Fianlly Got back on the water

Well last week I finally got back on the water for the first time in about 2 months. I played hooky from work after lunch last Friday and headed to the lake. My best friend is leaving for a year in Korea next week so we went fishing before he has to leave.

The weather was beautiful, it was sunny and air temp was about 68 degrees. The water was murky and the surface temp was about 45 degrees. The wind was out of the south at about 15MPH sustained with gusts up to 25 MPH at times. All in all it wasn't too bad. The boat fired right up and we took off across the water to one of the many spots on Arrowhead that has held fish in the past. We had the entire lake to ourselves as there was not another boat on the water that day.

The first few casts were rough. It seems that if you take a couple of months off of fishing you get a little rusty. We started out throwing Rattle Traps in about 8 feet of water. Now that 8 feet of water is normally about 15 or 16 feet of water. The lake is way down and I think it is only about 65% capacity right now. After throwing the Trap for a little bit and getting nothing I tied on a jig and started dreagging a jig for a little bit. That got me nothing, so we moved.

We moved to another spot that I haven't fished in a while and started dragging the jig with nothing taking. I went back to the rattle trap and almost immediatley got bit. Now I haven't set the hook on anything in about 2 months so naturally I missed him. Well I kept throwing the Rattle trap and got a few more bites. Even was hooked up with a decent bass and never got to set the hook on him. I had just ripped the bait up out of some grass and my rod tip was at about 11 or 12 oclock when he hit it and i started realing. He darted back for the brush before decideing that he didn't want that in his mouth anymore and spitting it out.

Long story short, we spent a few hours on the water, got a few bites, but didn't catch anything and still had a blast!! Well, yall have a good one and I will talk to you soon.

Holliday season over

Well now that the holiday season is over it is finally time to relax a little bit. My life has been pretty crazy since about mid October. I am currently in Phoenix visiting my wifes family. We just returned from a 5 day cruise to Cabo San Lucas and Ensenada Mexico. Unfortunatly I didn't get the chance to go fishing in Cabo like I had wanted too. But it was fun anyway. Now I am just waiting on my flight back to Texas and a day to relax before I go back to work on Monday. I hope that everyone had a great Christmas and a Happy New Year!

I am hoping that the weather in Texas will cooperate with me and allow me to do a little fishing here pretty soon. I haven't had my boat in the water in about a month and a half and it is killing me! I have ordered a few things from Cabela's and Bass Pro shops and my wife just can't understand why I keep buying fishing equipment even though I haven't been fishing. I told her it is like her shoes. She keeps buying shoes even though she can only wear one pair at a time. I think that may have helped her understand.

Well, hopefully I can get back home and do some fishing tomorrow. Our district's next tournament is at Lake Graham on February 22nd. Yall should come out and fish it if you can! Hopefully I won't get skunked out there. Graham and the winter time and me do not go well together. Last year I went down and practiced in the winter and caught some nice fish. But when tournament time rolled around the next week, i didn't even get a bite! We shall see what happens and I will let you know.

Here is to hoping that you all have a great start to 2009. Have a good one!