Sunrise

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Hit Sunrise this am with Ron.  Lake was dead calm and we had the lake to ourselves for the first couple hours.  Trouble was it seemed like the fish weren’t there either.  We fished for four hours and landed 3 fish between us.  The biggest went a solid 4 and fought like a beast.  I have been hitting it about every other day for about a week now and I have landed at least one good fish every trip.   I’ve never fished more than four hours so maybe it would get better later but I have never done that well on Sunrise in the afternoons.  The good news is the big fish made it through the Summer.  If they made it at Sunrise, they most likely survived in Crescent as well so this could be a Big Fish Fall like we haven’t seen for awhile now.

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This fish went 4 as well.  Sorry for the poor pic….selfies suck.  This guy had a pretty good hook jaw on him…too bad you can’t see it.  Water temps have been around 60.  When I got on the water this am it was 37 degrees out and the bulls were bugling everywhere.  The cooler nights will help a lot.  Once the water temps get down into the low 50’s the lake should turn on….just not sure how many of the big boys are still in there.  I think the lake got hit pretty hard this Summer by the “C&K”crowd.  Gonna be an interesting Fall.

The lake has been hit or miss.  One day you’ll get three fish and the next you”ll catch ten.  I gave up the bobber and have been doing better stripping  simi’s in dark colors….Black/Purple, Can Black, Black/Red and Blood Leech.

See ya on the water…..gonna hit Big Lake Friday…..hearing reports of BIG cutt’s being caught….yeehaw!!

John