FISH CATCHING TRAVEL

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Weather

66/53.  Overcast with a 20% chance of occasional showers.  Wind ENE 5 – 10mph.

Lake Level

Today  98.32 msl.  Last week  98.05 msl.  (Still feeling affect so the last rain.  Intersting to see if it has cleared any.)

Solunar Times

Good  11:34 am to 1:34 pm.  (Only relevant time.  And the day is classed as poor.)

Headed in last night.  It does not get any better than this! Thanks for the picture John.

******************The new bait is off the drawing board!  Hope to see it soon.

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Curses!  Foiled again.

The post office was up first before I could hit the lake.  Good thing I went at 7:45, I was 4th in line.  If I had waited anymore time I would have been 24th in line.  A shout out to the lady at the post office.  She has worked there forever and is always smiling and nice.  A testament to her as the post office is a crazy place to work this month.  So getting that done it was off to the lake and fishing by 10:00.  And this is how I got fooled.

The lake is definitely way up, and the color is awful over the whole lake and I found out why.  The guy I talk to most days when I take out, he is often there looking out at the lake in the evenings, said that last week they really let the water out and a couple of roads in the area were closed as they got ahead of the flood.  Obviously it pulled all the dirty water down lake.  Now those areas that were at least clearing some are back to ugly.  But at least the water temp was in the low 60’s to 65 degrees in some places.  And I thought yesterday was calm, today was flat slick.

First up was a cove that has been consistent, and I put 2 in the boat on a buzzbait in the first five minutes.  We’re having fun now.  But no we are not.  It was the last bites on the buzzbait, and I tried it everywhere.

And that was the end of that.  I really thought I was in business.

From that point on I fished coves, main lake flats with grass, main lake channel banks with lots of cover, all places I have caught them the last couple of weeks, in both arms.  After a while it became clear the buzzbait was not happening.  So I went with the Controlled Descent pearl Jerk Shad with a rattle, walking the dog right below the surface where I could at least see it.  Until I quit at 3:30 I had 5 or 6 bites on it, landed 3 really small ones, and broke one off in the grass.

If I were guessing, and I am, since there was not a breath of wind it had them off, or the fishing forecast was correct that it was a poor day.  But it is not a bad thing.  It was sunny and calm which had the water warming rapidly.  I quit because of how slow the bite was, but if I had stayed until dark I am sure there would have been a bite near dark.  With the weather being really stable and warm one more day, and if it will clear just a little bit, the bite should be on.

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Unfortunately I have an appointment Wednesday that I really need to keep, otherwise I would be fishing somewhere else right now.  And Thursday looks like a mini norther will roll in with NW winds 25 – 35 mph.  Great.  The temp will not drop a ton, and the majority will be blown out by Friday.  So what to do?  I will be checking weather and tides and make a decision about tomorrow later tonight.  The only hitch in the git along is the forecast is calling for big fog lasting later in the morning tomorrow.  It is always something.  And while the lake was slow this was one great weather day.  And seeing eagles, gators, ospreys, made it one great day to be alive.  So keep stopping in and thanks for reading my stuff.

Good Luck and Tight Lines.