It was too nice of a day not to go. I hooked up early and headed out. Got to the ramp and fell in line to launch. I heard my name called out and I looked up to see skeetbum there in line ahead of me. We checked notes and headed out.
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there was a break in the weather this week so I made a run to the lake. Got there as the sun was coming up. The winds were calm but the forecast was for rain later in the day. I wasn't sure how it would go after talking to a friend who was
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I picked up skeetbum and headed for the lake on one of my rare weekend outings. We were off to a late start, but it was a nice morning , too nice not to go.
We made it out into the lake and took a look around to see what was going
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I got to the ramp before first light. already there were trailers in the lot and one on the ramp launching. I was next. But as I started to back down the ramp about 6 more pulled into the lot and stopped right in the middle of the lot blocking
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I got to the ramp early but I wasn't the only one there. I talked to another fisherman who told me that they were biting yesterday. ( good to know ). I got out into the lake and stopped to see what was happening and got to watch the sun
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It's still hot ! The water temp gets up to 95 deg. And the water level is still down even though we had a ton of rain. My last few trips did not produce any great numbers, but I got to try out some new ideas that I have been working on.
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I got up a little late on Friday, made a pot of coffee, grabbed some of Paula's treats that she keeps on hand for me, hooked up the boat and headed down to the lake.
The first thing I did was run over to where I was the last trip
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I took a side trip down to the keys this past week to look for lobsters. We got there just before the storm moved in. So we sat and waited for it to calm down for two days.
It never did lay down all the way, but we tried out
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I got in some new equipment that I wanted to try out. I hit the lake early ,but not that early. I was more interested in the cooler morning hours than the early morning bite on the hot dog days of summer. I ran out to the center of the lake
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