I have had a great week of fishing...and also a great week of good medicine. For over 3 years now I have had no energy....yet every physical I had was OK. Finally someone suggested sleep study. Long story short....diagnosed severe obstructive sleep apnea with oxygen levels while sleeping of only 69 percent. Last night was first night in my CPAP machine. I woke this morning as if I had all the energy in the world. I spent the complete day out fishing......I have not been able to do that in over 3 years. First hit my Gill hole and caught over 50 Gills/Crackers in about 4 hours of fishing. Then drove the other 60 miles to Pickwick tailrace and fished for about 2 hours catching over 36 nice white bass in the 14 inch range. Then drove 60 miles back toward home and decided I needed to catch some more Gills...LOL. Spent another 3 hours catching over forty Gills and Crackers. For the Gills today I used two setups....Tict Ice Cube Mebaru rod....Daiwa Luvias 2004H spooled with 1# test NanoFil using a 2# test fluorocarbon leader. The other Gill setup was Yamaga Blanks Blue Current Jig Head Special UL.....Shimano Twin Power C2000HGS spooled with 2# test mono. The white bass were caught using a Major Craft Truzer Ajing TZS-S 6' 5" H UL rod with a Daiwa Certate 2004CH spooled with 4# test mono. I used the Tict rod to cast a Bison Trout Magnet on a 1/64 ounce head and 95 percent of my catch with that setup were Gills. The Yamaga Blanks setup I used a 1/24 ounce jig head with a Bison colored Trout Magnet and that got me down on the bottom to get to the shell crackers. There were also some Gill Crackers in the mix. These are some nice fish...IMHO....but there are larger ones out deeper. My buddy is having a new si sonar and Terrova motor put on his boat and when that is done we are going to get in the deeper part of the lake and hopefully get back to catching some 9 inch fish. Some fish were from the few hours I fished Wednesday.....didn't fish yesterday due to being fitted for the CPAP. I had an absolute ball today. Hopefully next Monday I can start fishing sunup until sundown as I used to do. Life is good!
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