Fish Catching Travel
You think you had a bad day the other day!
Before I get to the fishing, how about someone really having a bad day. My friend Aaron was going to bring his Skeeter down this week so we could do a little scouting with his side imaging sonar. So he decided to go ahead and do the bearings as long as he was pulling it down here from East Texas. So he was down looking at the wheel when he notice a chip out of the jel coat on the bottom. He looked under the boat and………………….
Now that enough to make a person throw up!
Now over the years I have cracked 2 hulls on bass boats, one of them twice. And I have been around lots of messed up boats, but I have never seen anything like this. Last year he hit a stump and had his boat fixed. Looks like they fixed it all right. So let’s see how this all comes out. Looks to me like the bottom repair de-laminated and just popped right off. Sorry Arron, that sure does suck. And, as all of you know who have owned lots of boats, stuff happens! In fact, the captain of Team Nancy never asks me how many fish I catch, it is always, “Did you break anything?”
Coleto Creek
After a couple of days out of town I was looking forward to getting back to fishing. I can honestly say I wussed out. The weather forecast was for wind, and they got it right. I just did not have the get up and go to drive to the bay and then fight the wind all day, so I headed to Coleto. To bad I did not head to the Gulf anyway, for some reason I just did not fish all that well today.
So being in the midst of a high sky, north wind, cold front I decided to throw the jerk bait a little. I headed up the plant arm, and after fishing a couple of places I finally stuck this one on a deeper grass bank.
The best one of the day, to bad it was the first one, and I never caught another one this good.
I wanted to throw jerk bait some, to see if I could catch a little bigger fish, but this was the last bite I had on a jerk bait. Of course, I was alternating with a Strike King 1/4 ounce Swim Jig. I also threw a swim bait and a topwater some. But the fishing is just not as good as it was. It was more of a catch a couple here, catch a couple there, but I could not establish a pattern. About 3 I finally buzzed the spinnerbait and caught 6 off one grass bed, then 3 or 4 more off another.
Four or five this size just ate a buzzed spinnerbait.
Looking it back on it a spinnerbait would have been the best choice. Of the dozen to so I caught on it, all of them whacked it, there was no missing them. They wanted it right on top leaving a wake. A little tough when they want it slower. You just have to use the rod to keep the blades right below the surface moving steady but not fast. Most of them came from shallow water.
The spinnerbait fish were ok, to bad I did not stick with it.
The best I can say about the fishing is it was tough today. I just could not find the right combination today. But not to worry, our good fishing is still to come. Another moon and some warm weather and all will be back to normal.
As far as the Gulf, when the forecast for today was 10 -20, tomorrow is 15 – 25, and Thursday is “windy” , it looks a little tough. Of course my friend Todd from Austin is coming to POC with some friends for 3 days, hope it straightens up some. Either way I will be fishing with them for at least a day. So we shall see.
So thanks again for reading my stuff. Some days it just doesn’t happen. But that does not stop me. It just makes me more determined to find and catch fish, no matter what the conditions. So keep stopping in, we’ll catch something.
Good Luck and Tight Lines.
