Thursday I got started fishing out of Lincoln Beach at 9:15. After TD's and BLK's recent reports I figured I couldn't expect much to happen since they said the cats quit biting at 10. To keep this report short, I ended up getting 7 with the last coming when I started reeling in to leave at 1:15. I did have a lull at mid-morning but I think the problem was that one rig was baitless and the other had old bait on. Once I put new bait on the fishing picked up. My bait was half of a baby white bass. They took both front and rear halves equally well and showed no marked preference between a Santee rig and a fire tiger flig. My biggest was a 27"er which was interesting to land since I forgot to put my net back in the boat from where I have been chasing loose chickens (the escaped kind, not those with bad characters). Lucky I had my lip grips. I just grabbed my line at the swivel and hoisted the smaller fish in. The water temperature rose from 74° to 77°. When I was driving away my pickup thermo read 99. All my fishing was right around 8.5'. I never found any water as deep as 9'. The depth in the channel was a bit under 3' in some spots. I fished down past the first half of the orchards. Since Lynn told me that he caught his three latest big ones all in different places I figured close was good enough.
The older I get the more I would rather be considered a good man than a good fisherman.
