7-16-13 Tue.

7-16-2013 Tue. 7 PM – 9:30 PM

Weather: (1953) S 7, a few clouds, 89 ˚, 30.20 steady
H2O: 7.48 falling, 61 kcfs, clear, 78 ˚
Location: Mississippi R. Pool 7
Caught: LMB: We each caught two from 14-17”/ Crappies: 1 ea.
Partners: Troy
Comments:
I had not fished with Troy for a real long time. Tonight we took the goat boat out and fished relatively close to home. We were targeting crappies and LMB, but mainly we were fishing for LMB. We had some pretty good LMB action. We each caught two fish and easily missed twice that many. Troy caught all his fish on a gurgling scum frog and I caught mine on a swim jig. I did lose a real nice bass that I had hooked on a KVD frog.
Observations:
The water is really clean in the backwaters out from the house and it is dropping rapidly. The bass are already relating to different areas because of the dropping levels. The bug hatch was horrendous tonight; not the may flies, but about any other type of bug that could fly. I have not seen a may fly hatch on this pool yet, but I did see one on pool 8 when I fished it on Monday night.