RichZ wrote:
To paraphrase some singer or other, potential fishing days are dwindling
down top a precious few. I can count on my fingers (and maybe a toe or
two) the number of days I'll get to spend on the water the remainder of
this year. And now it looks like I'll have to cancel all my plans this
weekend because of the steenking, lousy, weather. Supposed to get 2+
inches of rain tomorrow, accompanied by 30+mph winds, and Sunday it's
supposed to clear up, but get windier. SIGH. This after last weekend's
Champlain trip got screwed up by 8 inches of rain on the 2 days before I
got there. The southern end of the lake was the exact color of brown
kraft paper. Sigh. We caught a 30 or so anyway (it IS Champlain after
all) but it was nothing like the same weekend last year.


Well, I passed on Saturday because of the rain and wind, and my fishing
buddy and another guy went to a little cartopper only lake and got 63
largemouth up to 5-1/2 pounds between 'em. Mostly on crankbaits and jig
& pig. Turned out the rain was pretty much done by noon, and the wind
gusted every now and then, but mostly it wasn't bad. I actually ended up
cleaning my gutters so you know it wasn't too bad out.

So the same guy and I went yesterday, and the wind howled 20 to 35 all
day, while a nasty cold front sat on us. Ended up getting 10 between us,
all out of 20 to 30 feet of water, mostly on light stuff -- grubs and
drop shot. Tough fishing. Boy did I pick the wrong day of the weekend to
fish.