My first email was from Charlie Bruggemann, who, because of the breezy conditions, took his kayak to Munden Point and launched on the sheltered waters of Oakum Creek. He noted that it mostly was a pickerel sort of day, but because they were bigger than usual, with several weighing more than 2 pounds, he "had a blast." There was one problem, though. It seems that one of the rambunctious toothy critters managed to find a finger. As a result, Charlie is sporting a band aid today and singing praises for having gotten a tetanus shot just last week.
Besides the big pickerel, Charlie boated six bass, the largest a 2-2 that fell for a Senko. A hollow-bodied frog and Zara Puppy worked well for him the first couple of hours, but a tube and Crystal Minnow "reigned supreme," in his own words, after that. To get the full details and video of Charlie's day on the water yesterday, check out his blog at http://vbfishguide.blogspot.com/. He told me he should have it updated with these results by later this evening.
In like fashion, Jimmy Bauer spent the day on West Neck Creek, where he caught a total of five bass. The three best were a 1.4, 1.1 and 1.0, along with a couple of dinks. He also caught several crappie at the West Neck bridge, as well as a few bream throughout the day. His five bass came on a crankbait and a topwater bait. The water temp when he launched was 83, and it read 85 when he called it a day about 3:30. "Didn't see much movement from the fish today," said Jimmy, "not even from the gar."
My third report came from Skip Schaible, who went to Albright's yesterday and enjoyed an all-day topwater bite. He experimented with different topwaters throughout the day. "I even caught a small fish on a Fred Arbogast Jitterbug in a frog color," said Skip. Most of his fish, though, came on a brown and yellow Tiny Torpedo; however, other colors (except for gold) in the same bait also were productive. Like a few other anglers, yours truly included, Skip's normally reliable Pop-R bite has gone south--that's why he's experimenting. Most of his fish were small, but he ended up with five or six keepers--the largest weighing about a pound and a half. "All in all, a fun day" is the way he described it.
My last email was from John Goodman, who told me about an encounter he had Tuesday, July 24th, while "swimming" his lab at Munden Point. He said he met up with two gents in a light-colored Alumacraft who were trailering their boat and offered to show him a near-citation fish. He agreed to have a look at what turned out to be a 7.55-lb. bass, according to the hand-held Rapala scales they were weighing it on. John suggested they drop the fish back in the water, but they informed him they planned to take it home and have it for table fare.
Anytime you have items like these, please feel free to send 'em my way. Jimmy told me in his note that he saw Joe McDevitt and Tom Acree yesterday, too, but they didn't tell me about their day. Perhaps that's because they know I'm a blabbermouth.:-)
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