Fish Catching Travel
One thing that fishing does, it never ceases to amaze me. I head to Coleto this morning, rain was in the forecast, so I stuck close to home. The fishing for good fish has been on the last couple of weeks. It has simply been a matter of point hopping with a watermelon red flake worm and catching them when they bite. Oh that it was that easy today.
When I got to the lake this morning the sky was threatening and I could hear far off thunder. I stayed close to the ramp and started on some points. After several points without a bite it looked like it was clearing some so I headed up lake to my most consistent point where I have boated several nice ones lately. It was a bust, and I mean not a bite.
As I was fishing it I could hear some fish busting occasionally behind me on a long shallow grass bed. So with nothing to lose I eased over there and started throwing the topwater. That would be the topwater I could not get a bite on yesterday. My first bite almost ripped the rod out of my hand.
Not a bad fish, to bad it was the last nice one I caught this morning.
As I eased down the bank I would catch one every once in a while. I ended up catching 4 there, and missed a couple. That bank is really long and flat with a lot of grass near the bank. The boat was in 3 foot of water and the fish were shallower than that. So before I left up lake I wanted to fish another good point but here came the rain.
I put on the rain jacket and made a run for the bridge. It was really coming down and for the next half hour I sat under the bridge and drank coffee waiting for it to let up. When it did I started fishing grassy banks all the way to the dam. One here and there came over the side, buy they were small. I also stopped at a couple of points where I have caught a couple, but without success.
By time I quit at 1:30 I had not had a bite on a worm. That does not seem possible with how many nice ones I have caught in the last couple of weeks. Of the 7 fish I caught this morning all came on topwater. As I said, fishing never ceases to amaze me. I think if I had to do it all over again I should have fished a floating minnow. There are fish chasing shad all over the lake, and a minnow type bait twitched might be the ticket right now. I guess I was due to be at the right point at the wrong time today, because the bass were sure not there when I was. Just when you think you have them cornered.
But oh well, no complaints. We got some good rain at the lake, it needed it as it is dropping fast. From the looks of things we also got a pretty good shower at the house, and we definitely need that. So time to give the bass a rest. The reports from the Gulf seem to be improving and after I get a couple of things done tomorrow, it will be off to POC maybe on Thursday. Just have to see which way and how hard the wind blows.
Today makes exactly one week before we leave for Istanbul. Once there we are headed to Cappadocia Turkey for a couple of days. I had never heard of it until I saw something about it online. It looks like one of the coolest places on the face of the earth and from what I read everyone who goes there is amazed. We are staying in a cave, which should be awesome. If you want to see a couple of pictures the link is below. Way cool.
Then after that it is off to the Greek island of Crete. We have been to Greece before and it is a great country and the islands are cool. So it is time to get excited.
But before we head out there is still some fish to be caught. So keep stopping in. Thanks for reading my stuff.
Good Luck and Tight Lines
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