Went out this morning before work with a friend. Told him the fishing’s been good and I had fish I hadn’t eaten yet and didn’t want any to keep. Told him to bring a cooler if he wanted to take some fish home, so he did just that. 
Kept 5 of 8 or 9 keepers to 27" and got a bunch of short fish too. Drifted in 100’-140’ fishing about 35’ down.
'07 198 DLX Carolina Skiff
FS90 Suzuki
That’s one way to make the fish look bigger, lol. Fishing sure has been good. I got 15 keepers and probably a total of 100 fish in the last 3 trips out. The cold front will probably shut them down this weekend. Even if it doesn’t the high wind will make for tough fishing.
I was thinking the same thing myself…gonna try and work in a short trip this evening or tomorrow morning before work.
'07 198 DLX Carolina Skiff
FS90 Suzuki
I’m going to head out again tonight. See ya out there
did he really bring that cooler? Did you tell him you were going bream fishing???
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Years ago I took my brick mason some striper (not cleaned) His wife called me and said he scaled them with his hoe and chopped ther heads off with his ax and still wouldnot fit in the frying pan!! Hard to catch them in Murry now!!! Back then you needed a 100 qt. cooler or better. What a differance 30 years make! Use to run an Alu. boat with a 30 HP and now run a 20’ with a 250 Makes no sense!
Back then for me it was a 14’ leaky riveted jon boat with a 15 HP Evinrude. My electronics consisted of an Eagle flasher. The only way to come up with live bait was to be at the ramp in the morning to get it from Jimmy Jones or hope they were at the towers and throw a net or jig them up. Some days used to get pretty hairy at the towers with people jockeying around to get at the bait.
Now I can buy live bait any time of day, scoot around the lake at 35+ MPH, save spots on my GPS as well as see a contour map of the lake in real time while looking for new spots. We still caught plenty of nice size fish back then…a much better avg size than today for sure. Makes you wonder what the fishing would have been like back then if we had all the technology and availablity of live bait like we do today.
'07 198 DLX Carolina Skiff
FS90 Suzuki
Have left home at 2:30 and drive 1 1/2 hrs to Clark Hill and catch bait the back 1 1/2 hrs back to Murry Catch a cooler of 20/25 # fish and be at church at 10:30!! I was a lot younger then! Went from a bass boat to a stand up console in 79 so I could stay out in bigger water! The fish would school all day and stay up for hours on windy/rainy days have broken off 5 chreekchubs in a morning I would fish 4-5 days a week then, gas was $.65 would run out of Hollands and down the lake in summer and fall and up in the winter those were the days