Topwater Bite

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Fished the Holiday Island marina parking lot Saturday morning with a modified spook from first light until the lightning and wind came through at 7:30. Caught 6 LM with 3 keepers. Missed maybe that many more strikes. Largest fish was 19 inches. The fish were holding in 6 feet of water.

The problem is repeating the pattern. I guess I could go up to Beaver and down to Eagle Rock.

Fished Sunday from first light until traffic. Much debris in the water, some of it quite large. It created a mat of mulch where I fished Saturday. I tried a number of spots with the spook with no success. The only fish I caught was small and hit the bait before I moved it. I had three or four miss the bait and all of them came after a pause. I switched to a Heddon Knucklehead Jr. (a jointed popper - a very good bait but it comes with second rate hooks so I change them) Caught 6 between 6:30 and 8:30 with two keepers. About then the sun burned through the fog and clouds. I switched to a shakey head worm and fished the edge of the flooded trees on a flat point. Two fish, one a keeper spotted bass.

By then the Holiday Island rental 'toons came charging by - everyone knows that is the international signal that it's time to get off the lake.