FISH CATCHING TRAVEL

The one on the right was a 50-gallon barrel with legs!

Weather 

40/61.  Plenty of sunshine with no chance of rain.  Wind N 10 – 20.

Lake Level

Today   97.37msl.     Yesterday   97.40 msl.

Bite Times

Major 6:30 am to 8:30 am.  Minor   11:42 am to 12:42 am.

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I Just Do Not Get It

First cast on the 5″ Pearl Knockin Tail on the swim bait hook.

The wind was blowing out of the north right on the ramp.  The water temp was stable from low to mid 60’s and the color is clear to milky depending on where you were.  First up it was back to where the good ones jumped on yesterday.  My first cast with the Knockin Tail swimbait got smoked.  Ok, things are looking up, Not!  For the next couple of hours I must have picked the right stuff in the wrong order.  The wind kept up, not bad but still out of the north.  No matter how I tried they would not eat the swimbait.  I was hoping for a good day but it was just one of those days that was tougher than it looked.

A Blue Catfish smoked the Rock Crawler.

Then I basically started to spin out.  From the Knockin Tail, the Bang O Lure, the swim jig, and finally a crankbait I threw it all.  I fished some of my favorite coves I was saving, a couple require a little work to get in and have been historically killer right now.  It just felt like I was zigging when I should have been zagging.

Best of 5 on crankbait.

When I got up lake the wind was slowly starting to die so time to give the crankbait a go.  I pulled out the Rock Crawler which is basically a Wiggle Wart that is popular on the rocky highland lakes of Arkansas.  I fished it parallel to the bank grinding the bill off.  The first bite smoked it, which took me about 30 seconds to figure out was a catfish.  It basically ate the crankbait.

4 bass jumped on but only one was worth the pic above.   It was definitely a case of too little too late, should have been doing that a lot earlier but for some reason I refused to believe the next cove was not going to have them.  Then the wind died, dead flat and it got hot.  From that point on it was over, at least for me.

Looking back on today I did the right stuff in the right place, but it was not happening.  There are a couple things I maybe should have done, pitch plastics to wood and tangles, or thrown the pink trick worm.  But whatever it was a little disappointing when a couple of the places that I saved did not even produce a bite.  Of course, when I put it on the trailer it began to cloud up and now the wind as blowing as the front gets here.  Probably a case of quitting to early as it looks great out there.

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Was going to fish Travis at least on Monday but due to Spring Break, you know that thing the kids do, the places I have stayed there are booked so that will wait a week.  Thinking about a trip to the river for white bass, and definitely the gulf, time for some redfish action.  Of course, with the time change this weekend it will be a little tougher to get up.  Then the Houston Fishing Show where I will be hanging at the booth with Michael selling some Knockin Tails and talking fishing.  Whatever ailed the lake today should be a thing of the past next week so plenty of fishing to come.  So keep stopping in and thanks for reading my stuff.

Good Luck and Tight Lines