Arkansas River Trip

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Well, we just pulled in today from Arkansas and what a great time we had. We visited with our good friends Mike and Michelle Fowler and got to go fishing every single day we were there. Sunday morning we were invited to Mike Wilson's home and enjoyed a huge country breakfast. Every day, twice a day, we ran Mike's trotlines and limblines and every day we caught fish. On Tuesday, Richard Mayes took Mike and me Jug fishing and we caught a good mess of Whites and Blues and had a ton of fun on the water. On Wednesday, we had an Arkansas River grand slam, catching White Cats, Channel Cats, Blue Cats and a Flathead. Thanks Mike and Michelle for your warm hospitality. Thank's Mike Wilson for inviting us into your home and feeding us (and also for cleaning all those catfish)....we owe you one. Thank's Richard for taking us out and showing me a whole new, relaxing way to catfish. Nancy and I were sad to have to leave and can't wait to get back up there. Here are a few fishing pictures from the trip. I will post some more when I get them developed....Ray

[Catbird]

Ray, good to hear you had a good trip and a safe drive home. Thanks for sharing the pictures.

[wewamohawk]

ray its nice to see you and nancy had a good time with your friends and thanks for the pictures maurice

[gofish]

looks like a real good trip.glad ta see ya had fun an got home safe

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Thanks, I'll try to get some more pics up soon....Ray

[Timotha7]

Great photos Ray, sure looks like it was a blast, I have never jugged but from what I have heard it sounds like a lot of fun

[beenie509]

Sounds Like You Had A Great Time! Great Pictures~

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Mike Fowler introduced me to Richard Mayes, one of his close friend's and now, a good friend of mine. He introduced me to jug fishing with a twist. Instead of jugs or bottles, he uses cut sections of a kid's swimming noodle as floats. He rigs them to where, when a catfish hit's....it causes the noodle float to stand up straight in the river and take off across the surface. Chasing them down with the boat can be alot of fun. We fished an area of the river behind a rock jetty that was about 3/4 mile long and 1/4 mile wide. It was a big flat sand bar....5 to 8 feet deep and covered with fresh water mussels. We put out 20 noodles and had a great time chasing them down when a fish got on. It was an experience I won't soon forget and I learned alot. Thanks again Richard....Ray

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More River Pic's....Ray

[Timotha7]

Great pics Ray, Thanks for sharing
I know that has got to be some fun!

[Sharon]

Pretty interesting stuff there with the noodles.. nothing better than a day out fishing.. glad you had a great time.

[Soupy_1us]

Ray: Sounds like you guys had a ball..... I like the Noodle thing too... More fun and harder to find.....Make for an interesting day of fishing...

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Soupy, I'm gonna make some of them up for our next visit. Too bad we can't use them in Florida....Ray

[Soupy_1us]

Ray: We use "Florescent" yellows and orange.... Works real good in muddy waters.
Up here we gotta make sure we put our names and addresses on them so the water patrol (game wardens) can check 'em out ..... I think we can use up to 25 at one time. We drop ours up river and then we run down river about three miles and fish 'til they get to us.... The ones that don't make it down there , we go huntin' for.

[big country]

well it good to see you made it there and back safe....
glad to see you had a good time, it looks like you stayed pretty busy with them fish......

[Soupy_1us]

Mr. Big "C"... I want to thank you myself for givin' Schoe that wild pig for Tee's dinner party... First I ever had that I could really eat and enjoy...


well it good to see you made it there and back safe....
glad to see you had a good time, it looks like you stayed pretty busy with them fish......

[big country]

soupy no problem but all i did is give him the meat, more than likely schoe cooked it and that man can cook......:p

[wewamohawk]

ray thats more nice pictures and looks like you was haveing fun it makes me wish i was there with you guys ;;;maurice

[Stump Bumper]

Well, I sure couldn't think of a better way to spend a day on the water....Ray

[Soupy_1us]

I'm not shor who cooked it but, I did see Tee flippin' it and he can cook too........All the food we had down there was great ! ('cept for them damn oysters)


soupy no problem but all i did is give him the meat, more than likely schoe cooked it and that man can cook......:p

[Schoe]

Aah, Aah, Aah, Soupy, There you go bad mouthin those scrumptious Oysters. I don't mind anyone not liking anything after they have tried it but so far I've not seen you even try to slide one down. We will work on that.

Speaking of which, I still have about 25 lbs. of Oysters still on ice that I have to pop today and enjoy. I haven't had to buy any ice since I got home a week ago as the weather has been plenty cold here.

Yes "T" did prepare the wild pig leg, and a fine job he did at that. That was the only the second time I have eaten wild Hog and actually I would rather have that than domestic Pig. Schoe

[Soupy_1us]

If you get one of them oysters down me, I'd better be past-out ! I still think anybody that eats them things like y'all do has got to be "Sick" !

'possum would taste better to me.

[gofish]

stump bumper used ta use thick rectangles of styrofoam for ours.when the cat hit theyd slap back n forth on the water an make it easier ta find em at night.ya can hear em from a long ways away ifn there aint a lot of wind

[wewamohawk]

yes the meat wes real good and tee did the meat cooking he also made a real nice breakfast and lots of 0ther good food and we all had a supper good time and i met some of the nicest people at the spring fling ;;;maurice and lucy

[big country]

well schoe come fcc time i'll try to bring some more up with me- with some mojo for you try........... :p

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Hey Mike, let us know how you do running your limblines and trotlines. I guess the weather must have warmed back up. How is everybody doing? Tell everybody we said hey....Ray

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Mike, how is everything up your way? Did you get to go fishing this weekend?....Ray