Got on the water at 0420 today. Slight wind making a small chop on the water then. Pedaled over to Hauser and Becky's cove for the first light, which took a while. Whole lot of nothing. Zip. Nada. Of course on my first cast I had a boil that almost pulled my kayak in, so then I was determined to catch whatever could have done that. Needless to say, sometimes determination needs to know when to quit. In my case I played in that area for an hour too long.
Finally moving along and down that coastline, I picked up a few along the way with the popper. No interest in jerkbait, crankbait or jigs. I didn't try finesse. Got back in the back of hauser and things really started to happen. Of course, now that I am a popper convert, I had quite a few takers on the popper. Same method, plop, plop, pause, and something happens on the pause. Here's something I noticed and would like others thoughts. If you move the popper at all ( reeling to remove slack or something) you will not get bit, if you leave it perfectly still, that's when you get bit. Each plop, plop resets this method too.
I tried a new lure today also. I have been casting a headbanger spitfire for the last couple sessions and cannot get any interest. The lure looks amazing (to me), but so far the fish have not been impressed. I untied that today and tied on a Heddon Crazy Crawler. It's a funny lure that makes a lot of movement in the water. It has two wings that make it wobble and look like I don't know what. In any case, this lure produced the angriest strikes I have seen. They seem to sip the popper, this thing they are annoyed by. I attached a picture of a bass in the net with the lure, so you all believe me that it works. Looking at this lure, I know I'd need to see a picture to believe it.
- There it is, in the fishes mouth
- One of the pleasant upgrades
- Zoom in, it's an iphone camera, that's all I got.
. GETT'EN BUGGY WITH IT