FISH CATCHING TRAVEL

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Weather

37/66.  Sunshine and clouds mixed with a 10% chance of rain.  Wind SE 10 -20 mph.

Lake Level

Today  98.30 msl.   10 days ago  98.28 msl.

Solunar Time

Best  10:28 am to 12:28 p.  (Day is classed as excellent.  Except on Coleto.)

******************Fresh or salt it has a place in your arsenal.

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Major Suckage – My text response to the Boss when she asked.

I had one of those days that all fishermen have sooner or later.  It started off messed up first thing and finished messed up.  And the problem, the rest of the day did not rise above the first thing or the last thing.

I headed to the gas station and on the way I noticed no trailer lights.  Dang it!  So I get gas and see for some reason the ground wire decided to break.  Unfortunately it needed a short piece of wire so I turned around and headed to the house.  A quick fix and to the lake I went, finally getting there about 10:00.

Immediately it was apparent that the water color had gone to crap.  With a small rise and no major rain I am just not getting it.  Why is it doing that?  It was much clearer 10 days ago, today it was ugly over most of the lake.  One thing is sure:  When Coleto lost its grass the color never recovered.  3 years ago I wondered if this was going to happen and it seems to be the case.  Clearly above my pay grade to figure it out.

The water temp was 59 at the ramp, 63 near the outflow, 57 up lake.  So with the color messed up, and the wind blowing a good 20 mph, I headed up the lake.  First up was spinnerbait on 2 different places without so much as a touch.  Going that way allowed a little white bass fishing while I was there.  It was 57 degrees, 60 last report, and off color so I tossed out the Shallow Shad Rap and a chartreuse rattle bait.  It did not take long, they were there.

Most were smaller than this though these are eaters.

The wind was blowing right down the pike which made keeping a constant 2.8mph a hassle.  After trolling a while, catching one here and there, a pass in 7′ turned out to be the depth and a bunch jumped on with several doubles.  With the water color they definitely preferred the chartreuse bait.  After a dozen or so pretty quickly then it was time to get back to the bass.

To make a long story short one ate the Bang O Lure and one missed a spinnerbait, other than that not a bite.  Main lake, spawning coves, points, it all was fishless, at least for me. The wind was helping by doing that blow around the topography thing, so it did not matter where you were, it was either windy or real windy.  Definitely tough to fish plastics.  Even an hour with the swim jig, over the last few years one of the best baits this time of year, did no provoke a bite.  With the plan being quitting early to wash the boat, it was trashed after Falcon, I finally called “no mas” at 3:00.

Straight to the car wash and while spraying there is no license plate.  Looks like I must have hit something, who knows what, but the plate was bent off with pieces at the bolts.  What makes that perfect is just last week I renewed my plates and got the new sticker.  So back to the court house and another $$ whatever.  That says it all about my fishing day.

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And I got this first time comment from Alex.

Redfishlaw

First time commenting but I just wanted to save that I love reading your reports and hope to put some of your tactics to good use. Did you happen to notice if any crappie
were biting while you were there.

Thanks

Alex

Not for sure on the crappie, though I saw a boat both days in the Velano on the bridge, so I would guess that is what he was doing.  And if I was betting the last hit I had on a spinnerbait was crappie on the outside of the brush line.  So not for sure but the water temp is right and they should be shallow and having at it.  Thanks for the comments, always good to hear from a first timer.

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Tomorrow the wind is going to blow 20 – 30mph, then Tuesday 15 – 25mph, perfect.  But then a nice calm day so time to catch a few trout.  Trying to decided whether to fish out of the boat, or do some wading.  And a little review of the online reports occasionally tells you something, though details are solely lacking.  One of the joys of doing the blog, you either tell it like it is or lose whatever small amount of credibility you may have.  Today was a perfect example, it was poor, end of story.  So 2 days to get everything squared up and back to fishing.  Keep stopping in and thanks for reading my stuff.

Good Luck and Tight Lines