18 May Headed north

After yesterdays beating on the southern end of the river I decided to fish up north on the home turff. I had no charter so I told Mike to meet me at 5 in Rocky Hill. The water was a bit cooler and the clarity excellent, the problem was that the cotton wood trees are in bloom and the seedlings are floating everywhere on the river. There were areas that were completely white with seeds. They make a real mess on braided line when retrieving a lure through them.

None of the usual spots had fish today so we tried some of my old areas that I hadn’t spent much time on in recent years. We finally managed to find a few fish. We saw a couple of herring getting blasted and made our way over on the trolling motor. It didn’t take long to connect…

It was not a great day by any means but after yesterday, I’ll take it. Some nice fish in shallow water with some vicious hits. Looks like an inch or so of rain tonight, that should really fire things up. It will also keep the cotton wood seeds from making a mess of things. Hopefully tomorrow’s charter wants to fish in the rian, I have a good feeleing…