Anky 3/23-25
Posted: March 27th, 2006, 12:03 pm
Thursday was awesome! Got on water about 12:30 and headed
to Hickory Mound area. After trying a creekmouth with only one
small red I headed out about 60 yards to an exposed bar and
immediately caught a small red. While trying to dehook the rascal,
a couple neighbors of mine had started over to check my catch
and didn't see the bar until they came to an abrupt halt on top of it.
Now that's a sight to behold. I finally was able to pull them off the
bar and they headed into a creek with their fresh bruises and sprains.
Moved about quarter mile east and stayed about 3 feet...water 68 degrees...overcast and quite calm....topwater time. From the first cast
I had trout averaging about 16-17" fighting over the ole trusty
ChugBug. Afternoons like that make it all worthwhile! Over the next
three hours or so drifting the same quarter mile or so I'm sure I
caught at least 75 fish. I put a CT out with plastic shrimp and
started getting hits on it so fast I could not leave it in the rodholder.
As you can imagine, I went to sleep that night anticipating more of
the same on Friday and Saturday.
As Ron White so eloquently says..."I was wrong!"
Awoke Sat am to sound of wind almost tearing my canopy off side
of camper. To say it was windy on Friday would make the top ten
list of understatements of the century! And, naturally, it got much
cooler if not downright cold. Went back to same area on Sat after
lunch with wind back to normal levels of "brisk" and water temp
down to 58. Hard to fish creeks with wind and nothing at all in
my little "quarter mile of heaven on Thursday."
Ole Ski barge still not leaking and new electric working like a charm...
life is good! Should be even better when water warms back up!
to Hickory Mound area. After trying a creekmouth with only one
small red I headed out about 60 yards to an exposed bar and
immediately caught a small red. While trying to dehook the rascal,
a couple neighbors of mine had started over to check my catch
and didn't see the bar until they came to an abrupt halt on top of it.
Now that's a sight to behold. I finally was able to pull them off the
bar and they headed into a creek with their fresh bruises and sprains.
Moved about quarter mile east and stayed about 3 feet...water 68 degrees...overcast and quite calm....topwater time. From the first cast
I had trout averaging about 16-17" fighting over the ole trusty
ChugBug. Afternoons like that make it all worthwhile! Over the next
three hours or so drifting the same quarter mile or so I'm sure I
caught at least 75 fish. I put a CT out with plastic shrimp and
started getting hits on it so fast I could not leave it in the rodholder.
As you can imagine, I went to sleep that night anticipating more of
the same on Friday and Saturday.
As Ron White so eloquently says..."I was wrong!"
Awoke Sat am to sound of wind almost tearing my canopy off side
of camper. To say it was windy on Friday would make the top ten
list of understatements of the century! And, naturally, it got much
cooler if not downright cold. Went back to same area on Sat after
lunch with wind back to normal levels of "brisk" and water temp
down to 58. Hard to fish creeks with wind and nothing at all in
my little "quarter mile of heaven on Thursday."
Ole Ski barge still not leaking and new electric working like a charm...
life is good! Should be even better when water warms back up!
Love that Anky!
on the wind.
