FISH CATCHING TRAVEL

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Put your favorite Knockin Tail under a Four Horsemen popping cork and hold on!  A deadly combination.

Weather

74/86.  Sun and some clouds with a 25% chance of rain.  Wind  E 10 – 15 mph.

Tides

High  12:47 am.   Low  12:58 pm.

Solunar Time

Major 5:33 am to 7:33 am.   Minor  12:47 pm to 1:47 pm.  (Never have figured out how it works on the river or creek, think I will pay more attention and document what it was compared to what it says.)

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Day 3

It was cracking daylight when I dropped the boat in Garcitas.  The water  temp was 80 degrees and the color was that tannic looking stuff.  The tide was really high and the wind was light.  With the water temp that high I decided to head all the way down almost to the bay and fish back.  While it was slow at least there were a few fish there.

This is what all the trout looked like.

It was interesting today as both the trout and reds wanted the darker Knockin Tails and other than one trout on a white, 3 light col0rs did not temp them.  Once I figured that out the numbers came up.  By noon the water temp was 82 degrees, definitely not to their liking.  As long as the bay stays that warm there is no big reason for them to move into the creeks and rivers.  But as a side note we have a real cold front on the way and it should gets things rolling.

The spinnerbait got it done.

There was a little period, which I guess was almost low, though you could not tell be looking at it, except the boat quit floating downstream on the current.  The low was maybe 1 or 2 inches,  They wanted it on a heavy 1/8th jig head to get them to bite, and it had to be hopped slowly and then let fall.  I think I caught maybe 6 trout and 10 reds at the lower end.  Interesting to note the only other boats went past me into the bay, if that gives you a clue.

The rats were running wild!  Love it when their tales are all lit up.

After a little run of rats I decided to throw my homemade spinner bait with the Knockin Tail trailer, and it accounted for the best reds of the day.  One of those things if I had just done that it would have been a good catch.  So after the wind came up I headed back up and stopped at 2 places where I normally catch them. and caught 2 on one place and 1 trout on another.  So there are a few scattered in the creek, and it will only get batter after this norther blows through.

Love it when they hit a spinnerbait.  Today the bites reminded me of the swim jig, basically they were slack lining it.

While I did catch a couple of small trout on the White Ice, the Mansfield Magic was better, but when I got on the Chicken on a Chain it was by far the bait of choice.  So I used it on the spinnerbait and they liked that.   I did through a topwater and a popping cork but they are definitely not having any of that.  As I said before as soon as we get the cold front it will improve leaps and bounds.  All we will need is a little real fall and some rain for the lake and it will all be good.

So today was an improvement and I am looking forward to fishing on Day 4.  Who knows, I might even go for Day 5, nice to actually starting to feel more normal.  And I fished 7 hours today and just quit so I could track down a power cord for the laptop.  It will be up early and on the water somewhere by daylight.  So keep stopping in and thanks for reading my stuff.

Good Luck and Tight Lines.