After having spent the last two days preparing our house on the river for the high water, I went fishing today to clear my mind.  The water is going to get into the upper floor at the projected crest.  We even took off the doors to the outside and put them up, putting plywood in their place. With the levee closed I will not be able to even take the boat to look and see if I still have a house. The current may get severe when the water comes over the point that protects it. We’ll see what happens.

Now fishing. On the spur of the moment at 9:00 last night, I decided to go to Lake Monticello.  It’s been a while since I got beat over there last. This morning I started slowly with a Ribbit frog. The water temp was 63 degrees. I caught the first fish at 7:50 but by 8:20 I had a total of three.  They were just making a wake behind the frog, making me stop it and let it drop until they decided to inhale it.  All the larger fish had spawned. By larger I mean between 3 and 4 pounds. The frog bite was anemic. It just did not seem that they were in the pads in large numbers. So coming out of one of the coves where I had fished the pads down the sides, I came out the middle with a swimbait.  After the swimbait  I used a shad-O which is a cross between a sluggo, a fluke and a swimbait. It’s rigged like a swimbait but with a light hook that really gives the bait a lifelike look when you let it drop. In Monticello’s clear water I got to watch the 4 pound FOD scarf the Shad-O in plain sight. Finally things got so slow about 4:30 I left after catching 7 for the day. Ribbit 5, Shad-O 1 and swimbait 1.