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I got it from Bass Pro. It's in their catalog. Cabelas sells it also. It's in the plastics section. Runs about $3.50 a bottle.

ackermannsacre said:
Had one of the PWT pros tell me that most of the walleyes he caught during prefish last summer were puking up bluegill, that is why he went to a turqoise blue smile blade and a couple yellow & orange floats on his crawler rigs.

That was the primary pattern I fished in the tournament, and also the one I believe Gofron won on. You had to fish around and through bluegill to catch walleyes. I ran blue spinners and orange beads with bottom bouncers to "match the hatch". I've never caught that many bluegills in my life! Looking forward to coming back again in May...It's a fun place to go fishing.

Hi, Jim....hope you guys have a very successful tournament in May. Looking forward to meeting one or two of you in person.You might pass the word to your fellow PWT competitors that the road into Bull Shoals from Harrison, Ark. on over to Mountain Home is just one long speed trap with local yokels setting up to rip off visiting anglers. Our local newspaper carried an article on the situation about two weeks ago. Anyway, good luck to all you guys and hope you have some of our better spring weather the whole time you're down this way.

CW...Sorry for dredging up this old thread but you don't need to tell me about those Bulls on Patrol down there. I got me nearly arrested once already down there last summer.

Got off the lake after prefishing and stopped for some truck fuel in Diamond City(?) at that little convenience on the west side of the road. You have to go inside to get a key to the diesel pump, so the little girl gives me the key and I fill the truck up and figure what the heck I might as well top the boat off too since I'm here, so I pull up to the pump and gas the boat then walk inside and hand the little girl the key to the diesel and my credit card, signed the receipt and away I went. Fired up the truck and hit that twisty road back to Bull Shoals. I loved that drive- especially early in the morning- that is some kind of country.

I'm almost all the way to Flippin when a Deputy passes me going the other way, does a U-turn in the middle of the road, and starts in behind me. I'm thinking, well this guy has prolly never seen a big, beautiful TRACKER like that since he's so close to Rangerville and all, and he just wanted to check it out at close range.

Of course you gotta realize I was still in full glow and serious sunstroke from a really good day of prefishing where I figured out the aforementioned bluegill connection.

So he follows along for a couple of miles and then I see another deputy come up fast behind him, and before I can come up with another delusional theory, Deputy 1 pops the cherries and I rolled the truck to a stop. How do you guys down there deal with a breakdown? I was amazed at the lack of shoulders on those roads. Pretty much had to park in the middle of the road.

Deputy 1 walks up to my rig with his hand on top of the holster with Deputy 2 right behind him. I'm now hearing that banjo music in my head from the 70's, or whenever that movie was filmed. Deputy 1 asks me if I got some gas back up the road aways, and I said sure, and he says "Well, why didn't you pay for it?" "Well, I did Officer, I got the receipt right here" and before I handed it over to him, I see that it says nothing about anything unleaded. Deputy 2 says we got a good description of the thief from the clerk at the store. "Big, Black Truck with Stickers all over it towing a Big, Black Boat with Stickers all over it. Sound Familiar?" Hmmm...Well, let's see. Maybe I better look around some. All I see is green mountains and nobody for miles. Now I'm wondering how many boiled eggs I can eat in one sitting out with all the guys from the chain gang cheering me on.

So I tell my story and Deputy 2 says "Well, you really don't look like the gas stealing type" so I asked them if I could call the convenience and I would give the little girl my credit number and make it right. The line was busy for 15 minutes before they called dispatch and had the phone company break into it. The little girl was talking to her boss or boyfriend or something. Fun Times in Arkansas...

Looking forward to going back down there again! Will keep an eye out for the Law! JC

Jim, been talking to Johnnie some and hopefully we will get a day or two together out on the water in May...

Bill, I'm really looking forward to it. I liked it so much down there I could retire on that lake someday- the people and scenery, etc, are awesome!

I agree Jim! I ALWAYS look forward to headin' south. We get to double dip this year with Bull Shoals AND Cumberland on the ticket .



Headin' to Antioch on the 4th of April...gotta have a head start to keep up with you young guys!



By the way..I can say this because I'm old and have been around this game longer than anyone ...Jim Carrol and his side kick, Johnnie Candle, are not only good walleye hunters but they are also two of the best PEOPLE in the game. I, for one, appreciate their presence on the tour. That said...I plan on givin' those young'ns a lesson or two this year! lol



Keep a tight line...



Steve Fellegy

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Yep, Deliverance was filmed in the mountains of north Georgia, but it could just as easily have been in our mountains here. Go into any Wal Mart store on Friday and you stand a good chance of running into the kid whose father was also his brother, uncle, and grandfather on his mother's side. We got a lot of that around here, and Friday is "field trip day" for the residents of the "unique homes" for these folks. I don't know about the rest of southwest Missouri, but if funding for these "unique homes" is ever withdrawn, Polk County will dry up and blow away. Since they tore down the outdoor screen for the moving pitcher show out on the old highway, all us slickers now have to drive in to the Wal Mart on Friday and see what comes in on the OATS bus...(Ozarks Area Transportation System)...sometimes it's better than the drive in movies were, and it's free!
I had passed on a warning to a couple of the incoming pros about speed enforcement down that way....so you guys be real careful coming in. Out of state guys in big rigs are easy pickings for the local yahoos.

Hey, I know that was not politically correct, but facts is facts. If you think it ain't so, I challenge you to join me some Friday morning at the local Wal Mart, check out who is in the store, and then we can go fishing. On the way out of town enroute to the lake, I will point out how the economy of this area is heavily dependent on government money for group homes.

Ya recon we could get funding for a home for wayward walleye anglers? Say around Walnut Shade, maybe?
Cold bud on tap, a big boat garage, probably wouldn't really need maid service....Hooters on Wheels delivery.
That's what I'm talkin' 'bout!

Hey, CW - I was out on the dirt roads in your old stomping grounds one time, Louisiana bayou country. I saw people living there that I don't think even have the same number of chromosomes as the rest of us. Maybe not even the standard issue of eyeballs. So, it ain't confined to the Ozarks.

But I asked directions to a fishing hole from another group of people near there, and they seemed friendly. At least they wuz grinning. Who ARE those people, creoles maybe? Kinda black, kinda white, and they speak some language that sure ain't English or French. I couldn't understand a single word they said. But - they pointed down the dirt road and I went that way until I found water, and I caught fish there. Can't complain about that.