Oct 16, 2024

5:00pm-6:30

super windy 30•
cloud cover

neighborhood lake

 

We have our first cold front coming tonight, so the wind is crazy.  Went to the neighborhood lake which I often fish.  Since the waters are so hot all I have been catching were smaller black bass and some peacock bass.  The big old girls have been avoiding all contact.  With the wind at my back, I was making extremely long casts and covering as much water as possible.  After catching 8 fourteen inch bass, I felt a very subtle tick for a bite, and then very little movement.  Upon setting the hook I knew it was something big.  It has been months since I caught a big girl in these waters and the wife was joking that I lost my Zen!  Well it just goes to show even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while!

Congrats!

I know what it's like to endure a long dry spell.  My home waters haven't given up anything over 3.5lb since mid June. The powers that be decided to kill off all the weeds. Catching was excruciatingly difficult and then some invasive form of pondweed took hold and I had to learn tricks to get them to bite, but still no big girls until late September. Once the water temp dropped into the lower 70's, I was finally able to put together some nice catches. 

Thanks Joe, we had water temps in the 90's until this past week, and the big girls  do not like that.  Hopefully it will continue to drop!

8 hours ago, geo g said:

the wife was joking that I lost my Zen!

 

Zen is intact 😉