One Good Day

Fishing has been slow this year. For some reason, the fish haven't liked anything I've used, the weather has cooperated and I've had more things to do than fish. This morning I dithered for an hour about going to Chickahominy Lake and gave in to my baser instincts. The weather was calm, cloudy with intermittant rain. I putted up-lake (river) and threw a 6" shad worm (black and silver), black Senko, white spinner and several other lures. I started just after the first no-wake zone fishing the banks. Nothing happened on wither the senko or the shad worm. After about an hour, I moved upstream past the second no-wake zone. Found one ~2 lb bass around stumps and had a couple of bites. Moved upstream more and found another 11/2 to 2-lb bass, again around stumps and an channel outlet. Did manage to bring a snapping turtle (12-14" diameter) to the boat on a black w/blue flake senko. Hit one little pocket by a dock floating a black senko that resulted in several bites and two small bass. Coming back down, just on a whim, I through into some lilly pads, there was a small swirl at the senko and then I had the fun of pulling in a 5-lb bass. (at least the scale said 5 pounds). Discovered that the switch to the live well failed, so I couldn't take it back for a real weight.

What worked: Bites on silver shad worm w/weight, black senko w/o weight. Some bights on worms, lizards with weights, but on fish.

What didn't work: white spinner with copper blades, horny toad, going back into the channels.