Catching Up at Lanark and the OR

5.26-5.28.11
Water 72 degrees
Wind, light

Well we finally got back home after traveling with the Rhode College Lynx baseball team this winter/spring.

Hunter, Charlotte, Nancy and I decided to try Lanark for some new water fishing.  As it usually goes when fishing a new area we had mixed results.

Charlotte had the most luck, whether it was having a fish spool her on the beach at Dog Island or catching dinner on the grass flats a Lanark, she was in the mix most of the time.

We ran from the beach at Dog Island to the barge 5 miles out and back to the flats off 98 and didn't do real well.  We hit a low tide most of the day and the water wasn't moving too well.  So, that's my excuse.  

We hit the water Friday morning and had some decent results here at the OR mouth.

This last picture shows Hunter with the first fish he caught with his new Loomis rod and Stradic reel he got for his graduation.  (Thanks Nick). Well, it's the first fish he caught that he will claim.  It seems I remember some ladyfish and some blue runners in the mix that may have been the first fish caught on the set up.

Doug came up and we put together a nice evening trip on the bars in the river.  They were eating the lead heads with gulp pretty well.

This picture was the last cast.  What a battle in the swift outgoing tide.

Doug and I planned a trip Saturday morning that included a stop at 2 flat, Ochlockonee shoals, 24 marker, and the cobia run. This run was jinxed from the start as a wire came loose from the depthfinder.
As we stopped at 2 flat and as I was fixing the wire all I could hear was Doug saying got him, missed him, got him, $%#&.  Oh, the last quote was mine.

He was banging the spanish on top on the bonkadonk.

Little did we know this would be as good as it got Saturday.
I broke a rod tip, had my good jerkbaits bitten off, and mostly removed the green slime that is growing in the waters near shore to off shore.  What the heck is up with that stuff?  It makes it very difficult to fish about any bait/lure.

Oh well, we got to smoke some filtered Swisher Sweets, what a treat.

Nice to get back out and fish again.  Will be settling in now, and be more consistent on my posts and hopefully on my fishing results.

Graduation Party Quick Pics at Horseshoe Lake

5.19-5.22.11

We came up for Hunter's graduation from Rhodes college.  Had the whole clan in from Texas, Ohio, Florida and Maryland.

It was cool, cloudy and windy during the days at the Shoe, but we managed to wander out on the dock.  We caught quite a few crappie for the conditions, but a couple of good ones were brought in like these below.

Both of these were caught with the ol' tube jig and a chartreuse crappie nibble.  Those things are dynamite.

We did real well as bank trash up on the Shoe.  I can only imagine how well you can load the boat if you had one.  I probably will never fish there again, but the folks in that area should be happy they have such a good lake near a major metropolitan area.

Oh, I saw the alligator picture of the big lizard in the canal on the east side of the lake across from the house we were staying.  Mamas don't let yer babies go swimmin'!