Weather: (2053) calm, clear, 63˚, 30.14 rising
Water: 5.27 rising falling, 27.1 kcfs, 74 ˚, slight algae bloom
Location: Mississippi river pool 7
Caught: bluegills and crappies, 17, 8 and 3 pound flat heads
Partners: Reed and Tucker
Comments:
Tonight it was a guided fishing trip with Reed and his son Tucker. Reed had some experience with fishing flat heads, but Tucker had very limited exposure to them. Bait catching was very easy tonight; in fact I caught most of the bait in about fifteen minutes before I even picked them up at the landing. The first spot was a main channel scour hole with a maximum depth of about thirty feet. This is where all three flat heads came from.
The second spot was a major side channel just off the main channel with plenty of wood along the bank. We had one very good bite here with a good run. Reed was up on this fish, and instead of giving it a nice rod sweep he gave it and all you can give hook set. Unfortunately the line broke about ten feet from the rod tip. I do not know if the line was weak or frayed at that spot or if it was a very large fish and the line just could not handle the force of the hook set. Anyway, things happen. I felt bad and I know Reed felt bad.
We finished off the night in Somners Chute and never had a bite.
Observations:
It was once again a very beautiful night with no wind, absolutely no boat traffic and a few shooting stars streaking across the abyss of the night sky. On the trip back to the landing we took the route of the lake, and man was it ever weedy, in fact it was darn near impossible to motor through it. Most of the vegetation was celery grass but towards the upper end there was lots of rice.
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