Got out yesterday morning and while it’s still kind of early, it really had the feel of fall. Water temperatures slowly coming down, cool northeast wind putting a chop on the water, and duck hunters poping away in the back waters.
For me, it’s been a tough year for eye’s on pool 14 but, I never seem to learn or give up. So to change my normal pattern up a bit, fellow IDO’re holennet and I thought we’d give it a try early in the morning. By 630 A.M. we were anchored on one of my favorite wing dams in the Camanche area, just hoping to catch anything! 
Things started pretty slow with not even a bite for about the first hour, or at least I think so. (They were biting so light, it was hard to tell.) Anyway first fish was a 20.5 inch eye that came to the boat at about 8 A.M. Over the next several hours we boated about a dozen, maybe a dozen and a half eye’s. Most were short but had two keepers, 16 and 19 inch, with two over the size limit at 20.5 and 23 inches. (We also managed 3 sheephead, a red horse and two small white bass.)
We tried several presentations, cranks, jigs, etc. but, every fish we caught came on a simple crawler rig floated across the face or on top of the wing dam. The fish were biting VERY lightly. High vis line was almost a most!!! They either nipped at it like little bait robber cats or blue gills or, the line would go slack and thighten up a little bit as if the waves were moving your bait back and forth. (Lord only knows how many fish we may have missed until we figured it out! 
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Anyway, not too bad of a day for us. Here’s a picture of holennet’s (Bill’s) 23 incher, (big fish of the day). Sorry for the picture quality, it doesn’t do the fish justice and all I had was my cell phone camera. 
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