Mother Nature at her finest

Arrived at Grenada Lake for the "Spring Spawn"on a Wednesday. Had a couple days of good fishing. Then the cold front came through Friday night. Our well educated weather folks said we could possibly see "a few flurries". I woke up Saturday morning to this. Spent the most part of the morning with my dust pan shoveling 4" of snow out of the boat. On top of that, there was a major crappie tournament on the lake that weekend. Not sure if it was Crappie USA or American Crappie Trail. All the folks who arrived a few days early spent many a wasted hour, effort, gallons of $4+ gallons of fuel. Mother Nature pretty much leveled the playing field and made everyone start from scratch on day 1 of the tournament. Water temps dropped 9 degrees overnight. Talked to a fella at the gas station that was in 9th place. He said he could see 3 or 4 dozen fish on a structure, watch his jig hit the fish on the nose and never get a strike. Not sure if I made him feel any better but I told him it was the same for us recreational folks too.

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Those few ferries covered the boat pretty good.

Wow! That happened fast. That was a lot of snow to “shovel” out!
Bob

Weather can be rough at times, We had snow Friday, 75* Sunday, and rain with highs in the 40s until Thursday, It's got the fish messed up.White Flag Icon

heard tell it made it tough , my bud was over there and said it wasnt fun when it hit there at all .

You sure are brave leaving your rods out in the open like that on your boat overnight in a campground. We always put our stuff out of sight next to the tent or camper when camping in Ohio or Florida.

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Originally Posted by Opie1

You sure are brave leaving your rods out in the open like that on your boat overnight in a campground. We always put our stuff out of sight next to the tent or camper when camping in Ohio or Florida.

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we never leave nothing we don't want to "giveaway" outside or in plain sight either , back of the truck is another way to "giveaway" things as well .
we stopped at a motel on trip hunting one time and left an ice chest full of drinks in the back , the drinks were all gone in the morning .....not kidding :banghead

There is plenty of people out there that needs your stuff more than you do. Leave it out and help those needy souls.:Rofl

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Originally Posted by MCG1

There is plenty of people out there that needs your stuff more than you do. Leave it out and help those needy souls.:Rofl

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you know that is right .....:Rofl

It's never a problem at these campgrounds. It's a COE campground. Patrolled day and night by park rangers and sheriff's dept. Everybody leaves their stuff out. I leave rods and reels I'm not going to use that day laying under the camper. In the years I've been going there I have never had, nor heard of a problem. I'm a light sleeper too. Anyone messing around would have to make some noise or have a flashlight. I turn all the lights off at the camper so it's nice and dark. They'd definitely trip over something.

And..........I keep my sign up always. :welcome

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