Skunked For Easter

 No other fishermen. One truck did briefly pull up but left quickly. No bites.  The snow stopped for only a minute or two, not what I meant, which was for the snow to stop altogether. Snow was blowing in my face on the SW side. Left before it got too dark.

1 Bass and 2 Hammer Handles

14.5" T.H.E. Jig w/minnow

5:15-8:20PM
Conditions: Temps in the mid 40's, Sunny, light ENE wind turning calm

It turned into a really nice night to be out.  To bad no crappies showed themselves.  I got the bass first.  Then I got the first pike.

Broke my line when I got him on shore

14" THE Jig w/minnow

The second pike was a repeat performance of breaking my line and an inch bigger.  Until I measured it, I thought it was the same fish.

15" THE Jig w/minnow

It called down and at 7:50 I headed to the GOMH.  Nobody was at the GOMH and I didn't get any hits.

It Got Chilly Tonight

4:15-8:00PM
Conditions: Overcast, cool/cold with wind out of the ENE.  Water flowing into Platte, except the last hour when the flow got back to normal.

The wind was such that I didn't even try Rock Lake tonight;  With it being out of the ENE I  wouldn't have been able to get any casting distance and with temps only getting into the mid forties I would have chilled down much faster then I did.  I set up on the SW side of the GOMH.  The guy who lives on Christmas Lake who helped us when we had the tornado stopped.  While we were talking I got a bite from a good jumpin bullhead on the Cubby .  It was heading for the weeds so I put pressure on it and my line broke.  That was the only bite I had tonight.  Two boats came in from Platte and fished for a bit then left.  Two different pairs of guys also came and fished for a bit.  They didn't get anything.  As the second pair was leaving C.O. Kuske showed up;  that was around 7:30PM.  I only talked to Kuske for a couple of minutes.  No fishing reports other than the one I gave him.  I was kind of surprised how light it was out at 8PM, when I decided to quit.  I guess you could say I haven't been paying attention to when it has been getting dark this past week.

It looks like the weather this week is going to be cold and wet.  We definitely can use some rain.

Missed Doggy???

I started fishing at 6PM, nothing at Rock. Somebody put a bobber in a tree there today. Then I tried a few casts at Jenny's, nothing. So it was off to the GOMH. Nobody was there when I showed up at around 7:30PM. I decided to head to the NE side and fish into Platte. Pretty much nothing was going on and it was just about 8PM and I was throwing a Vampire Orange(red/black) Berkley Havoc Pit Boss trying for a dogfish. On one of my retrieves after I pulled the lure from the water there was a pretty good size boil that I thought was probably a fish, so I started pitching to the area. On about the 4th cast, something nailed it. I set the hook and the fish started moving up the current which was flowing into Sullivan. It felt like a good fish and just like that it came off. I inspected my line and it was frayed so I sat down and re-tied. I got back to pitching the area again and after about 10 casts something hit it. I set the hook and didn't get it. Once again my line was frayed so I had to retie. I pitched the area for about 5 minutes before I finally had another hit about in the middle of the channel. The fish was off before I could even set the hook. I kept working the area and had it hit really good. I rared back on the hookset, I felt the fish for a couple of seconds then it was off again. The Pit Boss was messed up on the hook and the Texas Rig Trailer Hitch I was using to keep the plastic in place was gone and once again the line was frayed. I retied and put on another Pit Boss, but I didn't get any more hits. The fact that it didn't break me off and I couldn't hook it, makes me think it was probably a dogfish. At about 8:30PM I switched to the SE side. Lantern Man and I think his daughter was fishing the SW side with minnows. They hadn't gotten any bites by the time I left when it was to dark to see my bobber. Easter today.