Don’t anyone get excited. After dealing with the holidays, wind, rain, cold, and LHM’s schedule I was anxious to get out for a couple hours yesterday to check out my new planer Boards and big Slip Floats that I got as Christmas presents (it’s nice to be your own Santa). The Captain stayed on “shore leave” as I went out to try and learn the ropes of handing this new gear, before she gets the itch again (and a 36 pounder will get her scratching). Anyway, after a little doing I think I got the handle on successfully deploying planer boards and the float and really like what they do and the capability that they give.
I know that most of the fish have been reported recently as being up lake, but I thought maybe I could get luck and so I started fishing the points leading up to 40 Love and then fished all the way down it and back out, generally in 10 to 5 feet of water. Water temp was 50 degrees. Never saw a single fish on my graph or got a strike. However I had noticed birds frequently working up and down the Beard’s Creek main channel. On the way in, at least content with accomplishing my objective of learning the new stuff, I looked the channel over. Saw fish frequently at 35 feet in 45 feet of water in the channel. Next time I’ll try and have my sights set higher.