Lesson in humility

[bignose]

I took a little time to fish Weems Creek.
For the past several months, I've done well there, nothing spectacular, but steady and consistent.
Today, I was two fish from a skunk. The "old reliable" locations just didn't produce. Two hours and I had enough.
The water was darkly colored with maybe a foot of visibility. It was mirror calm for most of the time I was there.
I didn't see much of the usual bait balls, either.

Ah…..the vagaries of fishing.

[Yakmac]

I'm sure you tried the shady areas. That is very odd, Weems has been producing lately. Maybe the water temps?

[J. Rentch]

The heat?

[J.A. Veil]

Stu -

Sorry you had an off day. Mark and I fished there on Wed afternoon and struggled to find a few fish over 2.5 hours. As I was heading back in, I tried one more "secret" spot and found perch lurking there. I caught a bunch of them on almost every cast for a few minutes. Go figure. We saw EMSer at the ramp -- he found a motherlode of perch all in one area too.

I don't know why the fish were abundant in those two spots but not in all the other usual places.

[EMSer]

I launched at Tucker yesterday and was only able to find fish under one dock. The regular spots were thin but a dock I usually don't do well at was stacked high with fat perch. I anchored at the edge of it, cast deep under the deck and kept pulling out fish after fish. I caught between 25 - 30 in an hour and a half.....

I am not sure why they were concentrated as they were, but I wasn't complaining!

[yakscientist]

There's a channel marker, forget which number, along the opposite bank from Jonas Green, along a rocky shoreline. Every time i troll through there i always catch a bunch of small stripers and also it's stacked with perch too. if the currents not too bad you can drift through and get them, i caught a few trolling slowly through there, it gets very shallow though. most of the fish i've gotten around that marker were in less than 4 ft of water, sometimes 2 feet.