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[J Francho]

Here is a report from 4/1, from my friend Paul's perspective:

My son Alan, and I were really hyped up after getting another invitation to join John on the infamous beaver fart lake yesterday. However I must admit that enthusiasm diminished a bit when my son and I realized that the previously pleasant weather forecast for Sunday was now calling for bone-chilling temps and rain increasing into the day. However, I managed to fake my excitement even as the drizzle started coming down while hitching up the boat in the morning.

Despite my growing doubts for the day's success, we were again welcomed by a huge beaver fart upon reaching first shoreline we were going to fish. It's beginning to look like beaver farts = catching bass, because it wasn't long before we hooked into the first one, and then another! It looked like a repeat of our previous success despite the observed 40-degree water temps being over 10-15 degrees cooler than the previous two weeks.







We caught a few more as the light rain came and went, and then Castmaster showed up with an offer for one of us to join him on his boat to give us some more room. John wanted to get rid of both my son and I, but we eventually agreed to avoid any embarrassment of being out-fished by Alan, so we booted the punk off to fish with Castmaster. I don't care what John says, Jim is a really cool guy. :laugh:



Ditching Alan must have helped a bit, because I was able to then catch a chunker of equal weight to Alan's...


We caught some more over the next couple of hours before we all got too cold and wet (Of course, we blamed the kid and lied about wishing we could stay out a fish for awhile longer). In truth, the weather was miserable, but the fish were biting and that helped to warm things up a bit - I had rain gear to go over my shorts, but they were infused with beaver fart odor and really it was just my wet hands that were uncomfortably cold and wet.



Between the three of us, we ended up boating 15 largemouth, and also lost some nice fish. The most successful lure/technique was slow-dragging rubber-skirted jigs with plastic jig trailers. Spinnerbaits drew some bites and were successful in boating a couple. Incredibly, many of these fish were still in 1ft or less of water in these cold temps - Crazy, but early fun bass fishing success this year!

[Siebert Outdoors]

Nice Catching J Francho

[J Francho]

Nice Catching J Francho

I only caught that one in the last picture, LOL. Allen and Paul did all the catching. As soon as I got that fish, I was done, too. Temps dropped like a rock into the 30s, and that was it for me. I can do sub freezing and snow, but with rain, it's got to be mid 40s or better.

[bassfisherjk]

Good story,Great picture's and some really nice Bass.WTG!

[Dwight Hottle]

Very nice post John. Cold & rain makes for a tough outing. Better off when it snows.

[K_Mac]

Looks like a good time was had by all. John 30s and rain is not any fun. I have done it as a younger man, but with age comes wisdom-at least that is what I tell my wife! great post.

[pbrussell]

Looks like you guys really "fooled" the bass!
(I had to)

[Big-O]

Fantastic Photos and glad y'all had such a great time.. The Smiles say it all!!! Your son is going to be a Fishing Machine too

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[roadwarrior]

Great post!