More cats on the muddler minnow and the new Zoom Swim Shad
4-29-09
Went out today and tried for bass. I started with a Frenzy crank bait with no luck. Switched to a swim bait, a shad colored paddle tail, again no hits. Went to a Zoom worm, pumpkinseed color, again, no takers. No hits at all!
Went back to the fly rod with one of my new bead head muddler minnows and started catching some small crappie. On my other fly rod I tied on another new lure, the new Zoom swim minnow. It is the same as a swimmin minnow but the color is a light mint green and white. I caught some more small crappie and then hooked onto one of the channel cats shown, a nice 2 1/2 lb fish. A few minutes later, in the same area I caught another 2 1/2 lb cat but on the muddler minnow. Moving on down the lake shore I managed a few more crappie alternating with my Zoom worm and the Zoom minnow and caught a few more crappie and a small bass on the worm but I missed him at the boat. Further on I caught another channel cat on the Zoom minnow. I did catch a nice bluegill on the Zoom minnow as well.
All in all I managed to put twenty three fish in the boat in about 4 hours time. Better that the last time but no really big fish. My guess is that the bass aren’t ready to get on their beds as yet and for the most part they have lockjaw.
Tight Lines
Jim
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