San V 2/5 Looking for Noah
Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2024 5:53 pm
After listening to the local news last night I headed out this morning half expecting to find Noah and his Ark out there to avoid the flooding!
Pretty sunrise this morning and only two other boats out when I launched and according to the worker at the ramp they left fairly early so I was, literally, the only one on the lake in the afternoon.
Day started out with three fairly quickly and then the bite got really weird. In the next two hours or so I missed somewhere around 20 bites and that’s not an exaggeration. Even with braid, I couldn’t get a decent hook into them. I’d set the hook, have them pinned for 3 or 4 seconds and then they’d come unbuttoned or get me in a bush. It was very frustrating. Between 7:30 and about 9 is when I missed all those bites. From about 9 until the rain picked up around 2 it was totally dead. Could not get a bite shallow or deep. Once the rain became steady, the bite picked up. I managed 6 in the last hour and a half. Ended up with 9 total. Best 5 were barely over 10lbs and I had to cull twice to get that.
The fish have been hammered the last couple of weekends with big tournaments ( and another one this weekend) and I think it’s affecting the bite. All of my bites were on the deeper side, between 25-40ft, all on dropshot.
Don’t know why I always look so pissed of in my fish pics
Pretty sunrise this morning and only two other boats out when I launched and according to the worker at the ramp they left fairly early so I was, literally, the only one on the lake in the afternoon.
Day started out with three fairly quickly and then the bite got really weird. In the next two hours or so I missed somewhere around 20 bites and that’s not an exaggeration. Even with braid, I couldn’t get a decent hook into them. I’d set the hook, have them pinned for 3 or 4 seconds and then they’d come unbuttoned or get me in a bush. It was very frustrating. Between 7:30 and about 9 is when I missed all those bites. From about 9 until the rain picked up around 2 it was totally dead. Could not get a bite shallow or deep. Once the rain became steady, the bite picked up. I managed 6 in the last hour and a half. Ended up with 9 total. Best 5 were barely over 10lbs and I had to cull twice to get that.
The fish have been hammered the last couple of weekends with big tournaments ( and another one this weekend) and I think it’s affecting the bite. All of my bites were on the deeper side, between 25-40ft, all on dropshot.
Don’t know why I always look so pissed of in my fish pics
