Quote Originally Posted by mhall View Post
That is a fine redear for sure. Elwood I'm glad you enjoyed the dink party, man they were a dime a dozen weren't they. Glad I finally met you and Cliff now I've got a face with a name.
Good meeting you as well Mark. Yourself and Mickey did a whole lot better than we did that day. Funny how we planned this week back in January since the Jap patrol makes Cliff schedule his time off years, decades in advance. Same week last year and we killed the 3-5 pounders but this past week we killed the 8-14 inchers. Bite is really good when I am catching 8" fish on a 4" King Shad swimbait. Could not get the big ones to bite consistently on anything. Dave Stewart started killing them about 2 hours after we left Friday afternoon, figures that is how our luck runs. We are half way back to the house and the big girls turn on and bite. April 1-4th, the water was 2-3 feet above summer pool and 58 degrees, we show up the 12th and it is still 3 feet above and 58 degrees. Thought we would kill them last week, maybe my son, wife and I will kill them May 3-7th when we come back down. My luck says the water will be 6 feet below summer pool and 56 degrees by then or 8 feet above summer pool and 85 degrees, who knows.