FISH CATCHING TRAVEL

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Weather

67/56.   Cloudy with 80% chance of afternoon showers.  Wind  NNE 10 – 15mph.

Solunar Time

Best  9:14 am to 11:14 am.   (Only relevant period.)

Lake Level

Today   98.03 msl.    13 days ago   97.15 msl.

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As I sit here Tuesday morning it is coming down and I am glad I hit the lake yesterday.  It has been raining since 1:30 am and the radar shows it will continue, solid for another day.  We do not need any more rain right now and I sure hope it is not raining this hard up in the Hill Country.  (Funny.  Todays forecast is for light rain this morning becoming heavier in the afternoon.  If this is light look out later today!)

The lake was clearly up when I hit the ramp, it is almost over the piers, and the color looked about the same.  The water temp at the ramp was 72 degrees, an almost 15 degree drop.  The further up lake you go the temp continues to drop, 70 at the bridge and as low as 67 way up lake.  The water color gets worse as you head up lake, and up lake is almost muddy, and has dropped almost 20 degrees.  It only took about an hour to decided that was not happening.  And one more note on the color, the Coleto arm has quite a bit more color than the other arm, and all my bites (Maybe 10.) today came from the clearer water.

She smoked that spinnerbait.  Not big but happy to have her.

The wind was as advertised, blowing about 15 mph out of the north and it was cloudy and stayed that way most of the day.  Again I threw the book at them, and it was almost noon before I caught my first one.  It would be the first out of the 5 landed today, 4 on spinnerbait and 1 on the swim jig.

With the water level up like it is it looks so good.  I finally settled on spinnerbait after not getting any bites on anything else.  All the bites came in the new green grass lining the lake.  The ones that did bite were in the stuff, but there is still no real pattern to it.  A cove, a flat, a channel bank, a bite here or there.  Either I am missing something or it is just that unstable.  But one thing was apparent, they like that little clearer stuff.  Only about half of the bites stayed hooked up, they were not aggressive by any means.  I did lose one at the boat that was a little bigger than the one above.

So the fishing remains as it has been the last few weeks since the raise, and with it coming down outside there is more water on the way.  And while it might seem pointless to keep fishing the lake, when it finally settles down, and the fish acclimate, it will be good.  When that day comes, and it will, it could be awesome.  One thing about this raise is the lake was at a level where this raise spreads it out and the lake is a lot “bigger” than it was.  The fish will not be able to resist all that new cover.  Hope springs eternal.

The most exciting thing today was a pack of hogs that I could not see but definitely could hear.  I don’t know if it was a gang fight, a killing, or what.  But those hogs kept screaming for a half hour.  To bad I could not see what was going on because it was something.

When I put in there were was no one at the ramp, when I took out, there was no one.  A pretty good comment on the fishing.  I only saw one kayak guy and a couple of crappie fishermen, other than that I had it to myself.  The crappie fishing has remained good, just might have to catch a few for the pan next trip.

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It was good to hear from SA Joe, and his B.O.A.T. saga continues.  It has turned into one of those the deeper you go the worse it gets.  Oh the joys of boat ownership.

Glad to see you back and well rested. Got to replacing that pump i mentioned a couple of weeks back. Well it got worse. Another pump, under the gas tank broke off. Guess that plastic only holds up about 17yrs. Its a 2001 Bass Cat Pantera Classic. Its now in the garage, getting ready to re-do all the plumbing. Even have the PVC piping breaking leading into the livewells.

Lake travis in a day rose 20ft, in 14 days rose 44ft. Its a great lake when the water is up because of all the structure.. But not for docks and people living around it..

Joe

Sounds like one of those jobs that self propagates.  But it will end up being for the better before there was a big failure letting serious water get in the boat.  Hopefully when it is over it will be good as new, but it sure is a hassle.  That is one thing I love about my skiff, everything is open and easy to get to, unlike the LTS where even putting on a new trolling motor was a hassle.  So keep after it, this is a good time to do it with all the flooding going on.

And wow with the Travis raise, that is something.  One year on Lake Norfork when I was living and guiding at the dock we had a 28 foot raise over night.  We worked all night letting docks out before they were dragged under.  And the fish did not bite worth a crap for a month.  In fact the only consistent pattern that spring was roads and it was tough until things settled down, much like we are experiencing on Coleto right now.  Thanks for the comment and good luck on the boat job.

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VOTE

Early voting is on in Texas and many other states.  We are headed out the door to vote right after I hit publish.  Seriously I do not give a rat’s ass who you vote for.  As far as I am concerned if you do not vote you need to shut your pie hole if you do not like the results.  It is your DUTY as an American, and voting is what separates our great country from the rest of the world.  So show some pride in your country and head to the poles.  It is going to be interesting!  God Bless America.

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Today it will be an organize the tackle room day.  Stuff is spread out all over the place and this is perfect weather to get organized.  With some serious fall fishing on the way time to put new line on both the fresh and saltwater stuff, glue some plastics to jig heads, and replace some topwater trebles.  Don’t want to lose that big trout.  With Baffin less than a week away I am starting to get excited.  And if the weather does as advertised a trip to the bay is on tap for Friday.  So keep stopping in and thanks for reading my stuff.

Good Luck and Tight Lines