Frog and Whopper Plopper Do It for DMac

Have been a bit surprised that I haven't had a few more texts or emails from enterprising anglers making hay of the spawning season. Really had figured that last week's report from Ryan Land about his 16.98-pound haul from Back Bay might be the start of at least a mini-series of similar reports. And with the report I just received this morning from DMac, perhaps more will follow in coming days.

Seems that DMac slipped out one day this past week when the water was high and had a nice day. While noting that the fish seemed to be more interested in making little fish, by virtue of all the slaps and smacks he got from those protecting beds, he managed to get five of 'em lip-locked.

His best bass of the day--an even 5 pounder--came on a frog. Then, after a string of slaps and misses, he switched to a Whopper Plopper and caught four more weighing between a pound and pound-and-a-half.

"I threw in the towel 'bout 2:30 after fighting 15-plus south winds all morning," said DMac. "Not a great day on the water but better than staring at email all day," he added.

As my friend appropriately noted in his report, a string of three or four days of NE 20-plus winds generally puts the kabosh on any Virginia river fishing, and this latest string has been anything but the exception to that rule. It's almost a certainty I won't get out tomorrow as I had wanted, given that the river gauge stands at 0.50 at 10:30 a.m. and the trend still is downward.