Fishing

[crtreedude]

Arkansawyer,

I was born in Diamond Missouri and grew up hearing about the White River. Wasn't that the one *DanG to make Table Rock Lake?

[Teri]

Arkansawyer...Is the water still ICE COLD??  ;D

Thanks for postin the pics. I always like seeing pics. from back home. 

[Roxie]

Ahhhhhhhhh....thanks Arkansawyer!  I felt the temperature drop twenty degress looking at those pictures!   

Arkansawyer,

I was born in Diamond Missouri and grew up hearing about the White River. Wasn't that the one *DanG to make Table Rock Lake?

I've got to tell ya that you probably have to type dammed to keep the Forum Fairies from turning ya into a DanG!   :D :D :D

[crtreedude]

Either senility is getting to me, or someone changed my post!  Of coursed, it was probably my bad spelling that got modified now that I think about it...  :D

If course, since I prefer mountain rivers to dammed lakes, perhaps it was a freudian slip....

[Fla._Deadheader]

They dammed the White River to create Table Rock, Bull Shoals and Norfork Lakes.

  Used to take the chilluns fishin in da White River. World record German Brown Trout was caught in the White River. Water is 2° above solid  : ;D :D

[ARKANSAWYER]

   The White River starts in Arkansas over by Rodgers and flows north into Missiouri and then truns south and flows through Arkansas to the Mississippi River.  First is Beaver Fork Lake in Arkansas then Table Rock Lake as well as Taneycomo Lake in MO then it comes back into Arkansas and forms Bull Shoals lake.  Norfork Lake is the only lake on the North Fork of the White River which starts in MO.   All are clear deep lakes full of fish and many state and world records come from them.  Rainbow trout is 25+ lbs,  German Brown is 44+ lbs and Walleye is 22+ lbs which came from Greersferry lake just south of me.  Yep GOD's country for sure.
FDH did you know that the White River is colder in the summer then the winter?

[Fla._Deadheader]

Just feels that way Arky. In the winter, yer already half froze.  : ;D ;D ;D

  Izzat one a dem, "Does cold water boil faster than warm water" questions ???  :D :D :D

[Corley5]

Where I-40 crosses the White it's far from clear ;).  Gotta get up farther north in Arkanas one these days

[UNCLEBUCK]

I watched a fishing show last month on the outdoor life channel showing a big resort on the white river for trout fishing and they were catching huge brown trout and some rainbows . I couldnt believe it . Nice pics Arky

[Patty]

Norm & I used to go trout fishing at Bennet Springs down there. Boy that was fun. Once we were fishing there in the rain, the trout were really biting. Norm caught an 8 pounder.....it looked like a football. 

[UNCLEBUCK]

Been going fishin for specks alot in the swamp with my only nephew and he been winning the local fishing contest every week $5 bucks each time . Biggest bass so far is 3.8 lbs . Turned him on to top water buzz baits and he is addicted . The crappies(specks) dissappeared ? Lookin for a 5 pounder hopefully before summers end . Probably use this bass for bait down south !

[Norm]

Nice bass UB, there's nothing like fishing early evening when the water is glass smooth. Big old bass hitting one of those top water buzz baits....oh yeah.

[tnlogger]

UB no not bait that is just right fer eating   8) 8)

[isawlogs]

Unclebuck
How you coming along with your house ...  ???

[UNCLEBUCK]

I wish I had the camera Norm when nephew got his first bass because he didnt believe me that a bass goes nuts over something that buzzes.  :D  tnlogger all my nephews prize bass end up in the freezer display in town and the only ones I get to eat are his rejects about half the size of the one pictured.   :D  I finished laying all the floor tile Marcel but have to grout it now but sister got me round baling hay for the last 2 days and now I have to cut grain and combine it but it is a nice break to just get out and smell hay dust all day long !  :( :D  Trying to get all my stuff done so I can nail down a answer for coming to piggy roast

[Roxie]

When my oldest son was four, I took him fishing for his very first time.  He caught a trout fingerling size.  I held it up and said, "Look!  You caught a fish!"  He said, "It's not a fish."  I said, "Yes it's a fish."  He said, "It's not a fish!  Fish look like hot dogs with bread crumbs!" 
After that incident, I cut back on the convenience foods, like fishsticks.   :D

[SwampDonkey]

mmm I like 6-8 inch brook trout, they taste better than the big ones. ;D

[Tom]

My son, Toby, is a real fisherman.  He's lived fishing since he could hold a line. 

