Esten

So, I finally made it out.

Recently, its either been the weather, or my banged up body, but I have only rarely made it out. When I did, the results weren't up to par. Things weren't a whole lot better tonight, but better it was.

It was pretty windy, much more than I prefer. Usually I would have passed on such a night. However, it had been a while and I was itching to play. I caught enough fish so that it was fairly steady action. None were great, and only one landed would qualify as 'good'. Most of the fish were caught on a popper, though the larger fish were all hooked subsurface.

Out.

I haven't been out much recently. I could use the weather as an excuse, but the real culprit is my beat up body. Couldn't push myself past some rather exquisite pain to make it out. I may have been out once or twice, but the outings were nothing to speak of.

Tonight was similar to those outings. Not a lot of bass, and no piggies. Perch have been rather consistent however.

All the fish seem to be down deep. My fish finder seems to concur. I was marking larger fish 5' or so off the bottom in 15' or so of water. Despite dragging the bottom of the lake, my only bass came when I put on a GFC, and fished that on the sinking. Figured that would put it were the fish seemed to be. Was I right? It did produce bass when nothing else had, but who knows if that was due to my reasoned approach of not.