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Calm before the storm Smallies

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Saturday I could not hang. Maybe the most oppressive day I ever tried to fish. Lasted from 5:30-7:30a. 
 

Caught a nice 13” Smallie within my first few casts on a pop-r type and had a few other short strikes. He was the nicest of the day. 
 

Spent the majority of my time just lite T-rigging and split shoting various 4 1/2” & 5” worms, all tail styles were working. Pretty simple type of fishing actually. Caught quite a few dinks and runts. All nice and healthy looking. Generally I’m ready to throw crankbaits until my wrists get sore. Didn’t go that direction. Mid 80 water temps. Thought fish may not have wanted to waste energy chasing them but I’m probably wrong in my thinking. They always seem ready to crush a Shad Rap. 
 

Did have some real heavy hitters move through late day and night. Some flash flooding. River and lake needed a fresh splash of H2O. Will stop by after work to see how fishable it is. Thought the river would have gotten big time wrecked  but I don’t believe it got too bad. Temps are moderating out East some. I bit refreshing. 

Seeing what your seeing just farther north of ya. Real warm water temps and high water where I fish, yesterday's storm should bring water temps down some and raise levels with all the rain. Right now for me its picking fish off structure with unweighted and 1/8oz. flippin' hooks equipped w/ owner screwloc's and 5-6" stickbaits or Tungsten shakey heads and 4" curlytail's rigged weedless. Its gonna get better Dave

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