Fishing the morning of November 1st with a friend of mine. We made a run to Whites Creek on a chilli morning with water slick as glass and foggy. Got up in there near the flat and started fishing a rock bank that lead to a few docks. I wanted to see if we could catch a few bass there. I no more than stopped the big motor and got to the front deck with the trolling motor down....and this other boat comes running in with its big motor and goes around me and gets in front of where I was going to be fishing my way down the bank. I'm talking they stopped about 30 yds from me and cut me off. 30 yds ain't that far folks! I mean it's the middle of the week and there's like a whole gob of water to fish in Whites Creek and they just had to come in there and do that to me. Well needless to say that didn't set right with me. My buddy wasn't even out of his seat yet and I had barely had enough time to unbuckle the rods and get one in my hand. I threw my rod down in the floor and jerked the trolling motor up and then proceeded to show some attitude with just how much wake a 200 HP Evinrude can do. Probably a little bit childish on my part but I let 'em know I didn't appreciate that too much.
So to get back to the fishing. All my gauges and depth finders suddenly stopped working. I tried fooling with the battery connections and never got any juice so I was fishing blind all day. Don't know the water temp and all that good stuff. So for the fishing report itself....we managed to just catch a few bass a piece. My buddy got a nice 1.5 pound (exactly) Crappie on a crankbait. One more funny tale about Wednesday though. My buddy ain't from around here locally. He is one of those guys that thinks World War III is just around the corner and has all the assualt rifles and plenty ammo "just in case" it breaks out. Well we're sitting there fishing and since it's first Wednesday of the month, they hit those test sirens for the nuclear plant. LMBO that was the hardest time I've had in a long time to keep a straight face. His eyeballs got big as golf balls. "What is THAT?!! That's an air raid siren!!" LMBO it was hilarious.
November 3 ---
Went by myself this evening. The wind was blowing good and dealing with post frontal conditions yet again. I knew it was bad when I pulled my boat out of the water and my rope got hung in my trailer and the rope snapped. Which left my boat once again, floating by itself out in the water. So into the cold water I go. I had enough sense to take my clothes off and by golly I got my boat and fished anyway. Since it was so windy I went to a close spot where my buddy caught the big Crappie a couple days earlier. I caught my big bass there a couple months ago. Fished there with Bandit 200s and got a MONSTER Crappie up to the boat and it pulled loose. That was a solid 2+ pound crappie. So I break out the crappie gear and didn't catch anymore. Hmmm. Back to the crankbait and got ANOTHER big crappie right at the boat and it pulls loose too. Just not my day today. Only had an hour and a half of daylight to fish. I fought the wind and came back to Hornsby and fished in there a minute. Watched 4 deer come out of the woods into the powerline and sat there hoping to see one of those in front of my stand in the morning. So me thinks....crappie fishing must be picking up pretty good and in big sizes. I just gotta figure out how to catch them since they aren't liking grubs on jig heads but clobbering crankbaits.
So to get back to the fishing. All my gauges and depth finders suddenly stopped working. I tried fooling with the battery connections and never got any juice so I was fishing blind all day. Don't know the water temp and all that good stuff. So for the fishing report itself....we managed to just catch a few bass a piece. My buddy got a nice 1.5 pound (exactly) Crappie on a crankbait. One more funny tale about Wednesday though. My buddy ain't from around here locally. He is one of those guys that thinks World War III is just around the corner and has all the assualt rifles and plenty ammo "just in case" it breaks out. Well we're sitting there fishing and since it's first Wednesday of the month, they hit those test sirens for the nuclear plant. LMBO that was the hardest time I've had in a long time to keep a straight face. His eyeballs got big as golf balls. "What is THAT?!! That's an air raid siren!!" LMBO it was hilarious.
November 3 ---
Went by myself this evening. The wind was blowing good and dealing with post frontal conditions yet again. I knew it was bad when I pulled my boat out of the water and my rope got hung in my trailer and the rope snapped. Which left my boat once again, floating by itself out in the water. So into the cold water I go. I had enough sense to take my clothes off and by golly I got my boat and fished anyway. Since it was so windy I went to a close spot where my buddy caught the big Crappie a couple days earlier. I caught my big bass there a couple months ago. Fished there with Bandit 200s and got a MONSTER Crappie up to the boat and it pulled loose. That was a solid 2+ pound crappie. So I break out the crappie gear and didn't catch anymore. Hmmm. Back to the crankbait and got ANOTHER big crappie right at the boat and it pulls loose too. Just not my day today. Only had an hour and a half of daylight to fish. I fought the wind and came back to Hornsby and fished in there a minute. Watched 4 deer come out of the woods into the powerline and sat there hoping to see one of those in front of my stand in the morning. So me thinks....crappie fishing must be picking up pretty good and in big sizes. I just gotta figure out how to catch them since they aren't liking grubs on jig heads but clobbering crankbaits.
