FISH CATCHING TRAVEL

“SAVE OUR WATERS”

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Of course with Wednesday’s successful bass trip, and now a major front on the way, there is no way I will not be dropping the boat in the lake at daylight, depending on when “it” gets here.  It was nice to catch a big fish, and the conditions sure could help with that tomorrow.  How about clouds, wind, and drizzle.  (But looking at the forecast wind is coming, just a case of what time it gets here.)  Perfect bass catching conditions.  But by the same token you never know and the only way to find out is to go.  If it is not nuts out there.

Weather

78/93.  Cloudy with a 60% chance of rain possible flooding.  Wind  NE 18 – 29 mph.

Lake Level

Wednesday  93.81 msl.   Today  93.80 msl.

Solunar Periods

Minor  10:44 am to 11:44 am.

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The Knockin Tail is the perfect trailer for the swim jig.  They smacked it!  

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Tale of Two Days

Think it was early when I hit the lake?

Today could not have been any more different from Wednesday if it had tried.  The water was down a little, much more of it was 90+ degrees, and the front did not really show.  But a big difference, other than a couple of gators, there was no wildlife moving.  And not seeing any deer is rare on the lake. But the bigger difference – I managed to lose an expensive pair of Costas.  They were on my hat, and not around my neck, when going around a corner into the wind my hat blew off, and obviously the Costas went directly to the bottom.  And since it was basically dark it took me a while to find my hat.  Hate it when that happens but lessoned learned.  And last, no big fish.

The plan was to give the swim jig a serious go, and it caught fish, but it was back to the dink fest.  They were hitting it but I just could not find that sweet spot.

The bluegill looking swim jig with a Knockin Tail trailer was the ticket.

I fished way up lake, midlake, and even went up the plant arm and tried a couple of places I have not fished in a while.  Of the 10 or so on swim jig most came tight to some kind of cover, and nothing came off the bank or without some object close.  I did re-fish one area where they were biting with a buzzbait, and though a couple jumped on, again all part of the dink fest.  Of course it did not help that shortly after the sun came out it slicked off and the clouds left, real pleasant with no sunglasses and hard to see sunken cover.

To bad I did not get all of him, he was massive.

I did have a close encounter with a big gator.  He was way down the bank and instead of hitting the road he swam right over to the boat and when I took this picture he was maybe 10 feet from the boat.  He had no fear and was eyeing me like a cold beer at happy hour.  He finally lost interest and swam away, but he was the kind that I have a healthy respect for.  Love those things.

So after fishing from around 6:00 until 11:30 I called it a day after catching a dozen plus.  The lake was quite a bit busier with lots of folks fishing.  In fact 2 of the places I wanted to fish had a boat on it, rare during the week.  And there was an amazing almost accident between 2 boats in the middle of the lake without another boat around.  Clearly stupidity on one party, maybe both, but they were way to close and both pulled up.  And if you like crappie I saw folks catching them, and some of them looked pretty solid.  One thing on Coleto is they are available year round and not all are deep.

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Got these from our Fayette Guru Rusty who is up in the north country.

He took his son and son-in-law on Lake Michigan for some lake trout action.  They had their limit in 4 hours and he reports a fun time with the family.  Congrats on the successful trip and those are some really big lakers!

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After my comment on ATT and my flip phone SA Joe sent this along.

FLIP FONE UPDATE. Coming from a Phone Man, 20+yrs in Communications….

All you need to do is go buy an ATT FLIP GoPhone that is 4g access. Take out your sim card and put into the new phone. If the sim card is different go to the story and they will transfer the number to a new one. Make sure you copy all your contacts…

I got the same notice that our 3g phone is going out of service. Right now I’m using a 4G alcatel 4052R

DONT GO TO THE SMART FONE DARK SIDE!!!!

Thanks for the advice but since I posted that there has been a revelation.  The new service will not affect our phones until February 2022.  They literally said they “forgot” to include that relevant fact.  My problem with that is sending this crap out during our current state of affairs to sell phones is tone deaf.  This was nothing more than an attempt to sell some phones by leaving out that important  piece of information.  Doing that to customers who might be on the edge right now is just plain slimy. Shame on them.

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Now we all sit back and wait to see what this storm will bring us.  Obviously we are going to have several days of rain, whether it is a few inches or a flood remains to be seen.  It seems to have slowed down some, it is forecast to take 2 days to move through, but is building strength.  They are closing Corpus beaches as I write this.  So be careful were ever you are.  Turn around, don’t drown!

So I will hang this weekend and wait it out.  We desperately need the rain.  Just want to thank you all for continuing to read this, it has been a tough year all the way around.  The best we can hope for is this virus will start to drop some and my wife will not risk her life every day at work for this “Fake or Democratic” virus.  Feel that way, try working a few days in the ER or ICU and see what is really going on.  And in my wildest dreams it will start to decline and we can have some good fall fishing.  Hope springs eternal.  So keep stopping in and thanks for reading my stuff.

Good Luck and Tight Lines