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After a couple of busy weeks around the house, I had the opportunity for a short float on Saturday morning with a friend.  And he had one of those weeks as well, so it was needed for both of us. 

River gauge was good but the river still had some stain to it.  Not.muddy but dirty enough that flukes or suspending jerkbaits would probably not work. Dirty enough that lures with some extra vibration and darker colors would probably work better.

We started slow with me catching the first one on a slightly bigger swim bait than usual.  Josh then caught a smaller one on a similar size swimbait. As we were floating downstream to the next good area, there was a pretty small eddy area.  I made a single cast and as I started to burn it for another cast, a nice smaller appeared about 2' from the kayak and grabbed the craw. After a few minutes, this almost 18" smaller was in the kayak.


When that fish hit turned out to be the key for the rest of the float. In the next hole, I had another small one hit the swim bait  right next to the kayak as I was burning it in to make another cast.   And Josh caught a couple on a whopper plooper.  I picked up a couple more on the spinner bait and crankbait . 

Josh borrowed one of my darker green/brown crank baits and proceeded to catch a couple in short order on the crank bait. He hasn't really used them yet. 

For the rest of the float, josh caught them on the plooper and crankbait.  I.caught them on a spinner bait, crankbait, buzzbait, craw and swim bait.  They were in eddy areas, along the current seams.  The key was keeping the lures moving faster. 

I.ended up with probably 13-14 and Josh got about 10.  The wind did blow a little hard a.few times but it wasn't too bad.  And for both of us, much needed time on the water.