The HFFA held their May tournament on Sunday so 16 anglers in eleven boats helped to fill the parking lot. It was another beautiful day for fishing
with mostly overcast skies, some bluebird periods and light showers. Water temperature started out around 77 degrees and warmed up to about 81 degrees in the afternoon. The water level was about 72' and water clarity was fairly clear.
It was a mixed day of fishing as some members did really well while others hard a hard time with the "catching" part. The majority of fish caught were bass in the usual 1-2 lb range. A number of Tucs were caught but they were in the 3-4 pound range. There were some sporadic busts here and there.
On our boat, we had a
Murphy kind of day where one thing after another went wrong. The morning started with a late wakeup and then a scramble to get to the launch site. This followed with fishing line caught in the prop of the trolling motor. Even after removing the foul line, the trolling motor would only run at low speed and not at all in reverse. When we get to fishing, we try worming, jigs, crankbaits, spinnerbaits -
NOTHING ! All the while we pass other boats and fishermen who report that the bass are biting everything that they are using.
It's now about ten and we still did not "catch" any fish let alone get any bites. We continue to fish and then the trolling motor dies altogether. A check finds that one of the battery wires had shaken loose.
We spend the next 45 minutes crawling under the bow to reach the trolling plug so that we can reattach the wire.
Needless to say, we continued to have other
Murphy moments throughout the day. We finally get our first bite and fish on a squarebill crankbait in open water about 1:30 in the afternoon. We ended "catching" three more bass, one more on the squarebill and the other two on a lipless rat-l-trap.
All in all, despite our
Murphy day, we still rather be on the water fishing than at home mowing the lawn.
steve
