Fighting The Blue Bird
Left the house at 2pm and headed out for gorton. I had the boy with me as usual, and i was going to give my black war bait jig some play. I threw on a black with red flake grub and gave it some water time. Almost imediatly i go a good bite, but failed to get a good hook set, and i never saw the fish at all. Not a great way to start but it said that the jig should have been good to go. I kept it tied on the rest of the day and got no other bites on it. My second pole started with my new mepps cyclops spoon in silver and i up-sized to the larger 5/8ths in orange and that got no action. I put the sliver back on and ended up taking 4 more bites. I landed two picks both small and lost another almost immediately. The one bass i got was about half a pound and considering my first miss i definitely set the hook. My frist ranibow fish, left the water 10 feet from the boat and made a nice arc 10 feet from the boat at all times. He hit the water and swam away. Guess i need to look at changing or sharpening the hooks on my new lures. The seem to work ok in a soft mouth.