9-8-11 Thr

9-8-2011 Thr
5:30 PM – 9:30 PM
H2O: 5.29’ falling, 26.5 kcfs, 65 ˚, clear
Weather: calm, clear, 68 ˚, 30.19 steady (6:53PM)
Location: Mississippi R. Pool 7
Caught: Bluegills for bait, LMB 14”, SMB – tiny ones
Partners: Ben

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This post is out of order, but at least I did not forget about it entirely. I got out with Ben tonight for some after work fishing. We started out fishing for flat head bait, which went very well. After we had caught enough bait for the night we fished main channel rock areas for bass. We each caught a largemouth bass and a few very small small mouth bass. Ben even caught a bonus rock bass which we hoped would meet its demise at the mouth of a large flat head.
The flat heads were not active tonight. We had one hit which was mediocre at best, and that was it for the night.

Observations:

This is probably the latest in the season where I have fished for flat heads and it is possible they are either schooling up or becoming inactive. I will give it a couple more tries and then put the cat rods away for the season.