08-22-2017, 09:00 AM
I decided since I havent been able to get on the water in a couple of weeks due to work schedule that I would bear the heat yesterday afternoon. I wanted to try something a little different from my norm of beating the banks and go for some offshore fishing. This is a totally new aspect of fishing to me that I am not comfortable with at all. I picked up a few crankbaits in varying styles and depths to try. I picked out a nice looking ledge on my helix 5. I seemed to mark some fish best I could tell in 20-25fow. After about 2 hours of not even a nibble I decided to go back to beating banks and grass lines. We fished out of waconda bay and went to chesterfrost and then to graveyard slough. The heat let up around 8 or so and I thought surely we could get a few to play. We ended up with 4 fish or so with nothing being of any size. Since the grass has dissappeared there close to pinkys point the 20-25 bass trips have dissapeared for me. I had some promising hits on a frog in some really nice looking shallow water. I wound up losing the magnetic brake side of my black max reel pitching my frog somehow. Made a cast and the spool and everything came out of the side of my reel. I saw the plate splash in the water and that was the last I seen of it. I decided I was gonna tap out at that point and had the boat back on the trailer about 9:15. We made the run back to GA a little sour from our third or fourth Chick beatdown. The summer afternoons are just being brutal to us lately. Water temp was 86 with a nice breeze most of the evening with partly sunny skies. Good luck to all and be safe!