Bella Vista bream fishing

[Quillback]

Ham made the trip over here today, we fished Windsor lake today for Bream.  Great day of fishing, we had some slow spells every once in a while, but pretty much found fish all day long.  Drop shot with red worms, fish were fairly shallow, maybe from about 3 feet deep out to 6 or so.  

I estimate we caught 75-80, I kept half a dozen and the rest were released.  A lot of 7-8 inch fish, with a few bigger and Ham got big fish honors with a 13" Redear, biggest redear I have seen come out of one of these lakes.  

[snagged in outlet 3]

That’s a beauty!   I need to start doing that again.  I used to do it all the time when the kids were little and as they grew older and went off to school I just stopped.  
Thx!!!

[Devan S.]

At 13" that's gonna be close to an Arkansas Master Angler fish.

[snagged in outlet 3]

@Ham catching the biggest small species👍

[Johnsfolly]

@Quillback as much as I want to give your post a like I can't condone the use of the term bream in the post🙄! I'm glad that you guys had a great time. That beast of a redear should keep @Ham smiling for a while. Congrats guys.

[Ham]

I really appreciate the invite Jeff. Once again, we had a Really Good trip.

 Jeff knows his Bella Vista lakes pretty well and he’s definitely dialed in on the Big Panfish. We had some 9 inch Bluegill too.

There were a few stinkin Bass in the mix. They were almost all post spawn skinny. 

I’m proud as a peacock about the RedEar. It was just a tank. It’s Not every that you get a Personal Best. I’ll likely have to fish Lake Havasu to get a Bigger one 

[Ham]

[Ham]

Pictures don’t do it justice. We had been catching Jumbo Bluegill all morning and this thing dwarfed those. 

[Johnsfolly]

42 minutes ago, Ham said:

Pictures don’t do it justice. We had been catching Jumbo Bluegill all morning and this thing dwarfed those. 

Now you're just milking it !

@Quillback Still don't see 1/4 inch gradations on that ruler .

[Quillback]

19 minutes ago, Johnsfolly said:

Now you're just milking it !

@Quillback Still don't see 1/4 inch gradations on that ruler .

They are there, but 'Girthzilla' covered them up with it's big gut.