07-20-2021, 10:19 PM
Met up with Lee at Da Knolls this morning. He already posted his report. But I got some more pics and rhetoric so I'll put up another one. Oh yeah, a couple of other BFT reprobates were supposed to join us this morning but were no shows. Sheesh.
We were both launched in our tubes by 7. NASTY. Shallow, muddy and rocky for well over 50 yards from the shoreline...before it got deep enough to put down the electric motors and get seated in our tubes. Air temp 70 degrees at launch...warming to 82 by noon departure. Water temps went from 78 to 80...with some "green sheen" starting to show. Lotsa broken clouds at daybreak made for a nice pic or two.
Lee stayed a bit behind me as I motored out to deeper water. I was dragging a chub minnow on one rod and a small white bass on the other. Seemed to catch more on the chubs but my bigger fish came on the white bass. Lee found some fish in 4-5 feet of water but I did better all morning on either side of 6'. I found one area straight out from the rocky point at the Knolls that almost always seems to hold fish. And they kept me busy until I ran out of bait about 11.
No big fish today. No bumpers for the contest. Almost all were over 24 inches...with several in the 25 and 26 inch zone. Only caught a couple less than 2 feet long. But they all hit hard and fought hard...punching above their weight class in the warm water.
Absolutely stellar weather today. Never more than a slight breeze ripple on the water and mostly flat glass. I figure I caught somewhere north of 15 cats...going through a "long dozen" bag of chubs and 6 or 7 small white bass. All baits caught at least one fish and a couple of the white bass caught 2 before being demolished.
We were both launched in our tubes by 7. NASTY. Shallow, muddy and rocky for well over 50 yards from the shoreline...before it got deep enough to put down the electric motors and get seated in our tubes. Air temp 70 degrees at launch...warming to 82 by noon departure. Water temps went from 78 to 80...with some "green sheen" starting to show. Lotsa broken clouds at daybreak made for a nice pic or two.
Lee stayed a bit behind me as I motored out to deeper water. I was dragging a chub minnow on one rod and a small white bass on the other. Seemed to catch more on the chubs but my bigger fish came on the white bass. Lee found some fish in 4-5 feet of water but I did better all morning on either side of 6'. I found one area straight out from the rocky point at the Knolls that almost always seems to hold fish. And they kept me busy until I ran out of bait about 11.
No big fish today. No bumpers for the contest. Almost all were over 24 inches...with several in the 25 and 26 inch zone. Only caught a couple less than 2 feet long. But they all hit hard and fought hard...punching above their weight class in the warm water.
Absolutely stellar weather today. Never more than a slight breeze ripple on the water and mostly flat glass. I figure I caught somewhere north of 15 cats...going through a "long dozen" bag of chubs and 6 or 7 small white bass. All baits caught at least one fish and a couple of the white bass caught 2 before being demolished.