well, my wife had to go to Tucson for 3  days of conferences and i am her designated driver so get to go along. she was bussy all day last thursday and she would not be free untill late at night so I took a couple of rods and some lures to go fishing.

I ended up driving about 70milles one way to get to Patagonia from the resort we were staying but I was excited about it. I left my fishing lisence in my truck so I had to buy a one day lisence for $16, and rented a canoe.

the air temperature was 73º when I got to the marina at 9:00am. cloudy and a light brezee. I am used to fish under no clouds and air temperatures or around 100º+ at this time of the year, and never while raining. I thought it was a good challenge for me.

Started out throwing crankbaits and got slammed on one of those, but there was something different about the way the fish felt, no jumps or fast movements, I thouth it may be a big bluegill, but it was not sahking like one either, so by the time it was close to me I notice it was a catfish.

I never had a catfish bite a crankbait before so that was kind of funny to me.

I keep throwing cranks but eventually started dropshoting and cought a few small bass. That was it, no keepers at all.

when I returned the canoe the lady there told me the biggest bass taken at that lake was only 16" long.

so, overall was kind of desapointing outing but I got my first cat on an artificial lure and got to fish in different conditions I am used to, it was kind of like fall fishing for me, I even saw shad boils on the surface. I had to cut the day short because up in the mountains you could see lightning and a big dark cloud rolling in.

lol always great to have a cat slam your crank...  (take that how you will...  ;D)

Quite a few cat will hit huskey jerks when fishing for walleye in early spring or late fall in shallow water.