7/14 Report

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Put in at 2 pm at Old State Park. There was a small storm cloud moving toward me out of the NW as my buddy launched me into the water. Before he could even get my truck parked I was being pelted by a driving rain with 40mph plus wind. Realizing I couldn't dock to pick him up he gallantly rode the storm out inside my dry truck. This has been a typical recurring theme for us over decades of fishing.

After about 10 minutes I picked him up, but by that time the main lake was belching 4' rollers, so we made our nest throwing plastic worms down the bluff bank on the SE corner of the mile bridge. We both were able to catch a couple of small bass over the next hour down that bank while waiting for the wind to let up. At about 4pm we crossed to the west side south of Hawker and fished two big bays without success. I was dragging a carolina rig to maintain some kind of contact with the bait while my partner whined about the 4 ft bow in his line trying to fish a plastic worm. At 7 pm the wind laid a little bit and he caught a keeper 2lber at point 5. The fishing definitely got better after that, but the size was just not there. I caught my first and only small keeper on a jig about 9 pm. We caught a total of about 15 fish on worms and jigs in 12-15' of water.

For the white bass fishermen, at about 7:30 on the flats just south of point 5 there was some surfacing activity by the white bass. We left that area at that time so there could have been additional activity later.