Dutch

I’ve butchered a lot of animals and it has never been fun. I don’t even like to clean fish.

Every one of them that I have had in my hands was slick no matter how long.

It was pea soup foggy this morning. No company coming so my wife and I went to Cape Fair. It was 10:30 before we arrived. First stop gave a keeper on a spinner bait. Next stop a short on the same bait. I tried a wort but it was futile. I also threw brush hogs and baby brush hogs, no love there either one. When in doubt shaky out.. I caught 9 on the shaky. They were less than 10 feet deep. Then the bite QUIT. I couldn’t get anything. I moved over a point and saw a little stuff in 20 fow. I hadn’t used Ned yet so I fished it parallel and caught 3. I couldn’t repeat that on any other point so I put out the fire and called in the dogs. Now for some turkey and dressing.

Good lookin slicks. I didn’t know that you fished for them.

I don’t think there will be any more of them. I think that they have been moved to China.

Pomme de Terre and Stockton are lousy with them. A friend and I caught over 50 in one cove white bass fishing at Pom one day.

I have been most of the routes possible to get to Memphis. For a young woman traveling alone I am with Phil 40 to 65.

As I remember that rod you got has that on it. I use them on almost all of my rods. I get them from Mud Hole.

All that matters is left and right. If my memory is still good there is a menu option to change the left/right settings.

So eat the squirrels.

Don’t worry about it. It hasn’t been about whites at Pommy for several pages.

I am not searching for smallmouth in particular. I am just wondering why I can only find them in the winter in the area I like to fish.

That was my thoughts when I first saw it. I was surprised when I used my Boga Grips on it. Then a closer look and it was pretty short. It had the mouth and head of a larger fish.

Slice them, use them as lasagna noodles. You can also use them in frittatas.

I thought you lived out in the woods.

You are right. I should have been more specific about the area. I’m fishing between Bearden’s and Carr’s.

I can never find any until the winter then they are mixed in with the spots and greenies. What kind of water are you smallie guys find them in?

I fished from 10-2 up river above Pt 15. I threw spinner baits, brush hogs, Ned Rigs and zeros. I only had 8 bites, all on zeros, and managed to catch 7 of them. However only 2 would measure. One of them was 4 1/2#. Zero colors that worked were green pumpkin, watermelon red and dirt. The water was typical James River off color and ranged from 55 to 60°.

It is on the west side of the lake just north of the Hwy 86 bridge if my memory is still good.

We’ve always done our own. We skin and bone them out in the woods then leave the coyotes a feast. We have a grinder and a slicer for burger and steaks as well as tubes for our own summer sausage. It isn’t rocket science to process a deer.

That’s not me. I don’t hunt deer any more. I don’t like the meat. I assume it is his 308 but I am not sure.

Taken late this morning.

I didn’t have a choice. I had a brain clot that put me in the hospital, then to a rehab hospital then out patient rehab. They did a cranial angiogram and found the right vertebral artery is 100% blocked and the left one 70% blocked. I was told no more tobacco, no more caffeine and no more alcohol unless I wanted to die. I have always been a red meat eater. Now it is a couple of times a month. They said the Mediterranean diet was the best thing I could do, so I am eating that way and feeling pretty good.

Yesterday was not so good for me. I fished Flat Creek for specs and got no love. So I put the fairy wands away and headed up James to do some shaky. I caught 7 with 3 keepers. I was half a heartbeat slow and missed or lost more than I caught. Shaky in the wind isn’t my best technique. If I get a chance to go back soon, I think I will do some T rigged or swing jig brush hoggin.

Congrats on the new grandson. There is almost nothing about fishing anymore. I guess Face Book has taken that over.