I was talking with a kayak angler a couple of weeks ago at Bait Masters. He was heading to Aldrich. During our conversation he said that he had caught and released a muskie up in the Little Sac this summer. He said it drug his yak all over the place before he got it landed.
Pro Craft was a good mid line boat that was taking a chunk out of the Nitro market thus bought out and closed down like so many others. One of my buds has an 01 18’ with. 175. It is a really nice boat.
It isn’t just bass fishermen, I had a pontoon go between me and the bank one time. I also had a guy try to troll between me and the bank while I was catching whites. It was cold and windy. I was very shallow. He did not make it. He ran aground. He was trying to figure out how to get out of there as pulled the tmotor fired up and drove away.
Some thing made the critters friendly today. We had a couple of dozen turkeys in the hay bottom. On the way to inspect some fence I saw 7 deer up Bland Spring Hollow and at the top of the hill another 15 fo 20 turkeys. Grand kids may have a ball this fall.
This is a new battery, never used. It has 190 rc, 800 cca, 1190 mca, 100 ah. It has a 36 month warranty. It sells for $338.00. I need more rc so I am asking $250 for it picked up in the Springfield area. I’d also give $20 credit if you could bring a battery for a core exchange.
I did an afternoon trip today to Rouark. A little spinnerbait chunking and windIng produced 7 blacks but no keepers. I decided to try for some eating fish and wound up catching 43 whites so it was close to a good day.
With the wind forecast I decided to try for some whites. I have an arbitrary number which is 50 whites to make a good day. I didn't get on the water until 9:45. I hit a likely looking spot and stayed on it for 2 hours. Thank you Minn Kota for spot lock and spot lock jog. By 11:45 I had my 50 so I pulled out and had lunch. After lunch I tried the Arig. I caught a few but not many. So I decided to dance with the girl that brung. I finished up with 69. I brought a limit home.
The outlook for the near future doesn’t look promising to me. The wind finder shows changing winds almost every day. That doesn’t allow the food chain to become localized like it needs to be for those highly productive trips. Combine that with the low water I may stick to green fish this fall.
That is kind of like the guy wouldn't seek help after being bitten by a cottonmouth because he did not have insurance. He died.
But what the heck, you can't fix stupid.
I was able to get out for only 3 hours today. It was an ok morning. I had 10 spinnerbait fish, one crankbait fish and 2 on shaky. I missed a few and lost a few but I’ll take 13 in 3 hours most days. I had 5 keepers and 8 shorts. The only spinnerbait that got a bite was the bleeding shad.
I was swimming a Ned rig yesterday catching greenies on windy flat points. There were some whites mixed in. I kept half a dozen for the fryer. They are in the fridge waiting for dinner.