Yesterday it was 75° here in SWMO.  Today it started out at 62° with light wind.  My wife said that she wanted to go to the lake.  So I hooked up and we went down to Stockton.  We waited for the fog to lift and the roads to dry some.  We didn’t get there until 10.  I started at a usual good spot and gave it an hour.  It was empty.  I changed sides of the lake and went back into a cove.  I had a keeper smallie on the first cast.  No more bites there.  
 

I moved from rocky area to rocky area.  Some would have a fish or two and most had nothing.  I tried several different things but the only bites came on the Ned 1/16 oz head with a green pumpkin TRD.  I only caught 7 fish with 4 of them being keepers.  I lost 4 fish two of which I saw and were keepers.  It got up to 73° down there today.  The wind finally was light.  I don’t remember weather this warm in late December.  
 

The water had warmed up since last week.  It was 49-53°.  Last week it was in the mid 40s.  It’s all going to change though as we are looking at teens by early next week.

Yep right there with ya. Loving it 

Atta, Jig Man.

 

#sojealous!

We saw 7 eagles while we were there.

That is some crazy warm weather! I am hoping to get out Thursday or Sunday depending on the wind forecasr.

Summertime didn’t last.  We’ve had 20-40 mph nonstop winds.  On Sunday the temp dropped 53°.  I’ve gone from open windows to a roaring fire in the wood stove.

 

It’s supposed to be back to normal 30-50° Wednesday so we plan to go back down there.