Pacemaker Fishing Forum

Had a great day on Sunday, one of my best this year on the river. A friend of mine was out the day before and found some big schools of fish in one of our favorite creeks. We headed back there the next morning and fished around for a bit without much success. Instead of spending the day running around, we decided to park it in a grassbed and break out the radio and some ham sandwiches. After waiting it out for a couple hours, our patience paid off. Once the tide started going out, it was on. Literally thousands of bass and perch darting everywhere around us in inches of gin-clear water. We fished all the way to the back of the creek and all the way out catching one after another. We had doubles on 3 or 4 times and at one point I had 7 or 8 in a row. Senkos and texas-rigged worms all day, they wouldn't touch anything else. By the end of the day we had run out of everything and were throwing pieces of worms out, whatever we could find on the bottom of the boat. I lost count but must've caught at least 30, probably more. My partner had nearly as many and towards the end we were just shaking the little ones off. Headed home around dinner time with a couple of worn-out thumbs and a pair of ear-to-ear grins. The only bad part of the day came at the end when my friend's trailer broke as we were pulling the boat out. He ended up having to leave it at the launch area overnight, but we're glad we found out about it at the ramp and not out on the road. Broken trailers, sunburns and slack tides all stink, but when you get to experience one of those rare days like we had this weekend, it makes all seem worth it.