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Weather

To bad we did not check it this morning.  It was about 60 when we hit the lake at 8, and by noon the wind started blowing out of the NW and it did, 20mph+ and it was cold.  By time we got to the ramp when we quit it was 48 and ugly.  Oh well.

Solunar Times

• Best Times     2:00A – 4:00A
•                          2:23P – 4:23P
• Good Time     8:12A – 10:12A

Day 2

To bad we did not check the weather.  We thought it would be similar to yesterday, and we could not have been any more wrong.  When we got to the lake it was beautiful, calm and warm.  We even had our coats off by 10.  Like yesterday the fishing was slow, real slow, all morning.  I do not think we boated a fish before about noon.

Around noon the wind started to blow some, and then blow some more, and if felt cold.  Shoedog called and his family hit the road so we headed out to pick him up.  When we hit the mail lake to cross it was white capping and fairly rough.  We headed back into the creek and they finally began to bite some.

A nice hybrid smoked that A rig.

Clyde caught the nice hybrid above on a flat bank, and then the others started to bite.  There was only one problem, they were small.  By now the front was in full blossom and it was rough, cold, and ugly.  We caught a lot of fish most of the afternoon, lots of smallmouth, with small being the operative word.

A small walleye, but a bigger one is in our future, I hope.

We did catch a few whites, but only this one walleye.  The fish were in the pockets, though the falling water temp clearly drove then out of the back ends of the spawning coves.  They moved to the rockier places out of the back ends.  And though it was easy to identify those places, the fish were small and we never did catch a really good fish.

A nice crappie, to bad it was the size of it.

This crappie is a perfect example.  A really nice crappie but there were no more there, or anywhere else.  Most of the fish came on 4″  white paddle tail swim baits, and a few were on the A rig, though the front shut them down enough that they were no where near as aggressive as they were yesterday.

It was a long cold day, not in the plan.  But as usual when you travel, you can expect a few days of crappy weather, hopefully the days to come will improve.  But like all fishermen, we are just glad to be out there.  I mean we caught around 20, but the big fish just seemed to disappear.  So tomorrow it won’t be such an early start.  As Shoedog has been here this week the he has a pretty good handle on them.  One thing is abundantly clear, it is no morning bite so no need to hurry.

We have seen lots of deer and a few turkey, but the front really has them laid up too.  Hope springs eternal in spite of the weather.  So keep stopping in and thanks for reading my stuff.

Good Luck and Tight Lines