One of those days

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Shoulda stood in bed.  Instead I set up a meetup with another BFTer at 5:30 at Maverik in Orem and then a meetup with Lee at Lindon.  The guy I was supposed to meet at 5:30 went to the wrong Maverik.  I waited 15 minutes and left.  I operate on "Lombardi standard time"...if you're on time, you're late.  When there's fishing to be done I got a low threshold of time tolerance.

Lee was already launching when I showed up...after being dinged an extra $5 for a day pass at Lindon.  A new sign out front displays all their new fees.  State parks are not the only needy/greedy marina operators it seems.  Used to be an affordable $5.  Now it's $10.  A lot to launch a float tube.

Wasn't terribly optimistic about the chances for a bananner day...after all the weird weather of the past few days...including a cold front yesterday.  Water temps have dropped back down below 65.  Glad I brought my waders.  Water clarity was a bit murky too...chocolate milk...cold chocolate milk.  And because I brought waders I had to readjust my fins.  Didn't do it right.  Lost one of my fins about midway across the harbor.  Glad I had a full charge on my electric motor battery.  The day was off to a great start.

Didn't see any black cats but I did see two black minks as I was exiting the boat channel...one on each side of the channel.  Might as well have been black cats.

Lee and I covered a lot of water and changed up lures, baits and presentations for the next 4 hours.  Lee had one fish on early and lost it at the tube.  I managed to scratch out 3 cats and 2 white bass.  The two largest cats were both 2-footers.  The smallest was maybe a couple of inches smaller.  One cat ate a large whole chub minnow.  The other two succumbed to the come-hither call of the big snarl blades on my new chartreuse perch gorilla fligs.  The fligs were sweetened with white bass fillet.  Yummy.  Had a couple of other inquiries from inexperienced fish that did not know how to play the game.  That was it. 

We left the ramp a bit after 11...as the power squadron was coming in and tuning up.  The new rates apparently don't faze them. 

Part of the reason I planned the trip south today was to pick up an order at Cabelas in Lehi.  Got a notice that it would be in by the 17th.  Left the lake and went up to the customer service window at Cabelas.  Wouldn'tcha know it?  I was told that only half the stuff was in.  The rest was back ordered.  A fitting cap to an eventful day.  Don't know what happened to the Cabelas I used to buy from.  One by one, all the things I used to get from them have been discontinued or changed for the worse.

But at least I got in some good antisocial distancing today and I don't got the Corona crud.