Ok so in SE VA the weather is changing and it has been raining for a few days.  The weather is supposed to clear up tomorrow afternoon.  I am hoping the fall pattern begins to work tomorrow.  I plan on hitting my normal spots where I generally find the shad/minnows.  I plan on starting as soon as the clouds clear and hoping that the sun will draw the baitfish up to the surface.  I will probably be throwing a chart/blue buzzbait, poppers and RT Shad (white and silver flake).  If that goes bad I plan on hitting dropoffs with lipless cranks.  If those don't work, I will be hitting some rocks with some soft plastics (Zoom pumpkin w/chart tails).  If nothing above works I should be heading home.  Any thoughts from the peanut gallery?  BTW the water is North Landing River puttin at Blackwater Creek.

Good luck.

Micro, you ever get out to back bay?

Might ought to call someone down that way and find out if there is any water in the creek/river.  With all the NNE wind we have had it could be darned near dry.  One place you can call is West Neck Marina.  If he says it is low there  you can bet money it is low everywhere on that system.  426-6735 is the number.

Shortbasser

That's a good point.  It was down about a foot and a half last week.

Good call short basser, the old man wasn't letting anyone in the water today.  He did say the winds should shift tonight and that if they hold NW the river should fill back up.  Also, according to him, the bass should be at the mouths right now before they move to the shallow flats.  I am seriously looking forward to next week when the sun should be out.  SHOULD bein the keyword.

I was pretty sure that you were headed for a "dry run" had you just gone on down that way without checking.  As you said it was down last week when we fished our tourney and my buddy said it was lower on Tues. So based on my experience with the wind and all I thought I might save ya a trip.  

Once the winds shift it will come back and hopefully some fish with it.  You can bet the water will have plenty of trash in it too and probably off color.  Give it a day or so and all that crud will be up here near my back door.  I am less than 5 minutes from the upper end of West Neck creek.  

I hope to be out on the water some time this week too.  Not about to give up this early in the year.  

Shortbasser