Ok, thats a stretch. What really happened is I fell asleep at 9pm last night, exhausted from the reception. I woke up at 3:30 this morning, wide awake. So I figured I might as well squeeze in some fishing.
Headed out to Charter Oak North at 5:00AM. I picked up a couple Ribbit frogs awhile back and since Charter Oak has excessive vegetation, I decided to tie that on and see if I could get a couple explosions on it. It makes alot of noise when reeled through open water and is really easy to bounce on the lilly pads but I had no takers. (Despite having hits on my Senko lookalikes the past two times I was there.)
Eventually I snagged up my frog on a tree. Had to break it off so I decided to go to what is becoming my old standby: a 7 inch Powerworm, this time in Tequila sunrise.
A few casts with the Powerworm got me a tick from this guy:
As you can see, not a lunker by any means but its much better than getting skunked.
There's a commercial that shows about every 37 seconds on Versus with Larry Dahlberg saying:
"There are four stages of angling: You just wanna catch a fish. You wanna catch a limit. You wanna catch a really big one. Finally, you wanna catch them the way YOU wanna catch 'em."
I was thinking about it and I definitely still fall into the first category. As long as I'm able to take a fish off the hook, ANY fish, it validates my day. Especially if it's a bass. Even if he's about the size of the bait I'm using.
Anyway, I cast out the Powerworm a few more times with no takers. Then, as is becoming a trend, I started hearing thunder roll up behind me. I stuck it out until I saw a flash of lightning, then headed home. Only got to fish for about an hour and a half total but it made my morning.
Hopefully it dries up before noon, as I'd really like to go try out some rifles before my FOID card comes in. If anyone has any suggestions on a nice, fairly inexpensive .22 rifle, please let me know.
Hope you all have a good weekend and get to wet a line.
1 comment:
Hang in there and keep fishing. This is my second year of targeting bass. It's amazing how much I learned over the first year. The whole 1st year I was Stage 1 "wanting to catch A BASS." This year I am definately at Stage 2, wanting to fill my limit. It's taken a lot of time on the water, research and trying different things to find a couple presentations and baits that work on a regular basis around here.
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