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Sunday, August 02nd, 2020 | Author:

The big orange moon was setting just under the clouds this morning as I was driving to the Garhole. I would have tried for a photo but the camera on my phone is severely lacking. The depthfinder had quit working after a while the last time I fished in the Garhole boat. The depthfinder is powered by the same wire as the trolling motor and I thought that may be the problem so I ran a new wire this morning before I started fishing. It took about an hour. Fishing started at 7:00 and two fish were caught pretty quickly even though there was no activity visible. I have one Cripple Killer top water left and do not know where to get another. On a cast close to the bank a gar hit the bait and cut it off. After a concerned moment the bait floated up. By 9:00 I had 4 fish, not exactly a stellar start. The major period was supposed to be from 12:30 to 2:30 but I always think it happens two hours early. The fish were caught on a top water, a jig, and 2 on a DT-6. By 10:00 the number had risen to 6 fish, still at the 2 fish per hour rate. At 10:30 I hit one spot with a DT-6 and was catching them, not every cast, but at a much better rate than I had been. The size was good too. The FOD was 3 1/2 and a good many were not too far under that. When that spot ran out I went looking for another. You could tell that the feeding time had arrived because the fish were biting in a lot of different spots, not all schooled up like that one spot. The bite wound down but I kept trying to catch a few more. My goal was 20 and I probably spent 45 minutes trying to catch the last one. Finally caught number 20 and stopped for the day. Six were between 3 and 3 1/2 pounds. A fun day of fishing.

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