5-4-12 Fri

5-4-2012 Fri
7:30 PM – 9:00 PM
Weather:
SE 8, light rain, scattered lightning, 60˚, 29.97 steady
Water:
6.09 rising, 49.2 kcfs, ? ˚, dirty
Location:
Mississippi R. Pool 7
Caught:
Bluegills (4) 6 – 8”, crappie 10”
Partners:
myself and Scott

Comments:

Tonight was to be my first flat head fishing trip of the season, but it was over before it began. I had looked at the radar before I left the house to catch bait and it looked as is Scott and myself would be able to get a couple of hours of dry fishing in.
It took us till dark to catch enough bait for our night time adventure and by the time we got out to where we wanted to fish the sky was starting to light up with distant lightning. We decided to sit in one of the little emergency shelters out on an island near the main channel and see if the storm would be short lived. We used our phones to check the radar, drank a beer and decided the storm was going to visit for a while. My first night of flat head fishing for the season was over.

Observations:

The weeds along the stump field channel are above the water line and marking the route rather nicely.