Usually I'm up at five and on the water by six but this Sunday my wife went with me and Sunday is her only day to sleep in. Even so, we were at the boat by eight thirty but then I locked the ignition keys in the dock locker and had to drive home and get the spares. We finally left the dock at 9:30.
I tried top water for about a half hour with only one swirl so I switched to sinking lines and woolly buggers. Jeanette was bored having been spoiled by Baja, ( at least a grab every cast when fishing the rocks) and decided she'd play captain and run the trolling motor.
She got the fingering down quickly. In the next two hours I landed six bass and missed a couple more. The little three inchers were not feeding thank God. I worry that the mortality rate for those small fish is fairly high and hate catching them.
None of the fish were large but all were reasonable. We quit at one and headed back. Not because the bite had stopped but because I had to go shopping for school clothes and had waited till the last day.
The results are not red hot fishing but what I like about it is that the chances of finding a big fish are really good, kind of like striper fishing. Here's a couple of pictures of what the average fish for the day looked like.
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