Ross Barnett Labor Day Weekend

[jjue1979]

On Sunday, August 31, I got on the water around 7:30 am, and the surface temp was below 80 degrees F and slowly rose to above 80 degrees F by lunch time. A few bit my crankbaits pretty quickly, although the bite slowed down the closer to lunch time that I got and then pretty much shut off. Despite the smaller fish that threw back and one that I accidentally dropped and flopped off the back of the boat when measuring, I did manage to bring back 5 crappie (and 1 catfish worth messing with).



On Monday, September 1, I got up early again to see that the surface temp was already 80 degrees F, and ended up with just a couple of catfish. While there were plenty of fish suspended and hanging around brush piles, they weren’t in the mood to chase anything moving. I didn’t see anyone fishing other methods having luck either. I went back to check the Pearl River’s flow since we did have a lot of rain earlier in the week, and it looks like it settled out. I didn’t have my smaller jigs or the minnow bucket in the boat to switch to a lighter method to see what was going on with the fish. My wife wasn’t too happy that I woke her up two days in a row and was even more mad when I had only the two catfish fillet to show for the effort. Don’t worry, she’s all happy with me again when I brought home her new Pathfinder lease from Corporate Vehicles so that she doesn’t have to keep driving around in my Titan.

Now that the weather is getting a little cooler, I think that I need to repack the boat with my jig poles smaller lures again, since it’ll allow me to test other techniques in a given area when the fish aren’t active enough to chase baits. I had lightened the load in the boat to see what speed differences that I would have between two props and because I wasn’t using most of the other rods and storage boxes all summer.

[SuperDave336]

Nice report and catches. Always a good thing when the wife is happy.

[Rojo]

I'm seeing light at the end of the tunnel. Thanks for posting. Nice fish.

[BuckeyeCrappie]

Nice report and catches!

[jjue1979]

I doubt that I’ll be out there this weekend because I need to catch up on yard work, although I think that the fall action will be good soon.

[DonDon]

Started getting my stuff together this past weekend for this fall and winter. Heck, I love it when I have to run a space heater up on the front of the boat spider rigging in December and January. Not as many folks out there when it's 25 degees at daylight LOL