Despite The Rain Got To Guide Today

[focused fishing]

Met Bob and David C. at 6:00 am at Majestic Condos and the storm started. They headed back to the condo and I opted to ride it out in the dock....oops... lightning hit the end of the dock and knocked the power out... should of went to the condo....bet they had hot coffee in the condo....

Anyway once the storm passed we headed out looking for the white bass that have been schooling in shallow flat pockets on the lower end. First stop picked up four or five little males right away on a 1/2 oz. white spoon, nothing big just fun little guys. Continued to see and catch small whites in 18' - 25' of water but not really what we were looking for. Moved over to a secondary point and more of the same until one about jerked the rod out of my hand. Knew almost immediately it wasn't a white, turned out to be a 3.5 smallmouth feeding with the whites. The action kept up a little longer with more small whites and then we moved on.

Hit a main lake flat point, to give ya an idea we were in 32' of water and at least 1/4 mile off shore, it is a flat point. Drop shotted Chompers Plum and Brown / purple worms and Bab's "Mature" night crawlers for quite a while, saw fish on the graph, got bites but we weren't connecting. Fish seemed to be pulling the tail of the plastice and biting the end off of the crawlers. Managed 9 fish and two keepers including a nice 2.75 lb. smallmouth before they quit us when the sun peaked through the clouds.

Ran into a large creek arm and began looking at tree tops along the main lake channel and longer secondary points. Managed to find several fish holding right on top of the trees 35' - 44' deep over 80'+, dropped Chompers' worms here as well but they prefered the "mature" night crawlers 3 to 1. Caught 12 -14 here including a couple of big KY's 3lb+ before it was time to go in.

Made it back to the dock just before the rain started up again.

As a side note if you are using the Majestic dock be careful pulling in, there are a few stumps just below the surface near the slip entrances and you will hit them if your not looking........ or if I'm not looking....dang it.

[techo]

Thanks for the info and warning!

[Chris Tetrick]

Eric, remember last year at Emerald Point? You're bad luck on the docks with the lightning!

[focused fishing]

Yep, I was thinking that when just before it struck yesterday. Just before we came in yesterday I raised my rod tip and it started to buzz. Then Bob & David did the same. Don't know if it's me or waht but there was a ton of static electricity in the air and around my boat yesterday.

Figures a beautiful clear, cool day like today I get a cancellation. Hope you boys catch 'em this morning.

[jay bird]

The pole buzzing thing is a really really scary feeling. First time it happened I could not tell what the noise was, but when it dawned on me and I told my fishing partener and at the same time lightening hit somewhere really really close. We both looked like ghost and headed for shore.