20 May Hot Hot Hot

Clay and Dan made the hour plus ride up from the Stamford area this morning to see what all the fuss was about on the river. I had some inside information from my good friend Handy Andy that there were fish blowing up on one of our favorits flats so we made abee line to where he was fishing. It was game on right off the bat. The first few fish were all on top waters. Pencil poppers and Spooks…  Dan hooked up first when a bass came up and absolutely crushed his popper. The fish towed the boat around for a bit but Dan eventually wore the fish out… The fish weighed in at just under 20 pounds on a digital scale,  

Clay hooked up right after we released Dan’s fish, another wicked top water hit.

We had a spectacular sunrise the whole time we were picking bass off.
It was nice not having to fight the wind for once…

  We had several more fish in that area before the action tapered off around 6:30. Dan stuck another real nice fish on the popper. This one almost gave me a heart attack. It hit within 10 feet of the boat and sounded like someone had dropped a cinder block off a bridge. Most of the other ones we had were closer to the size that Clay is holding.

After things got quiet, we moved a little south to some shallow water areas that had been holding fish for me. We spent the rest of the trip fishing in 3-5 feet of water. We found that as the sun got higher, the fish were not chasing the lures down at all. We switched over to jigs and found that working them slowly on the bottom was the ticket. I even got in on the action for a little while. The total for the day was 19 keepers. The bite was still going strong when we ran out of time, we had to leave them biting…