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Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2005 - 8:56 p.m. O.K.- I am not young enough to be called a boy, but� I took 2 hours of p.b. today to try to catch White Bass at Wilbur Creek. The barometric pressure was rapidly falling, as was the forecasted temperature. The high today was 78� Tomorrow we will be lucky to reach the low 60's�. So�everything was pointing to great fishing. Sure, rain was in the forecast. I can take a little rain, if the fish are cooperating. So I left work at 1:30, did a few chores around the house, and headed to the beach. As soon as I got out of my truck, light rain began falling. Then� When I reached the beach, I noticed that one of the local retiree/fishermen (who I have talked to many times) was already working the stretch where I was planning on throwing my spinners. No problem- I just moved down the bank, and started a little small talk with him. What he had to say wasn�t good- he hadn�t caught one White since he started fishing a few hours before. Not only that, but he hadn�t caught many since summer. The water is still quite low there (and the basin is shallow to start with), and I am fearing that the schools of hungry white bass might not be ready to head in just yet. He was ready to leave, so I had the whole area to myself. Which meant about nothing. I threw several different lure combinations at the water over the next 2 � hours, and only managed to land 8 Whites (2 keepers, returned to the water). The fish didn�t even start biting until the rain and the wind had picked up mightily. By the time Moose pulled into the parking lot (around 5 pm), I was walking back to my hillbilly truck, ready to head home. The rain had steadily picked up in intensity (in ten cities- Ted Nugent reference) and the temperature had started falling. I was reaching the point of too wet to stick around. The rumbles of thunder in the distance were enough to send me home. Moose didn�t even make it to the water with his fishing rod. I guess he figured if I was giving up, it wasn�t worth him getting rained on too� Don�t get me wrong- the fishing wasn�t that bad. I also caught something like 25 (smaller) White Crappies, a few Bluegills, a couple small Drum Perch, and I hooked 3 decent Largemouth Bass (landed 2, each around 2 pounds, and lost one when he decided to tail-walk on the surface). But that was not what I drove there expecting to catch. Everything was released. It would have been hard to make a �mess� out of what I landed anyway (and you know I don�t eat Largemouth Bass). It is only late September. From what I can tell (from my past writing here and in my workplace journal), the Whites haven�t really started running until mid-October or so for the past few years. Still plenty of time to re-stock the freezer with tasty filets� One more edit from Moose�s daughter�s wedding:
This photo has had the "smart blur" filter (from Photoshop Elements) applied to a basic edit. At the size Fotothing posts these shots, I don't know if you can really see what playing around with this filter did to the image. I am still learning how to use all of the features of Photoshop- this filter will come in handy with harsh, overly sharp or grainy images down the road (not that this one was- I just like the almost "painting-like" end result here).
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