Pacemaker Fishing Forum

Planned a trip with my grandson Emerson Tuesday.  River only rose to 1.58 feet after Sunday's rain.  Plan was to meet at 6:00am.  He overslept and ended up getting there at 7:30am.  I stayed close to the ramp and got all caught up in the grass while catching no fish. 



We fought our way through the weeds and finally made a run in some open water.  Fishing was slow, but the weather was really nice.  Nice breeze and stayed mostly cloudy.  Emerson was the first and second to score on a swimbait.









Fishing got tougher as the breeze died off and the skies cleared.  I finally caught a dink and that was it for the day.  Weather and company were great!

Today, I got out with Jimmy.  I don't usually like to go 2 days in a row, but we worked around his PT schedule.  6:00am launch with water almost at 2 feet! 



We still had to struggle with the grass but made it to open water and it was good from there.  I scored first, with a nice fight on a zoom speed craw.



A few minutes later, I caught a kitty that thumped the craw.



The craw seemed to be the ticket.  A little while later I got a good take.  Finally, a better fish.





It got slow.  The weather was very nice, so we were just enjoying being out on the water.  A while later, Jimmy finally got on board.





I caught a catfish that I releases before a picture.  Then jimmy caught another smallie.



Jimmy finished up with a dink smallie.  The bite died and it was getting warm .  We got off the river by 12:00pm after fighting the grass mats back.

Two very comfortable but slow action fishing days on the river!