4/5/17 exploring new places

[drag4striper]

AT 50 - 72
WT 55 - 59.8
Sunny skies until 1:00 with clouds rolling in for the evening. Winds 4 mph. Gusting to 11mph. SSE. After 4:00 gusts to 21.
I decided to fish areas I have never fished before. Caught 5 all 24 - 29" not what I was hoping for size wise. But beats a skunk. Lost three fish close to the boat. I'm not sure why I had so much trouble staying​ hooked up. Lots of chases, tail smack's , they had the shad jumping over the planers trying to escape. I believe they were all smaller in size. The fish seemed to have pulled back out to deeper water. Just took a couple pics... who wants to see small fish.... Right?





I left those fish to try and find bigger ones, but it didn't work out for me. Yeah, left fish to find fish.

[johnr]

Beats my day of driving.

Sometimes ain't a thing you can do about them little ones. They are more prevalent in some areas than others for some reason. I'm always up for a change of scenery no matter the size of fish.

Them little guppies ain't gonna win you the tournament though.......

[johnk]

I don't mind seeing smaller fish at all. They are gonna be big fish one day.

It seems to me there is a pretty solid bunch of 25" to 30" fish right now. Can't have biguns without small ones.

[steviejayvaughan]

I'll take small fish over no fish any day. Nice report and good catching in new places.