I can only hope

That you guys that went to Monroe this morning caught some fish. But let me back up some. I usually eat breakfast at the house and then head to work but this morning I had to go a bit later so I figured I'd get a fast food b-fast and ease on to work off the interstate. All is going as planned and I have a coffee in the holder and a sammich in my hand and a horn toots alongside me. I look over and it's Huntinslabs and his crew headed to the ramp with the boat behind. Bad enough I have to work and the boat aint legal and now I got be teased on the way to where given the choice I wouldn't go on a Saturday. Stopped and said hello to Mike and Andy pulls up behind. Said Hello and had to go to be on time. No wind as I went over the bridge and sun just warming the sky. It's been hard to concentrate all day, especially when I went over Jesup and it was just screaming for company.
OK guys, give it up. I need to hear some fish stories.

Went with the misses to deland craft show..... Sometimes you just got to suck it up and do stuff like that..... Got a call from pontoon pappy..... Calm water and three in the boat the first hour..... I hung up on him!:Rofl

That's where the wife and daughter and son in law went, along with the french bulldog. They said it was fun but hot.

Well Skeet, I was 1 of those boiling OTW, the short HOT!! Your O.T. pay will serve you well to buy tackle for when the fish are biting, fished 6 hrs boated 8 & 4 were smaller then my hand. To add to the patience factor was the pulling of floating trash off lines in every area I fished. It's days like this that humble you............Did I say I'm not complaining?:biggrin

Decided at 9 to load up and get some chores done. Went home and put boat away and headed to Lukas Nursery and bought 3 trees to plant in the yard. Got them planted and headed to Home Depot and picked up a pallet of zoysia grass and went home and laid sod. So you aint missed much Skeetbum, unless ya enjoy laying sod. Water was beautiful on top, weeds everywhere, bait everywhere, just couldnt get em going today. Had 2 captive inspecting livewell and 3 dinks released after 2 hours pullin. All got passes today.

Wow...... Not what I expected..... Buy that's fishing. Hate to hear about the floaters but that comes from the rising water. I'll be trying next week and I'll post any updates..... Thanks for reporting guys

Thanks guys. I had high hopes that you had all had a banner day even if I wasn't able to play along. I Have had times when we packed up and changed lakes and not done well there either. Better next time, glad you got to go anyway, and good to see y'all this morning. At least you didn't have to slave at the cleaning table.

Had about the same tally as speck detector. Marking a lot of fish but few takers, passed by Jeff and complain we couldn't even catch any gar. Well two minutes later Dave catches one. Picked two quick 12 inchers mid lake and thought we were onto something then nothing but one more dink. Packed up and came home around 11. May go back to Harney next week.

well that settles it....if Andy didn't load the boat then there ain't no fish in Monroe!! :Rofl

Slabs going to be mad at y'all done cleaned the lake out.

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Had about the same tally as speck detector. Marking a lot of fish but few takers, passed by Jeff and complain we couldn't even catch any gar. Well two minutes later Dave catches one. Picked two quick 12 inchers mid lake and thought we were onto something then nothing but one more dink. Packed up and came home around 11. May go back to Harney next week.

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Still plannin to fish Monroe with the fellers next Saturday. Might change me gameplan drastically though. Them fish are there, they just playing with a different deck this year so far.

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Them fish are there, they just playing with a different deck this year so far.

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You're right about that. went out this morning....windy....rain...rough water...so I thought with all that against me I would tear em up......nada!

Managed to hook one before I gave up at 9....talked to a fellar on the way in who had twice as many as I did:Rofl

Attachment 215525 I AIN"T GIVING UP....... EVEN IF I HAVE TO USE MINNERS!!!

We got there later than I wanted, had 2 slow gubers with me.:hatchet: We started fishin about 7:30 & quit at 1 PM.:fish

It was SLOW & had to reel in every rod about every 10-15 mins to clean the grass off.:banghead We managed to catch 20 for the day but nothing
to really speak of, mostly small but did catch a couple good ones right as we were quitin. Saw crappieday & Stu troll by at a distance & spoke to speck detector as we trolled past each other, didn't sound like anyone was fillin the boat.

Plan on goin Sat again.

Minners?
Really?

Wednesday: .....rough water....high winds.....WT 79*.....=NADA:bash

Try again tomorrow....:scratchhead:scratchhead

forecasting steady 13mph winds for Saturday. That will not be good at all.

Working again Saturday, Good luck everyone.

I have a feeling there will be a lot of boats pullin the river saturday.

No fish in the river 'KEEP OUT"

Wind forecast is down to 9mph now. If it could drop 4 more each night would be perfect. Might even could have dropped water temps a little by then with overcast and rain today and tomorrow. Heres hopin it comes out great.

Is the river open to fishing? I was under the impression it was lake fishing only? (maybe just my assumption?)

And if the river is open water for fishing the slabtogether...................could one travel south or north to other lakes the river passes through?

Basically Monroe would only be a starting point?



About that wind............... I'm not too sure how much we could hope it drops considering a hurricane is in the vicinity of our eastern shore?

yuck poo! but I'm still coming.

Stu... we're meeting at the Volusia park but you can fish any where you care to....looks like the wind will be ok for lake fishing too. Latest report is nnw at 6 to 7mph and the wee hours are less than that so the lake should be manageable when we go out. That's the good news...the bad news is the fish don't seem to be biting very good. The water level is UP UP UP probably 3' so that might have a lot to do with it. I'm going again tomorrow and hopefully I'll have some good news to post.

Go get em Mike, hoping for a good report..............have fun tomorrow, I won't be having any...............

Another bad day......caught 5 all under 10":bash

Be funny if 2lbs of fish wins tomorrow.

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Be funny if 2lbs of fish wins tomorrow.

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Yep.... I'm bringing everything to the scale.... I should've gone to work today..... Oh!.... That's right I don't have a job..... I'm old and retired

gonna look like a Dora weigh in.

Sounds like we better be following stu:witching

What time is weigh in, I might make that.

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What time is weigh in, I might make that.

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No fishing rules....weigh-in time 1:00-1:30PM Split the hoopty for five heaviest fish weight.....1st place 50% 2nd place 30% third place 20%. Big fish.... wins the BF pot. In addition Stu and DRIRITE will give away a $50 gift card for the heaviest five fish weighed in. The fruit jar is $10 per entry ( boat or individual) and $5 for big fish...you don't have to enter the fruit jar to win the $50 gift card.

Anybody want to add anything feel free to do so.

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Thanks Flycaster, I should have caught that.