Spanked at the Cat/Did Ok Thursday
Wow! I thought fishing slowed down Thurs with a temp drop in the wate down to 63 as several days ago it was cracking 73. Thurs at Lemmon caught about 50' keeping a dozen nice crappies and 2 gills. But the Cat spanked everybody that fished it today and about noon they were all loading up and when I took out at 3:30 only 3 vehicles with trailers left at the parking lot it was that slow. About 1pm found some tree tops in about 7' of water next to deeper water and for 30 minutes nailed 20 with 4 all 11 to 13" and then that spot was done as I left it and returned a hour later and picked up 1 more 7" dink. All day I didn't catch but about 10 total dinks long lining and 1 really super nice gill, couple small bass and that was it for 7.5 hrs of fishing. Chatted with a local that was taking out as I was and his comment was worst day he has had this year also. Weather was screwed up last 2 days with wind out of the east and all day today, Was dodging rain that went east and west of me also with both days of wind and choppy water. Water temp yesterday started at 62.5 and ended up at 67 and this morning was 63 and ended up 65. I will say the cat looked great and will be back First of next week as it warms. Turned all fish loose today to catch another day. Also, both days, I spent couple of hours at each lake trolling bandits and arkies and not one hit on the crank baits. All the fish wanted the tubes injected with crappie nibbles as I tried every color, hair, feather, curlie tails, today also. Chrturuese and black/chartreuse were my hot colors.
