Friday Afternoon Quickie

[SKMO]

Had a notion to try the mid-lake bass yesterday (Friday) afternoon and called Babler to see if he was interested in a quickie on the mid-lake to see if they would bite. He had to check with his Supervisor, and I with mine, as to this point it was all a hypothetical trip. Fortunately both the spouses gave us the thumbs up within a couple hours, so off we went. (I am not sure about Bill’s status today, but I am paying dearly for going off the spousal clock on a Friday afternoon. The HoneyDo list is mind-boggling).

Anyway we hit the water about 3 PM and went to some recently proven spots. Long story short… nothing for 2 hours. A couple nips, maybe, but we were beginning to wonder if maybe the afternoon would have been better spent on other endeavors which would have not put us “in the hole” on the home front if you know what I mean.

Anyway we were tossing sticks and spinnerbaits in the wind and about 5 they seemed to wake up and we got bit better and better as the afternoon wore on. Final tally was 19 fish saw the inside of the boat. We missed a bunch of skirt pullers on the spinnerbait. Never caught a fish on the stick, but they probably would have bit it, we kind of put them down when the SpinnerBite started. Of the 19 had 6 legal SM and one spot that should have measured. Some real nice solid TR smallies as well, 4 were in the 17-18” range and two about 16”. Took the boat off the water a little after 8.

I’ll take fish like these any day, any lake. Not genuine toads, but a heck of a lot of fun to get on the end of the line.

Please remember to practice CPR (Catch, Photograph, Release) with these TR bass. They are way too valuable, and way too much fun, to end up in the fry pan.

[Bill Babler]

Way to kind on the fishing report. While I was giving myself a backache with the stickbait, SKMO was boating fish after fish on the War Eagle. I feel if we would have had a net, my time would have been served better. Instead, I was a whitness to proper spinnerbait presentation.

When you get in a grove like that you just have to ride it. I assure you I will make a come back. Maby.

[SKMO]

Way to kind on the fishing report. While I was giving myself a backache with the stickbait, SKMO was boating fish after fish on the War Eagle. I feel if we would have had a net, my time would have been served better. Instead, I was a whitness to proper spinnerbait presentation.

When you get in a grove like that you just have to ride it. I assure you I will make a come back. Maby.

When they are really agressive on the spinnerbait it can be hard to ride the back seat and bat clean-up. Been there, done that and it's a tough seat to ride.