Our summer that wasn't.

[jbmaine]

Hi everyone,

 As some of you may remember, the wife and I had some tough times this year. We both lost our moms this spring, then my wife ruptured the cornea in her right eye, resulting in emergency surgery, and restrictions keeping us off the water for most of the summer. She finally got the OK to be able to go fishing again, and we got a couple of trips in. However, a couple of weeks ago our road ( private road) needed some work, which got delayed half way thru. ( long story, don't ask) so our boat was house bound for best part of two weeks.

 Well , the road is passable again and we are looking to get back out.

 I have to say, this is a strange feeling. With all the starts and stops we've had this year, we don't really feel " Connected" to any fishing pattern. Here in Maine fall is starting. It's been down in the 40's and 50's at night , and we've had a drought this summer, so water levels are very low. ( I've heard the water levels in our favorite Smallie lake are so low, I doubt we could get the boat in) 

  As we've been mostly " out of the loop" for a while, any thoughts or tips on what's working would be greatly appreciated.

 Well, thanks for listening, Here's hoping we'll be having some good fishing trips to report.

                                              Jim

[Tatsu Dave]

Was out this morning for a while, water temps went down couple weeks back and went back up during the warm weather end of Aug and first week of Sept. Now its back getting cool at night and water temps are falling again, water temp was 63 degrees today and fish are starting to hit again. Heading to one of our smallmouth rivers tomorrow if the wind will just die down a little.

 

Crazy year drought has lowered water levels everywhere and now we can't get the fall pattern going smoothly either. Hope you get some good trips in before end of the month, after Sept I shift to Deer hunting mode and don't look back till next spring. Takes a couple days to get the boat all cleaned up and ready for winter storage also.    Dave