As you can see the channel cats are still cooperating and so are the crappie to some extent, but the big ones are hard to find.  In fact I haven’t found any for a long time now…where do they go?  This cat hit on a pin spinner with a small Storm paddle tail minnow in perch green and black.  You can see it if you look closely.  In fact I barely hooked him right under his whisker.

My usual Blue Fox has not caught any of the bigger crappie  so I thought I’d switch to this style.  I managed to catch about a dozen crappie with it but none larger than 8”.

I haven’t been fishing much during this hot spell.  The temperature has been in the nineties with a heat index in the low 100’s but the real problem is the very high humidity.  So, I keep my fishing times to after 5:00 pm till 8:00 pm but only if the temps get down into the upper 80’s.

The temperature is supposed to be in the mid 80’ tomorrow, the 6h of Aug and Ivan and I are going to try River Bend again.  Ivan hasn’t been able to get out much this summer, so, I hope the fish will cooperate for him.  I will continue to try for the bigger fish, I’m determined to find one of at least 4 lbs to beat my very old record (5 years) of 3 1/2 lbs on that lake.  As I noted on a previous writing, “ a fisherman had told me that he caught  a 5 lb bass at about the same time that I caught the 3 1/2 lb bass.)  We’ll see.

Tight lines.

Jim

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