Thread: 8-19-24 Weekly meetup

Finally !
I got to go fishing with my fishing bud from south of me .
We meet at Lake West Point , which is about the same distance from both of us . Me going south , him coming up north about an hour .
Weather was was supposed to be sunny , with low to upper 80’s , high 89 , with 6-9mph NNW winds .
Well , they goy it all right except the wind . Wound up being 9-17mph from the south and south west , with it ended up straight into my face from the west .
We had a heck of a time getting on fish , especially with the unexpected water level being down a couple of feet . Leaving some of spots difficult to get to or high and dry l
In the end , my buddy caught 14 , mostly green sunfish and small gills .
I only caught 13 , but a mixed bag , with 6 greenies , a couple small gills , a small spotted bass , and the four that made the trip for me , two redbreast and a couple of crackers .
Most were caught on a 5’6” St Croix Avid/ Shimano Soare XR500 spg combo or my 5’ Daiwa Trout X XUL/Daiwa Fuego Lt 1000 combo .
The wind was so bad , some of my cast would be blown back at me and would only go about 15-20’ .
I caught the shellcrackers m one each on 5he different combos . I don’t know which was more fun . Those crackers can pull .
The larger one was caught with the Daiwa XUL.

I’ll take some of those anytime. That last one had to be great on an XUL. I have some time off coming the end of next week and some of that will be in the salt but I’m going looking for more of the crackers that we found a couple of weeks back.