Work has been a little slow lately, so I took the day off and went to lopez.
The forecast was calling for warm temps and very little wind so my plan was to do some finessing today. I also got a new Castaway flippin' stick, but I just wanted to test it out and not really throw jigs much. It's a new design and it worked out great, so i'm stoked.

When I got there I went straight to an area where this flat drops off into the channel that's about 18ft deep and started dragging a split-shot Robo worm uphill. I was fishing extremely slow and each cast was taking 3-5 minutes. On my third cast I got a bite which was nice to feel for change, but I missed it. I worked this area for another hour or two and then went to another similar spot an did some drop-shotting. Eventually, I got one about 1-1/2lbs which is the first fish i've caught in 4 or 5 trips and I was excited as heck to catch the little guy. Pretty sad huh. I got one more bite out of that spot and that was pretty much it for the day.

Hey Phil,

Way to go on hanging in there! Looking atlast year's freshwater trips I made, you're experience ain't at all unusual.
How quickly we forget the skunk tour we've been starring in when we finally do catch a fish.

It's literlly like gambling. The rush of catching that fish, seeing him or her, and releasing the creature to someday meet again. This is what makes us come back, no matter what the odds.

In the same boat er.... tube er.......stew!,

tsurikichi
a.k.a. JapanRon