Not So Bad.

[remi74]

One of my toughest days out. 5 hours and not so many bass. My favorite spots were getting hit before I even arrived where folks were loading up stringers. At least I got to fish. I started off with a foam hopper but there were no takers. I moved to a deep hole with medium riffles and tied on a crawdad - still no takers. I waded quite a ways down and tied on a chartreuse woolly bugger. I was getting a lot of "suck and spit" and soft strikes all day, even with the chartreuse Bugger. I finally landed a nice smallmouth and found a small pool with desperate smallies of which they were all small . . . but I counted them on the day . . . Catch and Release for all my fish. I headed back hitting my usual spots but with no luck at all. There were some shallow but swift riffles at the edge of the bank with a large pool just to the right and where the stream split in two. I chose to stand in the slow part where the bass where recharging after chasing supper in the riffles. They kept hitting my brown Pistol Pete but just wouldn't hold it long enough for me to set the hook. I tied on a Clouser and then casted into the head of the riffles at the most swift point and stripped it into the pool where a few decent size smallmouth were waiting. I hope there are some bass left. I recognized one of the other fisherman and he likes to take fish . . . which is his Right to do but where's the fun in that? lol.

[Guest]

dammit, I hate fishing behind meatheads...

I hope they were keeping google eye and not smallmouth.

[remi74]

Lol, meatheads. Now that is funny.