Quillback

No stripers in TR, except for a few that may have come over the dam from Beaver a couple of years ago during the floods. You can make the trip over to Beaver and launch at one of the Corps parks near the dam, if you go at daylight or in the evening you might come across some hybrids/stripers surface feeding, but it's hit or miss, especially from a kayak. Ozarkanglers.com has a Table Rock forum with reports and there's archived stuff their also, if you did a search on "Big Cedar" I'm sure you'd get some info.

Texas Tackle.

I like Daiichi Deathtraps in size 6. Be careful as they are scarey sharp. They'll slide into your finger like a hypodermic needle.

A local reporter says it's a heckuva crankbait bite on Bull. Lots of cookie-cutter 14-15" LM's. Palaniuk has found himself a big bass bite in a small creek cove according to the reporter.

Another vote for Zoom.

The STX's are cheap enough (especially if you get them on sale), that you can send them off to a custom painter and get whatever finish you want. There's a guy in the area that does a great job for $12 per lure.

It's a good show, I do wish they would spend less time showing the announcers talking about the standings, the standings are easy to understand, no need to give a detailed description every 5 minutes.

If you're gonna cheat, why stop with one? Dude must have gone through a case of * every month.

And, though never given credit for it, Curly was the originator of "Break Dancing" The dude was doing the floor spin move back in the 30's.

Read a Stooges review today, reviewer liked it. I liked the Stooges as a kid, but I was concerned that sitting through 2 hours of Bonks, doinks, eye pokes and Nyuk, nyuks would be a little too much, but the reviewer says it's basically broken up into 3 parts, beginning with a Stooges "origin" story. The Stooges are brought to an orphanage in a burlap sack and it goes from there. Personally I thought the latest True Grit was much better than the original.

I'd love to see them hire Malzahn, it would give the folks at AR State a conniption fit. But seriously, I don't see Malzahn or McGree leaving without ever having coached a game with the schools they just signed with. It also would look very "Petrino" to leave their teams now after just signing new contracts. I really don't like the interim coach thing either, but if that will give them plenty of time to select a worthy coach (hopefully).

You gotta love those Dobyns rods! I wonder if they will come out with an 804 Extreme?

I'm happy to hear you guys are OK with the pre-tourney 11:30 PM calls. My comment was somewhat tongue in cheek. But I agree with the other guys, I would have a sit-down with this guy to determine if we'd still fish together in tourneys cuz it sounds like there's some conflict there.

Used to live in Weymouth and Milford MA during my high school and post-service college days. Fished at night quite a bit, black jitterbug was my favorite nighttime lure. I liked the jointed ones and don't be afraid to use big jitterbugs. Lots of small lakes and ponds in MA that don't have boat launches and can only be accessed with a car-topper, those lakes hardly see any night time pressure at all. I was tackle poor in those days, but if I fished those lakes now, I would bring some Gunfish, spooks, pop-R's, buzz-baits and prop baits with me. Looks like you're from Plymouth or that area, there's a little lake that is on the other side of the road from Long pond, the outlet stream feeds Long Pond. 20 years ago that pond had some toads in it that loved Jitterbugs, don't know if that is still the case, but I'd give it a shot. I had some great nights on Mashpee-Wakeby also, but with smallies.

If I called my fishing buddy at 11:30 PM the night before a tourney to remind him to tie his knots, he'd probably shoot me the next morning and I would deserve it.

Buddy of mine caught a 3.5 lb spawned out female yesterday on Beaver. All the bass they caught were in the post/pre -spawn staging areas. Beds are hard to see in Beaver because of murky water. Talking LM and spots on Beaver, don't know what is going on at Norfolk or what the smallies are doing.

Yes congrats to Bubba (I can't believe someone would name their kid "Bubba", even someone from Alabama). I was hoping Mickelson would pull it off, but if not him at least it wasn't won by a foreigner.

In all this discussion, no one has mentioned technique. I finesse t-rig and c-rig quite a bit on rocky, timbered, relatively weed free lakes. I could use an Ugly Stick, cheap reel, mono, and lead weights and catch fish. But I do much better with a light, sensitive rod, light reel, floro and tungsten. If there was a tourney going on with 2 pros with equal skills fishing bottom contact techniques and with equal knowledge of the lake, one with the Ugly Stick set up, the other with the more sensitive (and probably more expensive stuff), I'd bet on the guy with the more sensitive stuff every time. I'm happy with my stuff (not that I won't buy more), and when buying tackle I try to find stuff that will make me a better fisherman and put more bass in the boat. When I find something I like, I then try and find the best deal on it I can. I don't really care what the other guys on the lake are using or what they paid for it. Back at the ramp, if I run into someone that has done well, I'll talk to them about what bait or technique they used, to me that's much more important than wondering if the tackle they own is more, or less expensive than what I have.

They are on beds here in NW Arkansas, but weather has been cooler the last couple of days and it seems to have pushed some of them off the beds. On the smaller lakes some fish have already spawned. Water temps at Beaver were between 62-65 Friday. The ADFG bass bios say that bass will begin bedding at 58 and spawn at 65.

I fished one yesterday for the first time, I t-rigged it with a 1/16 oz weight and a 4/0 EWG. It had great action (nicely flapping claws) but I regret to say I caught nothing on it. Not the baits fault, fish are in a goofy spawn mode right now and for some reason they did not want the rage craw yesterday. But in spite of that, I liked what I saw and I will use it again and I expect to catch bass with it.

If you're gonna go out, go out with a bang - start some Senko threads, rage about the A-rig, make some political comments.

I'll be using the A-rig a year from now, but the rest of you can put it down, please don't use it. It's too hard to cast, gets hung up too easy, too expensive, and it's really annoying having to spend so much time catching and releasing big bass. And I really hate it when I get 2 or more on at the same time.

Thanks, I'd figured as much, the bass catching was just a little too easy. To all you tackle manufacturers out there - if you want to impress me with your lures fish catching ability, then get out on a highly pressured public lake and show me what you got.

Not from there anymore, but lived almost 20 years in North Bend, WA. Spent most of my time chasing salmon in the Sound, steelies in the rivers, and trout in the lakes and rivers. There's some great smallie fishing in Lake Sammamish, and I hear Chelan smallies rock! great place to live if you like to fish.

Saw part of that show myself, what annoys me is when they don't identify the lake they are fishing. If you're going to do what is basically an infomercial, please let me know if it is a public or private lake. If it's a public lake I might be more inclined to buy your product, fishing it in a private lake gives it very little credibility and I am much less likely to buy.