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Sorry for the no posts this last week but things have been a little rough around here since I posted last Friday.  It is now Tuesday afternoon and I finally felt good enough to finish rewiring the trolling motor.  The last well breath I took was Friday afternoon, and I have literally been sick as a dog for 4 days.  I took my flu shot like a good boy a month ago, but it did me little good.  Then to add insult to injury the Boss got it, and is now a day behind me.  So no fishing, or anything else for that matter, for almost a week.  Tomorrow I am going to go, no matter how I feel.  The weather looks great to be out there so I will take it easy and hit the lake.  Looks like the lake has been going back down a little, but it should be ok.

Weather

70/54  Sunshine and clouds mixed.  0% chance or rain.  Wind 5 – 10 South.

Water Level

This Trip   95.55   Last Trip  95.67

Solunar Times

• Best Times    4:44A – 6:44A
•                         5:05P – 7:05P
• Good Time  10:54A – 12:54P

It is Thursday morning as I write this, I have been up for a couple of hours coughing.  I have had a bad cold or two in my life, but his is getting ridiculous.  It is now a solid week, and I am still sick.  Which brings me to my short fishing trip to Coleto Creek yesterday.  I should have stayed home.

The Boss has saved a life or two in the last 35 years, but in this case she tells me this is a virus and it will play itself out when it does.  Sorry, no cure for you.  And unfortunately she has it so we are both a mess, and boy am I tired of it.  Well folks I am ready for this thing to go away.  It is really a full scale pain in the ass.

It was about 10:30 when I finally dropped the boat in the lake.  The lake is on the fall again after that little bit of rain, and the water temp has dropped a ton.  From mid 60’s in some of the lower end areas, to the high 50’s up lake, if I had to guess it has dropped a good 15 – 20 degrees.  Just as this cold has kicked my butt, the fast water temp drop, along with falling water, has the fish on edge.

To make a long story short, I caught 3 on the Bang-O-Lure, all small, had a good one roll under it and not commit, and missed another 2 or 3.  I fished about the way I felt, poor.  The water up lake was milky, and I did not have a bite fishing up there for over an hour.  So it was back down lake to the clearer water.  I am not sure whether the fishing was that slow, or it was me, probably a combination.  The last straw was I had a small one eat it right at the boat, and I was late setting the hook, and the bait hit the side of the boat and broke the bill off my favorite Bang-O–Lure.  Dang it!  I guess I was just pushing it trying to fish, but 4 days on the couch is a long freakin’ time to not move.  After 3 hours I surrendered and headed to the house to be sick and whine there.

So today I will take it easy and see if I can make some progress.  I want the magic shot, which unfortunately does no exist.  Funny how many diseases they have cured, but the common cold still does not have a cure.

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Let Dez handle all you lighting needs.

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There was one bright spot in my week, a little Christmas present compliments of Bagley Baits.  I have been looking forward to giving the new Bagley Rattlin’ B Minus a go, it is specifically designed for running much shallower than the usual rattling bait.  The obvious applications will be shallow grass or flats in the spring, giving the angler a chance to have a rattle bait that runs over the top of deep grass or shallow cover.  The application I am interested in exploring is for speckled trout.  Being able to keep it around 2 foot deep it really opens up areas that were not fishable with the normal rattle bait.

Also in my little package was a few of the Sunny B’s.  A balsa crankbait, it has been used successfully by the Bagley tournament pros over the last year.  It looks like a killer!  The minute I opened the box all I could think about was using it on Fayette County.  Like the Bang-O-Lure, I would characterize the Sunny B as somewhat of a finesse bait as far as crankbaits go.  No rattles, just the nice tight action of a finely tuned balsa bait.  So stay tuned for a full report on both as the year progresses.

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Sorry for the ranting, but I really am sick of this.  The only thing that can be said for it is that during much of this the weather has really sucked, so I have not missed many good fishing days.  I hope to fish a day or two coming, but it looks like 4 days of rain staring us in the face.  So that is why you have not heard from me for a week or so.  But a better day is coming and I sure will be happy when it gets here.  So keep stopping in and thanks for reading my stuff.

Good Luck and Tight Lines