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We headed out yesterday morning. Caught some bass just inside main lake points, then decided to bump bottom with some night crawlers and found walleye. We saw several people using minnows but all claimed they were slow.

Just before dark we had landed 17 walleye with one 27" and 6 other keepers, plus some very good white bass over 2 pounds. Lost a good Kentucky when it found a hole in the net.

Hate to tell this but its funny. I was fighting a very nice walleye, it surfaced out about 20 feet. tangle two other lines and I was stuck could not reel it in. so in a hurry I wiped out my knife to cut the lines. well in hast I hit the wrong line!! MY LINE!!!!! I carry a knife thats sharper than a razor blade and a bump I knew I had hit the wrong line!!! Sucked at the time but funny in retrospect.

We are heading back out this afternoon.

JOhn

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Minner you want me to take you fishing? I did not mention all the small fish! I dont waste time when I am on the water I fish and fish hard.

If your lure or bait is not in the water you cannot catch fish.

My Grandpa was a guide on TableRock I learned much from him. I dont do well with largemouth bass some reason I only catch about half of what everyone else does, same places same lures. But I have caught a few nice bass.

So lets figure the odds. I fish 3 days per week. 8 hours per day.

Thats 24 hours per week I spend fishing, I have fish hard, not running up and down the lake!!! I fish I go to places that have produced fish for several years for my family from Grandpa "Toad" on down to my Uncles and Dad.

Even when I go to White River I have a smaller protion of the river I fish I dont run 20 miles up river, I run maybe 5. That 5 takes me about 8 hours to fish.

I will put this challenge to YOU!

Taneycomo, White River or Bull Shoals, you pick one of the three, you and I agree on a date. My family ( Me, Wife and my son) fishing against you, your wife and one of your children.

If we dont catch more fish, than you I will buy you dinner at Olive Garden!!!

Put up or shut up. ;)

John

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who said I had a wife and kids? I dont want to challenge you to a fishing competition I just find it odd that you are the only one who ever cathes all these big fish on bull shoals, I never claimed to be catching the big ones

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Taxi,thats a good days fishn,but you forgot to say what general area you were fishing.Bull is a big lake and while the upper can be stagnant the mid or lower can be busting loose.

Also, I would be careful throwing down the gauntlet to people you don't know,there are some very good fishermen who never show their hand on this forum,they just don't want to get caught up in the (Bill Dance syndrome) or compete for the alpha male award,but just like reading the storys and seeing what the other fishermen are talking about. :D

I think you must be a darn good fisherman from what I have read of your post.

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John,

Take a camera next time, post pictures here, and then maybe WM will find another reason to doubt you.

Honestly, anyone can post a lot of talk about lots and lots of big fish, but who knows? Then again, some may post small numbers and not much to talk about, but maybe he caught a ton of big fish. Who knows? Who cares? This is the internet, folks. If you take everything at face value, then have I got an investment deal for you!!!

I don't know John. He might be the best fisherman in the world or maybe the biggest liar in the world or maybe somewhere in between. I don't know and don't care. But I have no reason to doubt him. As long as he's not trying to get in my pocketbook, I'll read his posts about lots of big fish and the ones that got away.

Keep posting, John... But I DO like to see pictures of big fish... As most of us do. We're into "pheesh porn" here... :lol:

TIGHT LINES, YA'LL

 

"There he stands, draped in more equipment than a telephone lineman, trying to outwit an organism with a brain no bigger than a breadcrumb, and getting licked in the process." - Paul O’Neil

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I sure aint the best fisherman, but I think I can hold my own in most cases. Sure there are times when I come up empty handed.

BUT WHY POST THOSE???

My son and I fished last night we did OK, I landed as 24 inch 6lb walleye and a couple smaller not big enough to keep. My son managed one keeper walleye.

He caught two nice bluegills, biggest I had seen in a few years.

Hum, what do I have to loose to wildminner? a meal no big deal now is it?

But what do I get if I beat him? nothing but bragging rights!

I do have some pics and a few from some years back that will knock most fishermans socks off.

I would love to post pics. the problem is I live in Newton County Arkansas, thats dial-up internet. Lucky if I connect at 36,000 bps. I am working on a way to upload some pics. but thats in the future when I get a site for my taxidermy business setup again. Had one years ago but was a bit ahead of my time and it never paid for the site.

