I probably didn’t need to tell you that but just in case you haven’t noticed, I thought I’d throw that out there. The rains we’ve had lately put a crimp in my fishing plans and although I knew it was going to be miserable out there, I had to give it a try this morning.
As you can see, I wasn’t the only one who had fishing fever. Both of these boats launched around 4:45 this morning, headed straight across the river and stayed in that one area for most of the morning – while I was out there, anyway. I sure hope they had better luck than I did because from shore, the fishing was tough; the water is still stained from the recent rains and the green algae, and like I said in the title of this post, it was pretty darned hot and muggy out even at 4:30 and once the sun popped over the horizon, I started dripping with sweat.
Speaking of the sun, here are a couple of sunrise pics.
I caught four bass this morning, and unfortunately, the one to the left was the biggest of the lot. I threw everything but the kitchen sink (maybe I should have tried that too 
); 5-inch Senkos, 4-inch Senkos, spinnerbaits, chatterbaits, rattle traps and even a crankbait. Surprise surprise, all four bass were caught on 4-inch Senkos (black with blue flakes), fished with a fast, jerky retrieve, close to shore. Heh, just a few months ago it was so cold out that I had to get into the car and turn on the heater to warm my hands up; this morning I couldn’t wait to get in the car to turn the AC on full blast so I could cool off.
?? : The green algae is showing itself around these parts but not at all waters. I fished at 4 or 5 lakes on Wednesday and one was very green and one of the others only 20 minutes away was absolutely crystal clear.
, especially when there’s not even a hint of a breeze.
