Should have gone fishing.

[Jmax]

My son and I got back yesterday evening and I should have gone fishing instead of hunting. Drove down to Arkansas to go after Bambi's dad and all I did was fed the misguitoes. Sitting on a deer stand as sweat dripped off the end of my nose and bitting nats dined on my arms and misguitoes buzzed around my ears was not what I had in mind. We saw two deer gotten near us but it was by cars when the deer were moving at night with the full moon and 90 degree days. If you count the deer we killed it was a bust, if you count the fellowship with my son, dad, a best friend from years gone by, and me it was a great get togather and good times. You cannot always judge success by what was caught or killed. Was the fishing as a whole good or bad this weekend?emoCool

 

[ChooChooSnakeMan]

Jim, glad that you and your son are back safe if not insect bitten! You're right, the fellowship with others and just getting out and enjoying the health that God has blessed us with and his wonderful creation is what is important. When we focus on how many or how big, it takes a lot of the fun out of it. With that said, I'm sure you have noticed my post of my trip on Sunday the 16th. It was a bust, so from my perspective you didn't miss out on any hot fishing. Maybe you can get out there and show us where they are at and what they want.

ChooChooSnakeMan

 

[polo-dog]

Jmax, the fish on the main lake were active when there was current but everything was dead until noon when they started up the generators. The bait had moved out of the shallows in Harrison Bay and I don't know where it went. I did get out for the last hour or so of light just to see what if anything was going on and the areas in the back of the sloughs and in the back of Wolftever creek were dead. No baitfish there. However when I came back out into the middle of the creek I could see lots of activity over the 6-8 ft deep flats. After the sun went down I motored around over those flats and there was tons of bait and lots of fish in the mid depth range. CCSM and I plan to fish tomorrow afternoon/evening and I wanted to see where I should fish. I need to find a stumpbed or a brushpile or two on those flats to see if there are fish on them. From what I read and have seen, fall can be a frustrating time to fish because the fish will be here one day and a mile away the next. I think that the key will be staying in touch with the bait and finding places that the bass will stack up near the bait. We'll see how it goes tomorrow.

 

[Jmax]

Sounds like a good plan to me, if they have moved that much we are all going to be seaching to find them again. Good luck and let us all know how you two did.
Thanks, Jmax