Cranky Monky

[Fred E. Goose]

4 day weekend for me and I started it off by finishing work on the trailer to get it back to being usable. Dropped in Monksville to see if the boat still floats. Wind was fun today. Trolled with the wind and against it, but no cooperation so I made my way to the sunken forest. Tied up to a tree to hold my spot in that wind but no hits and nothing swimming by so I moved again. Worked the weeds across from the ramp and nailed a nice largemouth. Had a pickerel take a swipe but miss and another pickerel follow but not hit. Wound up with two sunnies and another largemouth. All fish were hunkered down in the weeds, nothing was holding on the banks or moving along the banks like they have been. Crankbait in the open pockets got them. Now I'm in Camden County ready to head east in the morning with Pops for some fluke on day 2 of the 4 day weekend

[icebadger]

any fish caught in skunksville is a good one.nice job getting a couple of largemouths,you really have to work at it to catch fish there.and wind to deal with on top of that.well done.good luck with the flattys,hope you land a doormat tight lines guys.

[Fred E. Goose]

Originally Posted by icebadger

any fish caught in skunksville is a good one.nice job getting a couple of largemouths,you really have to work at it to catch fish there.and wind to deal with on top of that.well done.good luck with the flattys,hope you land a doormat tight lines guys.

Thanks badger. It's surprisingly been pretty active there this year so far. I'm really hoping it was the storm and the wind that pushed them deep into the weeds and not the horde of kayak/standup paddleboard/boat traffic from the weekends. The kayak/sup rental place is back in operation so the weekends have looked like a mess in those parking lots. I figured thursday was long enough to "reset" the fish, but who knows with all of that traffic and fishing pressure.

[Skunk City]

No paddleboarders there at 3am .

[23cardinal]

The fish didn't reset by Friday either. Wind was howling, and they were just lazy in the weeds. Got one on board, had two knock downs over about two hours. Thinking that cold system did it

Nice work bagging two, been slim up there for a few days