Tony: You're right about thecold front.. Two weeks ago, Bluegills were biting like crazy.. Then, massive rains for two days, driven in here by a cold front that drove our night time temps from the upper 60's into the low 40's... They just STOPPED biting all together.. Well, this past weekend the weather warmed back up, the water level went back down, and in four trips out since Sunday afternoon.. Myself, and My son have caught over 200 gills and about 20 largemouth bass (we don't have many small mouths around here for some reason).. But it has been soo productive I'd quit fishing early cause my arm got tired of pulling the line in sooo many times... Going back out tomorrow.... It is in the 90's in the day time right now, but that watershed I have been fishing, you can go in the boat into any little slue(sp) and with your polarized glasses, see just dozens and dozens of bream beds.... Chuck
----- Original Message ----- From: "Anthony Spezio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 9:32 AM Subject: [VFB] Fishing report > Have been a bit under the weather so this is a few > days late. > Headed over to Crooked Creek Sunday afternoon. A small > cold front had gone through about 10 am that morning. > It was overcast and a bit cool till it cleared up, > then it got hot. It got up to 88F. > We had quite a bit of rain last week and we found the > Creek clear but running high and the current pretty > strong. I started off with a couple of nice Bluegills > on the Chili Pepper. Then caught two nice Smallmouths. > The fishing was good but the catching was kind of > slow. The other two friends with me had not done a > thing yet. I finally gave them each a CP and we headed > over to a fast run. Really thought we would do well on > that run on some Smallmouths, not a hit. About that > time a couple of guys came floating through in a boat. > Asked them how they were doing. They said they has a > ball till about 10:am when it just turned off. Said > they had C&R over 40 Smallies from about 6:30 am till > it quit about 10:am. That tells me that even a small > cold front will give the bass lockjaw. After fishing > that stretch as good as we could, we decided to head > down the Creek to another spot that was wider and the > current slower. Between the heat and fighting the > current, we were getting pretty tired. The spot we > picked was a wide gravel bar with shallower water, a > lot easier to wade and trees on the bank that gave us > some shade.There was a fast run just above the gravel > bar. Paul hit that run right off. I started off real > well at a pool off the gravel bar. Got three big Gills > on the first five casts. Bob had not caught a fish > till now, he got into a couple of Smallmouths and some > Gills. Paul did about the same. The heat finally got > to us and we quit about 4:00. I ended up with 17 Gills > and two Smallmouths. This is the least number of > Smallmouths I have gotten on the last four trips to > Crooked Creek. I am sure the front that went through > had something to do with it. > All fish were caught on the CP. > All in all, it was a good day on the creek. > Tony > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com
