Dog days of summer.

It has been 95 or above everyday for a couple of weeks now. Also 75% or more humidity. Until the water temp. comes down to under 90. we will have to fish early, late or deeper. Went Friday for about 2 hours before dark. We didn't do very well, but I did manage a 5 pounder on a small spinner. Nothing on top water or bass assassins.

Tournament fishing

There won't be any pics today but I can tell you that a friend from Houston and I entered the weekly Thursday night bass tournament at Monterrey Park launch. We placed in the money. The tournament starts at 5:00 PM and ends at dark. You can only weigh in 3 fish between the 2 of you and we caught 9.44 lbs. and placed 4th.
$60.00 each isn't bad for an afternoon of fishing. The winning stringer was 11.02 lbs.
I will be entering this tournament more often now.

Bad weather

Well just about the time I released this fish the bottom fell out of the clouds. I caught this 4 pounder on a frog over grass on my new 7' Falcon rod which I got for my birthday. I caught one other that was about 2 1/2 lbs. Had a good time and released all the fish unharmed.

Hot water, bad weather, top water.

When it rains it pours and the fish bite top water baits, as evidenced by these pics. The first fish was caught in an unusual manner. It rained for about a solid hour, and hard too. When it finally stopped the big ones came out to play.

Memorial Day weekend!

Well it is Memorial Sunday and the big ones are biting. We caught 8 good fish in about 4 hours. The wind picked up about 6:30 and so did the fishing. Wind out of the SE at about 15 mph. All our fish were caught within 200 yards of the boat launch, and were caught on small white or white and chartruese spinners. Well the cabin is open and you need to remember these pics for next years Memorial Day weekend.

The heat is on.

Temperature 89 degrees wind like 0 mph. and humidity off the chart. Not great conditions but I went fishing with a friend today and we caught several fish to 4 lbs. and lost many that seemed larger. We saw 2 large gators and both seemed to be stalking us. We had a good time.

Still there (Monday morning)

Well the weather has changed some but it is still windy. I didn't know if the fish would still be in by the boat ramp or not. The middle pic is a fish caught less than 50 feet from the launch while people were launching. All of these fish were caught on pop-r's and they came from ambush points. The wind was probably 15 to 20 mph. from the south, southwest, driving the plankton (which the bait fish feed on) directly into the cove that Monterrey park boat launch is in. The wind is gusting to30mph. according to the weatherman that I am watching. Well the wife is still in Houston so I am thinking of going fishing.Guess I will. See ya!