FISH CATCHING TRAVEL

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Weather

87/81.  Partly cloudy with a 10% of rain.  Wind SSE 10 -15.

Tide

High 11:04 am.   (Only tide.)

Solunar Time

Best  10:27 am to 12:27 pm.    (Only relevant period.)

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Today was one of those almost deals.  We almost caught some, other than shorts.  As we head into the full blown summer pattern the lure fishing is starting to get a little tougher as the croaker soakers start to put the hurt on them.  But that has not stopped us confirmed lure chunkers.  The wind was actually blowing pretty good and when we popped out of Army Cut it was a rough ride.  But once most of the way across the bay the wind was no problem, and it actually laid down the rest of the day.

The early morning pictures have all looked the same for a while now, beautiful.

We went over to the island and started wading near a big drain, the bait was literally every where.  Both Billy and I threw topwater, then I switched to plastics after a couple of hours after not boating a keeper.  But Billy throws topwater, and then topwater, and some more topwater, literally all day.  And guess what?  They hit (at) it pretty consistently all day, from when we started at 7:00 or so until we quit at 3:30.

We fished several places on the island, and then drifted one last place before we quit.  The one thing I took away from today, if you were not waist deep, you were not in fish.  The first bank had tons of bait, and once we waded into them Billy put a couple of 18′ on the stringer, after we moved out some and I continued my short fish domination.  But even with rafts of bait if they were shallow there just was not any fish to speak of.  And though we caught some short reds the good ones remained finicky.

Billy with a couple of topwater fish.

After that we made a move to the South Pass area and I actually caught a good one.  But they were clearly acting funny on the topwater.  The fish actually bit it from daylight until we quit, but it was a funny bite, there were tons of follows and hits, but many of the bigger “bites” we short.  By this time I was tossing plastic and continuing to catch smalls.  When the tide was up I decided to head back to the first place where we caught fish, and though we had some hits and caught some smalls it just was not happening.

I was wondering when I would catch a real one.

For our last stop we headed to Barroom for a couple of drifts in an area where I have caught them this time of year.  Again I caught a couple of smalls on plastic and Billy continued to get hits on top.  The water there was off color but it did not deter the from hitting the topwater, some in water 3′ plus, and Billy caught a couple more.  We finally called it a day when the last drift resulted in some gafftops, in other words, quit.

This time of year I have historically stuggled as the fish move deeper.  Today was no exception.  Of course that is on me and not the fish.  Much has to do with not spending more time on the bay.  Often this time of year it is more a question of where they are not, if that makes sense.  And in both places we waded there was tons of bait but it was not a slam dunk like it is earlier in the year.  So time for some changes to the plan.  What the change may be is to be determined, but my mastery of shorts is just not getting it.  Seems like I am in a little slump right now.  But there is a way to get out of it, fish more!

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I got this comment from Billy yesterday, before we figured out we were fishing together.

Good God. That is one helluva five bass limit.

And you are so right.  Those days come very few times in a lifetime of fishing, and Tony put it together.  It is something when it all comes together.

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Go Hogs

Well the boys won the first one in the finals of the College World Series, and then had a really tough loss last night.  Oregon State kept hitting and had lots of men on base during the game, and the Hogs kept flirting with disaster.  It was one of those games where you had that feeling it was just a matter of time, and when the roof caved in it was over.  So tonight it is on.  The Hogs have never won it all, Coach Van Horn deserves one, and it will be exciting no matter the outcome.

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In spite of the lack of keepers, other than the ones headed to the plate tonight, it was a good time fishing with Billy.  One thing the blog has accomplished for me, is to meet some good fisherman and share a boat.  I try to fish with different folks as much as possible, you can and will always learn something different.  Fishing with Billy is probably not a “good thing”.  It just confirms to me that the topwater will get them all day, and of course I am down with that.  Next up who knows.  But I have a friend I am wanting to get with and I need to get out of this slump and find some good fish so I don’t embarrass myself!  So keep stopping in and thanks for reading my stuff.

Good Luck and Tight Lines