Monday, January 21, Lake Okeechobee, FL
Dan writes:
I’m almost done practicing. I’m taking tomorrow off, and today I have reserved for going back and checking on two areas that I found earlier. I have purposely avoided going anywhere near my hot spot from last week, where I caught two seven-pounder’s and a five, for fear that I would see a bunch of other tournament boats beating it up. I finally returned today, with my hook point buried deep in the bait so I couldn’t “accidentally” stick any fish.
It was too much to hope for, those fish from last week still being there and doing the same thing now. In three hours today I had just one bite flipping, and one on a buzzbait, and neither seemed very big. I went and checked my other area, which is some hydrilla back behind the reeds, and had just one bite there in an hour and a half. Neither of these areas now seems as promising as the eel grass where I have been catching them the last two days.
I was done by one o’clock and back at camp by two. We spent the afternoon restringing line on my reels, and then went out for a bite to eat. Tomorrow we’re going to sleep late, and just laze-around all day.
Annie writes:
I let Danny go out by himself again today. I spent the morning doing emails and paying some bills, and then I began to pack. It has just occurred to us that we need to pack in different stages. We are going to Dan’s mom’s house from here, so we need to set aside whatever we will need there. After that we will be driving to Alabama, from where we fly home to NH. Between leaving our campsite here and flying home four days later we will not be unpacking the truck, so we must pack for our trip home now.