Very Slow Fishing Season

Between the hot summer, family committments, a drought and the broken dam at Chickahominy Reservoir this has been a slow fishing season for me. I finally figured out how the Chick worked as a tidal river and was having some success. Went today and they had repaired the dam. I couldn't figure the place out. Folks were either not catching anything or doing well. One guy was really doing well with a topwater (Dance Spitin Image). Go figure. Bright sun and they were hitting topwater for him. He gave me one of his older lures. After putting a set of treble hooks on it and hooking my fingers a couple of times I managed to get ZERO strikes.

Did do one nice crappie on a beetle spin and ultralight. Probably should have spent the day hunting crappie.