Today is Saturday the 19th of July and I thought with a nice cloud cover the bass might be more cooperative. I was wrong, not a single hit on the waveworm, crawdad, lizard, or a green and chanteuse tube which sort of resembles a frog. I didn’t use a weight on it and it floated for a few seconds before it started sinking so, I tried to make it imitate a frog kicking along near or on the surface right up next to the shoreline. No takers. The time of day was 3p.m. til’ 5:30 p.m. (suppertime)! I did however catch 3 bluegill, a crappie, and two channel cats. Again, I used a worm under a float in case the bass were not taking. So I had a little excitement anyway. I’m adding a few pictures of the subdivision lake and two of the cats caught today. Enjoy and tight lines.

I tried my luck for three hours, 5-8 p.m., for bass and channel cats. This time I changed my baits to include: Riverside heavily ringed lizard in watermelon, a Kitani wave worm in black and red, and my old standby Yum crawdad in pumpkinseed. For cats I put on a live nightcrawler under a float about three inches off the bottom. The Yum crawdad got several light taps, probably bluegill or crappie nibbling on the legs. The waveworm got nothing. The green (watermelon) lizard got me a two lb bass with no other hits. The crawlers got me two nice cats about 3 lbs each. I released them both. Used a circle hook and a heavier line this time and sure enough the tried to get into the sunken branches and one reached a large branch but the heavier line, 14 lb test Trilene clear, held the one cat. I went over to where he was hung up and pulled the branch to the surface enough to where I could reach he fish and let him off the hook. Fun! That’s it for now. Tight Lines.

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.

On Monday the 7th of April wwe had another one day break in the weather.  I took out my two man boat on the sub-div pond thinking that the bass aught to be hitting.  I tried first with a zoomworm, pumpkinseed color… no luck,  tried a roadrunner with a curlytail grub…no luck.  I did bring some live nightcrawlers with me which I do not usually use for bass because of the possibility the bass might swallow them if they bite, I do not keep fish and I was actually trying for some channel cat.  No cats but I did catch two bass and they were not hurt… lip hooked them, but no cats.  I put the nightcrawlers away.  I fished for almost 4 hours with hardly any luck using spinners, grubs, and spinner/grub combinations.  At about 4:oo P.M.  I was back to nearly where I keep my boat.  There’s a small area of downed tree branches there.  I went back to my fly rod and tried the plastic black and white minnow.  Again I connected…28 small crappie, 6- 1 1/2 to 2 lb bass and one 2 lb channel cat before suppertime at 5:30 P.M.  That small plastic minnow is a real winner.  The weather has been bad ever since or I have been to busy to go.  I don’t fish when there’s a chance of me catching pneumonia!  That’s it for now, waiting for another break in the weather to…