This past week I’ve gone out for only a couple of hours in the evenings, 6-8 P.M.  The best I could do was catch a few small bass and a couple of really nice cahnnel cats.  The fish are reacting mainly to the small Yum crawdad on my flyrod, but these are small bass; the cats were about three lbs each  ( fun).  The wind has remained strong and I have missed a few bites and a few got off next to the boat due to poor hookups.  I lost two because of the line breaking at the knot, a palomar knot.  So, I’ve switched back to a double cinch knot.  That knot breaks too but not as often.  I have been retying the knot but I guess not frequently enough.  I’m using 6 0 8 lb test so maybe I should go to a heavier line.  I have also caught a few bluegill and crappie, but these fish are scattered and not reacting well to any lure.  My miracle minnow yields nothing at this point except for the aforementioned.  Well, tight lines to all you fishermen.

I thought I would go out and try to stir up some bass.  I hadn’t caught very many as yet so I put away that miracle lure, the black and silver minnow and put on a wave worm, a Yum craw, (the large one in brown), a green and black senko, a small Berkley craw, and on my fly rod the minnow, just in case.  The results were poor at first with a catch of only four small bass with a few misses.  Later in the evening, about 6:00 P.M., things got hot with tha black and red wave worm.  I cought five bass ranging from two lbs to six lbs and I misses a few other good strikes due to the high winds which impeded my sensing the bite until too late.  I did hang onto another really big bass though as he went into some tree limbs, (limbs that I put into the lake last year), and my line broke.  I had to quit at 7:00 P.M. as we were expecting a video cam call from my son, David and our grandkids.  Well that’s it for now.  Wishing you tight lines.

We had a visit from Bill, my brother in law, two weeks ago.  He wanted me to help him with his fly fishing skills.  He just purchased a beginners outfit and had very litle knowledge of what to do.  But learn he did and pretty well at that.  He started out as most people do, wearing the fly line like the garland of a Christmas tree.  But after some back yard practice and hundreds of false casts  he was getting about 30 feet of line out and was catching fish the very next day.  I set him up with that plastic minnow and soon he was cathing fish witch included his very first fish, a crappie, on a fly rod.  Definately a good student and learner.  All in all we caught about a hundred fish including crappie, bass, bluegill, and channel cat mostly all on that minnow in a four day period.  So if you haven’t tried it do so and you’ll be a happy fisherman.  Some of the cats and crappie were pretty good size and the bluegill were in the 1/2 lb range which is really fun.  Of course we released them all.  Well that’s all for…good fishing to all.