FISH CATCHING TRAVEL

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Of course I can not resist.  The fishing on Fayette was to good to be true, and I did not get to several places I generally fish.  So with expectations of putting one of Fayette’s real fatties over the side it will be up early and gone after looking at the radar.  It will be interesting to watch the solunar times today to see if it comes close to the other day.  But I am armed with plenty of the right stuff so if I don’t put them in the boat it is my fault.

Topwater sent along this comment on the  bass from the other day.

Solid fish.
A big curve ball from the Coleto bite you have been on.

See below.

Weather

96/76  Clouds and sun with a 20% of scattered showers and thunderstorms.  Wind SSW 5 – 10 mph.

Solunar Time

Best 9:12 am to 11:12 am.

Get inhaled!  

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 A beautiful morning.

It was barely cracking daylight when I got to the ramp at Fayette.  There was 5 or 6 trucks and trailers but the traffic on the lake was not an issue.  First up was the bank I killed them on the other day.  I started with jerkbait, no luck, then crankbait, no takers.  So then what happened?

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So off to the next bank.  And then what happened?

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Then another place, and what happened?

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So multiple bait changes, and what happened?

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And I kept chewing up the grass, and what happened?

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Now I am going through the box, and what happened?

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And then it got hotter than hell after noon, and what happened?

I admitted defeat.  After promoting the heck out of Fayette, and never having had a tough day there, it finally happened.  Not a fish, not a bite.  I hit places that normally hold something, and nothing.  Different colors, different action, plastics, even slow rolled a spinnerbait in the grass, nothing.  I was tearing those grass beds up and not even a dink.  It was a 100% strike out.  I have had a few tough days but I can not remember the last time I did not have a bite.

The catching does not always happen, and while I do not know what happened, it is still all on me.  No excuses.  Whatever put them up and shallow the other day was not in play today.  It is actually what makes fishing what it is.  It can be a mystery, and today was one.  Catching literally 40+ the other day with 15 of them being nice ones, to not a bite.  Crazy!

Doing a blog is not like catching some nice ones and putting the picture on the internet.  I have to lay it out every time, good or bad.  In fact when Chris sent me his pictures and report he commented about how I could do this every day after fishing.  So true, it can be a real chore, and it would be easy to just pretend like today never happened.  But that is not the way this works.

When I first started this I thought it was a failure when I did not get some good pics and catch some nice ones.  But guess what, everybody has a bad day now and then, it is what you do with it.  And I hope this blog is not always dependent, for me and you, on just the catching.  In my case I am going to do the following – Figure out where is next and get back on the water as soon as possible.  That is what fishermen do.  As I get older I finally have begun to really appreciate every day on the water no matter what, another great day to be alive and in the outdoors

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I really enjoyed the report from Chris and Jamie on their backcountry guide trip into the Everglades.  It is such an adventure to go there, and there is more stuff than you could fish in a lifetime, which at times does not make it easy.  But that is part of the fun of it, it is in the doing.  And the story of the potlicker was interesting, it happens everywhere.  To go along with that, in the Glades you can often hear the occasional boat running and then running aground.  It is not uncommon.  It can be really tricky and caution is the word.  In one sense it reminds me of Lake of the Woods, huge but plenty of stuff to hit if you are not careful.  I always start with a track from the ramp all the way out to the open ocean and then work off that.  So thanks again for the report, except now I want to go!

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The Boss has a colleague, friend, and all around good guy, she works with and he has just bought a semi-off the grid cabin in of all places Pagosa Springs, where we are headed in less than 2 weeks.  We are excited to visit his place and maybe fish the creek some.  It is on a Forest Service Road that is not plowed and it is snowmobile or ski in during the winter, now that is cool.  He was kind enough to share his local knowledge and point me to a guide I might spend a day with.  So in this period where I am having my ups and downs in the fishing department, to say the least, it will be nice to be in those beautiful mountains catching some rainbows, and who knows, maybe a brown.  I have caught tons of them in the White and North Fork rivers in Arkansas but this moutains stream thing is something new.  Talk about a change of pace, I am starting to get excited.

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A Little Rant

While I stay out of politics the lawyer in me, there is still a little left, can not help but comment on a legal matter in the news right now.  If Rudy Giuliani was my attorney I would flee to South America.  He is revealing confidences, shooting off his mouth, even potentially implicating his client, followed by making statements that conflict with his client and just generally looking the fool.  Today he just flat out lied about the law itself.  With that kind of representation a prosecutor will be licking his lips.  The profession gets the reputation it has from that very thing – An attorney who either does not know what the law is, or just makes it up.  Rudy is slipping and needs to retire.

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So it was not Deja Vu, in fact it was not even close, but in the words of a great philosopher – “Shit Happens.”  As usual not sure what or where is next except the Boss is going on a 7 day rotation and I am going fishing.  How fair is that?  An overnighter somewhere is in the cards.  So keep stopping in and thanks for reading my stuff.

Good Luck and Tight Lines