06-09-2004, 09:56 PM
Dave,
Send me a check for $800.00 and I'll pick up one of those Briggs and Stratton motors right away! Otherwise, that's out of my reach at the moment.
I think you can get them on Ebay for about 200 dollars less than that.
Went back to the unnamed lake today (Wednesday). We were the only ones there when we arrived. There was only one other boat launched all day, and that one was on the lake about 2:30 this afternoon.
It was an overcast day with a light wind. Conditions were perfect as usual. On the way to our usual start spot, I trolled a rapala minnow just for something to do. I caught the only bass of the day on that minnow, a small but determined little guy. We fished for another 5 hours without a strike. As usual, in every possible area...trees, grass, points, deep, shallow, using lizards, worms, grubs, spinnerbaits, crankbaits, jerkbaits and a nice topwater frog imitation. Nothing.
I'm slow sometimes, but sooner or later it comes to me if I think long and hard. 335 acres of water, 15 miles of shoreline, perfect conditions, and one boat on the water until 2:30 in the afternoon? Then only one other boat?
How can that be? Why, it can be because everyone else knows there aren't any fish to catch in that lake and have stopped bothering to waste their time there.
If we go back, it will be one more time to try for shellcrackers or bluegill. If we don't catch any, that will be our last trip to that lake.
We need to get a couple of ultralight outfits for that. Maybe next week or the week after, we'll see.
Send me a check for $800.00 and I'll pick up one of those Briggs and Stratton motors right away! Otherwise, that's out of my reach at the moment.
I think you can get them on Ebay for about 200 dollars less than that.
Went back to the unnamed lake today (Wednesday). We were the only ones there when we arrived. There was only one other boat launched all day, and that one was on the lake about 2:30 this afternoon.
It was an overcast day with a light wind. Conditions were perfect as usual. On the way to our usual start spot, I trolled a rapala minnow just for something to do. I caught the only bass of the day on that minnow, a small but determined little guy. We fished for another 5 hours without a strike. As usual, in every possible area...trees, grass, points, deep, shallow, using lizards, worms, grubs, spinnerbaits, crankbaits, jerkbaits and a nice topwater frog imitation. Nothing.
I'm slow sometimes, but sooner or later it comes to me if I think long and hard. 335 acres of water, 15 miles of shoreline, perfect conditions, and one boat on the water until 2:30 in the afternoon? Then only one other boat?
How can that be? Why, it can be because everyone else knows there aren't any fish to catch in that lake and have stopped bothering to waste their time there.
If we go back, it will be one more time to try for shellcrackers or bluegill. If we don't catch any, that will be our last trip to that lake.
We need to get a couple of ultralight outfits for that. Maybe next week or the week after, we'll see.