2/11-Murray: Rough start/Better finish

Rough start to my morning as my garage door opener malfunctioned and I just stared at my boat inside the garage and said....well...no fishing today. One place could be out on Monday(are you kidding me!) and then found another place that could be out this morning. Anyway.... to make a long story shorter...the door got fixed and it was now close to 10a.m. I was thinking of just going fishing tomorrow and suddenly I was in my truck on my way to Murray. Got on the water around 10:20 and messed around on a point and picked up a mini dink(aka skunk-breaker) on a Ned rig with a Z-man TRD worm. Fished there for a while and hit another point and finally picked up another dink on a Ned rig with a Z-man turbo craw. This bass was just slightly larger than the mini dink. It was a nice just to be on the water after what happened this morning. The water temp was bouncing between 59-60 degrees and just for the heck of it I decided to head in and fish some tulles. I worked a few areas and nothing and just decided to try another patch of tulles. I tossed a jig with a craw trailer on it and my line got tight and felt a little tick and pulled back and the fight was on. I had to go in and pull her out of the tulles she was tangled in and lifted in a nice 6.75 lb bass into my boat. Its mouth was huge and compared to my dinks this was really exciting!! I worked more tulles and then I switched over and flipped a black worm. I started to lift it off the bottom and it got slammed! It was another really nice bass when it came up to the top and I fought it for about 10 seconds( that is a long time when you are right next to the tulles)and it quickly swam down into the tulles and came off. After a few choice words(actually many)....I stayed in that area for the longest time hoping I could catch her again but it was not going to happen. I decided to return to some previous tulles before going home and glad I went back there. I was tossing a pumpkin colored craw bait and wham-bam it got bit and I landed a fat 5 1/2 lb bass. After such a bad start to the morning, I am glad I decided to go fishing(late start and all) and ended up with 2 dinks and 2 pretty nice bass.

 

Thanks Nick.....heck, I need to get out to Santee lakes after reading your posts. I have not fished there in several years. I always enjoy seeing some of those bass you pull out of there. I think the bass will be moving in at Murray when the water temp goes up just a little more. Tight lines buddy.

 

Yeah...it was quite funny as my first 2 bass were out off the points and very small.....I guess the girls
got bored off the point and decided to take a stroll closer to shore..ha ha
Tight lines to ya!

 

My thumb got torn up on that the bass I caught on a jig...it was hard to hold up because her teeth were sharp.
Later I was putting hand sanitizer on my hands and boy did that burn like heck where the cut was.

I will try to get out but the girlfriend is going to be off for a few days and because she never complains about me fishing...I may hang around with her just as a good measure. Gee...maybe she wants to go up to the Bass Pro Shop while I am hanging around with her....ha ha.

 

You nailed in on the head.
When I got home from Murray there was a Tackle Warehouse box waiting for me(it still has not been opened) and about an hour earlier tonight, I ordered some more senkos and line from them. Guess I'm addicted to buying more gear and tackle.......................at least it is better than being addicted to crack.

 

I was lucky I just decided to go fishing instead of moping around the house after the early part of the morning already passed. Tight lines and looking forward to reports from you and your son.

 

Lets check out the SDFish communication network.......Hey fisheromen or RamonaAngler or even you mcfish....when the heck does Sutherland open. First one to answer and I promise not to talk over 10 minutes to you when we are out on the water fishing at the Lake of Donald and Kiefer.

 

It’s funny.... I just wanted to see who is going to answer me first but I guess in the daytime everybody’s sleeping I guess.