Well, I’m on the board. With my brother back in town for the week, (taking a break from his time down in Mississippi working with Samaritan’s Purse to help rebuild after Katrina) we decided we’d take advantage of the weather and try a little scouting mission on a body of water I’ve wanted to check out for quite a while now.

The air temp was approaching 70, but the steady winds seem to be keeping the water temps down a bit which led to some tough fishing. The good news is that we saw a lot of fish, the bad news was that they really weren’t too active. They are definitely in pre-spawn mode on this particular impoundment, as they the shallows or sit just off shore in 10-15 feet of water. We didn’t see any bedding activity yet, and I think if the water had just been a few more degrees warmer we would have been in real good shape.

The ideal technique was dead sticking a senko and keeping it as still as possible for as long as possible. The only problem was that the wind was blowing us around so much we couldn’t keep the bait in the same spot for more then a few seconds. But in those few times that we could, we caught fish….well I did. :) I ended up with two fish, the largest pictured above was a hard fighting and chunky 16”er. Steve didn’t get anything this time, but I think I speak for both of us when I say that just getting time on the water with each other was reward enough.
Muskalungeeeeeee!
-Mike