Air Temperature: 48
Water Temperature: 61-64
Water Clarity/ Visiblity: Clear/ 6ft
Skies: Sunny with few clouds
Wind: Little to none
As soon as I got in the water, the first thing I noticed was the water temp. Being so close to the full moon, I figured there had to be fish on beds somewhere. I moved right up to a large flat with a defined weed line, and threw a pearl white Zoom Swimmin' Super Fluke right into the shallowest water I could find. After two or three casts, I had a hit, I set the hook, but the fish charged me and I couldn't catch up, and I lost it. Made another cast to the same spot, and had another hit. It did the same thing as the last one, it charged at me, but this time I was able to catch up. Not being confident in my initial hook set, I set it again just to be safe. Wait... WHAT?! Snapped me off on the SECOND hook set, real "SAFE". I could just see the glow of the pearl white fluke swimming back and forth in the shallows. I just had to find out what it was, if it were a pickerel I wouldn't have really cared, and would have made some sense as to why it broke me off. Nope, it was a bass. Not a big bass, but a bass.
I moved further up to find some warmer water, and I found it. 64 degrees! I threw the fluke into the shallows and sure enough, I was able to hook up with a few fish. I ended up catching 5 in total, the biggest being just under 3lbs. Although I did miss about 20 fish, at least I had some numbers to show today.
That fish has a serious little pot belly. Nice job Jay
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