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!