Evening/night fishing trip today

[Kirtley Howe]

Today was a gorgeous day...Sunny, clear, 70 degrees for a high, light breeze all day.  Not really the perfect day for fishing, but it sure was nice out. Anyway, I went down to the river at 5:30pm, and fished until 9:30pm. It was absolutely beautiful out, but the fish were not cooperating in the least. I tried topwater, shallow cranks, deep cranks, flukes, and 10" worms both weighted and weightless, texas rigged and wacky rigged senkos. I could not buy a single bite. The only exciting thing that happened was shortly after dark, just after I lifted my crankbait out of the water there was a giant explosion right there.....I thought that a musky has taken a swipe at the lure and missed it and I was trying to get the lure right back into the water...but just as I dropped it back in, a beaver surfaced right there again, and slapped the water with its' tail, and then swam off. That was really a buzz kill, but at least it got the old adrenaline going <G>. After I settled down, I tossed a buzz bait and a spinner bait for a while, and only caught weeds. Packed up and went home. Still a nice night out there even though I never had a sign of a fish.