April 15, Beaver Lake, AR
Dan writes:
Today’s the day. With the trolling motor on high and my H2Optix Sunglasses on, I just went looking for bedding fish. I found ’em, too. Like yesterday though, in many of the pockets one side will be cloudy while the other side is clear, and I must have cruised miles of bank both eliminating water, and marking spots on my Lowrance GPS. Pockets with bedding fish I marked with an “X”. Beds with three-pound or better fish got a big red “X”. By the end of the day I had ten or twelve big red X’s on my chart. Wahoo!
I fished some more trash pockets today also, but the falling water I’m afraid is killing this bite off, and I had only one bite flipping the jig. That’s okay though, if these bedding fish are going to be ready to bite by Wednesday. The last bed I found today had a two pound male locked-on, and both a three pound and a five pound female anxiously circling with the bigger one chasing the smaller one off.
Annie writes:
Yesterday the power steering pump in our truck burnt out, so as soon as I launched Dan this morning I drove over to the local Chevrolet dealer. I had no appointment, I was in a strange town and at the mercy of the garage, but they were very accommodating. I had to wait three hours, but I had no problem with that. At noontime my truck was as good as new. When we are on the road and something like this goes wrong, if Dan is fishing he can’t be interrupted, so this is part of my job on the road.