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Like all plans you have to be flexible, and today my plan crashed and burned.  But a little persistence managed to pull the morning out.

I never get tired of this view.  If this is not worth getting up for I am not sure what is!

Weather

93/75.  (Projected heat index 109)  Sun and clouds, very humid with a 20% chance of a thunderstorm.  Wind  SE 10 – 20 mph.

Lake Level

Yesterday   95.41 msl.       Today  95.42 msl.

Solunar Periods

Minor 9:16 am to 10:16 am.   Major  3:11 pm to 5:11 pm.

*****************The Knockin Tail Lure with a built in tail rattle!   Look for it this winter.

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I was on the water at first light and headed right back to the area where I caught  them yesterday.  Starting in the sweet spot with the Bang O Lure produced zip.  It was calm and looked great except for one thing, no shad.  So I worked several other places close, catching 1 on plastics, before returning near the same time to give it another go, but not a bite.

This brings me to what I intended to say yesterday, it is hell getting old, there is a chance, I think a great one, that the bass are traveling with the bait.  And today was a perfect example of that.  There were lots of fish on that point yesterday, but they disappeared.  So with that I worked my way up lake mostly fishing the Bang O Lure and only managed one more.  With that clearly not working it was up lake to the wood, and they were there, same old, same old.  For as many as I have caught up there this summer for none to be big is puzzling.

The first one on plastics, just to show you I really went.  Number 2 made it because it was the 3rd one on a spinnerbait.

So pitching to wood up lake was productive as it has been and I caught 7.  I stayed maybe an hour but it wasn’t proving anything so time for a change.  As this point the wind had kicked up so I headed to near the dam where the wind was pounding on the bank to try a spinnerbait.  It might be counter intuitive as the last couple of months it seemed like they just would not chase anything but the wind was blowing.

The first bank was long with isolated stumps and the wind hitting directly on the bank.  It took about 10 minutes and finally one blasted a white/nickel blades spinnerbait run fairly fast right below the surface making a waking.  It is my favorite way to catch bass but is definitely not an “all the time” technique.  You definitely need the wind.  But I love buzzing  a spinnerbait, one of the great bites in freshwater fishing..

On that place it was 6 hits and 3 landed, all looking like the ones above.  So now it is after noon and the wind is blowing just right.  Next up was what I thought was the perfect bank.  Going from real shallow to real deep in a long stretch, it has plenty of cover, a couple of pockets, and the wind was just right.  And guess what?  Not a touch.  So at that point I called it a day.  When I put in there was another boat putting in, and when I took out they were taking out.  Except for a couple of crappie fishing campers I never say another boat all day.

What made this guy noteworthy is he swam right by the boat.  Normally when this close they go down, but he went by the boat and headed to the bank.  Guess I was in the way.

So to the You Never Know.  I fully expected to catch them good on the Bang O Lure but they just were not having it.  I suspect if I stopped in the right place it would have been better, but generally they did not seem a little bit interested.  Or probably they were just not there.  But then the spinnerbait, the last thing I thought would work.  I let the conditions/wind dictate the change to a spinnerbait and it worked, in spite of the fact they have not had the least bit of interest in a fast moving bait.  And then to change to a bank that I thought was even better than the first produced zip.  So there you go – You Just Never Know!

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Joe G sent along a couple of pics from Falcon Lake.  He must be reading my mind as I am headed back there soon.

Had to share 2 pics from falcon.

6.5 and a 6.25 lb bass. Slow going day.

Started the day with 2 small white bass, then 2-3 hours later got the bigger 6, then 2 more later got the other 6.

Nice job!  One thing that can be said about Falcon, even a slow day can work out and it looks like it did for you.  And another thing about those Falcon bass, they fight.  And if a person wanted to catch white bass they are sure there, last time I was there they were pecking the heck out of a slow rolled spinnerbait.   Thanks for the pictures, wets my whistle for a trip.  Falcon Lake may have had it’s heyday, but it is still one of the best lakes in the country.

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While the day did not turn out like I figured, I still boated 11.  The good news – It is only going to get better.  The weather dude made my day last evening, hope he is right.  Apparently there is our first norther of the year on the way Monday,  Along with that he was forecasting some real rain.  Fall will definitely be here, a little late, but it always comes.  With that dropping water temps, not to mention air temps and humidity, comes better fishing.  And I will come out of the fishing doldrums and it will be game on.  So keep stopping in and thanks for reading my stuff.

Good Luck and Tight Lines