Upper End 7/11 Report

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Went out at 5:00. Fished hard until 2:30. Not the best day but not a shut out. I put 5 bass in the boat, all but one spotted. Two were legal size, but just barely. One legal came on topwater. All the other fish were plastic crawfish imitator victims. All the fish came from points where a channel swing ran down one side i.e. Jolmes Branch, Owl Creek, Devils Backbone. I was only connecting with about half the bites. It seemed many fish were sucking in and immediately moving toward deeper water (the boat position). Frankly, I reeled as fast as I could to catch up and stick them, but obviously I didn't do that well.

One funny - early I had an explosion on the spook. Fish charged back toward cover and broke me off in the mess. Twenty or thirty seconds later, long enough for me to reel in my slack line, the fish jumped about five feet from where I lost her. She shook and threw the spook loose. I guess she wasn't a collector and had been window shopping. Pity. It was the best fish I saw yesterday, maybe 3.5 pounds. I was glad to get the spook back. The one before that broke off is still out there.

I trolled the backbone, the flat/point number 26, the bluff upstream from Eagle Rock, Stubblefield bluff and a spot above Holidy Island for walleye. One strike, keeper size walleye from 25 feet, and then I managed to knock it off the lure with my net. I need to go to net school I guess. BTW to any that overheard me after I knocked the fish off, I apologize for my language. At times of extreme stress I tend to sound like my father, a veteran of the Cardin/Picher lead and zinc mines.

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Hard working folks for sure!