Meade 7/06/13

I hadn't been fishing since the first part of May, because I have been spending a lot of time at the beach. Life could be worse huh? I'm torn between fishing and surfing. I have surgery (osteotomy on second metatarsal) scheduled for Jul 17 and wanted to squeeze a few beach days in before I am a gimp. I figure about 4 weeks after the surgery, when I get the okay to bear some weight, I will be back to fishing. But, it will be a long time before I can plant my feet on the deck of a surfboard.

Anyway, about 12 pm on Friday night, with two weeks left until gimpdom, I switched my boat back over from SW to FW. It took me two hours and I got to bed at 2:00am. I finally put the surfboard down, and went fishing at Meade yesterday morning from about 7:30 until 11:30.

I found fish in between the first Pitchkettle bridge and Highway 58. I fished a flat that was about 12' deep, and the fish were scattered and suspended anywhere from 8 FOW to the bottom. Blue/silver, solid white, and Tennessee shad colors worked good:

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I was slow trolling one 14' and one 7' rod on each side of the boat. I was going about 1.1 mph. The 14' rods are spooled with 8lb test, and the 7' rods are spooled with 4 lb test. I tied 1/6 oz jigs on the 14' rods and tied 1/32 oz jigs on the 7' rods. I just did lazy circles over the flat. I pulled in about 30 fish total, with only a few under 9 inches and only a few over 11 in.

Command central, including all those 70s oldies they play on July 4th weekend:

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Since my freezer is empty, and I won't be fishing for awhile, I was on a meat mission and kept 21 that went between 9 and 11:

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I also saw a Koo-Koo bird out there, but he just couldn't get those wings to fly:

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Nice seeing you, JimB.

Perc, Tap and others: no minnows, jigs only! Corker: sorry, but I did THINK about buying some.

Good luck, everyone!

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Id

Good report. Front page material.

Sounds like you had a good day Dean. I have not been fishing in over a month, had surgery for a torn rotor cuff and will be out of commission for 8 more weeks. Good report. Jimb I hope you have your sun screen on.

Sounds like a successful trip. Good luck with your surgery.

Good report. Great pictures, good looking lake.

It was fun fishing together and shooting the bull. I ended up with 10 fish with all above 11" to 12 1/2 ". Caught a ton of fish from all over the lake most in deeper water. No sunburn for me Vic. hope the shoulder get well soon. It would drive me nuts not being able to fish. It will make it better when you get back to florida.
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