I'm late

[oghfm]

to report that I did go fishing Sat.  Had a crew at the cabin stripping the old roof (metal) off and putting a new one on, upgraded from 29 to 26 gauge.  The cabin is about 1450 sq ft w/ an 18x10 extension for front porch.  They stripped and installed in about 7 hours w/ a short break for burgers and fries I fixed.  Hope they lived thru the meal, one of the helpers ate 2 burgers so probably hospitalized.   So I fished from 10 till noon w/ only keeper crappie to show.  Went back out from 2 to 4 and picked up 4 more keepers for a total of 12 that averaged 12 inches, about 10 shorts and 2 white bass.  I had picked up medium minnows to tip w/ and I think they prefer the smalls w/ these water temps, never did see 40 degrees surf temp,  winds were very light and quite a  pleasant day.   There was a couple from Mountain Grove out there fishing in their new boat that pm and I could hear them comment when I boated one (which is amazing cause I'm pretty deaf)  so I asked them if they had had any luck.  They were in about 22 fow so I was pretty sure they hadn't,  so I got them to join me in my pattern and they did catch a couple,  it would have been a shame to take that new boat home with  no stink on it.   This week looks as bad as the ice-in with all the wind,  probably won't get back up there till next week,  would like to try CC for tail end of walleye run but if we get much rain I'm afraid it will be muddy.

[Dutch]

I will be surprised if everything isn't muddy with the rain that has been predicted.