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Its good to see BASS back in the area. 1991 was the last trip to Bull Shoals and few of tis group has seen it. The fishing will be good and we expect lots of 11-12 pound limits with those finding kickers notching their way up. It will be an exciting week to watch and grueling for those competitors. The lake is a lot better than it was when they were here last.Bull Shoals and Arkansas have a lot of history in bass fishing with everything from the first BASS event to the boat companies. There are rod companies, bait companies, graphite shaft builders and so much more. Including those first Bassmasters Classic boats by Rebel, made by Kenzie Craft. Then to add on that this is where Dee Thomas famed flipping as a technique in 1975. There is so much more history here and KVDs family spring vacationed on Bull Shoals visiting an old friend of ours as a youth. Virgil Ward, Harold , Spence P. and more frequented the area years ago.The Twin Lakes area was slowly sliding from bass fishing prominence. The area had retirement area fame in the Wall Street Journal, multiple #1 or #2 outdoor communities in Outdoor Life and Field and Stream publications. Though it was suffering on notoriety as a fishing destination for bass. Everyone visited here for the World Class trout fishery of the White River. And that certainly deserves recognition. Though Bull Shoals certainly deserves the same recognition recently given to Table Rock as it is a good fishery as well. February can be wicked!It is very nice to see BASS put Bull Shoals back in the schedule and we hope that the crowds show up from the surrounding areas to see the weigh in.Thank You Jerry Mc. and welcome back BASS!Rick PierceLast edited by Bass Cat Boats on April 19th, 2012, 10:42 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Heres the Top 2 5 after Day one: 1 Brandon Palaniuk 521- 9 5 21- 92 Matthew Herren 520-13 5 20-133 Cliff Pace 519-10 5 19-104 Tommy Biffle 518- 2 5 18- 24 Bradley Roy 518- 2 5 18- 26 Alton Jones 517-13 5 17-137 Bobby Lane 517-11 5 17-118 Scott Ashmore 517- 6 5 17- 68 Rick Clunn v 517- 6 5 17- 610 Jason Quinn 517- 5 5 17- 510 Clark Reehm 517- 5 5 17- 512 Bill Lowen 517- 3 5 17- 313 Travis Manson 517- 1 5 17- 114 Keith Poche 516- 9 5 16- 915 Edwin Evers 516- 8 5 16- 816 Randy Howell 516- 7 5 16- 716 Michael Iaconelli 516- 7 5 16- 718 Mark Menendez 516- 1 5 16- 118 Brian Snowden 516- 1 5 16- 120 Kotaro Kiriyama 515-15 5 15-1521 Russell Lane 515-12 5 15-1222 Mike McClelland 515- 9 5 15- 923 Billy McCaghren 515- 7 5 15- 724 Brent Chapman 515- 6 5 15- 625 Derek Remitz 515- 5 5 15- 5
Very good weights. That is one of the most scenic lakes i have ever been on as well.
I knew they would have a fun week! Bull is an awesome fishery!
I thought the first BASS event was on Beaver Lake here in Springdale Arkansas? For fishing given the choice though Id take Bull Shoals any day and twice on Sunday over Beaver, though I think most of Beaver rivals Ouachita as the prettiest lake in the state if not the region. They had a Walleye Tour event on Bull a few years back and it would be great to see Bull on a regular Walleye Tour rotation. Since Cabelas is opening a 100K store here this summer, maybe theyll prompt the MWC into swinging through here every now and again.
Beaver was the site of the first BASS event and Stan Sloan won that event.
And I was here at the time…though only 3 mos old, not that we went to the weigh-in though. Knowing my dad, he probably already had me painting the fence or planting turnips or something to earn my keep. Now that you guys are in the walleye binness, are you gonna be sponsoring a walleye tour or events? Theres some of us here in north and northwest Arkansas really interested in walleye fishing and would love to see it break out of the “way up north” stereotype. Ive fished for them on Bull and Table Rock and even in the OI the year the water was super high and the weigh-in was at Robinson Point; and my father-in-law fishes for them regularly down on the Little Red and even over on the Spring River near Hardy.
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