wylie today (wednesday)
tool and i braved the elements today and went north on wylie looking for a decent hole to drop our hooks. we started at the hot hole on the south fork and started working our way south, back towards the bridge. the water was steamy on the river, from the steam plant. sorta erie feeling to be in the fog like that in the dead of winter. the water temp there was 64 degrees if i remember right. we drifted, we trolled, we this and we that. we used the wind, we used a drift sock and we used the electric and nothing happened for us. after awhile in there, we moved south and hit another cove or two with no luck, except at one boathouse i latched onto a nice slab that needed the net and tool caught a brim that swallowed his hook. we allowed as how it was strange he done that as the jig was about as big as the little feller. grocerys must be hard to come by this time of year, with no bugs or nothing falling in the water. we halfheartedly tried jiggin around some boat houses with no luck either except the brim. the slab was caught on a minnow hanging over the side in about 6 ft of water. I had reeled it in to keep it from hanging so i could jig some and got the hit just under the surface. times is hard for everyone. our toes took a terrible beating again today with numbness settin in again. fortuantly for me, tool was prepared with some kind of things you squeezed and shook up and stuck to your sock under the toes and all of a sudden there was heat and the toes started thawing out and dint break off.
we stuck it out till about one and hung it up and come in.. the last cove we fished in the water was around 48 degrees.
listen with your eyes---its the only way to beleive what you hear...