Well, not a good day at all ...........

First off, lazy azz kid (31 yr old) living next door, has been itching to get back on the water all summer, just as bad as me, was supposed to meet me at the boat at 6:30am. I done told him I'm not babysitting him, it's his responsibility to get up and be ready === never showed up (again) ......

Stopped at bait store and noticed he didn't have that many minnows.
Normally his tanks (look like goldfish tanks = see through glass) are full with hundreds of minnows. First time I've seen them with, not that many.
I mentioned it to him and he just said yeah .........

Got to lake, put in, ran to spot where I got the 20 last week, set up, opened the bait bucket = bout half the minnows were belly up = never had that happen before. Put some lake water in with them = didn't help if any at all. I figure something at the bait shop happened that killed most of the bait shop guy's minnows, and he sold me the survivors, which were on their way out anyway.........

Got first speck to surface of water = got off......
Had 5-6 more hook-ups but would get off right when I grabbed
the rod = suspect gar fish.
Anyway, never did get any specks (got three little fellows that I threw back) .....
Sun was hot early, reason I went today = the forcast said it'd be cool today, but that changed as today arrived etc, etc, etc ......

So, maybe you guys can do better than me this weekend .....
After taking English friend fishing salt tomorrow, I'm gonna sit on my duff till I get some real cool weather ........

Good luck this weekend,
Danny