Lots of people fishing for a Wednesday

you would think they all Launched before daylight the way parking was bad --- Trucks in sideways with 7 or 8 feet between wasted space so someone else could not park if they were not in sideways taking up 3 spaces --- Others with bigger trucks with 4x drive were hanging on the steep incline off the highway and they were two deep on that Incline... We saw a fair number of small to Medium Crappie Landed and many were fishing shallow. I told Johnny to watch one boat tossing Cranks---- they left the channel and went in the flat in 10 foot area.... In 15 minutes they caught 5 good fish --- Johnny said why cant we do that ??? I am thinking because we are Catfishing.. Trying new water towards the South I caught 25 too little to keep, So We went back to places that were good. Sometimes it was like fish were moving through,,,, nothing for a half hour then 6 poles all hitting the water at once and 3 fish on the line with two big enough for the net.. Madness and Mayhem is what good fishing has for the uneducated and a good meal after they are cleaned...:fish

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Thanks for the report. The parking will be madness and mayhem during the gathering. Hopefully the fishing will be the same. Congratulations on catching some good catfish.

I was there Wednesday morning before daylight. There was already 5 boats in the lake when I arrived. I was the 5th in line to launch, and several behind me. When it was time to park truck there was so many in line to launch, very hard to park. Need a traffic cop out there. When I returned to launch at lunch time I noticed how bad everyone had parked also.

I can somewhat understand how it can be difficult to get parked with such long line --- sometime the line wont move enough to park better and shows the need for better ramps.... 50 years ago as the ramps were built there should have never been round river rock mixed in the Concrete ---- the ramps are so slick it is difficult to get a boat up the incline .... when you look at the surface the exposed rock goes all the way to the edge of the forms ---- so the traffic areas are polished from spinning tires, in the past the city fathers did not plan for the fishing of today. Old maps show launches and fish camps that rented boats and sold bait, no longer there. Parking for modern boats and trailers could not been envisioned.... they thought everyone pitched the old alluminum tub in the back of the Pickup and off they went

Your post brought back memory of an older gentlemen that I worked with in the 70s. He would take us newbies to Santee for bream fishing with just a pole and crickets moving from tree to tree. He would take you but it was always on a Tuesday. he said if you want to go with me you have to take a day of vacation on a Tuesday. I asked him why he always went on Tuesdays.
He said, "Well you never go on the weekend cause everybody going to be fishing, then Monday you have some holdovers from Sunday. Also on Fridays you got some slipping out early to get a jump on the weekend, even Thursdays there are few jump starting the weekend, so I always go on Tuesday."
"What about Wednesdays?" I asked. He said "oh no, that when all the barbers go!"
Now you got to be old enough to remember the barber shops closed on Wednesday afternoons, along with a lot of other businesses.