Hit the pond today with my bud Steve Buck from the old neighborhood. Steve’s been on the Main Office a few times and knows the deal. The day started “hot” and with the projected high around 95, I wanted to get on some fish fast before we got burned out. We set out looking in the usual haunts and were able to find fish in most locations but they were a little sleepy. It seemed they weren’t quite awake yet but as soon as the wind kicked up by late morning, they started biting. And from noon till we left, most everywhere we found fish they would bite our offering!
Got out Thurs-Fri this week to see how the lake is changing. So far nothing big. The water temp early in the morning is around 79-80 but it quickly gets back up to 82-83. I expect these temps to hold based on the current hurricane pattern. It seems all the hurricanes are either getting pushed to Mexico or the Atlantic seaboard and when this happens we tend to get high pressure and warm, stagnate air masses over us. So far that’s been the deal for the last month and it looks like it will continue till October.
A lot of people were thinking the fishing on Lanier was going to turn for the worse following this years Funfest. I happen to think the opposite. In fact, I’m thinking we might be in for some of the best fishing of the season and today was a bit of validation to confirm my belief. Rick and I fished from 1:30 to 5:30 and scored 12 bruisers including Ricks big fish of the year on the Main Office – a giant 21 lb’er!
Can you believe we won the Funfest 2010?? 60 boats entered and we SLAM DUNKED them all. Our two fish total was 70.5″ which put us 5.25″ over the second place team. Unbelievable! Doug boated a monster the first hour of the tournament that measured the maximum length on the measuring stick: 38″. With a fish like that on the boat in the first hour, my expectations were running high. But that doesn’t mean the rest of the day was “easy”. In fact, it was far from a walk away victory for us. Turns out getting that second fish took over 3 hours!!