Fiddling around this afternoon and in walks the wife and announces that we need to go fish tomorrow. It'll be a little scouting trip for the Sunday club event. A nice surprise. I've got a little experiment to try. Think they'll hit it ? It's 1/4 oz.



We'll see

We made it out today. Rachel did OK for a couple hours and that's all we fished. As you know I always catch my limit which also is never the same. First off when we got to the lake the temp was about 48 and the cloudy at 6:30 Am. with a 15-20 mph North wind.    My wife was concerned that she hadn't brought enough clothing. I generously offered her my emergency sweat pants and sweat shirt that I always keep inn the truck regardless. She was relieved and put them both on under her jeans and hoodie and she was good to go. After a quick undesired emergency I was ready to launch and it was precisely at this time that I realized that I had gone off and left my zip up hoodie hanging on the back porch. I was only wearing a cotton shortsleeve .    Oh well , at this particular lake Wally World was only 2 miles away and even though I don't shop there I figured if worse comes to worse I could slip over there and grab something. ( I might even have the gall to return it on the way home.  Shhh. )  So off we go and the wind is howling, it is cloudy, the water temp is only 51.7 and I realize that the undesired emergency from a few minutes ago was just the beginning. She is a good, I mean great cook, but I don't know what happened. There we are, sea legs and all puckered up and the trolling motor won't get out of it's own way.  This is not good. First place = 1 small dink.  Second place 1 slightly larger , let's call it a short. I decide to make one more stop and this is where my bride got a quick lesson with the net. She passed in flying colors.

   

When we got back to the house I took a close look at the trolling wires and realized my error. I was only getting 12 volts. Switched 1 wire and voila !  .

It was too windy for me to fish the little jig with only 12 volts but the spinnerbait by War Eagle seemed to work.

Ha, ha funny. Turkeys wander through here constantly. You know who won't let me shoot em. Tried to put that fish in the well for the pond and she said , "he's too big. "     
   Anyway my neighbor is a big deer hunter. A while back he got on his camo pants, his camo shirt, and his camo boots. Next he put on his camo hat with a camo facemask veil followed by camo gloves. He took his camo rifle out and............ kicked open the door and shot him one. 


 

Hey, thanks for the tip. I think I'll fix me up a couple with white blades. I got some white powder and lots of blades. Just the tip I need to take the plunge. All these years and I always use nickle or gold blades. Always wanted to try some chartreuse or white blades but never seem to get it done. I'll have some ready for Sunday.

BTW I was informed today that she is ready to learn another technique besides chunking and winding a blade.