Mid Season Organizing and ReOrganizing

[Spankey]

My boat, tackle and setups are never in a real disarray or shambles. Took a couple of hours today to make the second half of the season easier. Hopefully be more productive. Maybe a new PB looming???? Keep that hunt for that monster bass alive. 
Re-spooled a few monos and flouros, putting cranks back where they belong and reorganizing some soft plastics. Made up that short list of things I’m running low on. 
I’m going to be pulling off 3 back to back to back mornings in a row starting tomorrow. Looking forward to that. It will make that easier and have a few things layed out in advance. Great weather, done it all outside. 

[A-Jay]

Good Luck.

I just did 4 mornings, been a while.

Hope you do much better than I did.

A-Jay

[RRocket]

23 minutes ago, A-Jay said:

Good Luck.

I just did 4 mornings, been a while.

Hope you do much better than I did.

A-Jay

Right? 

 

Today was my first day of my stretch.

 

Only 2 of my target species (bass). For roughly 6 hours work. What a grind! 

 

But I also caught the most beautifully colored Sheephead (Freshwater Drum) I've ever seen.

[Spankey]

Got out the last 3 mornings. Was a relief, and a mental wellness period. Spent time between the lake and the river. Got into a few nice fish. The time spent to reorganize some may have helped but it certainly did not hurt. 
Catching that real nice bass has been a struggle this season. My crankbait game is down the toilet. DT’s, Shad Raps, Bandits, Model A’s, XD’s have not gotten me too many fish. Creates a big mental block when this is a big part of your bass fishing. 
Sunday I started out with soft plastics. I really didn’t want to start out with the dejection of not hooking up using hard baits. Drew bites with Dry Creek ribbon tails, PowerWorms, SK craws and bugs. Nothing over 13”. I’ve taken a liking to some of the Z Man stuff.  Like a few color patterns of the TRD craws. They got me a couple of dinks and runts. Then I got the biggest bite I’ve had all season. All fight, I thought for sure it was a 6 or 7 pounder. BUT it wound up being a 27” channel cat. 
It was a nice fish but not what I’m after. Grabbed a Gatorade and convinced myself to try a different approach. Get away from grass and Lilly Pad edges. Went to fishing laydowns and wood with a Rapala shadow rap deep version. Had myself convinced I needed to throw a different shape. At about 10 casts in I had a nice hook up. My bass of the season so far. 19” and 3.4 pound. I realized he’s not a lake record. But my nicest so far this season. Been a struggle. This was a bit of a mind relief. Shortly after I caught a 15” fish same jerkbait different piece of structure. This may not sound like much BUT it is a game changer that I’ve long needed this season.