I fished Coyote today by myself. When I say by myself, I mean it. There were no cars in the lot when I pulled up around 10:30am. Needless to say I was pretty pumped about having the lake to myself. There was great cloud cover today too, although the storm that produced it was a Southern storm. Conditions were dead calm dall day long. Lake level was way way down, about 20 feet past the end of the ramp.

When the lake is as low as it is, there isn't much cover to fish. In fact there's no cover save for a half dozen trees and the occasional stick up. I fished about half of the lake from my kickboat and overall the bite was tough. I had one bite on a 1/2oz king kobra jig, but the fish just did a tap tap and was gone on the hookset. I had several other maybe bites but if they were bites, the fish were dropping it really fast. Several times I got what I thought was a bite and I dropped the tip and set hard only to come up totally empty. Really wierd.

The only real action of the day came on a small piece of brush. I pitched my money king kobra/brush hog jig righ up under a small limb. Before I could even get the reel in gear the line was flying off my reel. I don't think I've ever had one grab it that fast and start swimming away so fast with it. The problem was that the fish swam under the other branches of the bush, and when I set up hard and leaned back, it went YANK YANK TWANG! I got totally smoked and my 20lb snapped like nothing. I haven't broken off a fish in a long long time, but this one thouroughly trashed me. No way to know how big it was, but I don't think a 6lber could have done that to me. I had my shot, and I guess I should have been flipping 30 since that fish probably would have hit it! Hindsight is 20-20, and Coyote is Coyote. It can be good and it can be bad :) Going back next weekend to try again.