Same here!  hope you guys tear'um up!

Weatherman was right! We got on the water about 10ish and we had about 3 hours before a front came roaring through. The spinnerbait bite was fun while it lasted. We caught 12 and then the front came in with the clouds and the wind. The air temps dropped about 12 degrees. Brrrrr. The fish stopped hitting the blade.  It was a bit brutal out there between 1 & 5 pm. We only managed 2 of the 12 fish during that period. Thursday morning dawned crisp and sunny at about 33 degrees. The fish appeared to still be hunkered down. Steve Dickey picked off a small limit with a jig on the bottom at 12'.  I couldn't get any action on the spinnertbait until 2 oclock and then I caught 3. The last fish of the day and the best one of the trip came on a spinnerbait off a point in the Grand Glaize arm.  I expect today the bite improved after the passing of the front.  The wind blew here in Kansas today something fierce. I have a couple pics on my phone but having got both a new phone and laptop recently it appears that I'm not smart enough to get em uploaded and posted here.
It drives me bananas when I set down to do something and the computer takes over and I can't do what I want to.
Oh well, it was good to get out and I was happy the boat behaved well after being penned up in the garage for no less than 6 weeks.
I get to show the home tomorrow to a couple of folks. Hope someone with some money comes along soon. This going to the laundromat business sucks.






 

I waited till Thursday and told Red contrary to my last 35 years, I'm not going to be on the water at dawn's first little crack.  I'm not even leaving home until it gets 30°.  Well I got to 30° about 8:30 and I left.

I expected one rig on the lot down by the dam and that is exactly what I saw.  I launched and headed for the rip rap as this time of the year bass sometimes hump up there.  We have caught over 50 a time or two.  I had prerigged a bunch of tubes and had several jigs tied on as the rip rap is sometimes very hungry itself.   I have been known to leave a dozen or so baits on a couple of passes, never even lost one on this trip.

My first cast was a decent sublegal on a blue tube.  That is never a good omen and I should have left but I didn't.  I fished most of the rip rap getting one more and missing 2 possibles.  I spent the next several hours throwing the jig, tube, spinnerbait and crank (I hateum') bait.  I never had a bite on any kind of or depth of bank.

The weatherman had said light wind from the south switching to the west, (ideal for my rip rap bite).  Well he was wrong again.  Within an hour of my arrival it was whitecapping against the rip rap.  Just as I was deciding to leave I got a brainstorm and decided to crank the rip rap.  1/2 mile of rip rap and bucking got me my third and final fish of the day. 

Now you get it hoppy.  I have been saying for years that I want to be a weatherman.  There seems to be no accountability on that job and I never had one of those.