two rods, is it hard to keep them from tangling up?

More than two rods can be interesting to do that I would use the balloon on the clothes pin to help keep that from happening or Planer Boards. Running 4 rods I assume you would do the first two freelined as I talked about and the other two set at 125 and 150 behind the boat with the bait one split shotted at 75ft from the balloon or planer or and one at 25 ft. and watch them carefully.

[nathanhooper]

More than two rods can be interesting to do that I would use the balloon on the clothes pin to help keep that from happening or Planer Boards. Running 4 rods I assume you would do the first two freelined as I talked about and the other two set at 125 and 150 behind the boat with the bait one split shotted at 75ft from the balloon or planer or and one at 25 ft. and watch them carefully.

I like to live on the wild side! lol. I have something in mind I think. I am actually going to try with 5 rods. Yes, call me crazy, but hopefully it will work without too much hassle and produce a fish to boot!

At least trying new things will keep it interesting for me. The way I did it last weekend was straight below the boat, as far out as the rods would reach 6'-7'. But in doing that I did notice that I would have quite a few lookers, but no takers. Being out by the boat I could see my bait and the arches/lines come up to look at them. They would scare the fire out of the little fish, but never bite. I am wondering if the lead weight and being directly inline with the boat above them caused the apprehension of the fish to bite.

This should be fun.

[Feathers and Fins]

Na I have on more than one occasion had a striper hit the side of the boat chasing a shad. they are like women in a shoe sale and get target fixation or like walmart shoppers on black Friday

[nathanhooper]

Should I put a "buy one get one free" sign on my bait...

[YAKFM]

I like to live on the wild side! lol. I have something in mind I think. I am actually going to try with 5 rods. Yes, call me crazy, but hopefully it will work without too much hassle and produce a fish to boot!

At least trying new things will keep it interesting for me. The way I did it last weekend was straight below the boat, as far out as the rods would reach 6'-7'. But in doing that I did notice that I would have quite a few lookers, but no takers. Being out by the boat I could see my bait and the arches/lines come up to look at them. They would scare the fire out of the little fish, but never bite. I am wondering if the lead weight and being directly inline with the boat above them caused the apprehension of the fish to bite.

This should be fun.

Looking forward to your report Nathan. Thanks to Scott I will be targeting stripers this fall in the yak (first time for me). The only ones I have caught up to now are incidental catches with my PB being 10 lbs. I hope I get one large enough to tow me around for a while.

[nathanhooper]

In my digging on the internet there seems to be a lot of yak striper hunters on lake Lanier. They do very well with the above mentioned tactics as far as I can tell.

Yea, I am looking forward to trying out something new tonight. I never thought about a small bait trying to swim its way down, but it makes sense that it would not want to just sit at the top of the water. I guess I just assumed that during the summer you had to put the bait down to their level. But from my last outing last week I am starting to think that them stripers don't look at water depth like a electric fence or anything. Meaning that they could very well come right up to within feet of the top of the water if they see something they like. I also know from doing a little soaking with my wife in the water that just feet below the surface it gets quite chilly.

Hopefully tonight, and the rest of the week, they will like what they see. I know it will sure put some big smiles on some guys faces.

[Feathers and Fins]

Exactly on Chilly. the fish go where it is comfy to them. when you look at a good graph and see fish stacked at 20fow and then get out to 40 and see the thermocline you see the comfy zone. well a hooked bait will want to be there even more as they are already not comfy,

[J.M.]

Can't get the site to load, if I go to the upper end of long creek or kings river in Ak. and get bait I bring it to beaver Thanks