07-23-2012, 09:00 AM
Did my early Sunday morning visit to Riverpark. Hit the water about 6:30 and already 10 trailers in the lot. My usual river rat partner (Nauticman) is out of action with a bad back so went solo this morning. Caught some nice Threadfin at the dam and was set to do some freeline drifting for bass. Had pretty fair luck, with 2 good LM and 4 SM. The largest SM of the day hit hard and when it felt the hook, got airborne. Must have jumped at least 4&#39; out of the water. Gotta love those Brownfish.<br /><br /> The skippies were killing bait so I had to catch a few on flutter spoons and poppers. Also tons of White bass below the RR Bridge and up in the edge of the current at the dam. think I caught about 10 whites and maybe 6 skippies. <br /><br />Got a surprise visit from a small rockfish and of course a &quot;DRUM&quot; in the 20# range that got me all excited with a couple strong runs. I just knew it was another late rockfish...NOT. <br /><br />Then the cats moved in and had 2 nice channels in the 4# range and couple of blues around 6-7# So I kept pretty busy and ran out of bait about 11. Didn&#39;t feel like trying for more bait so headed for home . Ran into another school of white bass on the way downstream and caught another 4. All whites were on a small rapala white jerk bait and white tailspinner and popping cork with flutter spoon.<br />Lots of fun, but most just average with a couple good ones.<br /><br />Had a fun morning, overcast most of the time so not too hot. <br /><br />I haven&#39;t been posting reports much lately, but I do post pictures to my library even if I don&#39;t do a report.<br /><br />Regards, Labman<br />