7/14/07--Yesterday's bad fortune continues. Friday the 13th and we learned that our 2yr old lab mix, Hobie, likely has leukemia. Talk about a bummer. He's the first dog I've ever had that was truly MINE. Now I have to face the likelihood that he won't be with us long. To say the least, I needed something to distract me, and that would be fishing.

My club, Tioga County Bass Anglers, set out on Waneta/Lamoka lakes in Schuyler county, NY this morning. These two lakes are connected by a canal but it is not possible to move from one to the other without re-trailering your boat and launching on the other side of the road. I chose to go out on Waneta as I am a bit more familiar with that lake and the trip up the very shallow canal is much shorter.

As it turned out, it was not the right decision. I couldn't scare up a bite if a gun was held to my head. This lake is primarily mud bottom with basically one type of weed growth--eurasian milfoil, with some sporadic lily pads. Furthermore, the milfoil doesn't even appear healthy. It is brown and looks silt covered. A couple of years ago the state treated this lake, but mother Nature prevailed and it is back.

Being that there hasn't been much rain of note in this region in at least a couple of months save July 4th, water levels are quite low. I spent the entire day trying to get a bite. I threw spinnerbaits, lipless cranks, salt sticks, tubes, worms, jigs, topwater--nothing, except for when my jig got slammed while I was flipping a dock about 20 minutes before the tournament ended. I set the hook on nothing. I couldn't believe I didn't stick that fish! It might have saved the day! Oh, and did I mention that both transducer cables on my brand-new-to-me 02 ProCraft Super Pro 210 were broken? Kinda hard to find a deeper bite in the muck with no eyes beneath the surface.

Sorry to hear about your dog,as for the outing,we all make bad decisions,and it will only get better.Hang in there man dont let it get you down.

Terry...very sorry to hear about your dog....

I met you briefly last year when I fished with TCBA as a non boater...I remember you had a Javelin boat at that time

I fished that tourney on Waneta with Big John T last year and only got one fish for the day as well...was a nice smallmouth tho...

Me and my buddy fished Goodhue yesterday and boated 22 bass but nothing big...

Welcome to the forum and nice to have someone on here thats kinda local...I'm in L'ville PA...live about a mile from Cowanesque

Tom J

Very sorry to hear about your dog.

Thank you for the best wishes for my dog. He is home now, and he doesn't know he's sick.