When he was about 12 or 13, I took him to North carolina on vacation.  We were watching a man in the French Broad River (full of rocks) catch a hatchery trout.  Toby asked, "What'cha fishing for mister?".

The man explained to him that he was catching trout (about 5 or 6 inches long that had just been turned loose).   Toby listened politely and then came back to me and said, "Daddy, those fish are what he's catchin'.  I thought they were his bait.".

Gotta love a little Florida born fisherman like that.  He was used to using 6 and 8 inch mullet for bait to catch Gator Trout and 30 lb Channel Bass (Reds).   I was so proud of him for not ruining the man's day.   :D

[UNCLEBUCK]

 :D :D :D

[SwampDonkey]

Now that we are onto wild versus hatchery fish. There is no comparison when you catch a frsh sea run atlantic wild salmon versus a store bought farm raised salmon. The farm raised taste like mud and smell rotten in the store, plus at the farm, or someplace during the processing, the farm raised fish have a pink dye added to the meat. Not fit to eat. That dye even comes out in the oil in the skillet. :  :-\

Now about the trout. When I was young'er we fished some shallow lakes up north where the forestry companies opened up for logging. The lakes where quite shallow and the brooks where black like coffee, but the bottom of most brooks were rocky and sandy. Lake bottoms where mostly muddy. Well there used to be so many trout and they were so hungry, all you needed was a bare hook and work it across the pool and the water would literally boil with trout. You couldn't keep them off and most where 6-9 inches. The really big ones wouldn't bite unless it was the right moment. We fished up one stream and we were getting trout over 11 inches, but we came back down and hit this big deep pool full of 3 - 5 lb'ers. We didn't catch many big ones before they all quit biting and then it was getting near dark, so we had to get back. There was a big rain over night and when we went back there was no sign of a trout. We hit that kind of fishing many times, and a raise of the water would change to whole fishing experience.

[sawguy21]

mmm I like 6-8 inch brook trout, they taste better than the big ones. ;D

Doesn't get any better than that.

[pappy]

Back in June my bro Dave caught this muskie it was 37 inches long and 18 lb.


It's a new camp record at our family log camp up at Glazier Lake in New Brunswick. There have been some caught at 28 lbs.... a state recored 

Back in May he also caught a 11 lb 4 oz toque (lake trout)... I got that picture around here somewhere  :P

[Jeff]

THat would be 5 inches too short here. Our minimum size is 42 inches.  I have never caught a legal one.  I caught one 28 when the size was still back at 30, I caught one at 35 after they had changed it to 36 and I caught one at 37 since they changed it to 42. :-\   THats for Tigers and Great Lakes Muskies

[pappy]

Jeff,
There's no size limit on muskies in these parts as they where illegally introduced... Now there's a muskie derby (2 yrs. running) with a $10,000 total purse.

It's true what they say about muskies "It's a fish of ten thousand cast"...  I prefer to troll and sip  ;)

[SwampDonkey]

For interest sake and to those on here that don't know the area Pappy is talking about, Glasier Lake is on the border between Maine and New Brunswick. It feeds the St Francais River, which runs into the Saint John River. The Saint John River flows the entire length of New Brunswick and starts in Maine and Quebec.


Cool catch Pappy.

Jeff, they've taken the opposite approach about size limits on Atlantic Salmon. You have to throw back anything larger than a grilse at 24 inches. My largest was 39 inches and she had to go back. Caught it on the Upsulquitch River on which you need a special permit to fish with artificial fly and only residents of NB can fish. I used to look down into deep water along rivers edge where you'de see them big sow salmon laying in there like sticks of pulpwood. Salmon 30 to 45 pounds are common, grilse are much more plentifull which average 4 to 6 pounds. Some rivers here a grilse is only 2.5 to 4 lbs. The Restigouche (incl Upsulquitch) and Saint John Rivers (Incl Tobique) had the largest Salmon here.