Another weekend up at the cabin........ . I woke up early on Saturday like I always do. I decided to get a few casts in off the dock while John slept in. I used a yellow jig with a red dot on it with a carolina rig (two sinkers a foot up from the jig and a bobber a foot up from that. Is that a carolina rig????? Help me out if you know) Anyways I had bought some worms opening weekend so I thought I would give them a try. Well I ended up catching about ten keeper bluegills by the time John got his lazy ass up :) It was mid sixties overcast and breezy. The water temp is now up to 60F on chain lake finally!!!!!!! We cuised through the channel of McCann to Island and threw a few casts. No luck. We decided to try the bay on McCann where I caught the 16 incher last week. No luck. Not even a bite. We moved on to Clear lake and fished the shoreline a bit. I caught another nine bluegills and John got one. So it was a panfish day :) Around six we decided that we have had enough beer and bluegill to head back to the cabin to clean our catch. Sunday we threw a few casts off the dock. John said that I must have caught all the bluegill yesterday cause there were no keepers left! We decided to try some bass fishing along the shore. John rigged up a powerworm and I tried my double minnow rig. John had a few bites and missed them all. He told me that he must have forgotten how to bass fish. He kept trying and finally got a nice 14 1/2" largemouth. His first keeper of the season. I kept panfishing and ended up with five keeper bluegill. The weather was a bit chillier on Sunday with low sixties and mostly cloudy skies. The bite seemed a whole lot better Saturday for sure.
5/17/08 and 5/18/08
