Another No Flow Day
July 6, 2021
Scott, John & Darren joined me today on another flat calm one! There doesn’t seem to be any in between for conditions. It’s either howling or dead! How about a good chop for a change?
We began in deeper water looking for a few quick bites and some current flow and John managed 3 nice bass fairly quickly. Seeing as how I wasn’t marking a lot of fish, I did a little recon and made several passes before moving. I just wasn’t seeing much and didn’t want to waste our time. What I was seeing however were plenty of sturgeon, both jumping and right on the bottom. Might just have to give it try!
I idled around looking for concentrations and ended up settling on a few good marks. Lines in and after waiting for quite a while, we had our first hook up! These fish aren’t fighting very much after their spawn and are quite skinny. It didn’t take more than a few minutes to boat the first one and Darren put us on the board. After a move or two, he got to fight another one and this time he had to pass the rod off to John to finish the battle. This fish just didn’t want to come in and we were amazed at how strong it actually was. A few quick pics before the release and we were done!
We headed shallow after pulling the lines and tossed soft plastics for a bunch of smallies. I didn’t like the size of these fish and an hour later we were switching it up once again! Off to the swamp and hopefully some largemouth!
Lately I haven’t been able to find water above 68 degrees but by heading into the shallows for these green bass, I actually encountered 74 degrees. I was sure we were going to get bit!
Scott had the first encounter but unfortunately it didn’t stay on long. He did come back with a vengeance however when the second one hit. This time it didn’t get off! John had a couple of missed fish as well and Darren actually managed to get bit once and boated his first ever largie.
The area we were fishing wasn’t easy to fish and would have required a slow flipping technique to monopolize on the biters. It just wasn’t in the cards for these guys today, so we pulled out after an hour or two of covering water. We were going back for smallies and deeper water once again!
With a little over an hour left in the day, I wanted to see if the smallies would bite. I had been getting bigger fish from this area lately and knew the potential was here! By the time we were done, everyone had managed to get a few fish but it was Scott that landed the photo worthy ones. He actually got into a couple of quality bass in the remaining time, before we were done.
Today was a strange one to say the least with almost no current on the water. We had to change areas as well as species a few times to make it work, but in the end it was a success. Some good ones were boated and Darren saw his first sturgeon and largemouth bass. Who knows what tomorrow will bring? Probably a hurricane or monsoon or something bizarre after the flat calm day we experienced today. I guess only Mother Nature knows for sure!