I am working on getting a new computer, this old Gateway is slow and will not work with my Epson Scanner. But as with anything you do it takes time to get new equipment. I guess if I did not spend so much money on fishing I could afford a new computer and Wildblue ISP.

last We hit the lake at 3:30pm, ran 12 miles by GPS,had two nice eyes before the wind and rain caught us, so we headed to the back of a cove, grabbed wet weather gear and rode the storm out. While waiting we hit the brush for bream, most were small pumpkin seed and long eared sunfish.

After the weather settled we went back to walleye fishing, the weather had changed the bite to almost none.

We fished for seven hours, not counting running time. I did use a stopwatch to see how much time I was not fishing. less than one hour!!!

The time in the coves I did not catch a bass of anykind. just "perch" as we locals call sunfish.

When I fish I fish hard, I dont play, I dont chase cheeseburgers while fishing. Theres a lot of things in this world to do but fishing and taxidermy along with working on a certain old car is what I do best. Many years ago when I was learning to paint fish I took a body shop course to learn the basics of handling paints and how to apply them. It was the best I could think of!!! those things still work.

When I do something I try to do it the best I can, I dont half step, I may learn slow but when I have the knowledge its mine and I know it inside and out.

I dont hookup on stripers on a regular basis, I am learning that species and what it takes to catch big stripers and accident is just that an accident. So I have been working to find the best guide who will teach me how to catch stripers on Norfork. The that will be used on other lakes.

As for the Walleyes, I have been waiting for the water to just right and the timing to be just right and its just that right now. MY eye kknowledge came from two old fisherman, George Petree and Rufus Allen, mostly Rufus and he was 100% right and he gave me his notebook a couple years before he passed away. Where do I keep it? Right there beside tow other very important books to me. Noone touches these!! My family knows not too.

Just for the record in the near future I am fishing the first bass tourny since 1978. Dont know if I will catch anything but it will not be for lack of trying!!!

Can't catch fish if your lure ain't in the water!!! Fish are going to eat everyday. Its up to you to find them and find out what they are eating of find out what will make them bite what you have.

Location, presentation and reaction.

Thats what its going to take to catch fish.

Location, I have caught three fish nice fish within about 50 feet of each other on different days. GPS landmarked so it could be more.

I can identify the same underwater features using a Humminbird 565 very close to the GPS coord.

Presentation triggers reaction,

fish feed when they can get a very easy meal most times.

Next is your reaction, if indoubt set the hook. Since adopting this I do catch more and bigger fish.

My 24 inch wlleye last night felt like a bump in the mud, then maybe a smallish water logged wetstick, by the time I had him close to the boat I knew he was a nice eye. I was wondering if I would be able to even see it let alone land it. my 8lb flouracarbon was seeming like it was not near enough.

Yep I troll with light line, I loose several lures everytime. Is it worth the cost? Darn right to me it is. To my family they understand and know the difference too. $33.00 today to replace what we lost yesterday then it was $35.00 to replace what we lost Sunday. Plus fuel cost.

I really hate fuel going up but it is relative. I just have to mount another fish or deerhead. Yesterday I sold an old car 65 Pontiac 389 tri-power, hated to see it go but I have another project car and its time.

This week I will finish three or four fish. Hopefully four :) its only Tuesday and I have two mounted and drying for next week have two more I want to get skinned, body carved and mounted tomorrow. Then is back to finish and painting.

I do have someone working for me, last week he polished out a 24ft Gooseneck, 4horse slant trailer. He will finish it this week if the weather holds. We will make pretty good when it sells. Its a lot of trailer for the money a lot of trailer!!! I have had a couple people look at it, the finance people failed ones credit, the trailer apped for $11,475. I paid $5,000 for it a few years ago.

Yep thats my play money, my fishing money. So I may head out again Thursday evening or may hit White River.

I busted my butt during the Army years, now I am going to fish hard!! To darned old to die young!!!

Fishing is far morer important than computers and ISPs. BUt give me a month or so. and I will post some pics of fish we catch and have caught. Some are small and some are not so small.

Gotta be one the water to fish and have to have your lure in the water to catch fish.

John

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Well after reading that 4 day long rant about everthing under the sun I stand corrected taxidermist is the best fisherman in the world no one can hold a candle to fishing ability and knowledge of all things fish related

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