Beatin' The Heat at Serenity

Set the alarm for 6:00 AM and actually woke up and headed out! It's easy to roll over on a Saturday morning and blow it off .But I didn't and I went and I am glad that I did.

It would have been nicer to get there before the sun got up but I won't get too greedy. At least I was on the water.

Started off with a yellow and chartreuse foam spider:


This was the first fish of the day. He fought like a champ. Three weight rod was OK but I sure wish I'd brought the one weight. Two thirds less rod equals ten times the fun factor!


I kept on working my way around. I switched over to a Bitch Creek nymph but that seemed not to be all that interesting so back to the oam spider. As I worked on down the north shoreline I saw a fascinating sight. A very small bass or a bold bluegill came out of the water a good four or five inches trying to nab a dragonfly out of the air .He was unsuccessful but I wished him luck in the future.

Off the western shore lies a flat where the bream bed each season. I have dubbed it "Catfish Alley" as this is where I landed this fellow a few weeks ago and then this morning a channel cat took the foam spider. What a battle! Again, my initial thoughts were "nice bass!" but then the rugged, slugging, bore to the core of the earth battle started telling me I had a cat. Then I saw his dorsal fin and there was no doubt.

Here he is. He refused to cooperate for the photo shoot!



A little farther on down the shore I hit my last fish of the day, a little battling bass.


Everybody liked that foam spider. This is despite my concerted efforts to increase my skills and learn to tie Bitch Creeks. I did land one little old bluegill on the Bitch Creek there at the end. But by then I was ready to go and was too lazy to take a picture.

I'm indoors now and plan on remaining so until late tonight or wee tomorrow.