Good to hear you got out. I am seeing a bit cooler weather here but I’m going to wait a couple of more weeks before taking my last week of vacation. I want to swim my jig ALL day!
How’s that new neighbor working out?

Sounds like ya had a productive evening on the water. Were you fishing alone ?  We had some sweet cool temps today although a bit blustery. Looks like low to mid 80's the rest of the week and I got a ton o work for the next 6 days.   

Are you of the opinion that the moon phase affects productivity or is it just more pleasant to be out ?

I understand that about the moonlight. It helps a bunch when ya use it right.   

Cousin Beck as in Bill ?

 

It's cooling down here.Almost can tell fall is right around the corner.

I only wish fall were around the corner.  Our forcast is back in the ninetys after the weekend.

I understand that about the moonlight. It helps a bunch when ya use it right.   

Cousin Beck as in Bill ?

 

Nope as in Bekemier.  Beck for short.

Fall? Saturday or temps are slated to run from 57* to 91*. How do you dress for that?

We have the same forcast.  Hooded sweatshirt over a T.  Pants with zip off legs.  Is how I do it.

Well the good news is last night Red said she had no plans for today and wanted to go fishing.  The only problem is she doesn't like to get up real early so I have made coffee and packed lunch.  I'm going to let her sleep in until 4:30 then start making noise.   Maybe I'll have here out by 5:30 and be on the water by 7.  The sun won't be too high in the sky by then and it will still be cool.

I'm going to try to lose some of those rigged tubes before they can rust the hooks.

I managed to wake her earlier than I had really planned.  We got on the water before 7.  It was 57° when we launched and 84° when we loaded.  The wind didn't blow and it was 2 days after the cold front.

Fishing was a lot tougher than on Wednesday.  The fish liked the spinnerbait better than the swim jig.  We wound up catching 15 and losing a couple of others.  I hope this pond keeps producing for a while.  In 3 weeks they start a dam repair draw down and may put all the ramps out of commission for the fall.

Steve I just hope one or two ramps are serviceable.  4 or 5 couples of us plan to spend 2-4 weeks down that way in mid Oct-??Nov.  That is the best fall sandie pond in the state, not to mention smallies up the river.  However, there will be no up the river unless we get rain.  At power pool we have to go over some real skinny water to get up either the Lindley or the Pomme de Terre (3-4 fow).   With a 5' draw down there will only be riffles 3-4" deep and no way to get around them and launch big old glitter sleds.

Yes I will prolly be marking wpts and taking lots of pics with the camera if we can get on the water.  I already have about 300 brush pile wpts but I haven't spend a lot of time on them as there are easier fish to catch.  Bill Davenport is a master at swimming 1/2 oz jigs over his own brush piles and catching big Pommy bass.  I don't have that technique down.  I have to resort to salt craws down and dirty and that is a pain.