FISH CATCHING TRAVEL

“SAVE OUR WATERS”

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The Wade Right Fishing Belt

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The plan today was to be responsible and get a few things done in preparation for Colorado.  So I slept in and when I got up it was cloudy and looked promising.  When I commented on it to the Boss she said:  What’s stopping you?  The best wife in the world, so off to the lake I went at 8:00.  No checking the weather, lake levels, just loaded up and went.  But after 2 days of poking around I had a plan.  And the simple way to tell you is to show you.  This is a few of the many I boated today.

A part of the mornings results.  Any questions?

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It was just like it was supposed to be.

As I said yesterday I thought about heading up lake but was not sure I had enough gas to make it there and back.  So on the way of course I filled up and finally made a cast somewhere around 8:45.  By time I got there it cleared off, the wind laid down, and it got hot.  But actually clearing off was a good thing – To the cover they went.  After the last couple of days when it seemed that pitching to wood was the answer I started that way, and finished that way at 1:30.

20lb test mono, heavy rod, 4/0 Trokar, an assortment of beaver style plastics, craws, and stick worms, they bit them all.  I am pegging a 3/16 tungsten sinker tight to the plastic.  Comes through stuff much better and you don’t end up with your bait on one side of a piece of cover and your sinker on the other.  And any color was fine, as long as it was greenish with some red flake.  (Not really sure that made a bit of difference, it was all about placement.) 

The tighter to cover I pitched the bait, the more bites I got.  The first place a couple jumped on and I missed a few.  The next spot same, but from that point on the hook ups far outweighed the misses.  Some were smacking it, you could see your line jump, others started swimming either into the cover or away from it, some were just mushy.  A few even hit it right after it hit the water.  Definitely a day where if you thought you had a bite you did, but if you thought about it for even an instant they would drop it.

It really is hand to hand combat at times, especially if you make the perfect pitch into a little hole.  Very few came over a couple of feet, if that, from the cover.  And I think most of those already had it and were swimming out.  It really was a cat and mouse game when they were biting like that, and it sure was fun.

The only thing that surprised me was no big fish.  Usually when you catch that many (Well over 20+.) one shows up at some point.  But no complaints from me.  And I did see at least 3 episodes of schooling fish, one quite large, but again I did not get to them in time.  So it seems there is a couple of things going on.  There are fish chasing shad schools, others are around cover.  Of course there are probably many other ways to catch them, and with the light winds those of you who like fishing deep that just may be where the big fish are.

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And I got this comment from Earnest on my post on the Powderhorn.

That for the info. we are just being introduced to powder horn. staying at tv park. going to take it easy but looks promising! Ernest

Slow and easy does it until you get aquainted with the area.  It is a little different but there are lots of redfish, and occasionally a bunch of trout.  There is no hurry and as you learn it you will find it is untapped as far as the bay goes.  So good luck and thanks for reading.

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So what a morning.  Love it when a plan comes together.  Today was a response to my old adage – Listen to the fish.  I wanted it to be late spring and them to be hitting that stuff, but not be able to get on the water during spring those days are gone and it is now summer.  Now if we get a great day of light rain and clouds all day it will happen, otherwise the fish are in their summer pattern.

Not sure if I will get out again before taking off.  Then comes a busy fishing period around here.  Trout out west, then back to the bay for a few days before taking off for the Chandeleurs.  It really will be some fish catching travel.  So keep stopping in and thanks for reading my stuff.

Good Luck and Tight Lines