Been A While

Wow it has been a while. The past few weeks have been really crazy and haven't had much time for fishing. The wife and kids went to New Mexico for spring break and I stayed behind to work on the house. I did manage to get one day of fishing in the week they were gone. Caught a couple but nothing to write home about.

After they got back we had about 2 weeks before my mom and sister came out for a visit. It was really nice to see them again. I haven't seen my sister in about 2 years or more so it was nice to see them. The kids had a blast and got to see aunt missy and mawmaw and spend some quality time.

I was suposed to fish the 5th tournament of the year a couple of weeks ago. Unfortunatly I was sick and throwing up all day Saturday and did not even attempt to drive down there and fish it. They had 6 folks show up and 5 pounds won it thanks to the cold front that came through and dropped temps into the upper 20's lower 30's overnight. The weather has been up and down here lately. The winds have been up and blowing in the 30 MPH range with gusts into the 50 range. The temps have been up and down also. It is 80 degrees one day and the next it will be into the 40s. The water temp has been so up and down the fish probably don't know what to do. About a month ago the water temp was in the 64 degree range. I was at the lake Friday and it was between 57-61 degrees. I did manage to catch a couple of fish friday on an Xcalibur one knocker. Both fish that I caught absolutly destroyed it! I had a few more take a swipe at it and they thumped it pretty good too, but i couldn't hook up. I tossed a Carolina rig around for a little bit, but I have absolutly zero confidence in a C-rig. I have yet to catch a fish on it, but try to make myself toss it so I can get a little more comfortable with it. I did the same with a jig last year, and even though my confidence with a jig is no where where I want it to be, it is better than it once was. Maybe one day I will catch something on a C-rig and will start to build that confidence with it.

Well I have to try to finish some things on the house. We are going to try to sell it before I go off to the First Sergeant Academy. Yall have a good one!