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I got out this morning for a few hours. We got some thunderstorms last night and are due for at least an inch and a half more rain through Monday. The river actually dropped since I was out Thursday and was below 6 feet at Point of Rocks. I was on the water a little after 7:00am and saw it was pretty muddy. I ran up just a little and worked an island that usually gets muddy last. There was about 6 inched of visibility. I just put the anchor out and started fishing. I quickly found out a spinnerbait was not really an option mostly due to flow. I mostly alternated between a swim bait on one of Hookup's SWM heads (1/4 oz.) and a black and red flake tube. I worked down the shoreline slowly and just let the current sweep the baits into the rocks. It was a few hours before I got a bite, but finally a chunky 16.5"er hit the swim bait. I was glad to get the skunk out.
It was a while before I got another bite. I worked down to a similar section with an eddy that washed into deeper water with rocks. Hit was very similar, but this one did not fight quite as hard. It was a 17.25" smallie that looked spawned out. Long and skinny and bit the swim bait.
I fished for a while longer and ate my lunch at the end of the island. I somehow lost my anchor when the chain link attachment opened up. Not sure how that happened, but I just bought a new one. I owe George one as he lent me that one. Weather was comfortable with mostly cloudy skies and a steady breeze out of the North East. The water was really pretty muddy and I figured I was done, so I got off the water about 1:00pm.
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Glad you got a couple...looks like it's going back over 10' in a couple of days.
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Osprey wrote:
You're becoming my new hero.
Hey, you are mine for shad catching!
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Beautiful smallies!
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