05-22-2010, 09:00 AM
Well, it was kind of an exciting afternoon/evening. <br /><br />We started fishing about noon. Our plan was to go after crappie, shellcracker and a little bass fishing. We fished docks and deep rocky banks and bluffs for crappie and ended up with about 25 keepers and about half that many throwbacks. We kept 18 betw. 11.5 and 13 in. They were all caught on BG shads. Seems like bluegrass was the best color. 1/32 oz. for dock shooting and 1/16 oz. for steep banks. Zach caught on to dock shooting real well. Dock shooting, we also caught a little smallie, a drum, a couple of bluegills and had 4 fish break off (no slime).<br /><br />For a short while, we checked 3 sloughs for shellcracker and found them in one, catching about 2 dozen, but they were all about bluegill size. We also got about a dozen bluegills.I used waxworms and Zach caught them in BGs. We didn&#39;t keep any.<br /><br />Later in the day, we fished for bass and caught a half dozen largemouth with the two biggest going 19 and 16 in. They were mostly caught on 3.5 in. tube baits on steep rocky banks. All were released. It&#39;s obvious, though that the most popular pattern is fishing the high places along the channel edge, that&#39;s where all the bass boats seem to be concentrated.<br /><br />We saw water temps from 73 to 76 degrees and the flow was 21K cfs until 6pm when it picked up to 36K cfs.<br /><br />Late in the day, we saw a sailboat on fire near the mouth of Sale Creek. When we rushed over there, a gentleman in a bass boat told us that the sole occupant had been picked up and taken to Sale Creek Marina for dry clothes and that the fire dept. was on the way.<br /><br />As we were getting ready to head back to the ramp, I buried one barb of a good size crankbait treble hook in my left arm. It took a lot of force with needle nose pliers to jerk it out. Thankfully, it was only a flesh wound.<br /><br />And the stock market went down 376 points today..................