Got out yesterday.

Went down to the river (Susquehanna) near Owego NY early yesterday morning. Got there around 5sm. Daybreak was at around 4:30, but due to cloud cover and a heavy fog. it was still pretty low light conditions. Air temp was 70 degrees and water was 64 degrees. I started with a 110 Berkly Choppo (basically a whopper plopper). I was using a 7'2" Proficiency Heavy Fast rod with Bass Pro shops reel with 30lb Vicious braid. On my 3rd cast I had a blowup but no hook up. I continued the retrieve, and the Bass came back and got it.  A nice 2lb or so Smallmouth. Several casts later I got another one that was a bit larger....maybe 2 1/4 bls. Stayed with the plopper for about another half hour but no more action on it. I switched over to a frog. That got me 2 more in the next 15 minutes. Both were about 1 1/2 lbs.. The fog burned off and the cloud cover started breaking up, and the topwater bite died. I went to a spinnerbait (white and chartreuse with silver willow leaf and colorado blades).  That got me 2 more, but they were smaller...around 1 lb. I was throwing the spinnerbait on a 7 ft. Cheerywood  medium power medium action with 12 lb Bass Pro Excell mono.  The spinnerbait bite went away, so I switched to a medium diving crankbait  Strike King Sevy Shad in color. That got me one more Smallmouth around 2 lbs, and a 18 inch Tiger Musky.  It was now around 9am, and the air temp was up to 84 degrees, but at least the humidity was not very high (yet). I moved to another location on the river and tried several other baits, including but not limited to.....weightless fluke lure in white/silver....tube lure in coffee color on a 1/4 tube jig head. Switched to a green/red flake color. Then I tried a blue/black 1/2 oz swimming jig with a matching craw trailer worked around both rock and wood cover. Tried a green pumpkin sweet beaver style Carolina rigged bait. Then tried a Texas rigged worm in Tequila Sunrise color, and then in red/black Troed the frog again, and the Choppo. All that got me nothing...not even a nibble. It was now almost noon. Air temp was 90, but there was a breeze, and humidity was still not bad. I packed up and left the river and headed to a smaller stream (Catatonk Creek) in my hometown of Candor NY. The creek was very weedy. I tried pitching several different baits into openings in the weeds, but got nothing. I moved to a different area with some open water, and tried a square bill crank in citrus shad, and then in red craw. The red craw got me one small largemouth, and then I got cut off by a pickerel. I switched to a Mepps' spinner in black blade white skirted in the 1/4 oz, size on a 6' 6" light action spinning rod. That got me 2 more largemouth, both about 1 1/2 lbs.  It was now 2pm, air temp was 95 degrees, and the humidity was getting very high. I was starting to feel the heat and I was having trouble breathing (missing a part of a lung and having COPD will do that to you). I called it quits and headed home. No big fish, but not a bad day at all. In hindsight, I should have used better judgement and quit earlier in the day, but it is hard to walk away when you are having a good day.