Spent part of the day on P2 fishing around the 494 bridge. Shades of last fall, there’s very little current flowing. With the strong gusty South winds boat control was tough today. I set up along some rip rap and was clipping along UP river due to the wind. Weird. Anyway the first thing I see is a firetiger #5 Shad Rap in the rocks. I thought….this is an OMEN…..This is THE BAIT. The river WANTS me to use this bait! So I tied it on and proceeded to catch White Bass, numerous Smallmouth up to 16 inches, and several of the biggest Sheephead I’ve ever caught. The biggest Sheepie dragged my deliar down to 6 1/2 pounds! No Walleyes or Saugers, and no action at all on the wingdams. And it was nice to come home with more tackle than I left with.
Some days it’s just fun to catch fish…maybe not “desirable species”, maybe not big or trophy sizes. Just lots of bites.
Rootski