Fish Catching Travel
Between the traveling, my birthday, and a case of the summer doldrums, I basically took a couple of weeks off from Fish Catching Travel. With our super hot weather I just could not seem to get to excited about hitting the water. And with my trout fishing luck the last few trips, I just needed a break. So after a couple of weeks it was back in the saddle.
Finally we got a little rain, and the weather today was to be cloudy and rainy with the possibility of thunderstorms, so with that in mind I decided to hit the lake. I was a little wary of driving to the Gulf and then having a storm hit, and I made the right choice.
My plan for today was to fish the main lake and work my way to the power plant area. I started off on the couple of main lake points behind the big island. Since it was daylight of course out came the buzzbait. I caught a small one, then this one. When I got the camera out I realized I left the battery in the charger, I am a little rusty, so I had to take pictures with the GoPro.
A little fuzzy but you get the point. This one smoked it.
Though I caught 3 on the couple of points at the mouth of the 2 coves, I just did not get the kind of bites I was looking for. So I headed up lake to a deep point with 20 foot of water on it and a large grass patch in about 8 foot of water. On my first cast a good one hit it before it hit bottom, and with my superior skill I missed it. I ended up catching 4 on that point and missed a few more.
This was the best of the 4 I caught on that point.
The first 3 came on a 7″ Zoom flapping tail worm in the purple with red flake, and they were whacking it. To bad I only had a couple . I switched to a black and caught one, but it did not feel right so I made another change. Now I am no big Senko fisherman by any stretch but when I fished the big bass tourney on Lake Fork Aaron left a bag in the boat. It was a pumpkin, what they called the tomato up there. So I put it on the 1/4 ounce slip sinker Texas style and caught another. They kind of slacked off so I headed further up.
I put one here and one there on the flat sides of the big points in the grass, but they just were not on that kind of place in any great numbers. I thought they might move shallower with the heavy clouds and on and off rain, but it was not to be. They are definitely on the points. I headed up close to the intake for the plant. Never underestimate the effect moving water has on fish.
The plant was obviously pulling water and when I rounded the corner back in the creek there was a definite current. I fished toward the plant and they bit pretty good.
A nice one on the Senko.
Over the next half hour I put 5 in the boat. Some of them were right on the bank. Now off and on it had rained this morning, and the wind started to kick up pretty good. Since I caught those on the Senko so shallow I wanted to make a pass with the buzzbait. It was about noon, but if they were that shallow there was no reason I could not re-fish it and catch some. And I did manage to get one more.
The last one of the morning.
That ended up being it. If you look in the background you can see that cloud bank coming. It was dead calm then here it came. I thought I needed to hit the road, and I almost made it back to the ramp before it hit. I had to stop about halfway back and put on the rain suit. As soon as I hit the buoy at the ramp cove a big lightning strike happened, and it was on the trailer for me. I was thinking about waiting it out, but that ended that thought. There are lots of conditions that one should not probably fish in, but getting hit by lightning would leave a mark. There are always other days to fish.
So not a bad morning. I caught 4 on buzzbait and around 10 on plastics. Even though the conditions were good for shallow fish, plastics near deeper water were the best bet. I used a 3/8 sinker on the big worm, and a 1/4 on the senko. I think if I had had some more of the purple with red flake worm I might have caught more, but no complaints. Anytime you can catch a nice bunch of fish in the middle of a summer day you should be thankful. And I was.
So it is good to be back in the fishing mode. It will be off and running first thing in the morning. With a great chance of thunderstorms it will be a lake day. And while it might end the day early, like today, we need the rain. And the Gulf isn’t going anywhere. So thanks for reading my stuff and my apologies for not posting lately, by not to worry that won’t be happening anytime in the near future. Time to put them in the boat.
Good Luck and Tight Lines
