FISH CATCHING TRAVEL
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I just want to say Happy Anniversary to the Boss. 30 years and counting, the best years of my life. I always say I married above my station and I could not have been luckier if I tried. So Happy Anniversary Nancy. You are the bomb.
Weather
54/75. Cloudy followed by a 60% chance of rain and thundershowers in the afternoon. Wind ESE 15 – 25mph.
Lake Level
Today 98.05 msl. Friday 98.09 msl.
Solunar Times
Best 9:55 am to 11:55 am. (The day is classed as Great. We shall see.)
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Fresh or salt it has a place in your arsenal.
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These are the days I live for on Coleto, and most anywhere else I bass fish. Warm, clouds, drizzle, and wind. What could be more perfect for a day of bass fishing. I often have trouble falling asleep just thinking about catching some real ones. But Alas!
It was perfect when I dropped the boat in the water. And to make a long story short, it has been Ground Hog day all over again on the lake since December, it was shorts, shorts, and some more shorts. 3 in the first cove, 4 in the third place, it went like that all day. The Bang O Lure and pearl Controlled Descent Jerk Shad produced the bites, small bites. I finally went to buzzbait for the last hour just trying to entice a big bite, but no cigar, though the one I did catch on it was about the size of a cigar. And I could not buy a bite pitching to wood. Like it has been, an easy dozen plus, but all small. I did not even have a smell from a real fish today.
Where are their girlfriends?
To say I am puzzled would be putting it mildly. Like the random tournament fisherman said when he stopped his boat as I was fishing a couple of months ago: “Where the &^%* are the big fish?” Are they coming to the bank? There are tons of small males up shallow and one I caught today did have evidence he was fanning a bed, the rest, no indication of spawning. This time of year they should be beat up no matter where we are in the spawn. What has me concerned is the numbers I am catching. It has been consistent and after a while sheer luck should play a part. Catch enough and the big fish odds come in your favor, whether you are on the correct pattern or not.
So what to do? To tell the truth I am not sure as far as the lake goes. Of course the bay is an option tomorrow, as is a little travel. And both of them are in my immediate future. Next week looks like it is off to Falcon for 3 or 4 days. Then the next week a day of fishing and then a wolf trek in Montana, then the day I get home a turn and burn to the Chandeleurs Islands with the Wade Right guys in the first week in May But since it is raining as I type this I can not help myself, I am headed back to the lake for the afternoon. I have always said it is in the doing and I can either hang out and waste the day or put on the rainsuit and go fishing for a while. What an easy choice. So keep stopping in and thanks for reading my stuff.
Good Luck and Tight Lines
