Thread: Another 3 Hours

Can’t stand the heat so it’s always an early start lately. Work this week has had its own kind of punishment. This morning I didn’t set the alarm to let myself recover some and it helped some. Launched about 7:30 and started my little run through a few spots I’ve been visiting lately. I went last Saturday also but didn’t post about it. Moon phase was just past full and I’d done so well last month at these places. Confident in saying it was over 50 caught with half that would have been good on the dinner table. Today it wasn’t quite as good but I’m sure it was over 40. I quit counting on my first good spot in the high twenties and had two more to go. Those mule bodies I’ve been using got a couple of tests done on them today. One of the pics has a small black jig that I cast through an area that held lots of fish last week. Made about 15 casts without any takers. Put that rod down and picked up one of the mules and got a fish on all of the first three casts. I think it’s the buoyancy that make em so hot. But back to the fish, a few smalls came to visit and one of the pretty boys started the day. Bigger than average and a real long tab on the gill plate.

It was gills and smalls from then on with no bass or shellcrackers. I had a couple of guys go by me slow three times each, wanting to see what I was doing. So I gave em something to watch, me casting to areas that I knew held no fish. It’ll be what it’ll be. The good ones came though and I believe I got two over ten today. My 5’ ultra light got a lot of play today til I fell asleep at the wheel and let it get hung up and lost it. That was disappointing as I’d caught over a hundred fish on that jig. I’ve already tied more like it but that one was now sentimental. Nature of the game. That’s when the black one came into play. Everything catches fish just some better than others. There was one with some peach colored dubbing on it I put together and I thought it was smooth. It was, til 3 fish later and all the dubbing broke and left a bare looking squirrel tail jig behind. Back to the drawing board on that one. Right colors, wrong material. Took four rods and the 6’6” never got used. The 6’ had the mule on it and became the favorite of the day. The color of that jig was called ranch hand and the body called Horsefly. With a brown BG-1 head it’s a real winner in the wind which was stiff today. Here’s the inevitable pics but not too many. Last week was faster action but the fish were about the same. Last Saturday was so good I had to go back Sunday morning early and went to a different spot that while not as active still had some real good fish. Please be careful in the heat, it creeps up on you before you know it. Lots of water and go home early. Hope you get some time out and get a few.