The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

[Spankey]

My bass fishing season has not be a disaster even though torrential rains seem to be common every 3 days. I can’t catch a break on the good river conditions for a long stretch of time. So when not on the river I lake fish, I’m liking the higher (not extremely higher) water levels and the heavy stained conditions on the lake. If I were to wait around for perfect conditions I might not get out this season. Can’t let Mother Nature bring me down. 
 

I had a good day at the lake yesterday. Boated 10 Greenies and catching my largest of the season. 18.25” and 3.1 lbs. not a PB from that lake but I was doing the happy dance with that fish. Managed a few respectable 14”-15” fish also. Believe me I wish I had days of catching 14”-15” all day long. Along with some aggressive runts. 
 

The bad of the day was the wind. Wind was there at sun up. I hate the wind, it could have been a lot worse but I couldn’t fish the way I wanted to. Changing weather fronts and one day to the next nothing is stable. I used the wind to drift fish the bank and threw crankbaits and spinnerbaits. 
 

The Ugly, the ugly came first thing in the AM. Not first thing but early. The Rapala DT is one of my favorite baits. I’m throwing a DT-10 and some how I botched up my cast and the lure came around and get my in the butt and pedestal seat. Not bounced off, but both butt and pedestal are stuck together. Taking that Shure Set hook to the butt was like getting stung my 3 hornets at once. Hook came out of the butt real easy, but stuck in my athletic style shorts and the seat back. I could not just step out of my shorts my legs are too short. And to boot I have no skivvies on. So I unscrew the pedestal seat post to eliminate the height problem. Not a problem getting athletic shorts off now. As I stand there now on the deck naked from the waist down. Hopefully praying I don’t get seen. And at that point would it really matter? Got everything freed up. Shorts back on and lure out of pedestal. Finally got back to fishing. That was the good. 
 

Why no skivvies? At some ramps I don’t know how wet I might get. I found these Under Armor athletic shorts that the fabric dries super fast. If I have cotton skivvies on underneath they stay wet a heck of a lot longer. Not a great feeling sensation. So I ditch the skivvies for my lake fishing. 

[Blue Raider Bob]

Super funny Spankey but now the visual will remain with me all day! Glad you didn't get stuck so bad it ruined your day.?

[Spankey]

7 minutes ago, Blue Raider Bob said:

Super funny Spankey but now the visual will remain with me all day! Glad you didn't get stuck so bad it ruined your day.?

Don’t know if you know what those Shure-Set hooks are. They are a treble hook with one of the hooks extended in length. Sort of like an offset.  Rapala did use them as factory hooks on their DT’s. They don’t anymore but I like them. I don’t think they’ll cost you any fish. I believe they help on short biting fish. I tried to find spares of that hook but I think they were discontinued and only some red ones were around.
 

I never thought I’d be on the receiving end of a hook I like so much.  

[Skunkmaster-k]

That story took a wild turn. From catching lots of good fish to standing naked on your boat with a bleeding butt. It’s good the hook wasn’t past the barb. 

[Spankey]

1 hour ago, Skunkmaster-k said:

That story took a wild turn. From catching lots of good fish to standing naked on your boat with a bleeding butt. It’s good the hook wasn’t past the barb. 

I’m glad also. Those hooks have a nice size barb. I got lucky I’m glad it happened real early and didn’t ruin my fishing. We all have been stabbed by a hook. Freak situations most of the time. And didn’t hurt the lure at all. 

[A-Jay]

Glad you're OK.

Perhaps some casting practice with kevlar unda-pantz ?

Or just a hookless bait then.

?

A-Jay

[Spankey]

2 hours ago, Blue Raider Bob said:

Super funny Spankey but now the visual will remain with me all day! Glad you didn't get stuck so bad it ruined your day.?

Glad a whole bunch of drama didn’t go along with it. I’m too old for that. 
 

It’s crazy I bet the center line dimension between those hooks isn’t more 2” on a DT-10. I think I’m glad the seat did catch half of the hooks. 

[Spankey]

18 minutes ago, A-Jay said:

Glad you're OK.

Perhaps some casting practice with kevlar unda-pantz ?

Or just a hookless bait then.

?

A-Jay

The wife had a field day with it. Was told it never would have happened if I had my skivvies on. 

[pdxfisher]

Stick with Texas rigged baits for while

 

If I saw that on a TV show I would say that could never happen. Thanks for giving as a laugh!! Life is stranger than fiction.

[Alex from GA]

I can imagine that.  Thanks for the laugh.

[Spankey]

20 hours ago, Alex from GA said:

I can imagine that.  Thanks for the laugh.

Was back out yesterday morning fishing the same stretch. It was calm and water was like glass. No shenanigans took place on the water. 
I was glad of that. My 3 better fish were only 12”-14” taken an a couple of DT-10’s. Had some followers but couldn’t get them to take it. But was glad to see the fish interested. Switched to t-rigging some soft plastics a managed a few runts. If I had it to do all over again I would have fished the soft plastics in 13ft. - 17 ft. range. Who knows it’s all second guessing myself. 
 

Tomorrow morning I have an interesting outing. My sister in law asked me to take her two twin grandsons out. They are down for the week from Massachusetts. I think they are around 9 yo, I don’t know them real well and I don’t think they fish that often but by what I do know of them they are well behaved intelligent kids. Gonna keep it real simple by getting them to catch so varieties of panfish with livebait and grubs. Then try to teach them to fish with rubber worms for some greenies. My outing is starting at 8:00 AM, that’s late for me but I think everything will go ok. I’m hopeful they will do ok with soft plastics. I’d like to think I’m pretty good with kids and can teach them something. I’m not gonna fish. Be a guide service. Maybe fish some soft plastics with them. Gonna set them up UL and L for the panfish and ML for soft plastics.