Yesterday I took Jacob to our local creek for some wade fishing and swimming. Water temp at 8:00am was 81 degrees. We fished and swam for about three hours before we threw in the towel. While snorkeling, we could see longear sunfish, spotted
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I took my son Jacob out to try his Christmas present in a local lake. I wanted him to get the hang of things before we hit up some local creeks after they recede a bit. After I was comfortable with his abilities to maneuver and control his
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Took the afternoon off and went looking for redear beds with a buddy of mine. It didn’t take us long before we found one and we did it the old fashion way, with out sonar (my buddies just quit working). We ended up catching 22 redear from the
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I had a couple hours to fish my in-laws pond when I went to pick up the kids. Caught my first panfish of the year. Even caught a shell cracker! Nothing big but was was good to get out and actually experience fishing, rather than watching YouTube
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This morning I got up early and headed to a local creek in Arkansas. I went further up stream that I have ever been. Flow is really low now (~20 cfs) and makes it ideal for using finesse tactics while wade fishing. I used the Yamaga Blanks
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Back to the basics. I took yesterday off (needed a mental break) and went to my favorite Ozark stream and fished for smallmouth. I used a new to me rod that a good buddy basically gave me. A Favorite Rods Jackhammer. It is a 7’ medium action
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We have been busy sampling crappie on a couple of central Arkansas AGFC lakes and the crappie look pretty good. These fish were from a lake that currently has a low density. Low density often leads to good growth. These fish were all from one
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I took Jacob and my FIL Mike out today to see if any more bluegill and redear had moved in. They did! To me the size seemed bigger than on the full moon and we caught more redear. We ended up catching 50 bluegill and 8 good redear. My phone
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I finally got the chance to take a day off to to go fishing with Jacob and my father-in-law Mike. Jacob wanted to go fast so we took Mikes bass boat up to Greers to catch whatever was biting. I got a good tip from a Greers legend and we managed
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I fished with my good buddy Chris for a few hours today. We got a late start and were blown all around the lake. What was supposed to be mainly a south wind, ended up being more of an east wind. Water temp ranged from 56 to 59! The crappie
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Today I decided to take a day off and go through my boat since I haven't touched it in over 5 months. I found that my bilge pump was shot, both of my aerator switches are shot, bearings need to be replaced, a cat peed all inside the boat and
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Friday I took the day off and Chris and I battled the east wind and managed to catch a dozen good crappie. Mostly male crappie with one smaller female mixed in. Water Temps were around 70. We didn't really lock in a pattern as it was a struggle
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Chris and I met up after church for a dock shooting lesson on a local watering hole. It took a while but I think that I started to get the hang of it. I can see a new rod in my future. We didn't kill them but we did catch 40 or so with around
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Chris and I met up early this morning with dreams of catching a few monsters. Unfortunately that did not happen. We managed to boat 15 and miss several more.
Chris also decided to "release" a few directly off of his
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Fished from sun up till 3:00pm today and caught a limit! I also caught several limits of yellow bass and drum. Fishing was outstanding the first hour of light and stunk the next 6 hours.