Vacation day 4

A foot and a half above flood stage but falling slowly now. I didn't expect much to happen but gave it a shot for about forty five minutes this morning. I probably should have stayed longer but couldn't bring myself to do it. Maybe a nightcrawler or some stink bait could have caught a channel cat but I only tried sunfish. Carp and gar were all over the slack water but I couldn't find a catfish.

Vacation day 3

We got a little rain recently and the Skunk River has come up around 9 feet since the rain started. The river came up about seven feet just yesterday. Nice , right? Here we go. Another year of daily rain and storms. Another year of vacation days gone down the drain because most of the river is not fishable. I still have seven more vacation days scheduled and they may not all be wasted but even one day that I can't sit on the river aggravates me.

No fishing

I decided to take the day off from fishing. Other than the fact that I'm just tired, there were several things that needed to be done around the house. Of course, the daily thunderstorm that is on it's way played a part in my decision to stay off the water. This is the fourth year in a row that the weather seems to dictate the daily activities everyday of the week. I miss the days when I could make plans to do something outside and was actually able to do it. These days I seem to watch the Weather Channel more than any other channel. Anyway!

I had to squeeze it in to my schedule but I did find time to fire up the grill and cook some pork chops. I think I went a little heavy on the Emeril seasoning but those chops were still the high point of the day.

More little flats

Fishing from the rocks at Oakland Mills is still producing flatheads from two to eight pounds. Sunfish seem to be the best bait with chubs and nightcrawlers also working. It was either seven or eight flatheads this morning . I really need to stay after dark and see if I can find a bigger one. The plan is to spend two or three hours after dark tonight. I've spent so much time on the rocks at Lou's hole that I'm actually starting to enjoy it.

Waited until 6:30 to hit Lou's hole in an effort to try and connect with a little bigger flathead. It didn't work. Another ten fish around the same weight, 3, 4, and 5 pounds. The bite seemed to slow down around 9 P.M. I stuck it out until 9:45 but didn't get a bite in the last half hour. Time to head for the house.

Vacation day 2

Got a late start but still managed to beach four flatheads before the bite shut off this morning. The first bait wasn't in the water a minute before I saw my heavy action catfish rod bent over. I missed him. I was trying to bait my second hook. The plan was to put lines in the water this evening but the rain and storms set in on us this afternoon.

Vacation day 1

Today was the first of ten vacation days I have to burn before July 1. I spent most of the day dinking around the house and yard doing a bunch of little things that needed to be done. This evening I hit the rocks and put some sunfish in Lou's hole. Two minutes later the first flathead was on the beach. 7 in all, mostly on sunfish. Maybe one on a chub, I think. Nothing but 3, 4, and 5 pounders. Surely there are one or two big ones around.

Slacker, again

Well, I took another night off from fishing. I heard of a couple catfish being pulled from Lou's hole. It sounded like there were quite a few people at Oakland Mills but not a lot of catching going on. As far as I am concerned the jury is still out on the effectiveness of those charts, graphs and calendars that predict the best and worst fishing times but after checking one on the fishing for today I see that the prediction was for a slow day of fishing. Who knows!