Quote Originally Posted by jcb View Post
Duayne, can you explain this? The pollen is bunching up so much you have to pick it off?
Sure. A bunch of the trees and bushes are blooming in the area and the water has all this brown stuff in it. When you cast (or probably troll) that brown stuff gathers on your line and travels down the line to your bait. By the time you finish a cast there is a glob of brown gunk attached to the line and you have to pick it off with your fingers. It doesn't just flick off; you have to use your fingers to pull it off. If you don't you are going to cast with this brown glob on your bait or just above it.

Maybe it wasn't everywhere on the lake or maybe it's just close to the shores but it was everywhere we went in a short period of time.