4/29/16


Rule # Anything worth doing, is worth doing right.



Fishing:  White River



Prepping, Thursday PM

Weather

Temperature:  High, 66 degrees
Precipitation:  Very little chance.
Cloud Cover:  89%
Barometer:      30.03, flat-lined
Wind MPH:    7 MPH, from the NW

Solunar

The "Major" periods are both outside my comfort zone: the first begins at 6 AM, and the second at 7 PM.  The best "Minor" period is 12:05 PM -- 1:05 PM.  That'll have to do.

Lures, etc.

So, I packed up my highly embarrassing "Dork Bag," or fanny pack, with a small utility box and several pouches of soft lures.  I'm going to bring the shortest of my rods, the 5' ultra-light BPS Micro-Light rod, or "Little Yellow," and my bronze 6' 6" light-weight BPS Micro-Light.  My goal, then was to limit myself to four lures, two per pole--but, of course, I ended up with more!

For the bronze light-weight, I brought:

. . . not my hand.

. . . and though I didn't ever use it, I packed this Strike King Bitsy Jig and planned on pairing it with the Netbait Tiny Paca Craw.  I still think this combo will catch fish in the White River, but every time I plan on using it, when I get there, it just seems so huge--even in this diminutive sizes!












For "Little Yellow," I packed:

the ultra-light Panther-Martin inline spinner, size "0."  Even with the lightest weight pole I have, it's tough to get ten yards out of this little lure.  I got a couple of hits on this, but nothing that amounted to a hook-up.

. . . and, finally, I picked this Rapala, 1.5" floating ultra-light minnow.  On the first cast, I threw it upstream and let it sit until the waves faded away.  With my first twitch, I caught a small Rock Bass, or "Goggle-Eye."  I got it almost all the way in, but it shook off just before I would have pulled it out of the water!  I repeated that pattern and it resulted in a tiny (about 4"!) Smallmouth, a beautiful male Sunfish, and four more Rock Bass.  I quit for the day when a fish finally bit the lure off of the line.

This was the best day on the river I've had this year.  I wish I could get more Smallmouth to bite--at least bigger than 4"!, but I'll always "settle" for Rock Bass and Sunfish.


TALLY

Outings:  8 trips
Fish:     22.3 caught