First Hybrid - SR

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I recently bought my first boat which I store at Spruce Run and have been fishing there the last few weeks with very little to show for it. I headed out this Sat around midnight. My plan was to meet my buddy around 5 am for the early morning bite but I knew I would never be able to get myself out of bed at 4 am so I decided to just pull an all nighter. Not much happening during the night hours the lake was pretty quiet. My buddy texted me around 4:45 to say he was close. Since I was all the way over by the dam when I got the text I started to make my way back to the ramp to pick him up. Of course that is when my batteries decided to fail me and I ended up using a paddle for most of the return trip. After I picked up my buddy and swapped out my two dead batteries for the two fullly charged backups in my car we headed straight to the shallow hump in the middle of the lake where I marked fish during the night. I can't believe the depth chart on navionics doesn't show this structure but it's hard tonmiss on the fish finder since the depth goes from 50' deep to less that 14'. After a bit we moved on to the rip rap between the pumphouse and far corner of the dam. That is where I hooked into this little baby hybrid. It was no trophy fish but since I had never caught a hybrid I was pretty happy.

After that we didn't have much luck. The fish were not as active at dawn as other days I have been there. We headdd back to the launch around 9:30. I wasn't ready to give up so on my way out I parked in the lot by Spruce Run creek and managed to land a decent LmB from the bank. After that I called it a day, headed home and spent the rest of the day at the pool lounging and teaching my son to swim. It was a perfect day!