Gettin' His Licks In Before Those Darned Northeast Winds Arrived

DMac got on the water twice last week, and from the looks of the weather forecast for this week, it's a good thing he did. By this next weekend, I suspect the water will be low enough to walk across West Neck Creek with your pant legs rolled up and never get 'em wet.

According to his report this morning, DMac launched out of the Pungo Ferry ramp last Monday and fished the other side of the river. At day's end, he had caught 14 bass with a combination of topwater baits and rubber worms...his best a 3.27-pound bass. The water was on the low side that day, too, but at 73 degrees, it provided a setting the fish seemed to like.

On Thursday of last week, then, DMac fished West Neck, with topwaters again as the table fare. He managed to lip 12 bass, with his best of the day a 4.97-pounder.

Those successes had DMac all jacked up about heading to the river again this week...until he saw all those 20-mph winds forecast for the next few days. As he aptly put it, "Our Virginia water will be vacationing in North Carolina."

In his latest note, DMac also let me know that, at the urging of his oldest son (who won two big-bass challenges last year in NC on a frog he gave the young 'un), he's now in the market for a legit bass boat to replace the tin boat he's been running. 'Twould seem son wants to get serious about his fishin'.