Weather:
(2153) S 8, clear, 75 ˚, 29.90 rising
H2O:
8.54 rising, 76.6 kcfs, somewhat clear, 75 ˚
Location:
Mississippi R. Pool 7
Caught:
Bait: bluegills, crappies and perch, flat heads: 28, 13 & 10
Partners:
Scott
Comments:
I was very anxious to get out tonight, especially since my trip last night never happened. Also, we are in a full moon phase and moon rise was around 9 PM. If there was one thing I wanted to do tonight, I wanted to be set up and fishing flat heads before moon rise.
We started out catching bait in the channel and that was not very good. We did catch some but it was not very spectacular. I suggested we fish the man-made islands out in the middle of the lake, because I knew around this time of year the fish would be out there taking advantage of the may fly hatch that although very limited had started for the season. The rocks ended up being a good choice, once again the fish were not thick, but they were plentiful enough.
Scott was driving and it was his call as to where we fished. He was pretty indecisive, but I told him he better make up his mind quickly, because I did not want to miss fishing moon rise. Scott took a chance and really surprised me by picking a spot he had never fished before. It paid off. We caught three fish in a very short time span. We continued to fish the spot about another thirty minutes after the last fish came to the boat and never even had another bite. The second and last spot we fished for about forty minutes and never had a bite. I think this second spot had too much current and besides the current there were a lot of debris: weeds and stick fouling our lines.
Observations:
The water is going up, but I was surprised that it was still not too terribly dirty. The reed canary grass is starting to flower and some of the rice is now standing up out of the water. Scott's large flat head was slightly beat up; an indication to me that they are starting to spawn.
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